Gilpin observer., 1907-07-18
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

Denver thinks 1t has found another
nlillion-dollar baby.
Boulder Chautauqua has kept up its
usual good record this year.
The "Jungles" in Fort Collins are to
be given q general scrubbing.
Work will begin on the proposed
Royal Gorge electric line very soon.
Grand Junction comes to the fore
with charges against a cattle rustler.
Denver has again figured it out that
| she has 100000 children. old and
young.
The local lodge Of Modern Woodman
at Greeley are preparing to hold at
street fair.
A Denver dairyman has confessed
to using starch in making cream thick
and yellow.
Everybody is thinxing about the big
time to be had in Denver on Colorado
day, August LIST.
The flood in Clear Creek canon
caused $4,000 damage and suspended
traffic over week.
| August goth and 21st the State Com.
lnercial Association will meet at Cree
ley and 300 delegates are expected.
Ault is out after the Union Pacific
Railroad Company. asking that more
crossings be placed in that town.
Three separate companies are seek.
ing franchises for interurban electric
lines from Denver to Greeley and the
north.
Fort Collins woman sues for di-
vorce because she says her husband
forces her to work on Saturday, her
Sabbath.
The body Of new born babe was
found few days ago in an irrigation
ditch near the Rustler school house.
in the vicinity of Pueblo.
Some fear is expressed at Fort Col
Inns that a conspiracy has been entered
into by thugs to murder the entire po-
lice force there. The supposition does
not seem to be we'll founded.
The structural steel for the new ho-
tel at Boulder, 65,320 pounds, has ar.
rived and work on the construction Of
the building will now be prosecuted
vigorously.
l.
about "Shirt Sleeve Club" in that
city. Denver needn't feel SO puffed up
over tive farmers have belonged to
that club for years, b'gosh.
Information has come to light which
says the late ]. G. Allen, marshal who
was murdered at Fort Collins, has a
wife and children at Parsons, Kansas.
He had posed as single man.
The editors of the state are con-
templating a royal time July 22d-24th,
the dates set for their annual mid
summer outing. A trip to Steamboat
J Springs, over the Moffat road, is plan
| ned.
On July 4th a man appeared at the
livery barn of Eldred & Son, at Boul-
der, and hired a saddle horse for tha
day. Up to date he has not reappeared
and notices are now out Offering a re-
war for the return of the horse and a
separate reward for the capture Of the
thief.
|, thurman F. Kennedy, who conducts
one of the White Mountain summer
resorts, and who is visiting at Boulder
contemplates locating somewhere in
this state. He says the Eastern sum-
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the gathering places for people suffer
ing with tuberculosis.
l. A vast tract Of grazing land at the
edge Of the forest reserve, twenty-five
miles northwest of Gunnison, has be-
come so overgrown with larkspur that
the cattle which have been feeding
upon it are dying by scores, and the
s:ockmen are considering plans for the
removal Of their herds until the plant
ceases Towering.
Believing that Jose Martinez, the
Mexican stabbed at Windsor q few
nights ago, was near death, county
hospital attendants were much sur
prised to find his bed empty and the
man gone few morning ago. He had
arsien in the night, secured clothing
and fed. His companion in the fight
is in the hospital and will recover. No
effort will be made to find the man.
1t is announced that the Denver &
South Platte electric road, which will
| eventually run into Roxborough Park
in the foothills southwest Of Denver.
Is to reach Littleton by August 18th
end possibly earlier. The road is un
der construction from Englewood to
Littleton at the present time, and al
though sadly handicapped by scare
ity of labor, 1t is progressing at rate
which should put 1t into the latter
town by the middle OF next month.
George Carver, an inmate OF the
county Jail at Greeley, arrested recent
ly on a charge Of violating the liquor
law In Eaton, who was recently run
over by q car at La Junta, which cut
| OF both his legs just below the knee,
has been placed in the county hospital.
because he suffers excruciating pains,
he says, in his toes. His limbs, he
says, do not bother him, but only those
parts of his legs and feet removed IN
| the accident. Carver is about thirty.
five years old, highly educated, and