Gilpin observer., 1906-06-07
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

are l,lZ5 children OF school age In
Florence.
The Colorado Teachers Association
has donated $100 for the relief of the
needy teachers in San Francisco.
The annual state convention OF the
society of Christian Epdeavor. will be
held at Colorado Springs, June 14th
to 18th.
The C. D. Griffith Shoe Company
proposes to erect large shoe factory
at Denver, which will employ between
200 and 300 men.
Strawberry Day at Glenwood Springs
will be on Saturday, June 10th. There
will be free strawberries and free
baths in the big pool.
The Loveland Chamber of Commerce
mas inaugurated series of luncheons
like those SO popular in Denver, and is
Increasing it's membership,
A destructive hailstorm visited 3un-
flower valley, eight miles east of Trini-
dad, June 1st, and practically ruined
the fruit crop as well as the first crop
ol alfalfa.
The class of boys belonging to the
colorado Springs Young Mems Chris
tian Association will start on gypsy
camping trip June 18th, visiting the
Cripple Creek district and Canon City.
Ed Rowe, a bartender in the Sara
tcga saloon at Leadville, was shot
about midnight May 29th and instantly
Killed by two masked men who at
tempted to hold up the saloon. The
men escaped.
The Colorado Canning Company Of
Canon City has increased it's capital
stock and is adding large two-story
brick building to its plant. During
the canning season 1t expects to en-
ploy seventy-five persons.
Trainloads of structural steel are be-
Ing received daily at the MinneQua
works to be used in the construction
of the new buildings, which will in.
clude new roundhouse and machine
shop for the Colorado G Wyoming
road, six new open hearth furnaces,
ETC.
| Marks Whiteman, prominent Jew
ish merchant at Roswell, New Mexico,
who committed suicide at Alamogordo
a few days since, formerly resided in
Denver and Pueblo. He was the origi-
nal of "Whiteman, the Jew Merchant"
in Emerson Hough's novel, Hearts
Desire"
John Seidler, a packing house EN-.
ploye at Denver, went insane and at
tackled numerous people. He was ar
rested by Policeman Higdon, who had
to club him into submission. But the
| demented man died at the county hos
pital from injuries received in one OF
his fights.
Mrs. Lucretia L. Hall, aged seventy
five, and the Oldest woman pioneer of
Ell Paso county, died May Goth, at the
Hall ranch, near Fountain. She is sur
/ vived by a husband. Benjamin Hall, aged
eighty, and by two sons. A daughter,
Mrs. A. E. Hatcher, was killed year
ago by train.
| The West Side Neighborhood House
Association in Denver has begun work
on a new building to cost $4,000. 1t
will be the home of day nursery. kin
dergarten, various clubs, night schools,
and classes in sewing, cooking, basket
weaving, hand and tool work, mechali-
cal drawing, etc.
Officers of the Colorado State Grange
still hope that Denver will get the Ia
tional Grange convention, which is to
meet November 10th to cath next, and
which it was feared would be lost to
the state on account of the failure to
get as low railroad rates as had been
expected and thought necessary.
George A. Reese Of Trinidad has re-
ceived a telegram from the captain of
the battleship Maine. stating that his
son, Dwight Austin Reese, had fallen
overheard and was drowned. The boy
was born and raised in Trinidad and
was seventeen years old. He was ex-
pected home this month for vacation.
| Passenger agents from various Colo
arod railroads are expecting to handle
larger tourist business this season
than they have had for years. With
J each successive year, according to the
records, tourist travel his increased,
and 1906, it is believed. will almost
double the amount Of business handled
in any previous year.
| On Memorial Day the convention OF
the Western Federation of Miners in
session at Denver held services in
memory of Rev. Myron w. Reed. An
eulogy was read by John NJ. O'Neill,
editor of the Miners Magazine, and
afterwar6 n committee from the or
ganization went to Fairmount ceme-
terry and decorated Mr.. Reeds grave.
For damage done to uniforms and
equipment of the Colorado National
Guard at the first call to arms in the
Spanish-American War in 1898, Gov
ernor Mcdonald has just received n
check for $1,302.30 from Treasurer Ell
lis H. Roberts of the federal govern
ment. The check was turned over by
the governor to the adjutant general.
David X. Wall Of Denver, who came
to Colorado in 1859 with good supply
Of garden seeds and who was the first
man to demonstrate the agricultural
possibilities of the state, celebrated
his eightieth birthday May 26th. He is
still strong and active. Before coming
to Colorado he was a forty-niner in
California and made money in mining
and gardening.