Gilpin observer., 1905-06-29
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

yer and Kansas City with disinte-
grated granite, beginning on the Den |
yer end.
approximately 100 Texas girls who
will spend two months in Colorado
Springs and vicinity have rented
Hagerman hall of Colorado College for
the season.
Campbell Summers. aged about
twenty years, was killed by the break
Ing of q pole in sort of merry-go-
round arrangement at a Swedish pic
mic near Pueblo June 25th.
President Lee De Forest of the WIRE
less telegraph company of that name
will be in Colorado Springs to per-
sonally superintend the construction
Of the system on the summit of Pixies
Peak.
The application of Edmund Kelley
Df Pagoda, Colorado. for permission to
construct an irrigation ditch in the
White River forest reserve has been
approved by the Forest Service at
Washington.
It is stated that next month will see
An addition Of $50 Japanese laborers
in various departments of the Mime
qua steel plant. This will increase the
number of Japs on the payroll to more
than 300.
The premium list of the Colorado
State Fair, beginning at Pueblo, Sep
tember 1st. has been printed. There
are large number of premiums in
all departments, calculated to bring
out a fine display.
Mrs. c. D. Fitch, who formerly con-
Quoted a private sanitarium in Denver,
has been convicted in the United
States Court of sending obscene and
indecent matter through the mails.
Her attorney filed motion for new
trial.
The advertising committee of the
Pueblo Business Mems Association is
preparing to issue 10000 booklets on
the advantage of Pueblo for circulation
largely among the delegates to the G.
A. r. encampment which is to meet
in Denver.
The application of NJ. L. Moore, L. ].
Smith, H. P. Forsythe, r. NJ. Handy
and ]. H. Rosdiger to organize the Nor
gan County National Bank of Fort
Morgan, Colorado, with $4,000 capi-
tai. has been approved by the comp
troller of the currency.
The trade excursion of the Pueblo
Business Mems Association will mus
ter about 100 business men and
brass band. They will leave Pueblo
August 7th and return August 14th,
including Durango, Montrose and
other western slope towns.
Mrs. Lena Livingston, a colored
woman who says she is 104 years old
and claims to have been slave in the
family of Jefferson Davis, the leader
of the Confederacy. was dangerously
hurt by fall on the court house steps
at Denver few days ago.
Bids were opened June goth in the
office of the supervising architect at
Washington for the construction of the
new public building at Colorado
Springs. There were thirteen bidders,
the lowest being Dieter & Menzel, Jop-
lin. Missouri, at 1861
Several members of the religious or
ganization known as the Jumpers"
have been imprisoned and set to work
pn the rock pile at Colorado Springs
Tor too noisy demonstrations on the
streets. Their attorney in defending
them said: IF Christ were in Colo
RADIO Springs to-day he would annoy
some people. The logic which put
these Jumpers in jail would place
Jesus Christ on the rock pile if he
we're here"
Eight miles of the new beet railway
owned by the Greeley, Eaton and
Windsor sugar factories. connecting
Windsor and vicinity with the Eaton
country. were completed June oath.
Seventy-five men and teams are still
working on the road, which will be
fourteen miles long. This road will
open up the country to the north of
Windsor and west of Eaton, which
heretofore has had to contend with
long hauls in getting farm produce to
market.
On June 25th the body of a man be-
tween sixty and seventy years of age
was found in the sand in the Arkansas
river about half mile below the stock
yards at Pueblo. The body has not
been identified and some are of the
opinion that it is that of one Of the
Eden wreck victims. The man had
gray hair and gray chin whiskers. He
was of medium height and wore
black suit. flannel shirt. and calfskin
shoes with leather laces.
At Elitch's Gardens in Denver the
Bellows company has been presenting
"A Japanese Nightingale" and open
ing Sunday night, June 25th, the play
for the week Is THE Maneuvers Of
Jane" one of the cleverest OF Clyde
Fitch's comedies, in which Mary Man
nering starred last winter. These
standard plays that have added mate
rally to the popularity OF. the gardens.
and which promise this season to in
crease the popularity OF Denver's IA
fious resort.
T. H. Wolverton, who had been
working for County Treasurer c. E.
Black at Hot Sulphur Springs for more
than a year, recently got on a pro-
tracted spree and at New Chicago.
near Arrowhead, June 23d he terror