Gilpin observer., 1906-12-20
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

have been put to work at Eiler smelter
at Pueblo. These are the first Asiatics
given employment by the smelling
! company.
Kansas City papers announce that
| F. G. Bonfils of the Denver Post is
preparing to build twenty-story Office
| building in that city, to be fireproof
and cost from 100000 to 100000.
DR.. L. F. Ingersoll, pioneer physi-
clan of Grand Junction, and one of the
most prominent doctors in western
! Colorado, died suddenly in his Office
on the Sth inst. of heart disease.
The colored orphanage at the Old
Folks Home in Pueblo was formally
dedicated with elaborate ceremonies
on Sunday, the 9th inst. A number
| of prominent colored people from Den
yer and other cities of the state were
present.
Harry Lee of Colorado Springs, who
has made a considerable reputation by
photographing wild animals in their
native haunts, has gone to the Pacific
coast and proposes before he returns to
attempt the ascent of Mount Mckin-
| ley in Alaska.
The Denver Chamber of Commerce
has appointed a committee consisting
of James T. Callbreath, Jr., George
1rltch, Charles F. Onderdonk and H.
A. Lindsey to confer with other COM
mittees in regard to celebration OF
Denver's semi-centennial in 1908.
| Boulder is ready to maintain its
own high school free from connection
with the State Preparatory School and
an effort will be made to have the in
| 7 tel do ha
State Preparatory School altogether,
as the university no longer needs it.
| Ten years Imprisonment and fine OF
$1,000 was the sentence imposed in the
federal court at Denver by Judge Rob,
ert E. Lewis on DR.. James Denslow Egg.
| gleston, son of President Eggleston Of
the Pacific Express Company, who was
| convicted of counterfeiting and max.
| ing Photographic negatives of sic
bill.
T. S. McMurray of Denver, vice pres
| ident and general manager of the
Fort Collins Electric Street Railway
Company, and G. J. Hartman, superin.
/ tendent nf the electrical department OF
| the Colorado & Southern, have been at
Fort Collins outlining plans for start.
! ing work on the Fort Collins street
railway.
A number of eastern physicians,
| with D. A. Garfield and Greeley bust
ness men, are planning to build $780,,
600 sanitarium on the hill south OF
| Greeley. If the project succeeds DR..
George Pogue of Greeley, who has had
long and successful experience in the
treatment of tuberculosis, will have
charge of the institution.
Froply Mi1lor Rftoop
phan boy, living with H. E. Keller, on
ranch three miles northwest OF
Brighton, was found dead on the Sth
inst. He is believed to have swallowed
strychnins because he feared he
would be arrested for stealing, as it
was alleged that he broke into a
satchel belonging to a workman and
| took clothes.
Fifty Japanese arrived at the Pueblo
steel works a few days ago in charge
of one of the Japanese employment
agents who have been bringing Asiat.
les recently from Pacific coast points.
Most of these men are common labor.
ers, but few are skilled in certain
ways and command fairly good wages,
This makes a total of nearly 600 Japs
in the Bessemer colony.
David Babb, who is charged with the
murder of his wife's cousin, Bennett
Burleson, at Earl thirty miles east OF
Trinidad, was arraigned before Justice
of the Peace Coney at Trinidad, where
he entered plea of not guilty and
waived preliminary hearing. He waa
removed back to the county Jail and
his bond was fixed at $4,000, which he
was not able to furnish.
Word has been received of the es.
cape from the Jackson, Missouri, Jail
in Kansas City, of Henry Hurley, aliaa
Ed. Foley, the notorious lone high.
wayman" who terrorized scores of drug
stores In Denver three years ago, AMI
who was sentenced last spring by thu
Kansas City authorities to serve six
years for highway robbery. A reward
of 500 is offered for his arrest.
A few days ago what is known al
the w. E. Pabor house, on Seventh
street near Ninth avenue, one of the
Oldest landmarks in Greeley, was
thirty-six years by the use of trac.
ton engine. The house, which is
twortory frame, was the handsomest
residence in Greeley when built by w.
T.. Pabor. secretary of Union Colony,
now of Florida, in 1871. 1t has lately
| been used as a blacksmith shop.
The Colorado-Yale Association will
hold its twenty-sixth annual meetinr
at the University Club in Denver, De.
cember Goth. The officers of the club
are anxious to obtain the names and
addresses of all Yale men who have
come to Colorado recently ana are not
members Of the club, as it was desired
to have all those who have attended
Yale present at the banquet. Theron
r. Field Of the Colorado National Bank
Is president of the club and Frederick
II. Morley is secretary.
The Santa Fe Railway Company has
let a contract for the extension and i'm.
| proYemelt of the depot and eating