Gilpin observer., 1906-07-26
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

citation will hold its annual midsum.
mer meeting at Castle Rock, July 23d
and oath.
Inc new Roman Catholic church of
st; John the Baptist was dedicated at
Longmont Sunday, July 22d. The
building is a fine one and cost over
$4,000.
The Pixies Peak Press Club of Colo.
rado Springs will give dramatic en-
tertalnment August 18th for the benefit
OF the entertainment fund of the Inter-
national League of Press Clubs.
From thirty-acre apple orchard
upon his farm, nine and one-half miles
west OF Denver. G. E. Parfet will ship
this year 10000 boxes of apples, If the
present Indications of ninety-two per
cent. crop are fulfilled
At meeting of the Colorado
Springs Ministerial Association COM
m1ttee was appointed to cooperate
with the Anti-Saloon League and the
Christian Endeavor societies in the
fall political campaign.
The comptroller of the currency has
approved the application of j. H.
Slater, j. w. Boiling, W. Bailey, George
Weisbad, Charles Wansled and others
to organize the First National bank of
Eads, with $4,000 capital.
The historic Cherry creek in Denver
is to be walled from Larimer street to
Broadway and boulevard constructed
on the north side of it. A contract has
been let calling for the completion of
the work in ten months.
The banks in Colorado Springs,
Colorado City and Manitou have all
been supplied with the Pike medal
lions, which have been struck by the
government in honor of the centennial
celebration to be held this fall.
Harley Harris, twelve-year-old son
of George Harris, prominent ranch
man of Ell Paso county, was dragged
and kicked to death by a fractions
horse at his home in Calhan, July 18th.
The boy had the halter tied around his
waist.
Because of the Mexican law which
prohibits the removal of a body from
that country in less than three years,
Stanley Pearce, the metallurgical ey-
pert, of Denver. who died at Magda-
lena, Sonora, July 10th, will be buried
there.
The cornerstone of the new woman's
pavilion of the National Jewish Hos
d
laid Sunday, July 22d, under the aus
pices of the Independent Order of B'nai
Birth, Rabbi Friedman delivering the
principal address.
Convict E. E. Thomas escaped from
the penitentiary at Canon City on the
afternoon of the 18th inst. He had
been trusty for several months and
was at work in an alfalfa field near the
nric Thay, TO he r.ric
eighteen months ago from Gunnison
county to serve term of three TO four
years for felonious assault.
Bids for the reconstruction of a road
between Tennessee pass and Debeque
are to be opened in the Office Of the
state engineer on August l. About
$4,000 is to be used in constructing the
road. The plans to be followed are
in line with those for the establishing
of good roads throughout the state as
formulated by State Engineer Jaycox.
Harry Collom. at work on the Isa-
bella mine in the Cripple Creek dis
trict, was instantly killed on the 18th
inst. by becoming caught in the COM
pressor. Collom's five-year-old boy
witnessed the catastrophe and, terror
stricken, summoned the engineer, who
stopped the compressor, after the un-
fortunate man bad been nearly torn
to pieces.
Miss Katherine L. Craig, state super
intendent of public instruction, has
made the semi.annual apportionment
of the school funds of the state. The
total apportionment is s115, 5,6S2.70, and
it is divided among the various coun-
ties. according to the school popula-
ton. The number of children of
school age in the state, according to
the last census, is 1886.
At the Elks convention in Denver
the first and second prizes for the best
decorated store buildings were consol-
idated and awarded on a tie to the
Daniels & Fisher Stores Company and
the Denver Dry Goods Company, each
receiving $3.50. The second prize.
raised to $3.50, went to the A. T. Lewis
G. Son Dry Goods Company, whose dis
play was nearly, If not quite, equal to
the others.
An explosion occurred at the river
portal of the Gunnison tunnel on the
18th inst, by which Ed Beth of Kan
sas was instantly killed. Pete Jalozok
and Isaac Hill were injured, probably
fatally. Jalozok had both eyes knocked
out and Hill suffered the loss of both
hands. Mike Marskozitch, John Jalo-
zok, Martin Yuroff and A. klodufer
were but slightly hurt. The explosion
occurred while the men were tamping
the powder in one of the seven-foot
drill holes.
Deputy Sheriff James d. Romero was
held at Trinidad by the coroner's jury
for the murder of Louis Vianca early
Sunday morning at Starkville. The
Jury returned verdict that the killing
was without provocation or cause. The
shooting affray took place in a dance
hall and was between Mexicans and
Italians. The deputy sided with the
Mexicans in the fight. Romero re-
ceived a severe knife wound in the