Gilpin observer., 1906-08-09
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS


tion will hold its annual fair at Little
ton, October Sd, 4th and 5th.
Santa Fe officials have approved the
plans for new $25,000 hospital to be
built at La Junta, and work will be
commenced Immediately.
The State Fair, to be held at Pueblo
on the week Of September 10th, prom
ises to bring together an unusually
large display Of live stock.
A. G. Teachout, proprietor of the
Egerton House at Gunnison and one
Of the pioneers of Gunnison county,
died July S1st after short illness.
Former Iowa people had reunion
at Eldorado Springs, in the canon
above Boulder on Saturday, August
4th. Several hundred were present.
A horse valued at 5000 and owned
by ]. L. Afford, a Trinidad real estate
man, was stung to death in five min
utes by swarm of bees that alighted
OF its head
1t is estimated that on recent
pleasant Sunday the railroads carried
as many as 5000 Denver people on
excursions into the mountains and to
other out-of-town resorts.
Work of completing blast furnace F
of the Minnequa plant ct Pueblo will
soon be started again. Work on this
furnace was commenced about four
plant closed down.
The State School for the Deaf and
Blind will purchase 120 acres Of land
adjoining the Printers Home, near
Colorado Springs at $40 per acre. The
purchase will be made from the state.
through the Land Board.
While L. R. Warren was attending
the band concert at Colorado Springs
on the night of the 30th ult. his home
at 231 North Wahsatch avenue was
robbed of 5000 in diamonds and jew
elry, $50 in cash being overlooked.
1t is stated that the two hundred
houses to be built at Riley gulch, near
Trinidad, for the men employed by
the Carbon Coal and Coke Company,
an auxiliary of the American Smelling
and Refining Company, will all be OF
brick
The corporate life of the Society Of
Colorado Pioneers has been made per
petual through the filing of renewal
papers in the office of the secretary of
state at Denver. The papers are signed
by President N. S. Hurd and Secretary
Michael Storms.
While attempting to light fire with
gasoline, Mrs. Frank Lubb, an Aus
trian woman thirty years old, was
burned to death at her home in Pu-
eblo. Her little child, eleven months
old, was so badly burned that it died
an hour after being removed to the
hospital.
Mr.. ]. K Mullen has sued Tyson S.
Dimes for $4,000 damages for injuries
to his person and feelings by reason
of Mr.. Dimes assault upon him at his
home in Denver. This is the sequel to
the telephone alteration in which
Dimes accused Mullen of insulting
Dimes daughter.
The business of the Pueblo Land Of
fee for July shows a slight increase over
that of the corresponding month last
year. The filings cover 25,777 acres OF
land and consist of twenty-four cash
entries, eighteen desert claim entries,
107 homestead entries and fifty mis-
oellaneous entries.
Charles Serbaugh of Ault, who was
shot about two months ago through the
right lung while returning home with
Miss Maud Duke, and who, against eX
pectations recovered from the wound,
has had relapse and was recently
taken to the hospital at Greeley for
further treatment.
With the exception of the letters
"A-V," tattooed on his right arm, there
was no identification marks upon the
body of the tramp who was killed by
Rio Grande train at Fountain July
30th. The head was mashed beyond
recognition. and no papers or cards on
the body served TO identify the un
known victim.
After years restless wandering
Harry Smith, who escaped from the
State Reformatory at Buena Vista,
March 5, 1905, wher he was impris-
oned for highway robbery, was cap
| tured at Denver on the 5th inst. He
had become enfeebled and exhausted
and made his way to Denver to obtain
relief from his parents.
The twelfth annual banquet of the
Teachers Institute of Huerfano and
Las Animas counties was held in the
high school building at Trinidad on
the night of August LIST. as a climax to
the session. Nearly 200 were present
Among the speakers were Prof. ]. B.
Treat. County Commissioner ]. B. Ma
arid and Rev. B. S. Lawler.
Governor Mcdonald attended the pic
mic of the Caledonian Club at Military
| Park, near Denver. on the 4th inst. and
watched with great interest the numer-
| Gus Scotch games and diversions. He
also donated a gold medal for putting
the sixteen-pound shot, which was
| awarded to Thomas Mccall. There
were several other medals and valu-
able prizes.
Thomas McNeill. who was deported
, from Victor and dumped on the Kan
sas plains two years ago, claims to
have struck It rich in the new gold
fields Of Nevada. In a letter to his
| wife at Victor. he states he has opened
| Nh q fiYe.foot Yein In the pike,s PealS