Gilpin observer., 1906-10-04
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

till October 10th.
The University of Colorado has be
come a member of the United States
National Amateur Athletic Association
A cabbage exhibited by w. s. Brown
at Florence is five feet in circumfer.
ence and weighs nearly forty-five
pounds.
Col. James w. Penrose, for many
years special agent for the Union Pa.
cific, and :. veteran of the Civil War
died at Denver on the 26th ult.
Paul Hentchel, saloon keeper OF
Evans. has been found guilty on two
counts of violating the state law
against selling liquor on Sunday.
The director Of the mint at Washing
ton on the 26th ult., purchased 2OO,.
900 ounces Of fine silver at 6S.76 cents
to be delivered at the Denver mint
The girl students at the State Nor
NAL School at Greeley still quite gen.
orally keep up the custom, inaugurated
some two years ago, of going without
hats.
L. N. Zalinger, formerly publisher of
the Denver Eye, has started a new
weekly paper in Denver, the South
Denver Sun, which will advocate Re-
publican politics.
A good many cases of typhoid fever
have been reported in Denver during
the past month. Diphtheria and scar
let fever have been less prevalent than
usual at this season Of the year.
The application of w. A. Merriell, X.
F. Shelley, A. A. Belts, e. ]. Dalton
and 0. D. Belts, to organize the First
National Bank of Fruita, with $4,000
capital, has been approved by the
comptroller of the currency.
Walter L. Barnes. for four years H.
brarian at Albany, New York, has been
appointed assistant librarian at the
Buckingham library, University of Col
who has rendered her resignation after
serving three hears as assistant.
On complaint of the State Bureau of
Child and Animal Protection Harry
Mulholland of Denver, was fined SIS
and costs for restricting his horse to a
diet of six quarts of oats a day with
out any hay or other "roughness."
Mrs. Rebecca Eaton, wife of the late
ex-Gov. B. H. Eaton, will give a $4,000
pipe organ to the Park Congregational
Church at Greeley, to commemorate
the life and character of her daughter,
Mrs. Jennie Eaton-Petrikin, who died
recently.
Supervising Architect Taylor, of the
Treasury Department, is expected to
arrive in Denver December 1st to ex-
anime the sites that have been offered
for the new Denver postoffice building.
Congress has appropriated 100000 for
the purchase of site.
By the use Of a team of forty-eight
oxen, Senator Clayton has constructed
bitches on marshy land north Of Gree
ley, whereby $50 acres of land has
been drained. This land will now be
valuable for garden purposes and will
be plated in five-acre tracts.
William Dalton, the 16-year-old boy
accused of the murder of his uncle, j.
NJ. Gard, in quarrel at Palmer Lake,
was convicted of involuntary man.
slaughter in the District Court at Colo
RADIO Springs. Sentence, which was
deferred, may be from one day to one
year in the county Jail.
Mrs. Emma Craig, wife of the Rev.
William Bayard Craig, pastor of the
Central Christian Church at Denver,
died at Denver September Goth after
an illness Of more than year. She
was the victim of stomach trouble and
died after an operation which was un-
dertaken as a last resort.
The Carbon Coal & Coke Company
which is opening extensive mines in
Riley canon near Trinidad, has let a
contract for construction of fifty cot
tages for miners. Cement blocks will
be used in construction, but instead of
gravel being ground for the manufac-
ture of the blocks, coke s'aZe will be
used.
Leonard Imboden and James A. Hill,
convicted of wrecking the Denver Saw.
ings Bank, and now serving time in
the penitentiary at Canon City, have
through their attorney, l.. S. Smith,
filed brief in the Supreme Court sup
Elementary to those already filed in
support of their motion foi a super
sedeas.
The Henry Baab and Baub Brothers
ranch in Beebe Draw dist. let, fifteen
miles south of Greeley, l,7G0 acres,
with all live stock and fai ming imple-
ments has been sold to II. u Martyr, a
retired banker Of Columbus, Ne.
braska, for $4,000. Mr.. Martyr owns
a big cattle and sheep ranch near
Deer Trail.
Mint Roberts from Washington, the
output of subsidiary coin will be
doubled at the Denver mint, necessi.
tating an Increased capacity and work
ing force. frank NJ. Downer, super
intendent of the Denver ioint, Is ex.
pecting instructions to cease his coin.
age of silver dollars but to double his
capacity for smaller coins.
At the annual meeting of the Cripple
Creek. Central Railway Company, held
at Portland, Maine, September 25th,
Spencer Penrose Of Colorado Springs
was elected director TO fill va.
cancy in the board. All Of the retiring
directors were reelected. Quarterly
dividends Of 1H per cent. on the com.
mon stock, and 1 per cent on the pre-
ferred were declared, payable October