Gilpin observer., 1906-11-22
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

The newly elected governors name
is pronounced as il it were spelled
Booktle, with the accent on the book"
"Buck.tell' and "Buchtle" are both in.
| correct.
A sugar beet recently brought to
the Greeley factory by Gordie McMil
Ian Of La Sale weighed twenty-one
| pounds when trimmed and ready for
grinding.
A reduction of twenty-five per cent
on telephone charges will become eft
fective at Florence December 1st, and
the rate on Canon City conversations
| will be reduced.
The Grand Junction sugar factory
recently turned out 1929 bags OF
sugar in one day and the seasons pro-
duction is expected to exceed 100000
,, bags, as against $4,000 last year.
A colonization syndicate of Geneseo,
Illinois, has bought $500 acres OF land
in the San Luis valley, the price being
| stated at about $4,000. 1t is planned
to settle the tract with Sandinavians.
Paymaster u. G. Amman, retired.
United States navy, has been ordered
to duty as pay officer, purchasing pay
officer and general storekeeper at the
naval hospital at New Fort Lyon
Colorado.
The Buckhorn plaster mill, about six
miles west of Loveland, was burned
before daylight on the morning of the
10th inst, being total loss. The loss
on mill and stock is estimated at $24,-
900, with $S,40O insurance.
Levi Balm, aged twenty-three, while
oiling machinery at the Fort Collins
sugar factory, was caught by belt
on the 11th inst. and SO injured that he
died the same day. One arm was torn
from his body and one leg fractured.
Most of the apparatus for the new
Trojan powder works at Overton,
eight miles north of Pueblo, has ar
rived. The buildings are almost COM
pleted and it is thought the manufac-
ture of powder will be started before
December LIST.
James Mitchell was found on the
18th inst. in starving condition in his
cabin at Picton, near Walsenburg, and
died after being taken to a hospital at
Pueblo. He was but little known and
had not been seen for eleven days be-
fore his death.
Mrs. Annie Duncan has brought suit
against the Denver & Rio Grande rail-
road, in the District Court at Colorado
Springs, to recover $4,000 for the loss
OF her son, Leslie r. Duncan, who was
killed November 10, 1905, while en-
ployed as a switchman.
David Matthias, of the freshman
class of the State Agricultural College
at Fort Collins, lost all the fingers Of
his left hand at the second joint on
the 14th inst, while at work with
buzz-saw in the college shops. Ma
thias is from Monte Vista.
Thomas Metcalf was found dead on
Mount Hayden, near Ouray, on the 18th
inst. He was at work alone on a min
ing claim and is believed to have fallen
from the dump on account of heart
| disease. Metcalf was about sixty years
Of age and had lived in Ouray for ten
years.
Mrs. James Weste, seventy years Of
age, was robbed of $50 on the road
between Victor and Goldfield on the
night of the 10th inst. Two brutal foot
pads led her away from the road and
roughly searched her person, finding
the money which she had secreted in
one Of her stockings.
The applications of B. N. Freeman
OF Durango, w. c. Chapman, Frank
Eldredge, E. M. Hampton, B. G. Hamp-
ton and A. T. Sullenberger to organ
ize the First National Bank of Pagosa
Springs, with a capital of 5000, has
been approved by the comptroller OF
the currency.
Charles Irvine. sixty years old and
an employe Of the Greeley sugar fac
tory. who had been arrested on the
, charge of assaulting an eight-year-old
girl, committed suicide on the 18th
inst by shooting himself through the
head few minutes before the prelim-
mary hearing was to have begun
Patsey Butler. the nineteen-year-old
son Of Adam Butler, pioneer Of the
Cripple Creek district, now located at
Goldfield, Nevada, is said to have
cleaned up $4,000 In a stock deal in
the Nevada camp on an original in.
vestment of few hundred dollars he
had saved. Butler left the district
| about nine months ago.
Governor Mcdonald has appointed
Hon. II. c. Stimson on the board OF
control of the State Industrial School
for Girls to succeed Attorney Freder.
icE S. Ellsworth, resigned. Mr.. Tits.
worth was Democratic appointee,
| and his successor, Judge Stimson, was
| candidate for governor on the Demo
| cratic ticket several years ago.
State Game and Fish Commissioner
Woodard has been informed that Ger.
tain hunters In Gunnison county mis-
construe the law and propose to kill
! mountain sheep after January 1st. He
| says that section one OF division B of
the new law expressly forbids the kill
ing of mountain sheep at any time, and
| that It will be enforced
John c. Canute, a ranchman, was
| killed at Calnan on the 11th inst.
Canute was feeding his team and was
standing In front of the animals. when
they became frightened. The horses
knocked him down and trampled his