Gilpin observer., 1906-02-15
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

A national golf tournament is being
planned for the Pixies Peak centen
nial celebration at Colorado Springs.
Gen. William ]. Palmer of Colorado
Springs has donated three valuable
| lots in Durango to the Durango Pub
lie Library.
The State Land Boards receipts for
last month show an increase over jan
uary, 1905. The figures are: January,
1906, $34.225.73; January, 1905. $751;
295.77.
The framework has been erected for
the new shops Of the Florence & Grip
pie Creek railroad at Canon City and
work is progressing rapidly. The cost
will be about $4,000.
Mrs. Sarah Graham, one Of the Oldest
original Unionist colonists' pioneers,
died at Greeley on the 9Th inst, at the
age of eighty years. She was for
long time proprietor of the Exchange
hotel at Greeley.
A. s. Boynton, a member Of the
Manitou Town Council, has received
word that his son, Charles A. Boynton
of Waco, Texas, has been appointed
United States district attorney for the
western district of that state.
Articles of incorporation have been
filed for the laying out of townsite at
Dacono, six miles northeast of Erie.
The new town came into existence
when the Consolidated Coal & Coke
Company began mining last fall.
Mrs. E. Pearl Ebert, convicted of
voluntary Nanslaughter in connection
with the death of Mrs. Sarah Ault,
| December oath, was sentenced by
Judge Seeds at Cripple Creek to seven
to eight years in the penitentiary.
John Clay & Co. of Chicago and
Clay, Robinson & Co. of Omaha, have
! organized the First National Bank OF
Ault, with a capital stock of $4,000.
Temporary quarters will be estab-
lished until a new $1,000 building can
be eyected.
A complimentary trip to Cripple
Creek over the Short Line is offered by
ID. c. MacWatters of that line to the
delegates to the convention of the In
ternational league of Press Clubs.
who will visit Colorado Springs August
18th in connection with their conven-
tion at Denver
Register Mark c. Woodruff of the
State Land Board has sent out about
$50 notices to various parts of the state
announcing that February 21st has
been set aside as the date for the
consideration by the board of the ap-
plications for the selection of indem-
nifty school lands.
w. H. Davis, arrested at Brighton
and taken to Denver, has it is said
been positively identified by Mrs. La
vina A. Armstrong and J. NJ. Greenlee
as one of the two men who at l o'clock
on the afternoon of November 22nd,
last, robbed the South Denver bank
and secured $1,950.30 in cash.
The owner is being sought for a
ring worth $3.50 found near Valmont
in Boulder county beside the railroad
track last fall. The finder, AL Teeck,
says there are six diamonds in the
ring and initials which the owner can
describe. He will not give it up until
a full description is given, but is anx-
ious to find the owner.
Notice has been received in the Of
flee of the state game and fish COM
missioner of shipment of 100000
eastern brook trout eggs from Ply
mouth, Massachusetts. The eggs will
be sent to the Denver hatchery and
later will be distributed in various
streams in the state. A total of about
100000 eggs will be purchased by the
state from the Plymouth hatchery.
The State Land Board, at it's meeting
on the 7th inst, decided to sell sixty
two acres of land leased by Thomas A.
Miles near Brighton at SIS per acre. A
section of land in Otero county be-
tween Rocky Ford and La Junta will
be sold at $40 per acre. For this land
Beerbohm & Garwood have bid Sc per
acre. Numerous applications for land
| in nfprn n haap
the board.
A shoemaker at the Bessemer steel
works, near Pueblo, says that nearly
5000 foreigners of the laboring class
pay out absolutely nothing for repairs
on their footwear. He states that
these men wear the coarsest kind OF
shoes and that in every house can be
found crude outfit for repairing. This.
he says. does not apply to the Japa-
nese, who are among the best Gus
toners of regular shoemaker.
Another and still more unique plan
has been proposed in connection with
the movement to start library in the
National Union Printers Home at Col
orado Springs. 1t was at first planned
to have each delegate to the Interna-
tional Typographical Union convention
in this city next August bring at least
one work of fiction. The scheme was
enthusiastically adopted, and more
than 1000 volumes are thus assured
A. l.. Knox, owner Of bakery at
Wray, was frightfully burned about
the arms and hands, the result of an
explosion of a gasoline lamp in his
place of business. The lamp had
sprung leak during the day, and on
being ignited the entire lamp became
enveloped in flames and some of the
burning gasoline ran down his arms.
One arm is mass of burned flesh to
his elbow, while the other hand is
cooked to a crisp.