Gilpin observer., 1906-06-14
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

as our daddies used to have.
The State Christian Endeavor con-
vention will be held at Colorado
Springs, June 14th to 18th.
Thomas McCasland, formerly agent
Of the Equitable Life at Denver, died
at st. Louis, June list, of dropsy.
| Their was big snowslide near Mon
| tezuma, in Summit county, June 5th.
| 1t leveled considerable strip of pine
| forest.
Rural Route No. 3 will be estab-
| lished at Monte Vista after July 10th.
1t will serve 2S7 people and eighty-two
| houses.
A strong commercial club has been
organized at Ebert. with A. G. Corn
| forth as president and j. Z. Meyer as
secretary.
Inc annual picnic of the Colorado
Pioneers Ladies' Aid society will be
held at Glitch Gardens in Denver,
June 23d.
The large cyanide mill of the Myrtle
Mining and Milling Company near
Ward was burned to the ground on
the morning of June 9th.
twenty-five marriage licenses were
issued at Denver in one day recently,
but this is still below the record,
which is twenty-nine for day.
The diocesan council of the Episco-
pal Church of Colorado, at it's session
| in Denver, voted to add $1,000 to the
annual salary of Bishop Charles s.
Olmstead.
John Quinn is serving a sixty-day
sentence in the Pueblo county Jail for
preventing his ten-year-old son from
reporting regularly at the juvenile
court as ordered by Judge Myrick.
The Moor, one Of the most famous
saddle horses of Kentucky, has been
| recently purchased by Gen. w. ]. Pal
mer of Colorado Springs from Maj. Da-
vid Castleman, the consideration be.
ing $500.
w. d. White, who Is grading for the
Florence electric line, has nearly 200
men employed and says that on the
next pay day $4,000 will be distrib-
uted. Mr.. White believes the road will
be finished by the middle of August.
| The citizens of Kremmling are pre-
pairing to celebrate the advent of the
Moffat road by giving a three-days' Gel
ebration on July 4th, 5th and 9th.
There will be horse racing, broncho
busting, baseball, fishbake and other
amusements.
The Colorado Fuel and Iron Com
pany has been installing automatic
dumping cages on the Fremont coal
mine in Fremont. The mine will re-
| sumo operations with a force of more
than 300 men.
The County Commissioners of Boul-
| der county have promised $4,000 to
| nelp the people of Boulder to build a
good road up Flagstaff hill, west of the
city. This will make accessible some
of the finest scenic attractions in the
| foothills.
The oldest and largest tree in Gree
ley is a cottonwood that was planted
in 1871 by Mrs. Abigail Dunham, who
is now the Oldest woman in Greeley
being in her ninetieth year. The tree
is fifteen feet in circumference and
| seventy-five feet high
The beet growers of Lone Tree, eight
miles east of Greeley, have organized
Beet Growers association, with a
| large membership for the purpose of
| securing railroad for that section and
avoiding long and arduous hauls in
| getting beets to market.
The ninth annual meeting of the Ar
| kansas Valley Press Association was
held at Salida on the 9th instant. Guy
| U. Hardy of the Canon City Record
was elected president and p. Byrne of
the Bessemer Vindicator secretary and
| treasurer. The location of the next
| meeting wcs left to the executive COM
mittee.
The first train into Telluride from
Denver and Durango without transfer
ring, arrived June 9Th, the great slide
on Keystone hill having been cleared
| away. One thousand feet OF track was
carried away by the landslide, making
1t necessary to build new grade and
track. Freight and express have been
| conveyed by wagon.
A charter has been granted by the
territorial secretary of Oklahoma to
the Pueblo, Oklahoma & New Orleans
Railroad Company, with 1880, 900 cap
ital stock, and with headquarters at
Oklahoma City. The proposition is to
build line from Pueblo to New Or
leans, a distance of 1850 miles, at an
estimated cost Of $21 100000.
John Kennedy, who broke jail at
Delta on the 9Th instant, having been
confined on the charge of horse steal
ing, overpowering Undersheriff Ham.
mond and locking him in a cell in the
jail, was captured at Mesa, seventy
miles distant. four days later. Ken
nedy had escaped once previously but
was captured before he got out of
town.
At Pryor. a coal camp near Walsen-
burg. on the 9th instant. E. S. Lad.
dener, colored deputy sheriff, was
shot and killed by another negro,
named Harris, because he had ordered
the latter, together with colored wo-
man, out OF a saloon. After Laddener
had been shot twice and mortally
wounded he drew his revolver and shot
Harris five times, killing him on the
spot.
In letter to Warden Cleghorn, An.
tone Wood, or Charles Howard, as he