Gilpin observer., 1906-12-27
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

The Burlington will build large new
shops and round houses in Denver and
enlarge its yards next year at cost
Of about s5O0,00O.
The Greeley Gas and Electric Com
pany has purchased site and will
erect an extensive gas plant, with all
the latest improvements.
At the Empson Canning Company's
plant in Longmont 600 tons of Colo
rado-grown pumpkins are piled up
awaiting the canning process.
The new federal building at Trinidad
is to be located on East Main street 1t
will contain the postoffice, federal Off
ces and federal court room, and will
cost 100000.
The United States surveyor gen.
erals department for Colorado in Den
yer has been moved to the fifth floor
of the new Empire building at Six
teenth and Glenarm streets.
President s. S. Bernard of the
Cripple Creek Drainage & Tunnel Com.
pany has called meeting OF the direct
ors for December goth, when definite
action will be taken with regard to the
tunnel.
Samuel Mcfarland, miner at work
in the Specimen mine on Bull hill, in
the Cripple Creek district, was caught
and instantly killed by falling rock on
the night Of December goth. He leaves
a widow and three children.
Will Eaton, the nineteen-year-old
boy bound over at Greeley to the May
term of the District Court on the
charge of attempting to kill his
mother, was allowed to plead guilty
and was sentenced to the State reform
atory.
At hearing in Denver December
21st, Judge Armour made an order ad-
mitting to bail in the sum of $4,000
each Geret ]. and Wourtje Van Wyk.
pending a new trial for murder. An
application for change of venue has
also been made.
Nathan A. Baker. a Denver pioneer
and veteran of the Civil War, has just
sold tract of land in West Denver
for 100000. The tract was pre-empted
from the government by Mr.. Bakers
father at the time of the first settle
ment of Denver.
Plans are being arranged by which
the city hall of Denver, the downtown
fire stations, city shops, city street
cleaning department and city market
will all be supplied by the 100000
electric light plant that will be placed
in the new auditorium building.
A son born to Dr. and Mrs. Gerald
Webb at Colorado Springs a few days
ago, is the only greatgrandson of JEFF
ferson Davis, president of the
Southern Confederacy. Mrs. Webb is
a daughter of Mrs j. A. Haves. and
granddaughter of the dead Southern
leader.
The Cripple Creek Short Line will
next summer establish system OF
wireless telegraphy in connection with
the train service between Colorado
Springs and Cripple Creek. The appa-
ratus will be installed in each observa-
tion car, the sender and receiver be-
ing attuned to the same pitch as that
of the Forest wireless system at the
Springs.
The damage case for assault brought
by J. X. Mullen, the mill owner,
against Lawyer Tyson S. Dimes at
Denver has been settled out of court.
After plenty of time for reflection, Mr.
Dimes concluded that he was in the
wrong and wrote an ample apology. He
also agreed to pay all costs incurred by
Mr.. Mullen, who Immediately withdrew
his suit
The Mountains Reservoir Company,
which has incorporated with a capital
of $125,000. proposes to operate several
reservoirs in Clear Creek, Jefferson
and Arapahoe counties. known as Loeb
Lomond, Lake Caroline. Lake Stew
art, Gilman lake. Ice lake. Chinn
lake and Fall River reservoir. Water
will be taken from Fall river. Clear
c. elk and the Agricultural ditch.
The following letter was received by
the state treasurer at Denver a few
days ago: Dear Sir:-Having broken
the laws of the state of Colorado,
will endeavor to make 1t right by en-
closing S.. Respectfully yours" No
name was signed to the letter, but the
money was enclosed. 1t is the first
money ever turned into the
state treasurers office. No explana-
ton was made regarding the manner of
breaking the law.
Mrs. Jas. M. Lehman, eighty-three
years old and an invalid, who for sew
eral years had been a county charge,
was burned to death in her cabin in
the west end of Idaho Springs, on the
iltClhot vi bcCOihDtI GIot 0ue Hdu
been sufferer from paralysis, and 1t is
supposed that some rags, hung up to
dry near the stovepipe, caught fire,
and that when she tried to extinguish
the blaze the flames were communi-
Gated to her clothing.
w. H. Pigg has imported twenty
seven young elk from Rawlins. Wyom
ing, for his Stirrup ranch near Canon
City. He has game preserve of 700
acres enclosed with an eight-foot wire
'ence. For several years Mr.. Pigg has
been breeding elk and deer and has
'ound 1t more profitable than the cattle
business. Already Mr.. Pigg has about
thirty elk and a big herd of deer. and
his experience is that they thrive in
under the proper environ.
ment.
A purse Of twenty S5.pOId nieces wa q