Gilpin observer., 1906-06-28
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

The picnic of Colorado Pioneers set
for Saturday. June 23d at Elitch's Gar.
dens, In Denver, was postponed until
the next Saturday on account of the
storm.
The Colorado State Normal summer
school at Greeley began its sessions
June 18th with an attendance of 300
and will continue for six weeks, clos
ing July 31st
Thomas Cunningham, a miner en-
ployed on the School Section Leasing
Company's property at Victor, fell
down shaft 1875 feet on the 18th inst.
and was instantly killed.
All the great newspapers in the
country will be represented in Colo
RADIO at the meeing in Denver of the
International League of Press Clubs
the last week in August.
The Colorado Fuel and Iron Com
pany will establish semi-monthly
pay day at the Pueblo Steel Works,
which will do away to a large extent
with the use of scrip or orders.
About 800 colored citizens from Pu-
eblo, Colorado Springs, Victor and
Cripple Creek attended the picnic
given by the Nonpareil band of Pu-
eblo at Clyde, on the Cripple Creek
Short Line.
The school census of Larimer county
taken in April shows the total number
OF persons of school age is 1850. This
is nearly double the number reported
in the school census of 1900, showing
a rapid growth.
The commissioner of the General
Land Office has withdrawn from pub
lie settlement, to be included in the
Fruita forest reserve, $4,000 acres of
public lands in Mesa county, near
Grand Junction and Fruita.
Twenty-Five miles of the gigantic
Colorado Fuel and Iron Company's ca
nal to supply the steel works with wa
ter from the Arkansas river have been
completed, and the workmen are now
within eight miles of Pueblo.
Clarence Tracey and Frederick
Hanna, linemen of the Denver Gas and
Electric Company, were dangerously
injured on the 18th instant by the
breathing of an electric light pole on
which they were at work
Farmers in the eastern part of Ell
Paso county are planning to erect
$50, 900 flour mill at Peyton, as a result
of the success of the durum, or maca.
roni wheat planting. Twenty thousand
acres have been planted, and the crop
is expected to be over twenty bushels
to the acre.
At Victor, June 23d, Michael j. Gil
more, aged forty-eight years, a timber
man at the Portland mine, was caught
between the cage and the shaft and
killed, being dragged upward to the
2O0-foot level, where the body was re-
covered. He leaves a widow and six
children, the oldest a boy of fourteen.
Convicts working on the new county
road at Brewster, near Florence, dug
up part of a skeleton of a monster
prehistoric animal. 1t is leg bone
eight feet long. ten inches across and
six inches thick in the narrowest
place. 1t is partially petrified. An ef-
fort will be made to locate other por-
tions of the skeleton.
Mitchell Benedict, of the law firm of
Benedict and Phelps. one of the pio-
neer lawyers of Denver and a man of
prominence in his profession. died at
Asbury Park, New Jersey. June 23d
from heart disease. Judge Benedict
was Civil War veteran, having been
captain in the Twelfth Pennsylvania
and acting as provost judge.
Plans for the $4,000 building of the
Y. NJ. c. A. to be located in West Den
yer near the Denver & Rio Grande
shops, are being completed by the rail-
way department of the association.
Helen Miller Gould has promised do
nation and with the $4,000 in the
treasury of the organization, the struc-
ture will be erected. The Denver &
Rio Grande will pay for the site.
Daniel witter, a widely-known Col
orado pioneer and prominent land at
torney in Denver. died June 22d. He
had held the position of miners judge,
member of the Legislature, collector
of internal revenue for Colorado, vice
president of the first street railway in
Denver, of the Denver Safe Deposit
and Savings Bank. and of the Denver
Water Company. He was the first Re-
publican nominee for governor OF
Colorado.
The reunion of the old settlers of
Lincoln Park, a suburb of Canon City.
was held June 21st. at the home of Dai
DeWeese. OF the halfscore guests
present, only one, w. H. Stover, has
resided at Lincoln Park twenty years.
In fact. all the territory included
within it's borders was dry, treeless
plain at that time. Lincoln Park now
contains about 1000 people and is one
Of the most delightful rural communl-
ties in the West.
Arrangements are being made by
number of the citizens of Pueblo to
dig up from South Union avenue the
stump of the famous old tree that
stood In that thoroughfare until 1885,
mention of which is given in the early
history of Colorado and which was the
scene of many lynchings and Indian
gatherings long before there was any