Gilpin observer., 1906-05-31
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

Y. M. =. A. building in Denver.
The commencement exercises Of the
State University at Boulder will be
held in the Chautauqua auditorium this
year.
While out hunting near Wellington
In Larlmer county, Rudolph Leader,
aged fifteen, was accidentally shot and
killed.
The next annual meeting Of the
Colorado Funeral Directors Associa-
tion will be held at Boulder July 18th,
18th and 14th.
Prof. P. M. Condit, for four years
principal of the Central school at Flor
ence, will become superintendent OF
the Delta schools.
The park commissioners Of Denver
are fitting up outdoor Fairgrounds for
children in which suitable gymnastic
apparatus will be placed.
The Loveland Chamber of Commerce
has 1naugurated series of luncheons
like those SO popular in Denver, and is
increasing it's membership.
A civil service examination will be
held at the postoffice in Denver July
23d for those applying for positions Of
stenographer and typewriter.
The old mint building and site at
Denver is among the properties that
the secretary of the treasury has
asked permission of Congress to sell.
The knights of Columbus conferred
the fourth degree upon 161 candidates
at Denver Sunday. The order is
Catholic one and is becoming very
prosperous in Colorado.
The Rocky Mountain National Bank
at Central City has received certifi-
cate from the comptroller of currency
extending it's charter for another
twenty years. The bank was organized
in May, 1866.
The city of Denver has subscribed
for 100000 of it's own auditorium
vestment of the Firemen's Relief and
Sinking funds, and will pay four per
cent. interest.
John McEachren, a well-known
hotel man of Golden died May 22d
from stroke of apoplexy, having
previously been in good health. He
was sixty-four years of age and vet
eran of the Civil war.
The preliminary hearing at Greeley
OF Tom O'Neill, Sam Scoville and Fred
Meter, charged with completely in the
murder of Jack Boyle, the Chalk Bluff
ranchman, has been postponed until
July 18th, at the request of the defense.
Work has begun on a drainage sys-
tenn for the bottom land of the Saliva
tion Army colony at Amity. This
ground has been worthless on account
Of seepage from the Little Buffalo ca
nal and from irrigation of higher land.
Representative Bonynge has recon.
mended for appointment as postmaster
at Littleton, Clarke 2. Couzzins, to sue
ceed Maud C. Olmstead, whose term is
about to expire. Couzzins is pioneer
of Colorado and veteran of the Civil
War.
The Central of Georgia Railroad
Company has decided to open western
headquarters in Denver and will close
the commercial agency at Oklahoma
City. Col. A. H. Stevens has been
transferred from Oklahoma City to
take charge of the agency in Denver.
Colonel Robert s. Moore. veteran
of both the Mexican and the Civil wars,
died at Denver May 23d at the age Of
eighty-five years. He was colonel of
the Eighth Illinois and was wounded at
Stone River, Pennington, Corinth and
Perryville. During the Mexican War
he was captain in the Fourth Ken
lucky.
The Denver Fresh Air Fund camp
will be established this year at Glen
more lake, forty-five miles from Den
yer in the Platte canon. Sick and en-
feebled children will be taken to the
camp for rest and recuperation under
the care of the Juvenile Improvement
Association and the Visiting Nurses
Association.
On May 23d during a small thunder
shower Fred Brown was killed by a
stroke of lightning while working on a
reservoir at the foot of Mt. Lamborn,
near Paonia. Five other men were
with him at the time and they were all
shocked, but none killed. Mr.. Brown
was an old settler and well known in
the county. He leaves a wife and two
children.
An extraordinary large tourist
travel from Louisiana, Texas and
other Gulf states is anticipated by the
roads between Colorado and the
South, and several large excursions
have been planned. Various newspaper
contest Trips to Colorado" are being
instituted, similar to those which
brought so many parties to the state
last summer.
Send a dollar" is the new slogan
adopted by the silver service commit
tee that has in charge the work Of col
lecting money to purchase gift for
the new cruiser Colorado. Governor
Mcdonald, as chairman of the commit
tee, has issued an appeal to every man,
woman and child in the state. Gifts
from the children of from 10 cents up
ward are solicited.
The body of Ed. Fridez, who was
killed by a farmer near La Sale Fri
day night, while trying to break into
his house, was taken to Pueblo for
burial. The mother and sister Of Fridez,
and also his late employers, state that
ho for Soma time had beep addicted tn