Gilpin observer., 1905-09-07
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

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at the State Fair at Pueblo.
The new Christian Science church,
at Florence has been completed.
Irrigation of land by artesian wells
promises to prove successful in Ere
mont county.
A special train will carry Denver
business men to the State Fair at
Pueblo, September 18th.
Twenty men enlisted in the United
States army at the recruiting station
in Pueblo during the month of August.
Governor Mcdonald has made an
order that the state house Offices may
be closed at noon every Saturday dur
ing the year.
Gilbert McClurg has been employed
by Denver business men to give
twenty lectures on Colorado at the
Portland exposition.
Judge Lindsey of the Denver County
Court has decided that the ordinance
prohibiting brickyards inside the city
limits of Denver is unconstitutional.
Prizes have been awarded to chill
dren, schools and organizations for
successful competition in raising flow
ers and vegetables the past summer.
John Walker of Columbus, Nebraska,
who Is seventy-nine years of age, re-
Gently walked from Manitou Springs
to the summit of Pixies Peak and back.
Burglars blew open the safe in the
postoffice at Falcon in Ell Paso county
on the night of August 29th and Sc
cuerd about $500 in stamps and money.
The Convention Amusement Com
pany has been organized in Denver to
give entertainments and exhibitions
during the conventions held in the
city.
Forest Inspector Smith Riley, who
has been temporarily placed in charge
of the Holy Cross forest reserve in Col
orado, has established headquarters at
Glenwood Springs.
Mrs. Emma Herey-Meyer has retired
from the office of county superintend-
ent of schools in Denver, Judge Palmer
having decided that Miss Lillian Field
is the lawful incumbent.
Major F. F. Foote, G. A. R. veteran
and pioneer resident of Ell Paso county,
fell down an elevator shaft at Colorado
Springs on the I'd inst. and suffered a
fracture of the left thigh.
The court has authorized the re.
ceiver of the defunct Denver Savings
bank to pay first dividend to deposit
tors. 1t is now hoped that the bank
will pay nearly or quite in full.
The harvest festival parade at Gree
ley on the 30th ult. was twenty-four
blocks long and consisted OF decorated
automobiles. carriages. bicycles and
floats. The festival drew an immense
crowd.
party of hunters from Iowa few
| lov ov-dn or
Denver s125 for hunting licenses. They
proposed to enter the mountains from
iBuford. Routt county, for thirty
days hunt.
Miss Ruby L. Carstens of Longmont
graduate of the University of Colo
RADIO last June, has received an ap-
pointment of a fellowship in the de-
partment of mathematics in the State
University.
Lightning struck the engine room of
the Pueblo Chieftan on the morning of
the 1st inst. and filled the composing
and editorial rooms with smoke from
burning fuses, but the blaze was soon
eXtinguished.
The Denver & Rio Grande railroad
will build new machine shop, 63x297
feet in size, at it's shops in Denver, to-
gether with a large addition to the
blacksmith shop. The whole is to cost
about $4,000.
The general committee Of the Boul-
der Commercial Association has de-
cided to make a safer passageway to
Boulder falls, one of the scenic at
fractions in the foothills above the city
up Boulder canon.
Attorney General Miller has an
| nnininn the affact that
the exemption of 5000 of personal prop
erty from taxation under the law
passed last winter does not apply to
non-residents.
At Pueblo, on the 31st ult., Mrs.
Maud Finch Haver, wife of E. B.
Haver, real estate dealer, drowned
herself and five-year-old son in the Bes-
semer ditch. The act is attributed to
i'll health and despondency.
Owing to the threatened epidemic
of scarlet fever at Leadville, the State
Board of Health has notified the local
authorities that the city must be thor
oughly cleaned. Otherwise the State
Board will take the matter in hand.
There will be an examination for
stenographers and typewriters in the
federal building at Denver October
10th. For departmental stenographers
the salaries range from 500 to $1,000
u year. but for the Philippine service
they run from $1,000 to $1,000.
The seventh annual reunion of the
survivors of the fight at Beecher Is
land, near Wray, will be held Septem-
Der 10th to 18th. 1t will be the occa-
sion of the erection of $4,000 monu-
ment, paid for by money appropriated
by the Legislatures of Colorado and
Kansas.
The officials in charge of the fair
to be held at Aztec. New Mexico, from
September 18th to 21st, have arranged
to set aside one day to be known as