Gilpin observer., 1905-06-01
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

a destructive la1lStOrm between Ar
vada and Golden on the afternoon Of
May 9th.
Eight prizes, amounting in all to
$1,12O, have been offered for the rock
drilling contests at Boulder on the
Fourth of July.
The probationers of the Pueblo Ju-
venile Court are reported to be doing
excellent work in the sugar beet fields
of Bent county.
Edwin Williams, formerly at the
head of the sampling works at Boul-
der, died May oath in Idaho, where he
was engaged in mining.
Heavy storms on May 9th caused
the breakage of the dams of the Crater
and Dog Fish reservoirs, near Delta,
Hanson's reservoir near Paonia, and
the Irwin dam near Holyoke.
H. H. Orth, florist at the State Agri
cultural College, lost two fingers of his
right hand in moving machine few
days ago, the cut being made as clean
as though by surgeons knife.
The Gore canon case came up in the
federal court at Denver May 25th and
arguments were postponed until June
18th in order to give the attorneys on
both sides time to file their affidavits.
The comptroller OF the currency has
approved the application of j. L. May
field, s. c. Gregory, X. M. Irving, l..
D. Boggs and J. R. Gordon to organize
the First National Bank of Granada,
Colorado. with capital of $4,000.
The Empson Canning Company at
Longmont is increasing the capacity OF
it's plant for the seasons run on peas.
When the machinery now arriving is
in place, the factory will have a capac-
ity of 10000 cans Of peas per hour.
The cog road reached the summit Of
Pixies Peak May 26th with its first
train this year. In order to open the
track force of 100 men was kept at
work for six weeks and removed 4,000,-
600 cubic feet of ice and snow from the
right of way.
The new armory building of Com
pany D. National Guard, at Greeley.
will be 11Sx54 feet in size, with drill
hall 95x54 feet. Officers and company
quarters will be nicely fitted up. and
will be free headquarters for the G.
A. R.
The civil service commission will re-
sumo examinations at Denver June
14th to fill LLmerous positions in the
Denver mint. Applicants can secure
full information by writing to the sec
retary of the board of examiners at
Denver.
/ An open competitive examination
Las been announced to be held in Bal
ley, Park county, July 11th, 18th and
18th for the position of forest ranger
in the bureau of forestry, Department
of Agriculture, to be conducted by an
officer Of the forestry reserve.
The 1905 school census Of the Gree
| ley district has been completed and
shows that / 1,741 children between the
ages of six and twenty-one reside in
the Greeley district. There are S49
males and 1872 females. This is an in
crease Of Ill over the total last year.
| William B. Aiken, a prominent
/ farmer at Timnath, in Larimer county,
while milking a cow May 28th, re-
ceived a severe lightning shock. The
electric bolt passed through the COW,
killing it and injuring other nearby
stock. Aiken was injured, but will re-
cover.
Phelps C. Hurford of Pueblo, who
graduated from the medical depart
ment of Washington University at ST.
Louis. May 25th, was the only STU
dent to receive prize, having won. in
l
fellow classmen. the highest grade in
chemistry and anatomy.
State Treasurer Holmberg has had
six special agents in the state during
the past month collecting state liquor
licenses, and it has proved a very prof
table stroke of business. The expense
Of the work mas been $4,000. To date
the collections are $4,000 ahead Of
what they were at the same time last
year.
Harry A. Mills. between twenty-five
and twenty-eight years of age, a con-
ductor on the High Line electric road,
was killed at s o'clock on the morning
of May 2Sth, at Midway, in the Cripple
| Creek district. His death was at first
attributed to a shock of electricity,
but later 1t became evident that he
was caught between the cars.
w. S. Ulrich, former postmaster at
Manchester, Wyoming. lately en-
ployed by the street car company Of
Pueblo, Colorado. pleaded guilty in the
United States court at Cheyenne to a
charge of raising a receipt from
| $101.37 to $171.37, and was sentenced
by Judge Riner to serve one year and
one day in the state penitentiary.
A--- Rachel Lavelle will have to
serve her sentence of from three to
five years in the state prison, convicted
of perjury. The supersedeas asked has
been refused by the Supreme Court.
Mrs. Lavelle committed perjury In the
trial of her brother for murder in the
District Court at Cortez, Montezuma
county. and the case came up on error.
A very pretty little pamphlet has
Just been issued by Miss Katherine
Craig and her assistants in the office
Of superintendent of public instruction,
for the use OF the children of the pub
lie schools in observing Flag Day.
June 10th Is the day set apart by the