Gilpin observer., 1907-03-07
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

Mr.. and Mrs. A. l.. Barr OF Long.
mont were divorced on the 26th after
thirty years of married life.
The fifth annual dog show at Denver
lase week was the most successful
ever held by the association.
A new Masonic temple was dedi
Gated at Fruita on the 26th. One hun
dred and fifty visiting Masons as
sisted.
Mike Marchard is in the hospital at
Telluride, probably fatally injured, by
a cave-in at the Smuggler-U mine
on the 26th.
Louis Padillo was killed in head-on
collision on the Santa Fe at Thatcher
on the 26th, while riding brake beam.
He had SIT on his person.
Jerry Harmon, an old time restau-
rant man and an early settler of Las
Animas county, died on the 26th at
seven years.
Mrs. Alice Moore and Grippon
Turner, negro, have been placed in
Jail at Trinidad on the charge of the
murder of Manuel Charez, preferred
against them by the authorities of
Starkville.
The contract has ben let for the new
armory at Fort Collins. 1t will be 50x
100 feet in size and will cost $4,000.
The contract has also been let for the
new Y. M. G. A. building, to cost $685.
900.
The cornerstone of the new Chris
tian church at Canon City was laid ON
the 26th. The building, which will
cost about $4,000, will be of Grecian
style Of architecture, and is to be com.
pleted by August 1st.
The Wa,senburg and Western Rail
way Company was incorporated at Den
yer on the 9th; capital stock 100000;
E. w. Griffith, l.. E. Rowland, F. E.
Guy, George G. Barnard, F. ]. jackson,
incorporators; Denver.
John DeBaker, who died at Boulder
on the 26th, and who went to that city
in 1853, was the first man to erect a
quartz mill at Gold hill in Boulder
county. 1t proved a failure. He was
also the first man to erect Touring
mill in that county, in 1862.
The locomotive of Colorado Mid
land passenger train on the night of the
18th inst. struck and killed large
buck deer near Woodland Park. The
train was stopped and the carcass of
the deer carried to Colorado Springs in
the baggage car.
A county bridge four miles north of
Saljda collapsed and N. c. Laws, a
ranchman, who was driving over the
bridge with a load, was precipitated
in.o the Arkansas river and seriously
injured. The bridge was condemned
by the county commissioners several
years ago, but had never been closed
to traffic.
William Berry and Charles Green,
colored, aged ten and twelve years
respectively, are in Jail at La Junta,
charged with the murder of Freeman
Henry Austin, aged six, by beating him
on the head with a brick, during an al
tercation which arose while the three
boys were going home from school, on
the 26th.
One thousand acres of land lying be-
tween Greeley and Loveland, above
the Greeley and Loveland ditch, will
be plowed this spring and sowed to
fall wheat next September. This land
belongs to DR.. J. T. Youtsey and
George A. Jackson OF London, and
will be cultivated by the dry-farming
method.
February proved a record breaker
in the building line at Denver. During
the month 233 permits were taken out,
the largest number on record. The
increase ever those issued during the
same period last year was so, while
the cost Of the buildings erected was
$13,930 more than the aggregate
amount expended in January, being
$427,700.
The annual breakfast and election
OF officers of the Denver Press Club
has been arranged for Sunday morn
ing. March 10. at the Albany. hotel in
Denver. Among the important mat
ters to be discussed are the removal
OF the headquarters of the club to 4
more desirable location. the establish
rent of permanent building fund and
the securing of an extensive library.
-'he dates for the next livestock
show in Denver have been set, and 1t
has been decided to make it national
show, throwing the competition open
to the world. with special classifica.
tinn and premiums for the territory
covered by the last show, the short
grass country. The executive commit
tee of the Western Stock Show Asso-
citation yesterday set the dates for tho
next show for the week of January
20th-25th, 1908.
w. Harold Stewart, twenty years
old, son of w. II. Stewart, postmaster
and ranch owner, Ironton. Colorado.
killed himself at his lodgings in Den.
yer at about O'Clock Thursday
morning. Fighting off an imaginary
assailant while in his sleep, he turned
the muzzle of the weapon to his heac
and fired. Circumstances that sur.
round tho affair show that he was be.
ing tortured by wild visions of his
sleep, and this alone was responsible.
The February business in the United
States lana office at Pueblo is record
breaker, showing 227 homestead en-.
tries, the largest number ever recorded
in month. and thirty more than for
January. In February, 1906, the cash