Gilpin observer., 1905-11-30
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

| erty IN fremont county is given at 9o,-
434 ,731.
More than 5000 tons of beets are
piled up at Delta awaiting transporta-
ton to the sugar factory.
The Florence & Cripple Creek rail-
way shops at Canon City, that were re-
Gently burned, will be Immediately re-
built.
| Frank Zindle of Greeley, twenty-four
years of age, accidentally shot himself
while out duck hunting November 26th
and died instantly.
S. L. Brooks, a former employe Of
the State Agricultural College, dropped
dead from heart failure on the streets
of Fort Collins, November goth.
Governor Mcdonald has appointed R.
A. Morrison of Denver delegate to the
National immigration Congress, which
meets in New York December 9th and
| 7th.
James P. True, pioneer of Colorado
and one of the first settlers Of Poncha
Springs, was found dead in his room
at Denver November Goth. He was
seventy years of age.
The Forest Service Bureau has
granted the privilege to the Colorado
Telephone Company of Fairplay of
the right of way for telephone within
the Pixies Peak forest reserve.
Montrose has voted to give o. M.
Clay and r. H. Washburn a twenty
| five-year license for the construction
of gas plant. 1t is proposed to ex-
pend $4,000 on the plant during the
| next year.
The residents of the North Side Of
Trinidad and the country north of the
| river have circulated a petition which
will be sent to the postmaster general
at Washington, asking for a sub-post-
office.
The jury in the District Court at
Greeley found Thomas M. Jones guilty
of mayhem on the person of John N.
Ryden. Mrs. Jones, who was jointly
accused with her husband of the crime,
was acquitted.
The alfalfa meal mill at Sterling was
burned on the night of November oath.
1t had a capacity of fifteen tons of al
falfa meal day, and was the only mill
of the kind in the state, having been
running since last August.
The new manual training school OF
Montrose was opened with a public re-
ception November 26th. The building
and equipment cost about $4,000.
Prof. ]. B. Kesler, late of the Denver
manual training high school, will be
in charge of the school.
w. l. Weaver of Florence, associated
with a number of Colorado Springs
men, will drill a number of artesian
wells on large plateau twenty-four
miles east of Florence. They hold
leases on several thousand acres of
land with the privilege of buying if
they strike water.
Richard Andrews, well-known
miner of the Pine Creek district, was
instantly killed in the second east level
of the Mackey mine in Elk park, No
vember goth by the premature ex-
plosion of a shot. Andrews had been
married only ten days before to Mrs.
Jennie Doris.
The water power plant of the salida
Light, Power and Utility Company was
started to work November 23d. The
plant is a large one, costing about $685.
900 and being capable of producing 25,-
900 horsepower for electric light use
and the development of power for me-
chanical purposes.
l.. S. Thompson and family of Red
Bank, New Jersey, returned to Glen
Wood Springs recently from a hunt
after big game in the Muddy country
under the guidance of Jake Borah. The
par.y' were out four weeks and secured
seven bear, four lynx, nine bobcats and
one mountain lion.
The bulletin of the State Board OF
Health for October reports the total
number of deaths at 1872, as compared
with September, October showed an
increase of tErty-five cases of typhoid.
forty cases of diphtheria, sixty-five
cases of scarlet fever and a decrease
of FIVE cases of smallpox.
The roof of the big Princeton hotel
at Chalk Creek in Chaffee county was
blown off during a fierce wind storm
November 26th and the plate glass
windows blown in. The property is
owned by II. Hoyle of Pueblo, and C.
Il. Robb OF alesburg, Illinois. 1t
has never been finished nor occupied
except by caretaker.
The Douglas County Ditch and Res
ervoir Company has received TWEEN
ty-five-horse power engine built espe-
cially for plowing and ditch work. The
engine weighs 5000 pounds and will be
used by the company to plow, disk and
seed at one operation the 1000 acres
of land owned by it in the vicinity of
Castle Rock.
The Santa Fe Railway Company is
erecting 100000 building at La Junta
for an employees club. 1t will be 42x
100 feet in size, three stories and base
ment, and will have such conveniences
for railroad men as bath rooms, read
ing room, bowling alley. billiard hall
and Office room, while the upper story
will contain sleeping rooms.
II. II. Sahlgaard, vice consul at Den
yer for Sweden and Norway, has been
appointed by both countries to act in
the same capacity since their separa-
ton. His jurisdiction is not limited to
| the state of Colorado. but comprises