Gilpin observer., 1906-09-20
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

The Adams County Fair will be held
at Brighton September Goth to 2Sth.
The Arapahoe County Fair will be
held at Littleton October 4th to 9Th.
The Mesa County Fair will be held
at Grand junction September 26th to
2Sth.
The fair at Hotchkiss, in Delta
county, takes place September 26th to
2Sth.
G. C. Bachelor, pioneer Of Boul-
der, died at his home in Boulder on the
9th inst. at the great age of ninety
three years.
Jacob Rush, father of State Senator
John A. Rush, died at his home in Den
yer on the 9th inst. at the age of sew
enty-two years.
H. w. Ward, prominent Canon
City contractor and builder, has been
adjudged insane and placed in the
state asylum at Pueblo.
The Flint Automobile Company, or
ganized by eastern capitalists, contem-
| plates building large factory in DeE-
yer at a cost of 100000.
While walking on the tracks of the
| Colorado & Southern at Trinidad on
| the 18th inst, Robert Wilson, aged fif-
| ty-two years, was run over and killed.
| He leaves a widow.
During the last twelve months in
Weld county 1856 marriage licenses
were issued, eleven divorces granted
and thirty-six persons convicted, sew
enteen of whom were juvenile delin-
Quents under sixteen years of age.
| At Durango on the 9th inst, Sam
Nichols, aged fifty years, ranchman,
suffering from cancer of the throat,
blew the top Of his head off in a liv-
cry stable with revolver. He leaves
widow, son and two grown daugh-
ters.
| General Agent j. P. Hall of the
Santa Fe, on his return to Denver from
the Arkansas Valley Fair and Water.
melon Day at Rocky Ford, stated that
the fair was the most successful and
most largely attended of the nineteen
that he has visited.
A report just figured out concerning
marriages and divorces in Pueblo
county during the last twelve months
shows that there were 3O5 marriages
and 10S divorces. The number of juven-
lie court cases has also decreased
more than one-half this year over last
While temporarily insane from men.
tai and stomach trouble, James Fl
Arkush, Denver insurance man, be.
longing to the firm of Lehman, Stew
art & Arkush, committed suicide on
the 11th inst. by shooting himself
through the head. He is said to have
attempted suicide several times be-
, fore.
The Greeley sugar factory began op
erations on the 14th inst. Eight thou
sand acres of beets were planted for
the Greeley factory and will give an
average yield of twelve tons to the
acre. Eighty thousand tons of this
yield will be handled by the Greeley
factory and the remainder sent else
where.
In a quarrel over his refusal to pay
for 15-cent drink of whisky, Roy Has
kin, twen.y-one-year-ol vagrant, shot
and killed Andy Carlson, a cripple,
who was porter in the saloon, at No
| lan's saloon in Denver, on the 18th
inst. Haskin was arrested by Police
man Green and will be tried for the
| crime.
Agent II. B. Kerr of the State Bu-
reau of Child and Animal Protection
has filed complaint against Contractors
| Orman & Crook, charging cruelty to
animals. At camp No. 10, near Topo-
mas, Colorado, Kerr found fifty horses
that were suffering from sore should
ers. The animals were in charge Of
Foreman r. Davis.
| The Teller county commissioners
have voted to Gilbert McClurg, secre-
tary to the chamber of commerce at
Colorado Springs, $500 for a stereopti.
| con lecture on the Cripple Creek dis
| trict, to be delivered in the East. Grip
| pie Creek and Victor, by their respect
| i've City Councils, have each appropri.
ated $3.50 for the same purpose.
Helen Thomas. daughter of Calvin
Thomas of Greeley, has been appointed
assistan librarian in the reference and
cataloguing department of the library
| of the state University of Michigan,
| located at Ann Arbor. Miss Thomas is
graduate of the Greeley High school.
State Normal School, Wellesley, and
Albany. New York. Library School.
Bert Mellen, sentenced to five years
| in the penitentiary for embezzlemept
from the International Trust Company
at Denver, died of typhoid fever in the
prison hospital at Canon City on the
| l4th inst. A plea for his liberation was
made before the State Board OF Par.
! dons at its last meeting, but not acted
| upon. reports seeming to indicate that
| his illness was not dangerous.
Following are the ewiy-elected Off
| GERS of the Denver Live Stock Elk.
| change: President, A. A. Blakely;
vice president, ]. p. Adams; board of
| directors for two years, Richard Brack-
enbury, c. J. Mann and Ben Kemper:
for one year. James Mckee and Clyde
| B. Stevens; board of arbitration,
Henry Gebhard, ID. ]. A. Richie and
NJ. l.. Mack; board of appeals, A. J.
Campion, A. Bosserman and Paul Hen.
derson.
Tho Christian Assembly Ranch
| CompnnY. an incornoration not for