Gilpin observer., 1905-07-13
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

The DeForest American Wireless
Telegraph Company will establish q
station at Trinidad.
The mountains surrounding Breck-
enridge were covered with snow on
the morning of the Sd of July.
Miss Josie E. Gibson of Missouri has
been appointed nurse at the Grand
Junction Indian School at salary OF
5000 year.
The Colorado & Southern Railroad
fry in the river at Bailey, all about six
inches in lengi-.
The Denver Chamber of Commerce
is arranging to offer cash prizes for ag-
ricultural products for both irrigated
and non-irrigated lands.
Alexander Gordon, foreman of Ten
Mile Mining Company at Robinson.
was instantly killed on the Sth inst. by
falling down shaft.
Hereafter the State Capitol building
at Denver Is to be kept open on Sat
urday afternoons and holidays, at least
during the summer months.
Mrs. Clida M. Adams, wife of Alva
B. Adams and daughter-in-law of for
mer Governor Adams, died at Pueblo
July 4th, after a short illness.
The Woman's Civic Society OF Trini-
dad proposes to enforce the Sunday
closing ordinances and to prosecute the
gambling houses and wine rooms.
The floral parade at the Boulder Fes-
tival on the 7th inst. was one of the
finest ever seen in the state. Both car
riages and automobiles took part in it.
At Denver. July Sth. Mrs. w. D.
Schmidlap shot and killed her husband
at the place where he was rooming.
They had been separated for about a
year.
Twenty-Five counties of Colorado are
! represented in agricultural exhibits at
the Chamber of Commerce building in
Denver. and specimens are wanted
from other counties.
There were fourteen fires in Denver
on the Fourth of July, but the loss in
each case was small, except at Hurl-
butts store, where the damage may
reach nearly $4,000.
In the Western Baseball League Des
Moines and Denver are close competi-
tors for first place and Colorado
Springs and St. Joseph are nip and
tuck for the BOBBY prize.
Colorado postoffice appointments
have been made as follows: Jefferson,
Park county, Charles F. Peake, vice
Schattinger. resigned; Muriel, Huer-
fano county. Wilmer B. Kenny, vice E.
l.. Reubendale, resigned.
The Boulder Farmers mill at Boul-
der has been burned to the ground. in
volving a loss of about $4,000, with
$4,000 insurance. Previous to the fire
the safe at the mill was broken open,
but it contained no money.
June proved very good month for
collections by the State Land Board,
and shows that the business of the of.
| flee is increasing steadily year by year.
The June collections for the past three
years have been as follows: 1903, $20,.
191; 1904, $1S,293; 1905, $21 1,639.02.
Pueblo has raised a subscription OF
| 5000, pledged for the maintenance OF
the Arkansas Valley immigration Bu
reau. The object of the bureau is to
run homestead excursions from east
ern farming districts and to advertise
the advantages of the valley exten-
sively.
| John NJ. G. Wadlin has sold to
| Thomas l. Valentine of Peoria, Illinois
2,100 acres OF land and the Wadlin
reservoir fifteen miles east of Greeley
for $4,000. The capacity of the reser-
voir is 45,000.000 cubic feet and this
will be nearly doubled by the pur-
| chaser
| The following patents have been Is
sued to Colorado inventors: Aaron NJ
Beam, Denver, ore treating furnace
John Crone, Greeley, valve cap; Bar
nett Dodd, Boulder. combined door
closer and fly chaser; G. A. Seaman
independence, pipe coupling; A. A
! Smith, Paonia, brake shoe.
The Colorado Supreme Court has de.
| cided that the fiat tax law passed by
the Thirteenth General Assembly is
valid. The law places a tax of two
| cents on each $1,000 of capital stock
| in domestic corporations capitalized in
excess of $4,000, and four cents per
| $1,000 on foreign corporations.
Roscoe Harris, aged sixteen years
and the only child of former Mayor
Ira Harris of Colorado Springs. was
F, shot through the heart and almost in
| stantly killed at Colorado Springs on
the 5th inst. by the accidental dis
| charge of a rifle in the hands of Mat
thew DAILY, young friend with whom
he was arranging to go out hunting
Three hundred and sixty acres OF
| land near the Union Printers Home OH
Mob hill, and $4,000 in cash for the
construction of the building has been
pledged respectively by two citizens OF
| Colorado Springs for t. National Let.
ter Carriers Home, should the national
convention at Portland. Oregon. next
September. choose the Springs as the
site.
At Golden July 10th Judge Garri-
| CUES of Greeley, who was sitting in
the District Court for Judge De
France, sentenced Aubury Church to
the penitentiary for not less than five
nor more than twenty years for Grim
| inal assault. Church pleaded guilty