Gilpin observer., 1906-01-25
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

The council of the Knights of Colum-
bus of Pueblo has voted to erect $780,
900 building.
Gen. w. j. Palmer is building mag
nificent driveway at Wagon Wheel
Gap at a cost of $4,000.
Wagon Wheel Gap now rejoices in
telephone line and can talk with all the
principal cities of the state.
The first conversation by telephone
between Denver and Creede took place
January goth, via Alamosa.
In quarrel over a woman at Pue-
bio on the 10th inst, Gus Matthews, a
colored man, shot and killed Frank
Smith, also colored. Matthews got
away.
A contract has been let for the con-
struction of the new State Fish Hatch
cry at Glenwood Springs. 1t is to cost
s1,7OO and be ready for occupancy by
the first of April.
The city physician OF Victor has re-
Gently examined milk from fifty
dairies and reports that he found many
cans of watered milk and some bad
cases of adulteration.
Mrs. Gottesleben, wife of Peter
Gottesleben, a pioneer and for many
years the leading jeweler in Denver,
died on the 18th inst. from injuries
received in getting off street car.
Supervising Architect Taylor has
assigned Lee Ullery, superintendent
of construction OF the Denver mint,
to take charge of the construction of
the federal building at Colorado
Springs.
The application of ]. G. Forrest.
]. A. Johnston, E. S. Duffy, George
H. Chessman and others to organize
the First National Bank of Ault, with
$4,000 capital, has been approved by
the comptroller of the currency.
Governor Mcdonald has appoined
three delegates to the convention to
be held in Washington, D. c., February
18th, for the drawing up of uniform di-
vorce laws. The delegates are Mrs.
G. c. Bradford, John DeWeese and R.
w. Bonynge.
Gen. w. ]. Palmer has granted a
lease for five years of a block of
ground to be used for athletic pur-
poses by the Colorado Springs high
school. A club house, 9uarter-mile
be built before spring.
w. H. Howard, retiring superintend-
ent of the Pueblo plant of the Ameri-
can Smelling & Refining Company,
was presented with a handsome gold
who also presented Mrs. Howard with
a fine pair of opera glasses.
The state is now expending $4,000
in building roads and bridges in the
southeastern counties. Charles W..
Wells of the state engineers office
recently started on an inspection tour
of the work in the vicinity of La
Junta, Las Animas, Lamar and Holly.
Mrs. Martha A. Hodges, widow of
James l.. Hodges, has been appointed
by Governor Mcdonald secretary of
the State Board of Arbitration. The
place carries salary of $1,000 a year.
The appointment is to fill the unex-
pired term Of Mr.. Hodges, who died
recently.
The jury in the case of Joe Mattel
at Trinidad returned a verdict of muir
der in the second degree. Mattel was
accused of the murder of an old Mexi-
can sheep herder near Segundo four
years ago, this being the second time
he was tried, the jury disagreeing at
his former trial.
Juan Curias, twelve-year-old boy,
committed suicide a short time since
at Malachite, in Huerfano county, by
shooting himself through the head.
His father had ordered him to wash
the family dishes and he preferred
death to the humiliation of being COM
PEELED to do girls work.
Sheriff o. P. Grimes of Ell Paso
county has announced the offer of
500 reward for the recovery of the
$3.50 Swiss repeater watch owned by
the late e. Crane Wilson, which was
not found upon the body of the sui
eide. Wilson's two sons want the
watch as a remembrance of their
father.
New postmasters have been ap-
pointed in Colorado as follows: Ar
riba, Lincoln county, Charles S..
Graves, vice c. C. Coleman, resigned;
Mano. Fremont county, Amada
Crabbs, vice Jane Whitmore, re-
signed; Rowena, Boulder county, FL
len Hoffman, vice H. S. Childers, re-
signed.
On recommendation of the Business
Mems Association, through a resolu.
ton recently passed, the Pueblo City
Council has employed Hiram Phillips,
n st. Louis street paving expert, to
take charge of the work laid out in
the city. The salary agreed upon is
$4,000 per annum. Paving will be
pushed.
The secretary Of the interior is ad-
vertising for proposals for furnishing
10000 barrels Of Portland cement on
cars at stations on the Denver & Rio
Grande railroad between Cedar Creek
and Uncompahgre, Colorado, for use
in connection with the Uncompahgre
valley irrigation project. Bids will
be opened February 9th at Montrose.
A verdict for $500 in favor of DIR.
F. II. Welles Of Grand Junction has
been rendered against the Intermoun-
tain improvement Company, owners of
the Bank block at Victor. The doctor