Gilpin observer., 1907-02-21
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

In January were $s3,514, being an in
crease of s16,S24 over January, 1906.
Colorado Springs Masons have ap-
pointed committee to secure a site
and specifications for Masonic build
ing to be constructed soon.
Expert oil we'll drillers from Flor
enoe will drill number of wells near
Mcntrose for company in which Fr>.-
mont county men are interested.
The United States senate has passed
Senator Pattersons bill granting the
city OF Durango authority to purchase
lands for water supply purposes.
The comptroller of the currency has
approved the conversion of the Bank
Of Buena Vista into the First National
bank of Buena Vista. with $4,000 capi-
tai
Burglars blew open the safe of Car
Teton & Son, grocers, at Pueblo on the
night OF the 18th inst. and secured $225
in cash and negotiable paper and Sc
curities.
The granite blocks are arriving and
work has been comemnced on the cree
ton of the Colorado soldiers monu-
ment in front of the capitol building in
Denver.
An Elks' temple is to be erected at
Grand Junction to cost $4,000 or up
wards. 1t will be 5Ox125 feet in size
and three stories high. Work will be-
gin on it soon.
At a joint meeting Of the directors
of all the banks of Boulder the sugar
factory proposition was heartily in
dorsed and the people were urged to
subscribe to the stock.
The following Colorado postmasters
have been appointed: Englewood,
Arapahoe county, Jesse G. Baird, vice
o. j. Baird. dead; Waverley, Larimer
county, Walter X. .Hainey, vice H. C.
Cradle, resigned.
The Alamosa National Bank of Ala
mosa has been authorized to begin
business with capital of s25.000. c..
Wallrich is president, Fred Grooming
ana Wesley Staley, vice presidents,
and w. II. Mallett, cashier.
The Mesa County Fruit Industrial
Association met at Grand Junction on
the 9th inst and voted to increase it's
capital stock from $25,000 to $4,000.
The grounds will be improved in prep
aration for a greater fair next fall.
DIR. A. Mckay of Colorado Springs,
will start East shortly to advertise
Colorado and Colorado Springs. The
railroads and local public organiza-
tions together with the hotels and
rooming houses, are financing the pro-
ject.
The locomotive of Colorado Mid
land passenger train on the night OF the
18th inst. struck and killed a large
buck deer near Woodland Park. The
train was stopped and the carcass of
the deer carried to Colorado Springs in
the baggage car.
So warm has the weather been at
Boulder that the buds on the trees
have swollen and leaves on the cot
tonwood trees are about ready to come
out. Dandelions are in bloom and
trees are bleeding where they have
been cut or bruised.
A dispatch from Bailey in the Platte
cai1on February 18th says: The river
is nearly free from ice, robins are
singing, green grass is showing and
easterners are applying for summer
cottages. But eight inches Of snow fell
here this winter.
Greeley is to have ga Seeing Greeley
carried about in an automobile. In con-
nection with this sightseeing route an
automobile line is to be inaugurated to
carry passengers to Fort Collins, Ault,
Eaton and other places.
One of the finest hospitals in north
ern Colorado has been opened at Long
high basement; is OF gray pressed
hyin vryith t,.tv, TIM
and cost 100000. 1t is we'll equipped
clans.
United States District Attorney Earl
NJ. Cranston, Of Denver, has been
granted 30-day leave of absence by
President Roosevelt and goes to San
Francisco, where he will meet his
father. Bishop Cranston. head of the
Methodist church in the Orient, and
accompany him on trip to Japan.
Trinidad people held a large and en-
thusiastic meeting at which resolu-
tions were passed indorsing the bill in
troduced by Senator F. r. Wood to To-
cate a normal school at Trinidad, and
a committee was appointed to go to
Denver and present the claims of the
city.
The City Council of Black Hawk has
extended the franchise of the Gilpin
County Light. Heat and Power Com
pany for ten years. This is the COM
parry which was reported to have sold
out to the Colorado Central Power
Company for over 100000, local stock
holders denying the report.
While the Eaton town marshal was
conveying a prisoner to Greeley and
while the two constables of the town
were away, ]. c. Bogue is reported to
have borrowed rife, shot off the pad
lock Of the town Jail and released
pal" who was in for drunkenness.
Bogue and his companion disappeared.
The proposed erection of several
new dumps by the Holly-Swink factory
for handling the crop of 1907 is ex.
pected to give considerable impetus