Gilpin observer., 1907-05-02
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

The late snowstormS have been OF
great value to farmers and stock grow.
erS.
Fruit was greatly injured by the
heavy snow and freezing weatL er last
week.
Pueblo is to have new county
courthouse to take place of the old
one erected forty years ago.
"a Bigger Colorado" is the cry of
the citizens of Boulder, and everybody
is rushing over to help them.
Rocky Ford gave the Odd Fellows
rousing reception on April 26, the
eighty anniversary of the or
der.
A Denver chemist discovers that a
California coffee firm puts chicory in
their coffee, and the authorities are
after them.
Denver is having another pure
food" crusade, and for a while baled
alfalfa won't be served as pre-digested
breakfast food.
Fire Chief Owens, of Denver, says
he had sesmographic sensation on
the exact anniversary of the San Fran
cisco earthquake. How shocking.
The MacMonnies Indian statue has
caused about as much commotion
among the pioneers of Colorado as the
appearance Of the real red men did in
early days.
Charles Friend won in the High
school oratorical contest at Colorado
Springs, and will represent the school
at the interscholastic contest to be
held in Boulder, May 10th.
After being confined in the county
| Jail at Grand Junction for nearly a
week, James F. Goddard, a prominent
| contractor, whose arrest on the charge
| of robbery caused a sensation here,
was liberated.
Mrs. Mary Quisenberry of Trinidad,
20 years old, has gone to Oregon to
be married to the sweetheart of her
youth. Obstinate parents had side
tracked the match many years ago, but
now the barriers are buried away.
! "Christianity has wasted much
time and energy in justifying God and
making the devil responsible for evil,
declared Denver preacher, and some
of his listeners are wondering who he
was luding to.
Little packs of garden seed,
Little plats of ground,
Little early rising,
And little scratching round
Will supply hungry family
And overflow their cup
In this land of Colorado
If the hens don't scratch it up.
A cheap and delightful way in which
to spend ones vacation is entertain
ilgly described in booklet, Camping
i'll the Rocky Mountains" just issued
by the Passenger Department of the
Denver & Rio Grande railroad. This
little book tells where to go. what to
wear, what to take and what it will
cost.
While attempting to arrest four men
whom he had detected stealing wire
from the traction company's barn, at
Pueblo, Thomas Self, a private watch.
man, was struck with a stone, and a
deep cash inflicted in the right side OF
his head. Self succeeded in capturing
one of the trio, who gave the name Of
Peter Doyle.
The Boulder Oil Refining Company
will build refinery on Dabney place
east of town. The plant will cost $40,
900. The stills and other machinery
have already been purchased. D. b
Burton of Denver will be the superin
tendent. The main object of the com
pany is to make by-products of oil
rather than paraffin.
The Pioneers Society Of Colorado
raises a vigorous protest against the
design for the proposed monument tc
be erected in their honor at Denver
The artist suggests the statue of 6
vicious Indian poised on top of the
pedestal, and the pioneers object tc
having such prominence given the
enemy they had to conquer.
After ten years of patient waiting
the widow of the late H. A. w. Tabor
expects to realize her dream Of wealth
which has occupied her mind since hel
husbands death. In the Matches.
mine, near Leadville, the one asse
which Mr.. Tabor valued more thar
anything else, rich body Of ore has
been discovered during the last week
Several hundred lives were endan
gered and property valued at 100000
threatened when fire broke out in the
basement Of the First Baptist church
corner of Ninth street and Grant ave
nue., at Pueblo. Several fire companies
responded to the alarm and the blaze
was extinguished with small loss. The
church was crowded and several were
slightly bruised in their hurry to gel
out.
William Dunno, after whom the towr
OF Dunneville was named, died at the
county hospital. Death resulted from
heart disease. superinduced by alco
holism. Dunno was sixty-one year,
old, single, and lived at Adelaide. He
was employed on the section by the
Florence & Cripple Creek road Ir
1904, Just before the battle Of Dunno
vile, several section men christenet
the town after their fellow workman
A fortune estimated at $4,000 has
been hunting Tom Thomas. q former
resident Of Grand Junction, for 81,
months. Postmaster Price received {
letter recently from Joseph Neuville oi