Gilpin observer., 1907-04-25
COLORADO EEws ITEMS

William Youst, d pioneer miner OF
Goldheld, recently died, and was bur-
led at Victor.
V. McClelland. OF Glenwood Springs,
accidentally fell into the Frying Pan
river Tuesday and was drowned.
Idaho Springs has taken on renewed
mining activity this spring, and the
camp claims to be the best in the
West.
Denver is to have no festival of
Mountain and Plain this year. The
Greater Colorado movement now has
the floor.
The Trinidad Trades and Labor AS
sembly, which has been out of COM
mission for four months, has been re-
juvenated.
The Baptist church on Seventh and
Macon avenues, Canon City, will be en-
larged by the addition Of a two-story
2Ox30 wing.
The Erie Boosters are pushing their
old uncle, Success, right up the tree.
and he is reaching right out for the
apple of reward.
Governor Buchtel has vetoed the
anti:fusion bill passed by the Sixteenth
Assembly, so just go right on and fuse
as much as you like.
Thomas Miller, a student in Colo
RADIO College at Colorado Springs, was
arrested for cruelty lashing horse he
had hired at a livery stable.
A workmen returning from Panama
says there is great deal of unrest
among the laborers down there, and
that there is liable to be a strike any
day.
Napoleon Stone, an aged farmer
from Washington, has disappeared in
Denver and the police are looking for
him. He had considerable money with
him.
John Jolly overtanked with liquid
joy at Golden one day this week, and
is charged with carrying off several
gallons outside of his hide. He will
have to answer to the District Court.
The Rev. j. P. Lucas, who has been
chaplain of the penitentiary for four
years, has been succeeded by Rev. j.
G. Blake of Silverton. The Rev. Mr..
Lucas will go to Colorado Springs, his
former home. to rest.
NJ. B. Tomblin, George w. Williams
and w. w. Degge, of Boulder, have
purchased the townsite of Nederland
and will Immediately exploit the prop
erty with view of increasing the pop
ulation of the town.
Headquarters have been opened at
Trinidad by d. E. Fitton for the pur.
pose of patrolling and conserving the
new Las Animas forest reserve in this
and Huerfano counties. Three rang.
ers will be assigned to the district.
Scientists tell us that. on an average,
the earth's crust is only fifteen miles
deep and the inside is boiling, seeth.
ing mass of lava. Someone ought to
speak to these Colorado schoolmarms
about walking too hard on the ground.
Word has Teen received that pro-
cession Of fifty covered wagons left
Grand Island, Nebraska, and vicinity,
this week, and tnat their objective
point is the Arkansas valley. A great
many of these immigrants have the
means tc purchase small farms.
Frank r. Yockey, ex-police judge.
who failed of re-appointment when the
new City Council assumed the reins of
municipal government, threatens to ap.
peal to the state authorities to test the
constitutionality of the law passed by
the Sixteenth Assembly making here
tofore elective officers appointive.
County commissioners at Fort Col.
lins have decided to bridge the Poudre
river. ten miles from Fort Collins. This
decision was reached while the county
commissioners and three members Of
the City Council were marooned an
hour and twenty minutes in the mid
ole of the river by baking team.
John Nolon, well known as the pro-
prietor Of several large gambling
houses during the palmy days of Grip
pie Creek, is planning to invest $4,000
In improving his property in Manitou.
He also will build business block on
the main street. Nolon has maintained
residence at Manitou for a number OF
years.
The Denver Marble and Granite Com.
pany has just completed magnificent
granite monument to be placed over
the grave of the late Ex-Governor Davis
II. Waite. The monument is the gift
Of the Western Federation of Miners
and will be unveiled by that organiza-
tion with proper ceremonies at the
cemetery in Aspen on Decoration Day.
A company is being formed at Steam
boat Springs by Clinton Bivens and
Claude ii. Rowlette for the piping OF
natural gas to that city from the
Charles Helzey ranch, where there Is
a strong flow of gas out of the earth.
The Helzey ranch is four miles north
of Steamboat Springs, and within half
a mile of the Republican mine on Cop
per range.
Charles Scherard. Santa Fe freight
train brakeman, while walking on the
train to the caboose in a stiff wind,
at La Junta, was blown from the top
OF one of the cars and fell between
TWO others. He was dragged COO feet
and was found on the track uncon-
scious with one leg broken. He was
taken to the Santa Fe hospital and
probably will not recover.
Judge w. Fl. Thompson of Greeley,
Colorado, died at a sanitarium in Lin.