Gilpin observer., 1907-12-19
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

The State Teachers Association
meets at Denver December 31st 10
January Sd.
The magnificent new building Of the
Young Mems Christian association at
Denver was formally opened on the
10th inst, and is now in full opera
ton.
Never in the history of Denver have
the State Humane society and the
Colorado Prison association been
swamped with appeals for aid as at
the present time.
A special public school will be op-
ened for sixty or more Russian chill
dren in Greeley in order that they may
have better opportunities for individ-
ual instruction.
The board of pardons at its recent
meeting in Denver refused an appli-
cation Tor pardon in the case of sam
Enrich, sentenced from Denver Aug
ust 2, 1904, for the murder of William
Malone.
The Southern Colorado Mercantile
company will build a wholesale ware
house at Trinidad early next year
which will be 15Ox2OO feet and five
stories high. Railroad tracks will run
through the building.
People in the vicinity of Num-, in
Weld county. have petitioned the
county commissioners for eighty three
miles of county road. Eighty-five miles
of road has been granted in the vicin-
ity during the last year.
A strip of territory on the western
side of the Pixies Peak forest reserve,
known as districts 6 and Z, with an
iv,,o ~, !,
been put into the Leadville reserve.
The tract is situated west of the South
parr
Mrs. Marion Muir Richardson OF
Morrison, the well known poet and
short story writer, recently won a
suit to quiet title in considerable
tract Of land which the projected in
provements at Morrison will make
very valuable.
On the 18th inst. the work Of sur
veyins for the Henrylyn irrigation
project in southeastern Weld county
was begun and will occupy a month.
Preliminary lines have already been
run defining the boundaries of the
ditch, which embraces $4,000 acres.
carload of Greeley potatoes was
started few days ago for New York
70 be used for supplying the tables on
the big ocean liners and is the fore
runner of others to be used for the
same purpose and for supplying pri-
vate yachts, among them that OF the
Vandcrblts.
The Western Slope Bar association
will meet at Delta, December 25th.
The counties comprising the district
ale Gunnison, Hinsdale, San .Iiguel,
Ouray, Montrose, Mesa and Delta. The
business meeting will be follow ed by
banquet in the evening. The attend
ance is estimated at 100.
On Monday the Great Western
Sugar company paid out 100000 1T
tho Greeley, Eaton and Windsor sugar
factories. This covers the November
delivery of beets and salaries of fac
tory employees for the month. Farmers
are delivering their siloed bccts
rapidly and each factory is working at
full capacity.
Lakeside, near Berkeley lake. Is the
latest Denver summer resort to vie
With Elitch's Gardens and Manhattan
Beach. 1t is just across the line IN
Jefferson county and will have all the
latest accessories, including a theater,
casion and, presumably, plenty Of beer
on tap. The resort will be known as
Lakeside Park.
The assessment this year shows
that Bruce G. Eaton pays the largest
tax of any individual in Weld county.
He paid on his own property and the
estate, ,of the late exGov. B. II. Eaton,
which he shared with his mother His
tax is $7,372.63, assessed on a vaiul-
tion of $266,000, about one-third Of the
actual value. This is practically all
real estate, covering 14.400 acres.
At meeting of the board of par
dons in Denver on the 18th inst The
case of Leonard Imboden and james
A. Hill was postponed until Feb. Z,
when an open meeting will be held to
consider the applications for the par
con of the two. II. j. Hershey and l..
S. Smith appeared in favor of Imboden
and Hill, while Harry Kelly was there
to protest against the granting Of the
pardon.
The Denver Real Estate exchange is
on record against the sale of Christ-
mas trees, having resolved: THAT
we very much deprecate this annual
forestry murder and call upon our
citizens and merchants generally to
abstain from the use of these ever
greens at Christmas time, as far AS
practicable, and to lend their influence
in discouraging the destruction OF
evergreen forests in the manner
named"
Building Inspector Willison OF Den
yer. has received beautiful model of
the corner domes to be placed on the
new auditorium. 1t was made In st.
Louis and is Of sheet metal, tinted
silver. The domes will be four in
number, one at each corner, twenty.
four feet high and thirty-four feet
across. They will support thirty.foot
flag poles to carry n twenty.four-foot
flag. The dome in the center of the
building is to be thirty-two feet high.