Gilpin observer., 1906-02-08
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

DeSilulu<5 VI February WAS DuuS SWELL
ing on the maple trees and about ready
to bloom.
The second monthly dinner Of the
Colorado State Commercial Associa-
ton will be given at Colorado Springs
February 18th.
The manager of the School of Mines
football eleven at Golden is trying to
arrange trip through the Northwest
for his team next fall
At the close of the big cattle show
in Denver the Denver Chamber of
Commerce gave complimentary din
ner to the visiting livestock men.
The carpenters employed by the in
dependent mill owners of Denver have
been granted an eight-hour work day.
beginning May /, 1906, and continuing
one year.
The Rev. Asa B. Whitten, former
publisher of the Rocky Mountain Bap-
tist, died at Boulder on the End inst,
of consumption. He leaves wife and
two children.
Sheriff Florence OF Weld county
turned over to the county clerk
$1,002.S6 surplus earnings of the Office
after all expenses had been deducted
for 1905.
G. l. Oaks, aged IS years a
pioneer ranchman of Fountain val
ley, died of heart failure while enter
ing the City drug store at Fountain
on the 3rd instant.
The Cripple Creek Short Line ran a
winter excursion from Colorado
I Springs to Cripple Creek on the 1st
inst. Next thing they will be adver-
tising Cripple Creek as winter re-
sort.
During the first two months of the
present year the collections by the
state treasurer's Office for state liquor
licenses amounted to $5,400. In 1905
only $1,925 was collected in the same
period.
The foreign missionary box in the
Presbyterian church at Florence was
robbed of 81, mostly in pennies, by an
unknown thief. A hammer that had
been used in breaking open the cab
met was left behind.
The executive committee of the
Pixies Peak Centennial Association at
Colorado Springs has arranged the pro-
gram for the celebration of the discov
| cry of Pixies Peak by Lieutenant Zebu-
Ion Pike, to be held September 9th to
18th.
President Roosevelt has sent a mes
sage to Congress urging the payment
OF a claim of $25,000 to William Rad
cliffe, British subject, on account of
the destruction by mob of a fish
hatchery in Colorado which was owned
by Radcliffe.
Charles Copeland, brother of Prof.
A. ID. Copeland, superintendent OF the
Eaton schools, was instantly killed on
the afternoon of January 29th in
runaway accident a short distance
from his home in Pleasant Valley, six
miles northeast of Greeley.
AS a result of the preliminary exam
ination of Jesse Stansel, the police
man charged with the murder of Sher
in w. j. Thompson at Durango. Janu-
ary 9th. the accused was held for trial
in the District Court, but he was ad
mitted to bail in the sum of 100000.
F. w. Morrison. prominent pio
neer resident of Evans, was fatally in
jured in runaway accident near Ev-
ans January 30th and died the same
day. His team took fright at a train
and overturned the carriage. He was
seventy-cne years of age.
Little five-year-old Mary Zenola was
burned to death on the 3rd inst. at the
home of her parents on the John Lee
ranch six miles east of Golden. Her
clothing caught fire from a bonfire of
weeds and brush made by her little
brother aged nine years.
In answer to query from an eastern
newspaper, Governor Mcdonald has
placed himself on record as favoring
a proposition to call a constitutional
convention to provide for an amend
ment by which United States senators
shall be elected by a vote of the peo-
pie.
The heirs OF the late Governor John
Evans, whose interests are incorpor
ated under the name of the Evans In.
vestment Company, have donated two
lots in Denver valued at $4,000, for
the site of n deaconess' home, to be
erected by the Woman's Home Mis-.
sionary Society of the Methodist
Church.
State Auditor A. Z. Bent and Deputy
State Commissioner of Insurance L. +.
Rittenhouse have gone to Chicago to
attend a meeting of insurance commits
sioners. attorney generals and govern
ors, the object OF which Is to devise
ways and Deans for securing more uni
form insurance legislation for the
country.
The Colorado Prison Association for
the assistance Of released prisoners
received s2,S22 in subscriptions last
year. But its annual report states that
II needs $1,000 n year and TEN
porary home" that should cost 10000.
Twenty-eight prisoners were supplied
with clothing and bedding during the
past year.
A novel feature OF the convention
OF the International Typographical
union to be held Mt Colorado Springs
next August will be a reunion of the
printer Rough Riders who served
throuph the Cuban campaign with that
famous cavalry regiment. There were
approximately forty printers enlisted