Gilpin observer., 1907-01-03
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

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county for 1906 is $23,74O,1O as
against S24,O01 $50 in 1905.
John Corcoran has resigned his po-
Bition as assistant postmaster at Den
yer and will be succeeded by Henry w.
Hannum.
1t is now expected that the electric
railway line from Canon City to the top
pf the Royal Gorge will be completed
by July list.
Forester Pinchot has apportioned to
the La Sale, Colorado, and Utah re-
serve, 6,100 acres cattle and horses;
$1,000 acres sheep.
The postoffice business at Greeley
has increased so much that another
carrier has been added to the force,
making four in all.
Ottoman ODonnell, son of T. ].
|O'Donnell, Denver, has been appointed
cadet midshipman at Annapolis Naval
Academy by Senator Teller.
Earl England, a linesman of the
Colorado Telephone Company, was in
stantly killed at Manitou, December
2Sth, by coming in contact with a live
wire of the Pixies Peak Hydro-Electric
Company.
| ]. ID. Kenworthy, general freight
agent Of the Denver & Rio Grande at
Salt Lake City, has been appointed
| general freight and passenger agent
for the system in Pueblo, assuming his
duties January 1st
State Auditor A. e. Bent has an
nounced the appointment of George
Birdsall, for the past eight years chief
OF police of Colorado City, to be liquor
| license inspector for the next two
years. There are three inspectors for
the state.
In his annual report, State Treasurer
Holmberg recommends that the COM
ing Legislature issue bonds to redeem
| the certificates of Indebtedness
amounting to s740,00O issued by the
state during the Peabody administra-
tion in dealing with labor troubles
Extensive improvements planned for
the coming year by the Colorado Mid
land road will entail the expenditure
of 100000 in re-equipping and enlarg-
ing the company's shops at Colorado
City. The monthly payroll at the shops
will be increased $1,000 and a larger
number of men employed. Electric
power will be installed
| II. B. Kerr, travelling state agent of
| the Colorado bureau of Child and Ami
NAL Protection, has announced his in
tention of resigning the first of the
year, to take place in the Office of Dis
trict Attorney Stidger at Denver, and
o. f. Tuft, another prominent agent
of the bureau will resign to travel for
a wholesale glove house.
The acting commissioner of the land
Office has announced the withdrawal of
31S,720 acres in Routt county, in north
west Colorado, west of the Continental
divide, for forest reserve purposes. He
also withdrew for forest reserve pur-
poses $4,000 acres lying in southwest
| ern Colorado, north and east of the
Southern Ute reservation, near the
| town of Durango.
An appropriation OF 100000 will be
asked of the General Assembly this
year by the board of trustees of the
Colorado State School of Mines. Forty
thousand dollars of this money will be
used if secured, for the erection of an
up-to-date natatorium and gymnasium,
and $4,000 will be used to help wipe
out the Indebtedness of S37,021.S1 now
hanging over the school.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gilbert McClurg have
returned to the state for the holiday
season, after representing and describ-
ing Colorado in their illustrated lee
ture and travelogue, for the past three
month, from northern Wisconsin to
Mexico. During this tour they have
been the personal representatives of
the Denver Chamber of Commerce and
of leading sections of Colorado.
Assistant Secretary Edwards of the
Treasury Department has selected
what is known as the Hicox corner as
the site for the proposed public build
ing at Boulder. This site is 120 by 140
feet in area, on the northwest corner
of Walnut and Fifteenth streets. and
was offered by C. G. Hicox and c. p.
| McAlester for $4,000. Ten other sites
were offered, but the one selected was
recommended by the agent of the de-
| partment, who made an examination OF
all offered.
| Special Agent c. l.. Hendershot OF
the General Land Office, in charge of
the Pueblo district, recently resigned
with the request that he be relieved
January 1st. Mr.. Iendershot has been
in the service of the land office for
eight years. He will go to Walsenburg,
where he will take up the practice of
law. His successor has not been named,
but Special Agent NJ. j. O'Brien, who
has supervision over this district, will
be In temporary charge of the Office un-
| til a regular appointment is made.
1t Is understood that the Santa Fe
| railroad will next year expend approx
imately 100000 in improvements in
and about its station at Colorado
Springs. A new three.story depot and
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