Gilpin observer., 1906-03-22
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

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The Idaho Springs Chamber Of Com
merce proposes to raise fund for
the purpose of advertising the Springs
as summer resort and a mining and
business center.
The secretary of the interior has
withdrawn from public entry section
| 13, township IA south, range 83 west,
in connection with the Uncompahgre
valley project in Colorado.
The people of Loveland have ap-
pointed committee to confer with the
officials Of the Denver, Yellowstone &
Pacific Railway Company for the pur-
pose OF trying to induce them to build
| through Loveland.
The $4,000 monument to the late w.
| S. Stratton, designed by Miss Nellie
Walker of Chicago, is completed and
will probably be placed at the grave in
Evergreen cemetery, Colorado Springs,
on Memorial Day.
The Denver Real Estate Exchange
and Colorado Manufacturers Associa-
tion are very much troubled over the
closing of the Rocky Mountain paper
mills and have appointed commit
| tee to consider some plan for retaining
| the plant
The executive committee of the Citi-
zen's alliance at Cripple Creek has
decided to establish an employment bu-
reau for it's members. The club rooms
will be reopened. The president will
appoint large advisory committee to
consist of employees of the mines.
| Beneath a cave-in of hundreds Of
| tons of coal in the Williamsville mine,
north of Colorado Springs, William
| Needs, a. Papetown miner, was in
! stantly killed on the 18th inst. His
brother Ernest, who was working only
few feet distant from the victim at
| the time of the cave-in, escaped unhurt.
| The Colorado Springs Telegraph, to-
gether with its Associated Press fran
| chise, has been purchased from c. P.
| Dodge by C. F. Yeager, E. F. Mckay
and C. E. Perry, all of whom have been
| identified with the paper in the past.
The consideration is not made public,
but is understood to approximate $780,,
900.
Leonard Imboden and James A. Hill,
| under sentence of from nine to ten
years for wrecking the Denver Saw
ings bank, were committed to the state
penitentiary at Canon City March 18th.
They were received by Warden Cleg.
horn and enrolled on the prison rec
ords Imboden will be known as No.
$3.50 and Hill as No. $40.
At meeting of the county COM
missioners of Delta county and
!Gunnison county, at Delta, an
agreement was reached for the set
tlement of the county line dispute.
They will have the line surveyed by
pf hnt work
ing Jointly, and their starting point is
to be the northeast corner of Montrose
county, along the 10th parallel.
The State Land Board has awarded
65,3Sl acres of indemnity school land,
all the indemnity land to which the
state at the present time is entitled.
The property lies in thirteen different
counties. The land in question is
taken in exchange for that upon gov
| eminent reserves and the board re-
| reived application fol 100000 acres.
The county commissioners of FIRE.
mont have decided to use the convicts
from the State Penitentiary in build
ink wagon road. In a short time
large force will be employed between
Florence, Coal Creek and Rockvale.
The great amount of heavy coal haul
ing keeps these roads in bad shape and
an excellent macadamized thorough
fare will be constructed.
Adolph Berrich, an old German scout
and trapper, who had been wandering
about in the cold near Edgerton, north
of Colorado Springs, was finally located
by County Physician Richardson, Sher-
if Grimes and Deputy Scofield in a
cave at Edgerton. The aged man was
! unconscious, both feet and legs were
frozen and death would have ensued
had he lain exposed many hours.
George N. Marden, who twenty-five
years ago came to Colorado College as
professor of history, and is now treas
urer of the institution, was presented
few days ago with handsome silver
loving cup and luxurious chair by the
trustees, faculty and many of the older
pupils of the college. The occasion was
the SEVENTEEN birthday of the reci-
pient, and the twenty-fifth anniversary
of his arrival at Colorado College.
Col. F. T. Davis, adjutant of the de-
partment of the Colorado. has re-
ceived orders from General Baldwin to
inspect the state militia companies of
Colorado. 1t is General Baldwin's
| preference that field officer do this
work and the colonel will personally
conduct it during April. These inspec-
tions are made by the army in all
states that are working under the Dick
law and receiving support from the
government.
An enthusiastic meeting was held at
Aguilar on the 18th inst. to push the
proposed formation of new county
out of the northern part of Las Animas
county and in which Aguilar is to be
the county seat. Among the enthusias.
tic advocates Of the new county, who
made speeches were Senator Cashmere
Barela and ]. r. Aguilar. The petition
| to the Legislature is expected to be