Gilpin observer., 1905-06-08
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

The board Of pardons has again re
fused to reprieve Antoine Wood, the
boy murderer.
A good deal Of damage was done by
destructive hailstorm between Ar
vada and Golden on the afternoon oi
May 9th.
Gov. Joseph Folk Of Missouri Is ex
pected to visit Colorado this summer
on his way home from the Portland
Exposition.
The five Grand Army posts Of Den
yer will unite in holding great June
Fair and Festival at Denver June 21st
to July 1st.
Many men are going from Trinidad
to work on the construction Of the new
railroad from Durango to Pennington,
New Mexico.
Edwin Williams, formerly at the
head of the sampling works at Boul-
der, died May oath in Idaho. where he
was engaged in mining.
Many thousands acres of peat
lands have been discovered near Tol-
land on the Moffat road, and plans are
being formulated for the manufacture
of fuel from 1t.
Heavy storms on May 9th caused
the breakage of the dams Of the Crater
and Dog Fish reservoirs, near Delta,
Hanson's reservoir near Paonia, and
the Irwin dam pear Holyoke.
Miss Nellie Donahue, ex-city treas
urer of Victor, was acquitted by jury
of the charge Of misappropriating the
sum of $1,446. city funds. during the
time she was in Office from 1900 to
1902.
The six-year-old daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. John Ryan Of Pryor, Huer-
fano county, set her dress on fire while
working at the kitchen stove on the
29th ult., and was SO badly burned that
she died next day.
Stephen and Charles Imprey, con-
victed of a statutory crime against
Gertrude Miller at Leadville, have
been pardoned. The girl last winter
made an affidavit that she swore
falsely against the men.
]. M. Hollands big ranch. twenty
nine miles northeast of Pueblo has
been sold to J. ]. Rose Of Colorado
Springs for $65,00O. The ranch COM
prises many acres and several thou
sand head of cattle.
The Empson Canning Company at
Longmont is increasing the capacity OF
it's plant for the seasons run on peas.
When the machinery now arriving Is
in place, the factory will have capac-
ity of 10000 cans Of peas per hour.
May receipts with the State Land
Board show that the business of the
office is growing gradually. The re-
ceipts last month were $25,502.25. In
May, 1908, the receipts were $40, ,723.11,
and in 1904 they were $23.152.34.
Colorado is entitled to twenty dele
gates to the eleventh International
Sunday School convention, which will
be held in Toronto, Canada, June 23d-
27th, and it is expected that many be-
sides the delegates will take the trip.
Sia Tieng Ang. Chinese graduate
of the University Of Denver, and q
young man of much ability, died of con-
sumption at the Oakes Home in Den
yer. June I'd. Mr.. Sia had many ac-
ouaintances in Denver and was very
popular.
The United Brotherhood of Railway
Trainmen, the Eagles, the letter car
riers' union and the carpenters union
are considering the building of homes
and sanitariums in Colorado for the
benefit of their members throughout
the country.
Authority for the expenditure of $45,-
900 for the improvement of the road
bed between Boulder and Fort Col
Inns on the Colorado &, Southern has
been signed by President Frank Trum-
bull. The track will be slagged for the
entire distance.
In 1908 the collection for liquor IL
censes by the state treasurer amounted
to 1875, and in 1904 they reached the
sum of S53,575. 1t looks now as If by
the end of the fiscal present year. in
December next, the collections will
reach the sum of s65.000. This result
is due to putting out the collectors
over the state.
g.. B. Cooper of the American De
Forest Wireless Telegraph Company
las selected a site for the main receiv-
Ing station for the Cripple Creek dis
trict. 1t is at point west of the Amer
lean Eagles mine on Bull hill. at which
point a receiving station will be estab-
lished. The altitude of Bull hill is
above 10000 feet.
Harry A. Mills, between twenty-five
and twenty-eight years of age, con-
ductor on the High Line electric road,
was killed at O'Clock on the morning
OF May 2Sth, at Midway, in the Cripple
Creek district. His death was at first
attributed to shock of electricity
but later it became evident that he
was caught between the cars.
The conversion of the following named
Colorado banks into national banks has
been approved by the comptroller OF
the currency: The Salida State Bank
OF Salida into the Commercial National
Bank of Salida, with $4,000 capital:
the Poudre Valley Bank OF Fort Cor
Inns into the Poudre Valley National
Bank of Fort Collins. with $150,000
capital.
Colorado Springs and Denver are