Gilpin observer., 1907-10-17
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

The Colorado coal trust is to be fur.
ther investigated by Uncle Sam.
| Denver tried to unearth another dy-
Mantle scare but it proved a hoax.
Mayor F. P. Hunt of Delta, killed
himself on account Of domestic trou.
! BILE.
/ Mrs. Martha NARROW recently died
at her home near Montrose. She was
q pioneer.
1 The mea charged with blowing up
the depot at Boulder are to go to trial
October 18th.
! Columbus Day, designated as a holi.
day by the last State Legislature, was
pretty generally observed on the 18th.
| A Kansas couple were strangely af-
fected by the altitude on the Moffat
road the other day. They found min.
lister on the train and were married.
The town board of Johnstown has
called special election for Novmber
18th, to vote on the issuing of $780,
900 bonds for the building OF water
! system. the supply to be taken from
, the Big Thompson river.
William Symnonds of Colorado
| Springs, arrived in Boulder on a visit
to his cousin, N. Mathews, whom he
, had not seen for over forty years.
Singularly enough each recognized the
other, although when they parted they
were mere boys.
The railroads entering Longmont
are having busy time. Between fifty
and sixty trains arrive daily and it is
taking five switch engines to do the
| work. This rush will continue until
! the beets are all in the factory and the
+ farm crops shipped.
There was left in the Herald office
| at Boulder the largest radish the edl-
! tor ever saw. In fact, he would never
/ have believed it was possible to raise
! a radish that large. 1t was red, is
/ sixteen inches long and seventeen
inches in circumference. 1t was
raised on North Twenty-sixth street
by E. NJ. Miller and can be seen at the
Herald Office. 1t is, indeed, a curios-
! ity.
| 1t is almost impossible to secure
men to work in the grain fields or
with the threshing crews in Routt
county. Ranchmen and owners Of
threshing machines are paying 81 a
day and board, still many are work
ing short-handed. The Colorado Tele-
phone Company, which is endeavoring
to reconstruct its Hahn's peak and
Hayden lines, cannot get men, al
though offering $3.50 per day.
| Attorney General Dickson handed
down a decision holding that it is en-
tirely legal and within the limit of the
constitution to appoint a member of
the present Legislature to do the in
specting required of the State Board
of Health under the provisions Of the
| pure food law established by the last
Legislature. w. F. Cannon, member
of the present Legislature, was ap-
pointed by the Board of Health to act
in the capacity of chief inspector un-
der the pure food law.
D. ]. March, w. E. Kinsella, o. r.
Kerlee, ]. Brown and Mai. Charles
| Townsend will build the March reser-
voir, which lies in a natural depres-
sion near Cole creek east OF Ault,
twelve miles. The reservoir will have
capacity of 323,OOO,OOO cubic feet.
The supply of water is divided into
800 rights, each equal to 100000
cubic feet, with reserve of 100000
to the holder. The reservoir will re-
ceive it's supply from Cole creek and
will irrigate land south of it.
Twenty miners from Rock Springs,
Wyoming, arrived at Trinidad to en-
ter the employ OF the Colorado Fuel
and Iron Company. More men are ex-
) pected before the end of the week and
the working force will be greatly aug
mented within short time. The
men, who are mostly Americans, state
that they left Wyoming because
wages are lower there than in Las
Animas county. 1t is alleged here by
mine superintendent that the men
who left here last summer are com
ing back and going to work.
The body of Joseph Foutz was
found near his home in Orc. A bullet
hole in his head and revolver
clutched in his hand told the manner
of death. Decomposition had set in,
and it is believed that the man killed
himself over a week ago. Foutz was
sixty years old, and had lived alone
in cabin at Oro for many years.
where he was engaged in prospecting
and leasing. Several years ago a
brother of Foutz killed himself, and
the old man since then has been alone
in the world. He left no message ex-
planning the reason for killing him
SELF but people who have known
Foutz for many years say that he had
been growing eccentric.
So great a nuisance have the spar.
row become at Boulder that the city
council ha decided upon their exter.
mination, II possible. In the neigh.
borhood Of the court house square
they are especially obnoxious to resi-.
dents who are wakened every morn.
Ing as soon as dawn approaches. A
permit has been given Surveyor
George w. Teal, who lives near the
main roosting places OF these birds,
to shoot them on sight, and he has
provided himself with a regular ar.
senal and ammunition. This evening
as soon as the birds began to go to