Gilpin observer., 1906-11-15
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

| cog road to the summit of Pixies Peak
was run Sunday, the 4th inst.
| The Denver branch of the Needle.
work Guild of America will distribute
$500 garments among unfortunate and
| needy families in Denver this year.
Thanksgiving day a concerted effort
will be made at Colorado Springs to
raise fund for the proposed 100000
deaconess hospital. A general collec'
tion will be taken in all the churches.
The Jewish Free Loan Society at
| Denver, organized to lend money with.
out interest to needy and worthy per
| sons, has loaned over $4,000 during
the past three years without losing a
| cent.
The Presbytery of Denver at re-
cent meeting adopted resolutions in
honor of the late Prof. Thomas Nelson
Haskell, the founder of Cutler Acad-
emy and Colorado College at Colorado
Springs.
A movement is on foot to secure
the erection of a $5O,000 Y. M. G. A.
building in Canon City next summer.
A bequest Of $25,O0O by the late F. A.
Reynolds will serve as a nucleus for
the fund.
| uo NOTIueTu SOlOTduO IOullly no
scciation, which will give show at
| Boulder December 18th to 18th, in
elusive, has already secured the prom
Use of twenty silver cups to be
awarded as prizes.
The Denver & Rio Grande railroad
will erect handsome new depot at
, Canon City next spring at cost OF
about $4,000. The present building
| will ha To
used as freight depot.
Harrison Parks, town marshal of La
fayette committed suicide on the 7th
inst. by shooting himself through the
head. Domestic trouble is supposed
to have been the cause of his action.
| He was fifty-two years old and leaves
wife and five children.
On the Sth inst Andrien Adamson. a
driver in the mine at Tertio, near Trim
idad, was killed while going out with a
train of cars He fell off the driveway
and broke his neck. Andriccon Jar
milo, a Mexican working in Tertio,
was killed the same day by fall OF
| rock.
| According to a report which has
somehow gained circulation in the Jap
anese colony at Denver, M. Yakutomi,
quarantine near Majestic, Colorado.
and was spirited out of the United
States by his countrymen, fell or
jumped overheard while en- route to
Yokohama, and was drowned.
Frank Job, night boss at the Hast
ings mine of the Victor Fuel Company
near Trinidad, was killed on the Sd
inst. by a lump of coal crushing his
| Cf 10 ct feet
from the explosion of shot, which
has always been regarded safe dis
tance. He was thirty-eight years old
and leaves a widow and two children.
An Albuquerque, New Mexico, dis
patch of the 7th inst says: A sheep
man named Charles w. Darnell, from
Windsor, Colorado, was run over and
killed in the Santa Fe yards at Belen,
/ New Mexico, this morning. He was
walking along the track with a COM
panion when he was knocked down by
a train and ground to death under the
wheels.
Every Coloradan away from home
| in the state will be offered an oppor'
tunity to go home for the Christmas
holidays, through the action of the
Colorado Passenger Association.
| WHICH has iatSS
VARYING from one fare for the round
trip on the mountain roads to fare
and third for the round trip On the
prairie roads.
Thomas Freel of Eaton died at the
Greeley hospital on the 4th inst. OF
stomach trouble. He had resided in
Weld county for thirty years and
twenty years ago he was one OF the
most daring cowboy riders of the
range. During the last ten years or
his life he has been in the stock
business and owned a string of valu-
able running horses.
A report was made to Governor Nc.
Donald on the Sth inst. by the special
examining committee appointed to
make a regular examination of the
state treasurers books. The examina'
ton extended over period from May
1st to October 18th, the present bal
ance on hand being $2,751 1888. The
committee is composed of II. B. Mri-
Nix A. S. Wilson and Richard r. Kirk.
The state fish and game department
has received notice of one of the big
gest payments of fine ever sent into
the office. The case was tried twice
In Meeker, the first jury disagreeing,
and the defendant, J. d. Clark, was
forced to pay $50 and costs, the latter
amounting to $176.90. He was con
victed by jury of having Illegally in
his possession the parts Of five deer
e. X. Smith and a number Of other
Fort Lupton capitalists will build a
big reservoir costing $4,000 in the vi
cinity of Fort Lupton, from which
some $4,000 acres of now non.irrigable
land will be brought under cultivation
The reservoir is intended to conserve
the surplus over appropriated waters
of the Fulton ditch and draw on the
flood and seepage water Of the streams
in that vicinity.
The body OF the man found dead on
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