Gilpin observer., 1905-07-06
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

The Denver Typographical union
has donated 800 to the Grand Army
of the Republic national encampment
fund.
The Western Passenger Association
will grant excursion rates from all
towns in Colorado to the state fair at
Pueblo in September.
Secretary of State Cowie is dis
tributing the session laws of 1905,
which have Just come from the hands
pages.
The revenue to the state from liquor
licenses for the first seven months of
the fiscal year has been $54 900, which
exceeds the total income for the year
of 1904 by $525.
Bert Brennan, the nine-year-old son
OF James Brennan, at 1162 Stout street,
Denver, was instantly killed by light
ming while playing in the yard on the
afternoon Of July LIST.
The National Association of Fire
Insurance Agents will meet in con-
vention in Denver August 18th for a
three days session. There will prob
ably be 5000 delegates.
Probation officers of Pueblo will at
tend the national conference OF the
Charities and Corrections Association.
which will be held in Portland, Ore
gon. July 18th to 22d.
Mrs. Bert White of Longmont was
fatally burned on the morning of the
I'd inst. by an explosion of kerosene.
She was about twenty-four years Of
age and leaves three small children.
The First National Bank of Granada,
Colorado, has been authorized to begin
business with $25,000 capital. Starr
G.. Gregory is president; Limburn
Boggs, vice president, and James
Mayfleld, cashier
Postmasters have been appointed in
Colorado as follows Green Mountain
Falls, Ell Paso county. Francis A. Hart,
vice D Shoup. resigned; Fulford.
Eagle county, Mary B. Burgess, vice
T. Stremme, resigned.
w. B. Bristol has sold his large stock
and dairy ranch on Box Elder creek,
sixteen miles north of Fort Collins.
containing 5000 acres of hay and pas
ture land. for sum stated at about
$4,000, to F. c. Cradle.
Max Rub. formerly editor Of the
Glasmik of Calumet. Michigan, has
purchased the printing apparatus and
good will of the Mir Publishing Com
pany and will publish a weekly Aus
trian newspaper at Pueblo.
Great numbers of potato bugs have
appeared in the neighborhood of La
Sale and Big Bend in Weld county.
Some fields, planted on stubble
ground. are reported to be almost en-
| tirely destroyed by them
James R. Mcclure. formerly a miner
at Goldfield Colorado, committed sui
eide at Trinidad June 9th by shooting
himself through the head. He was
fifty-five years of age and leaves a
wife. son and daughter.
A movement is on foot among the
school people of Colorado to raise a
fund sufficient to install an educational
exhibit at the Portland fair, the state
board of managers not having money
enough for this purpose.
There have been more building per-
mits issued in the first six months of
this year in Denver than were issued
/ in any whole year from 1898 to the
present time with two exceptions. The
total for the month of June Is $761.436.
DR.. Taylor, secretary of the State
Board of Health. has sent out letters to
| all the county and city boards, as well
as to all the physicians in the state,
stating that the law in regard to the
reporting of births must be enforced
| hereafter.
The application of F. w. Flanders.
J. w. Paxton, II. l.. Wood, T. P. Nc
Quire and c. A. Bradley to organize
the Longmont National Bank of Long
mont, with $4,000 capital, has been
approved by the comptroller of cur
rency.
Charles o. Peters, the remaining
one of the trio of Youngblood MUIR
derers, who was reprieved on account
| of alleged insanity, is said to be rap
idly growing worse at Canon City and
he is not expected to live more than a
few months.
The University of Colorado has Sc
cured Prof. Saul Epsteen to fill the
vacancy in the department of mathe-
| matics, caused by the departure or
Prof. Arnold Emch. who has accepted
a chair of mathematics in Switzer-
land.
The census of manufact- ring indus
| tries and factory products. which Is
being taken in Colorado by the census
bureau, Is nearing completion. In
about three weeks more the active
! work of gathering statistics will have
been completed.
The Union Printers Home in Colo
rado Springs. erected for old and indi.
gent members of the International
Typographical Union, is rapidly be-
coming crowded TO its capacity now
having 1877 inmates. The trustees
have been notified of this condition
Hon. James b. Belford of Denver
ha won his suit in the District Court
at Colorado Springs against the w G.
Stratton estate for a balance claimed
to be due him by Mr.. Stratton for at
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