Gilpin observer., 1906-12-06
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

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for several weeks among the columns
at the base of the dome of the state
capitol building in Denver.
A Denver policeman on an electric
motor cycle will hereafter run down
and arrest people who run automobiles
faster than the city ordinance permits.
Five hundred and fifty thousand
pounds of potatoes were shipped from
Greeley recently to Forts Brainard
Huachuca and Riley, for the use of the
army.
The movement to secure large
sugar factory at Boulder is being
pushed, and 1t is believed that the
requisite acreage contracts can be Sc
cured.
Russell Sage. convicted Of forgery,
has been pardoned by Governor Nc
| Donald. Sage was sentenced to from
two and one-half to five years in the
penitentiary.
leaking gas jet occasioned fire
in the warehouse of the Colorado Cas-
| let Company at Denver on the morn
ing of November 26th, which resulted
| in the loss of 5000 collins, valued at
| $4,000.
Diilard F. Parker, yard brakeman of
| at Fort Collins November oath, while
switching cars and, and was instantly
| killed. He leaves widow and an in
| fant girl.
The people of Salida are urging the
| residents of other towns along the Ar
| kansas river to join with them in a
movement to prevent the pollution Of
the river by the placer mining opera
tions near Granite.
The Boulder Riding and Driving
Club has been organized as an offshoot
of the Boulder Commercial Associa-
tion. Its president is F. r. Park; Will
liam Firstbrook, vice president, and
w. S. Bellman, secretary.
w. H. Bradfield, pressman at the
Star-Journal Office in Pueblo, had his
hand caught between the plate and
roller of Hoe press on Thanksgiving
day. the veins and nerves on the back
OF the hand being torn off.
Ray Fisher and William Quinn of
Denver, fourteen and seventeen years
old respectively, blind inmates of the
Colorado School for the Deaf and
Blind, were drowned while skating on
Prospect lake at Colorado Springs on
the 30th ult
ing day a crowd of young hoodlums
wantonly attacked F. T. Koupa, mail
carrier, throwing all sorts Of missiles
at him. A brickbat hit him on the
forehead and knocked him senseless,
inflictfng serious injury.
Former United States Senator
Thomas NJ. Bowen of Pueblo has just
sold his ranch of several hundred
acres, nine miles from Del Norte, and
between that place and Creede, to John
Cleghorn, warden of the state peniten-
tiary. The purchase price is 100000.
Governor Mcdonald has appointed
Congressman Brooks, Bonynge and
Hogg and Congressman-elect Cook
and Haggott, as delegates from Colo
RADIO to attend the Convention for the
Extension Of Foreign Commerce in
Washington, d. c., January 14th. The
congressman will all be in Washing
ton at that time.
So desperate have farmers, commits
sion men and merchants at Greeley be,
come over the shortage of cars for
shipping purposes that there has act
ually been talk of using force to stop
the empty freight cars passing through
the Greeley district on their way to
California and use them in carrying
potatoes to market.
Jerry Kelly, aged fifty-three, who
was secretary of the Victor Miners
Union at the time of the strike, died
at Victor Thanksgiving day from val
vular disease OF the heart, leaving :.
widow, daughter and son. He con.
tracted tuberculosis at Goldfeld. Ne.
vada, from which place he returned
about six months ago.
At Grand Junction on the morning
of Thanksgiving day Joseph NJ. King,
son of ]. B. King of Red Oak, Iowa,
aged twenty-five years, and heir to half
a million dollars, was asphyxiated by
the fumes from burning gas heater
in the bath room adjoining his bed
room, being found dead when his room
was entered about o'clock in the
morning.
The Colorado State Conference of
Charities and Correction meets at the
Womans Club building in Denver De-
cember 9th, 10th and 18th. Governor
elect Buchtel will be one OF the prin-
cipal speakers, together with others of
the leading men and women Of the
state. The attendance of county CON-
missioners and all students Of sociol-
ogy is especially desired.
In the federal court at Denver.
George L. Suttle was found guilty of
cutting timber on government land In
Routt county. His two sons, Arthur
l.. and Elmer, who we're named as de-
fendants in the information, were
found not guilty. The penalty for the
offense OF which Suttle was found
guilty is a fine of not to exceed 1000.
The defendant gave notice Of motion
for new trial.
Governor Mcdonald has received an
invitation to attend personally the ses-
sions Of the proposed National Conven-