Gilpin observer., 1906-01-11
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

The Boulder oil refinery has been
leased for long term of years to
Harry Casaday, the agent of the
Standard Oil Company in Boulder.
The Second Infantry, now stationed
at Fort Logan, has been ordered to the
Philippines. The troops must be at
San Francisco, ready to embark, be-
fore January 9th.
The Colorado Springs Humane So
ciety has affiliated with the State
Bureau of Child and Animal Protec-
ton. DR.. w. F. Slocum is president
and w. F. Richards, secretary.
DR.. u. D. Mcdowell, a well known
/; physician of Longmont, died January
Sd of consumption. He was brother
of Bishop w. F. Mcdowell, formerly
chancellor of the University of Den
| yer.
The First National Bank OF Ber-
thoud has been authorized to begin
business with $4,000. Thomas H.
Robertson, president; John A. Cross,
vice president; Guy E. Loomis,
cashier.
| Benz. F. Harrington, formerly county
judge of Arapahoe county, died at Den
yer, January 5th. He came to Colorado
in 1871 and was we'll known and pOpu-
lar, holding at various times many i'm
portant offices.
The weather bureau at Denver re-
ports that during the sixty-eight days
intervening between October goth and
January 9Th, there was no precipita-
ton, and only four days during that
period when bright Colorado sunshine
did not prevail.
Charles w. Martin. a former we'll
known Colorado hotel man, having
been manager of the Denver Club. as
sistant manager of the Antlers at Colo
RADIO Springs, and manager Of Hotel
| Colorado at Glenwood, died at Canton,
Ohio, January 9Th.
The farmers in the Arkansas valley,
north and west of Lamar, and north of
Las Animas, are rejoicing in the pros
pect of a new railroad. which will be
commenced this spring and pass
through the northern part of Prowers,
Bent and Otero counties.
Judge Moses Hallett, executor of
the Clayton estate in Denver, has au-
thorized the announcement that early
in the spring he will begin the erec-
ton of the Clayton Memorial college
on the eighty-acre tract belonging to
the estate near the City Park.
While skating on Hayden's lake near
Boulder on the night of the 5th inst.
Irvine Finney, aged seventeen, broke
through the ice and was drowned.
Young Finney's father was killed by
an explosion Of giant powder at Neder-
land only about two weeks before.
The application of w. E. Combe,
Lewis Linebarger. M. 1. Linebarger.
H. N. Linbarger, Mark Burke and
|C. F. Parker, to organize the
First National Bank of Julesburg,
with $25,000 capital, has been ap-
proved by the comptroller OF the cur
rency.
Henry T. Rogers, of the firm oi
Rogers, Cuthbert & Ellis of Denver
has been appointed general solicitor
for the Atchison, Topeka G. Santa Fe
Railway Company for Colorado to sue
ceed Charles E. Cast of Pueblo. Mr
Rogers entered upon his duties Janu
ary 1st.
An active effort to collect the inheri
tance tax now due the state OF Colo
RADIO is about to be made by State Au
ditor Bent The amount OF unpaid
taxes is close to half million dollars
as shown by an investigation Of five
counties, which Is said to justify this
estimate.
Alderman ]. ]. Coughlin of Chicago
Illinois, will spend approximately
$4,000 in Transforming his Cheyenne
Springs ranch at Broadmoor, south OF
Colorado Springs, into a zoo and
recreation grounds. Work has been
started and the improvements will be
completed about July LIST.
The new Burlington five-stall bricl
roundhouse at Sterling will soon be
commenced, the stone and concrete
for the foundation being now on the
ground. The Union Pacific will begin
construction on a seven-stall similar
structure in the spring. The Burling
shops at Sterling
The Cambrian Society of Pueblo
composed OF Welsh singers, is arrang
ing to bring together all OF the leading
church choirs of the state in a grand
chorus at Pueblo some time next
autumn. This idea was evolved by the
members Of the society in connection
with the arrangements for the Eistedd
fod, for which arrangements are being
made.
Authoritative information that VII
liam II. Howard, superintendent OF the
Pueblo plant OF the American Smelt
ing and Refining Company will sooI
leave his position has created consid
erable surprise. Mr.. Howard, 1t is tn
derstood, will take charge Of a smelteI
near San Francisco belonging to the
same company. He has been in charge
Of the work at Pueblo for several years
and has been successful In the man
agement OF the business and the install
lation of large number OF new i'm
provements.
At Denver on the night Of the It'll
inst, one hundred guests. including pa
tients, sat down to the first mea
served at the new sanitarium OF the
Jewish Consumptives' Relief societ,
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