Gilpin observer., 1907-08-15
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

OV6VtHOV N6WO uIeM0
George Beidl. an old gentleman, fell
In an irrigation ditch at Golden recent
ly and drowned.
The Colorado & Southern trainmen's
strike has worked many hardships on
small towns dependent on Denver for
supplies.
There promises to be shake-up in
the revenue collectors office at Den
yer. Some startling discloe ures are
promised.
William D. Haywood is back at his
old desk in Denver, after forced va
cation Of seventeen months spent in
Boise. Idaho.
Cashier w. H. Allison of the First
National bank Of Boulder says a trust
company is to be run in connection
with the bank. A room for this pur-
pose is being prepared.
Ed Andrew, by his mother, Betty An
drew, has sued the Parkdale Fuel Com
pany for $4,000, for injuries sustained
while he was working in the coal mine
owned by the company near Boulder.
After delay of fifteen years settle
ment of the estate of James Williams
at Georgetown has been perfected,
certified copy of the decree having
been filed with the county clerk and
recorder.
Miss Mary Bales, resident of Boul-
der, died in Winchester, Ind, Friday,
August 2. She had been in Boulder
for eighteen months and went East
two weeks ago with the body Of her
brother, expecting to return after his
funeral.
B. l.. Morey was found dead in a lit
tie dugout near Pueblo. in which he
had been sleeping during the warm
weather. Morey had been an engineer
at the South Side waterworks. Morey
was twenty-eight years old and leaves
a widow and two children.
Miss Ruth Owens, a pretty maid of
Denver, has been instrumental in
forming colony Of girls in the Lit
tie Snake River Valley reclamation
district. The colony will comprise at
least 1880 acres and will be taken up
under the Carey act.
The teachers normal institute for
the counties of Boulder, Larimer and
Weld has closed, having been by far
the most successful ever held in that
district. The attendance was 226. The
attendance last year, when the insti-
tute was held at Fort Collins, was 1856,
which had exceeded all previous years.
County Treasurer E. B. Simmons, at
Colorado Springs, has found a sum ag
gregating $1.525.05 that he is in doubt
to know what to do with. The money
has accumulated from unclaimed es-
tates, and has come into the treasury
through the coroner. Part of the fund
has been standing for a period Of
twenty-five years.
The annual normal institute OF Pu-
eblo and Custer counties closed after
a two weeks successful session. The
attendance this year has been above
the average. Among the special fea-
lures Of the closing day was an ad-
dress by Professor Thomas OF the
State Agricultural College on Pioneer
History, and Its Relation to National
Affairs"
Information was filed in the District
Court against the alleged keeper of a
gambling house which 1t is alleged has
been in operation on Santa Fe avenue
at Pueblo. The raid on the place was
made and it is alleged a roulette
wheel was found in full swing. The
sheriff gave out the statement that
gambling will not be permitted any
where within Pueblo county.
The coroner Of Montrose county was
called to Olathe to investigate the sud-
den death of s. Armstrong of that
place, who was found dead there. He
had been dead for several hours. A
physician pronounced death to be due
to apoplexy, and the coroner decided
an inquest unnecessary. Mr.. Arm
strong was sixty-five, a pioneer of
Montrose county. and prominent in the
Baptist Church.
AS the result of collision with NJ.
d. Thatcher's automobile, C. ]. Heine,
lineman for the Denver & Rio
Grande, who was riding on his bi-
cycle, was seriously, II not fatally, in
jured at Pueblo. The accident oc-
Cured in front Of St. Mary's Hospital.
where he was taken at once. He was
badly bruised about the hips and back
and received several deep scalp
wounds. 1t is also said he was inter-
nally injured.
Cary Culver recently died at his
home on the Little Thompson, near
I.ongmont, Of paralysis, aged sixty
seven years. Mr.. Culver was born in
New York, came with his wife to Colo
rado in 1860 and has been identified
with this section ever since. He en-
gagged in stock raising, for many years.
devoted his time to raising and breed
ing blooded horses. and later con-
Quoted livery business In Longmont.
He leaves large estate. Mr.. Culver
leaves a widow and Ave children, H..
A.. Henry R.. Frederick W., Roland
and Mrs. Amelia Cole.
News reached Glenwood Springs OF
homicide committed near the Gen.
trail Colorado Company's Power plant
at Shoshone. A man named James has
been living for some time in q tent,
near the comnanY'a nlanf with his