Gilpin observer., 1905-12-07
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

1t is expected that the Moffat road
terminal will be completed so that it
will be running into Denver on it's own
tracks about Christmas.
The Democratic Club of Denver will
give dinner to GOO poor children who
are charges of the city and county Of
Denver, on Christmas Day.
One hundred teachers were in at
tendance at the meeting of the Arkan-
sas Valley Teachers Association in
Pueblo, which closed December I'd.
T. ]. Dugan, president of the Ma
tional Bank of Commerce of Denver,
has decided to drill wells for artesian
water on the Gale ranch in Beaver
A. R. Meyer, one of the founders OF
Leadville, who built the first sampling
and smelling works there, died at Kan
sas City, December LIST, of rheumatism
Of the heart.
The auditorium committee Of the
Denver City Council will receive offers
of sites up to December 18th. No site
will be considered that has less than
sixteen full city lots.
The contract for the erection of the
sugar beet factory to be built at Brush
for the crop of 1906 was let December
I'd to Byhre & Co of Cleveland, Ohio.
Work will begin December Goth.
The thirty-fifth anniversary of the
coming of Union colony to Greeley was
celebrated by big dinner and re-
union of pioneers at Greeley November
25th, at which 125 colonists were pres
ent.
park, Fremont county. He has 5000
apple trees and a large acreage of al
falfa, but he has only a superfluous
water right and water can be secured
only when Beaver creek is running
full.
Some boys who were refused ride
on the electric cars at Trinidad are
believed to have heaped rocks on the
track, throwing car off the track and
injuring one of the passengers, Miss
Gladys Bent.
At Denver, December 1st, Mrs. j..
w. Hampton was run over by an auto
mobile and severely injured, suffering
dislocation of the thigh. The driver
never stopped and at last accounts had
not been caught and lynched.
Former Alderman Ben Donahue Of
Pueblo reports that he has discovered
a vein of good coal within fifteen
miles of the city, and has exhibited
samples which shows it to be su-
perior quality.
Neal Woodruff, P. "A. Mcclellan,
Fred Powell. c. A. Clayton and Robert
Hilliard, who were tried at Gunnison
for taking trout by means of seine,
pleaded guilty and were fined $25 and
costs each, amounting to $135.
Horace De Moss of Colorado City
was SO incensed at the theft of his
thirty-pound prize turkey, which was
stolen from his hen coop Thanksgiv-
ing morning, that he offered S. reward
for the conviction Of the thief.
The dead body of George Lines, a
wolfer and trapper, was found in his
cabin on Lone Tree, seven miles south
Of Gillette on Sunday, the Sd inst. A
coroner's jury was summoned and
brought in a verdict of death from
acute alcoholism.
A heavy wind Saturday afternoon on
Boreas hill, east of Leadville, blew the
Colorado & Southern train off the
track and almost down the embank-
ment. The train bumped along on the
ties several feet before it stopped. No
harm was done.
Edward w. Robinson, H. F. Robin
son and E. NJ Duncan were held up
by lone robber in the office of the
Robinson Lumber Company at Den
yer on the evening of December 1st
and robbed of small sum of money
and gold watch.
The receipts of the Canon City post
office for the month of November ex-
ceed that of any month during the
fiscal year and exceeded by $500 the re-
ceipts for November, 1904. Every
month of the present year has ex-
ceeded the same month last year.
The Western Passenger Association
has agreed to make a $25 round trip
rate from Chicago to Denver and Col
orado common points for the Elks' con-
vention at Denver next July. The Den
yer Elks have agreed to raise 100000
to entertain their visiting brethren.
In the federal court at Denver, Judge
Hallett sustained the demurrer of the
city Of Aspen in the suit brought
against 1t by the Castle Creek Water
Company of West Virginia and dis.
missed the case. This leaves the city
free to manage its own water plant.
Harrison X. Martin, one of the best
known and most highly esteemed col.
ored men of Denver, who has been en-
ployed in the office of the Board OF
Public Works for the past fifteen
years December 1st. He leaves a
widcw and eleven surviving children
In the District Court at Cripple
Creek the jury in the case of James A.
Warford, charged with the murder OF
Ike Liebo at Goldfield on election day
year ago, brought in verdict of
murder in the first degree and recon-
mended sentence Of Imprisonment
for life.
An organization known as the Col
ored Orphange and Old Folks Home
Association of Colorado, is raising
funds to aid in building home for col
ored orphans and old folks of the state.