Gilpin observer., 1906-04-12
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

Ford April I'd resulted in the defeat Of
the proposition to issue bonds by a
majority Of IA.
George B. Walker, we'll known min
eral surveyor, died suddenly of heart
disease at his home in Breckenridge
on the night of April I'd.
E. L. Phillips of Longmont, has been
awarded the contract for grading the
new Colorado & Southern branch from
Plummer's beet dump to Black Hollow,
nine miles.
Attorney James D. Merwin, who was
a candidate for governor of Colorado
on the Populist ticket in 1904, died at
his residence in Denver April 5th, OF
| acute pneumonia.
The Las Animas County Bar Asso-
| citation gave banquet March 31st to
Judge Jesse G. Northcutt, who has re-
| signed to his successor, Henry Hunter
of Walsenburg.
At recent meeting at Colorado
| Springs the executive committee of the
Pixies Peak Centennial celebration
| elected Thomas F. Walsh director gen
| eral of the celebration.
d. Carolus Duran has finished paint
ing his portrait of the Pope, which ex-
Empress Eugenia will present as a
wedding gift to Princess Ena, fiance OF
King Alfonso of Spain.
On the night of April 1st the safe in
| the Union Pacific depot at Fort Lup
ton was blown open by dynamite and
robbed of $50 Railway tickets and
other valuable papers were unmo
lested
Lieutenant General Miles, formerly
commander-in-ch of the United
States army, will make the commence
| ment address at the University of Col
orado June 9th of commencement
| week.
Bills raised from the denomination
| of 50 to $40 have been circulated at
Trinidad and officers of the secret ser
vice in Denver were notified. Many of
these bills have also been circulated
in Las Vegas and Ration.
Five extraordinary candidate were
initiated by the Florence aerie OF
Eagles one night recently. Each was
six feet or more in height, their aggre,
gate length being thirty-one feet one
inch, and their aggregate weight !, ,1OO
pounds.
| Prince William of Schaumburg.
Lippe died of heart failure April 4th
at his castle at Nachod, Bohemia. His
daughter-in-law, Princess Louise, a
daughter of the King of Denmark,
died five hours later of meningitis at
the same castle.
| A record automobile run from Pu-
eblo and Colorado Springs to Denver is
| one of the features planned by the au-
| tomobile enthusiasts of these cities,
who will visit Denver for the annual
automobile show to be held at Coli
scum hall April 18th to 21st.
Vienna dispatches state that peace
between the crown and the Hungar-
ians has been concluded and the par
liamentary crisis is over. Premier
Fejervary has resigned and Alexander
Wekerle has been appointed premier
with a mandate to form a conciliatory
Cabinet for Hungary.
Denver has legally incorporated So
ciety for psychical research. 1t is
called the Psychical Research Society
of Denver, and is organized to promote
religion and morality in the state. 1t
| will work in connection with the ma.
| tional association of spiritualistic So
cieties, and will also carry on psy.
chical research.
Miss Maude Heinze of Creede com.
| mitted suicide by shooting herself
through the heart in a room. at the
Windsor hotel in Del Norte, April Cd
Miss Heinze, who was twenty-three
years of age, was a somewhat noted
violinist. A broken marriage engage
ment and accompanying despondency
is believed to have been the cause OF
her suicide.
That hen can live twenty-five days
without food was proven by the liber-
| ating of two Plymouth Rock chickens
entombed in big snowdrift in the
storm of March 1st, to which success
sive storms had added. When released
they Immediately began eating and
seemed none the worse for their i'm,
prisonment, save that they were re-
duced almost to skeletons.
Governor Stokes of New Jersey has
signed the bill passed by the Legisla-
ture to substitute electrocution for
hanging. The measure takes effect
March II, 1907. At the instance of
Prison Keeper Osborne, who declared
he would resign rather than take hui
man life, the bill was so amended 20
enable the principal keeper to employ
| deputy.
A. ID. Jones died at Colorado Springs
April Sd of paralysis. Mr.. Jones was
one of the locators of the famous Phar-
macist mine in Cripple Creek and was
prominent in its management until his
death. He was one of the best known
Democratic politicians Of Colorado
| Springs and was well known among
the Masons and knights Templar, with
whome he was affiliated.
Virgil G. Bogue, chief engineer of
the Western Pacific railway, has is
sued circular letter, asking contrac'
tors throughout the United States to
submit bids for the immediate CON
struction of 110 miles Of road bee and
track. This section is to begin at the
point where Nevada and Utah join and
| run to Deeth, small settlement on