Gilpin observer., 1906-07-12
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

that the Denver auditorium will be
ready for occupancy May /, 1907.
Nine-year-old Ernest Storey of Boul-
der lost three fingers of his right hand
by the explosion Of q giant cracker
July 4th.
The Elks' convention begins in Den
YER Monday. July 18th, and lasts four
days. Immense preparations are be-
ing made for 1t.
At Pueblo July 9Th the City Council
turned over to the owners Of the wa
terworks bonds to the amount of over
100000 and the South Side plant for
mally became city property.
The First National Bank at Windsor
has been authorized to begin business
with $4,000 capital. John E. Law is
president; Lewis Korn, vice president,
and Frank N. Briggs. cashier.
Halsey NJ. Rhoads of Denver, the old
newspaper man. has been appointed In
spector for the Department of Agricul-
ture and collector of statistics Of live
stock, sugar beets and wheat for Wy
oming and Colorado.
Samuel Woodbury. has been declared
insane by jury In the County Court
at Boulder and sent to the stat asy-
lum at Pueblo. Woodbury. went crazy
over trying to perfect a patent in con-
nection with irrigation.
Edward Hawks. a Civil War veteran,
was shot and killed at Altman on the
9Th instant by Michael McCready in
McCready's saloon. The shooting took
place as the result of a saloon quarrel
over private differences.
Over 5000 names have been at
tached to a petition asking the street
car company to reduce the fare be-
tween Colorado Springs and Manitou,
Broadmoor and the Cheyenne canons
from 10 cents to cents.
Henry Rogers, a well-known stock
raiser and resident Of Boulder county
since 1870, died at Boulder on the 5th
instant of cancer of the stomach. He
was seventy-two years Of age and ma
tive of Cornwall, England.
Samuel c. Carpenter, the Denver po.
liceman who lost leg as the result OF
wounds received at the time of the
election riots in Denver November 6,
1900, has been granted q pension OF
$40 month.
The Fourth OF July attractions at
Frisco in Summit county included
horse and foot races, drilling contests,
a baseball game and twenty-round
prize fight, together with display OF
fireworks from the top OF Mount
Royal.
The State Supreme Court has de-
cided that the Oakes Home for Con-
sumptives in Denver is exempt from
taxation, 1t being in the same class a.
to charges for service with other hos
pitfalls that have always been SO eI-
empted.
Allen Yard, three years old, while
fishing with his father on Beaver
creek, near Florence, few days since,
caught a nine-inch trout. He is the
youngest child that has ever caught a
fish in the stream. The boy Landed
the fish without assistance.
The Colorado Telephone Company,
through it's treasurer, e. B. Field, Jr..
has contributed 500 for the fund to
purchase n silver service for the
cruiser Colorado. The check was re-
ceived by Governor Mcdonald and
turned over to the trustees Of the fund.
The report of the business trans
acted by the Pueblo land office for the
year ending July /, 1906, shows that
1853 homestead entries have been
made, covering 162,041.62 acres and
that 223 desert land entries have been
made, covering 46,427.47 acres. This
is the largest business done by the
land office of this district for many
years.
In the Cripple Creek District on
July 1st, B. F. Wildman. en-
gineer at the Cameron power house.
was struck by bolt of lightning and
paralyzed. He was walking to the door
after oiling his machinery, when the
flash came, knocking him down. He
was removed to the Red Cross hospital
for treatment with little chance of saw
ing his life.
Judge Ben B. Lindsey OF the juvenile
court at Denver has ordered Frances
and Chrissie Burlington, daughters Of a
Pittsburg man, who have occupied
considerable Denver newspaper space
recently, to be placed in the Home Of
the Good Shepherd. A waiter with
whom 1t is said the girls went to Lead
vile, is in the county jail awaiting
prosecution by the girls father.
The Colorado Bankers Association
at its session, just closed, in Glcnwood
Springs, elected the following officers
for the ensuing year: President, c. c.
Hemming, vice president of FL Paso
National Bank OF Colorado Springs;
vice president. F. B. Gibson OF Den
yer; treasurer, Alva Adams Of Pueblo;
secretary, A. A. Reed Of Boulder. The
next annual meeting will b9 held at
Boulder.
William A. Otis and associates. in
cluding G. A. Taff, president OF the
Pixies Peak Hydro Electric Company,
have organized the Empire Water &
Power Company and announce that
they will soon begin the erection OF
new electric power plant at Manitou.
TO cost $780, 900. In addition they pro-
pose to expend 100000 on pipe lines
and reservoirs. and $500,000 additional
in general Improvements.
A considerable sum is being ex-