Gilpin observer., 1905-11-02
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

Colorado Springs expects to have
Japanese tea house with imported
Geisha girls to dispense the beverage.
The widow of the late Willard Teller,
brother of Senator H. M. Teller, will
inherit his entire fortune, estimated at
$124,000, there being no children.
Helen Schmidlap, in whose case the
Jury disagreed, will be tried a second.
time the second week in November on
the charge of numbering her husband.
A check OF $6,O20 in payment for the
last Of the court house bonds, given by
the county commissioners October
26th, left Boulder county entirely free
from debt.
Abe Williamson, aged fifty-five years,
a farmer living near Housed school
house, about six miles east of Boulder,
committed suicide few days since by
taking strychnine.
A civil service examination will be
held in Denver, November 22d, for a
saddler in the quartermaster's depart
ment at large. The salary in the posi-
ton is $545 year.
The new home for nurses at the
Oalies' sanatorium in Denver, erected
at a cost of s25000, was dedicated
October Goth. The money for the
home was contributed by William d.
Sloane of New York.
The board of capitol managers has
let a contract for altering the north
entrance OF the state house in Denver.
putting in a wider flight of steps and
making that the principal entrance.
The work will cost S4,750.
The Colorado Springs members OF
the International Typographical Union
have decided in favor of an assess
ment CT so cents per week per mem
ber to support the fight of the union
throughout the country for an eight
hour day.
Attorney General Mills says that he
has received calls from the assessors
of Morgan and Logan counties and
that they have agreed to levy assess
ments according to the increased valu
ations ordered by the state board OF
equalization.
The Holly Sugar Company has been
incorporated with a capital of $780,
600. The directors are: Platt Rogers,
w. N. Wiley. Harry c. James, Ken
meth B. Schley, Michael Gavin, Grant
B. Schley, Dennis Sullivan and Will
liam r. Ryan.
In the District Court at Montrose
Judge Theron Stevens sustained the
contentious of John Gray, who OBJ
tanned an injunction two months ago
restraining the commissioners OF
Montrose county from making an ap-
preparation for advertising purposes.
The proposed monument at Denver
to the pioneers of Denver and Colo
RADIO is now practically assured, within
a much shorter time than anticipated.
1.v nf hn
needed has been secured by the COM
mittee of prominent men, headed by
John S. Flower, which is in charge of
the work of obtaining subscriptions.
Bishop Earl Cranston OF the Meth
dist church, who is sixty-five years OF
age and a widower, will be married at
Cincinnati, November 18th, to Miss
Lucy Mason Parker. The bishop is
former Coloradoan and well known in
all parts of the state. His son, Earl
| NJ. Cranston. is United States district
attorney at Denver.
E. Z. Nichols, pioneer resident and
former mayor of Manitou, died in
sanitarium at Colorado Springs Octo-
ber 26th, at the age of seventy years,
death following a surgical operation
Mr.. Nichols was widely known from
his long connection with the Cliff
House. His son, E. E. Nichols, Jr., is
the present mayor of Manitou.
The formal opening of the big sugar
factory will be the occasion of a two
days harvest celebration at Sterling,
November 22nd and 23rd. A big bar
becue will be one of the attractions on
the second day and there will also be
a fine display of agricultural pro-
ducts, all of eastern and northern
Colorado being asked to take part.
The Grand Junction Chamber of
Commerce has commenced a campaign
in behalf of the proposed high line
canal. Plans are being formulated to
send a committee to Washington this
winter and data is being secured to
inform the government. The Water
Users Association will cooperate in
the work and every effort will be put
forth to build the canal.
Additional game wardens have made
| a greater number of arrests for viola
tions Of the hunting regulations, possi-
BILE according to the state game com
missioner's Office, which is daily re-
porting the capture and fining of off,
tenders. Bernard Cav, who was tried
at Lamar, was fined $55 for killing
deer. Cav had no license. The tech
nical charge was hunting without a
license.
Register Woodruff OF the State Land
Board will visit Mancos, MonteZuma
county, November 25th, for the pur-
pose Of selling at public auction ten
quarter sections of land belonging to
the State Agricultural College. Ten
applications have been received for the
land which lies partly under the Mon
tezuma Valley Irrigation Company's
ditch. or will be in the proposed irriga-
tion district.
Charles o. Peters. the only living
member OF the trio OF Youngblood MUIR