Gilpin observer., 1907-04-11
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS


dad to Santa Fe, so reports have it.
Boulder had one-thousand dollar
fire in a lumber yard the other night.
Charles L. Cunningham, of Colorado
City, committed suicide owing to i'll
health.
Back to the stores, mines and
farms. The Sixteenth Assembly has
adjourned.
Palisades light plant went up in
smoke, and old-time candles have been
hauled out.
The usual batch of ruined fruit" re-
ports are coming in, and it is all laid
to the door of poor old Jack Frost.
A Greeley plumber climbed to the
roof of the tallest building in the place
trying to get away from imaginary
bugs.
The hazing students expelled from
the School of Mines at Golden, have
been causing the faculty all kinds of
anxiety.
William T. Jerome, district attorney
Of New York, anticipates coming to
Colorado for rest as soon as he can
Thaw out.
Prosper McCulloch was sentenced to
Tic peultSulldIy lIouu holliooS Ava
stealing horses. Here is Prosper
who didn't prosper.
DR.. /. e. Newsome has resigned as
member of the Agricultural college fac
ulty to become state meat and slaugh-
ter house inspector
John Girdler was elected leader OF
the University of Colorado Glee club,
and Fred Castelucci reelected leader
of the Mandolin club.
The Better Boulder municipal
ticket won out, and the Boulder Herald
is justly growing over the victory. The
Herald made hard fight.
A Denver woman run down a plain
citizen with her automobile the other
day. Plain citizens will have to take
to the roofs or the subway.
A. A. Johnson has been appointed to
the position of superintendent of the
mineral department of the State Land
Board, at salary of $4,000 year.
A supposed unknown crazy woman
is creating CONSERVATION in the camp
at Morrison. She comes down out of
the mountains and then runs back.
A workmen returning from Panama
says there is a great deal of unrest
among the laborerS down there, and
that there is liable to be strike any
day.
Axel Swanson, of Denver, will draw
$1,000 a year as deputy state labor
commissioner 4 new Office that came
out of the labors of the Sixteenth AS
sembly.
DR.. William Edgar Cell, the author
and traveller, is lecturing in Colorado
on "Cannibals-Before and After TAX
ing" But why should he come to Colo
RADIO?
The little cabin that sheltered Presi-
dent Roosevelt near the head waters OF
Divide Creek, thirty miles southwest of
Glenwood Springs, has been destroyed
by fire.
H. H. Daniels, of Denver, drew the
position Of appraiser for the State
Land Board, at $500 per. This is one
of the new berths created by the late
General Assembly.
Victor citizens have consummated
arrangements with the railroads where
by ample time between trains" will be
given for tourists to see the famous
gold producing city.
Ralph Inman, a miner, fell 300 feet
down the shaft of Lucky Gus, the other
seriously injured. There must be
something in a name, after all.
The Loveland Chamber of Com
merce says to the Longmont Chamber
of Commerce, "Come over and have
hot bird with u.s.; and the response
came back, Don't care if We do"
Fire in the machine shop of McCarty
& Moore of Leadville caused damage to
the amount Of $1,000. The fire was
confined TO the machine shop and in
1ured large amount of machinery
and burned up many patterns.
John d. Lloyd of the Canon City
Labor club has brought suit against
the city for 81 400 damages for the de-
struction Of bar and saloon fixtures
used In the club rooms, which were
raided July 1st, last.
Some of the housewives OF Denver
are smarting under the cruel imposi-
ton imposed upon them by horserad-
ish manufacturers who are embalming
their ground product in poisonous sui
phuric acid instead of vinegar.
James A. Gilmour, candidate on the
Democratic and Citizens tickets for
mayor, suffered a stroke of paralysis
of the heart as the news of his over
whelming election was told to him,
and died almost Immediately. He was
making merry over his victory with
number of friends when attacked. A
doctor, who was called, said excite
ment killed him.
An increase in the saaries OF the
teachers of the public schools of Colo
RADIO Springs which will cause the ad-
ditional expenditure of about $4,000
year, was made at special meeting of
the board of education. The maximum
salary of the grade teachers was in
creased from $3.50 to $500. The new
schedule of salaries will go into effect
July 1st. Under the new schedule the