Gilpin observer., 1906-01-18
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

elected president of the Denver Real
Estate Exchange.
Fort Morgan has decided by vote
| OF two to one to have municipality
owned electric lights.
| Score one more for Colorado. John
Sanders, the six-months-old son of
Justice of the Peace John G. Sanders
OF Florence, has cut both his eye
teeth.
| The place of B. H. Freeman, COM
missioner of Phillips county, who re-
signed recently, has been filled by
Governor Mcdonald by the appoint
ment Of Henry Mitchell.
Mason Weems has been sentenced to
the Buena Vista reformatory for eight
cen months by the County Court at
Golden, for stealing bicycles in Denver
and selling them in Golden.
| William E. Sweet has donated $685.
600 toward the erection of 100000
Y. NJ. c. A. building in Denver, pro-
| vided the rest of the amount can be
raised by February 13, 1906.
The Colorado Conference of Chari-
| ties and Corrections will be in session
| at Pueblo January 21st to 23d. 1t will
be an important gathering with many
| delegates and prominent speakers.
Louis r. Smith, the timber warden
charged with carelessness and ineffi
| cheney in connection with the Gylles-
ten land deal, has been discharged
! from office by the State Land Board.
The secretary of agriculture has au-
| thorized the issuance of permits for
| the grazing of 10000 cattle on the
| Colorado part of the Medicine Bow
forest reserve and 10000 in Wyoming.
A company of Cripple Creek men,
headed by F. j. Burk, has closed long
term lease for 1G0 acres of state land
one mile south of Rockvale, in Ere
| mont county, on which they will de-
velop the coal veins.
The Fort Collins Pioneer Association
was organized on the 18th inst. with
seventy-fve charter members. John
G. Mccoy was elected president; Rob-
ert S. Fedder, secretary; and Mrs. w.
w. Taylor. historian.
The bell boys in the different Den
yer hotels propose to form a club and
endeavor to build a hotel, to be knowr
as The Bells for the use of bell
boys and other male hotel employees
! exclusively.
John Meany, an employe at the
| Leadville, on the South Park line, fell
from scaffolding sixty feet into the
shaft as he was going to work and only
received slight injuries.
The cases against forty-one saloon
keepers of Cripple Creek and Victor
were dismissed on agreement of the
! defendants not to be open Sunday, to
pay all costs and to aid in the enforce
meDr nf saloon and UamhlinO
The physicians of La Junta organized
hospital association recently and
have rented a ten-room cottage to fit
up for hospital purposes. Trained
nurses have been engaged and every
convenience possible will be supplied.
A verdict of suicide was rendered at
| Colorado Springs by the jury in the
case of z. Crane Wilson, the wealthy
Chicago shirt manufacturer who was
found dead with bullet in his brain
on the Franceville road, eight miles
east of the city.
The law library Of the late Senator
E. o. Wolcott, consisting of 10000 vol
umes, has been purchased for the new
Symes block. now in course of con-
struction in Denver. 1t is considered
the best collection of law books in
| Colorado.
The Longmont Electric Light and
Power Company has made arrange
ments with Lafayette coal fields to sup
ply its power, and the plant at Long
mont will be put out of commission as
soon as arrangements can be made
and the line built.
Postmasters appointed: Edward B.
Wise, Cuatro, Las Animas county,
vice C. C. McWilliams, resigned;
Charles E. Higgins, Pallas, Routt
county, vice B. c. Myers, resigned;
Ollie ]. Willford. Pearl, Larimer
county, vice NJ. Crawford, resigned.
January Goth has been set as the
date for the farewell reception to the
officers of the Second Infantry to be
| given by the Denver Chamber of Com
merce. The affair is to be rendered as
testimonial TO the officers prior to
their departure for the Philippines.
Among the commissioners selected
10 test and examine the weight and
hneness of the coins reserved to the
several mints during the calendar year
1905, pursuant to the provisions of Sec
ton 3547 of the revised statutes, is
John l.. MCNEIL, Durango. Colorado.
The State Bureau of Child and Ami
NAL Protection will endeavor to have
| bill passed by Congress, through the
Offices of one or more of the Colorado
members of that body, compelling the
railroads TO give live stock shipments
the right of way over dead freight and
| empty cars.
The Eastern Colorado Medical As
ISOLATION. composed of physicians of
Morgan, Washington and Yuma coun-
| ties, held its quarterly meeting at
Wray, and elected DR.. Earl ID. McGill
Of Wray, president and DR.. G. B. Bills
borrow of Yuma, secretary for the On
suing year.