Gilpin observer., 1905-07-20
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

Amity in regard to the reported out
break of anthrax among the cattle.
The canning factory of the Barlow
consolidated Canning Company at
Loveland has begun operations OH
raspberries.
During the week ending July 18th,
$500 tourists visited the Cripple
Creek district. Most of them were Ep-
worth League tourists.
James F. Maloney, a prominent To-
cal politician and alderman of the
Third ward in Denver, died of heart
disease on the 10th inst.
Miss Rosa M. Layton of Denver has
been appointed stenographer and type
writer, and assigned to duty in the
Denver Office of the reclamation ser
vice.
Attorney General N. c. Miller has
gone to Chicago and will be away two
or three weeks. He will spend his va
cation visiting with his brothers and
sisters in Illinois.
Michael Dowd and Peter Miller, SEN
fenced to the penitentiary from Denver
convicted of election Irregularities, ar
rived at the penitentiary at Canon City
on the 18th inst.
A dispatch from Oyster Bay July
18th says: William G. Lewis of Colo
rado to-day was appointed to be sur
veyor general of Colorado under the
General Land Office.
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.
Tho he old hoh COp of
Mr.. and Mrs. Hal Baird of Goldfield
managed to get hold of some strych-
nine tablets on the 10th inst, and ate
enough to cause its death.
c. A. Coryell has been granted
lease on 160 acres of state land in
Arapahoe county for placer mining
purposes. The state shares in the pro
duction at the rate of twenty per cent.
The old Palisades hotel at Gunnison
was burned on the morning of the 17rh
inst. 1t was built about twenty-five
years ago at reported cost of $50. 900
and was insured for considerable
sum.
The Morgan County National Bank
of Fort Morgan has been authorized to
begin business with capital Of $780,
900. NJ L. More is president, R. NJ.
Mandy. vice president, and ]. H. Roed-
iger, cashier.
The grading of the Pennington line
of the Denver & Rio Grande has been
completed as far as Aztec and track
laid for fifteen miles below Durango,
Several of the grading contractors are
preparing to move to other fields.
The next convention to swoop down
on Colorado will be that of the Fra
ternal Order of Eagles, which will
meet at Denver August 14th. An i'm
mense gathering is anticipated and
they propose to soar all over the state
The Pueblo steel works are receiv-
ing more than 500 tons of iron ore per
day from the iron deposits in Mime,
sofa. This. it is said, will continue
until the new deposits in Wyoming are
| opened up to the satisfaction of the
company.
The state convention of the Ameri-
can Order of Protection will be held at.
| Florence July 27th, when delegates to
the supreme convention to be held in
Lincoln in September, will be elected
Twenty-Five delegates are expected
from outside lodges.
The state memorial statue to be
erected in honor of the Coloradans
who served in the Civil War, for which
$4,000 was appropriated by the last,
Legislature, will be placed in front of,
the capitol building in Denver, where
the fiagpole now stands.
Melvin Acorn, the eager employed in
the 10 Dandy mine on Raven hill at
Cripple Creek, was killed on the 10th
inst, by falling off the cage and going
down the shaft 120 feet. He had gone
down to the fourth level to bring the
miners up to surface for dinner.
June proved a very good month for
collections by the State Land Board,
and shows that the business of the of.
fee is increasing steadily year by year.
The June collections for the past three
years have been as follows: 1903, $20,,
191; 1904. $1S,29S; 1905. $21 ,6S9.O2.
Miss Maude Fealy opens her second
week at Elitch's gardens, Denver,
Sunday night, August 22nd, in the title
role of the stirring drama of Queen
Elizabeth's time, Dorothy Vernon of
Haddon Hall" Miss Fealy's popu-
larity in Colorado is demonstrated by
crowded houses at every performance.
| Pueblo people have purchased the
Western League baseball franchise SO
long held by Colorado Springs, and the
fans" at the Springs will now have to
content themselves with amateur
games. The Pueblo club begins way
down next to the bottom, where it left
off at Colorado Springs.
Will C.. Ferril curator at the State
Museum, kept record of the visitors
to the department during the week the
Epworth League delegates were in
Denver. Beginning July 5th and end
| ing Monday night, July 10th, emitting
Sunday, the total was 1897. The
| largest day was on Saturday, when g..
619 visited the rooms.
Simon Guggenheim has increased his
| $50, 900 donation to the State School
of Mines to $4,000. The additional