Gilpin observer., 1907-01-24
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS


WitherS, secretary.
Jeff Noonan, an old time prospector,
WAS found dead in front of his cabin
In Leadville on the 18th inst. His
death is attributed to heart disease.
A new market has been opened to
Colorado for it's onions. Five thous-
and sacks, making total of eighteen
carloads, were shipped last week to
New York.
A gang of convicts at the Colorado
State Penitentiary Is cutting and stor
ing 400 tons of ice from the lakes In
Grape creek canon, three miles from
the prison.
The Colorado & Southern Railroad
Company will expend $150,O0O in re
building and equipping its coach shops
and wood working mill in Denver.
which were burned last year.
Representative Bonynge has recon-
mended the appointment of Mrs. Car
rie James as postmistress at Loveland.
She is the widow Of the former incum'
bent of the office, David Jones.
The Pixies Peak Cog road has aban.
doned it's project of using oil instead
of coal for fuel, and will continue the
present methods. Oil burning tests
have proven decidedly unsuccessful.
Miss Katherine Craig, state superin'
tendent of public instruction, will ad'
dress the state superintendent de-
partment of the National Educational
Association, which meets in Chicago
February 26th to 2Sth.
A parrot, two squirrels and a guinea
pig were burned to death, and mon
key so badly injured that it will die,
as a result of fire which destroyed
a monkey house belonging to DIR. A
Blackman at Colorado Springs.
Within the next few weeks the
Santa Fe railroad company will begin
opening coal mines on several large
veins in different parts of Fremont
county. The company has decided, II
is said, to supply it's entire system
with coal from Fremont county.
Mayor Speer of Denver was thrown
from his carriage on the l4th inst,
and received some bad, but not dan
gerous bruises on his head. Mrs
Speer, who was with him, escaped
without serious injury. The mayors
spirited horses were frightened by an
automobile.
st. Mary's Academy, one of the old
est schools in Denver, conducted by
the Sisters of Loretto, is to be re
moved from its site at Fourteenth and
California streets to Fourteenth av
enue and Pennsylvania, where six lots
have been purchased on which to erect
a handsome new building.
The Santa Fe railroad is completing
plans to transform its present passen
ger depot in Colorado Springs, at the
| ir%o ~ Diko'c paalx avanne
with the tracks, into freight depot
and to build a $4,000 hotel and depot
two blocks further south, between Gu
oharas and Vermijo streets.
It is stated that Pueblo's Japanese
colony will he depleted considerabl!
before spring. Sixty employed at thu
Ellers smelter are said to have quit
saying they were obliged to pay com
missions to countrymen and that thu
cost Of living was higher than ex
pected, leaving them little at the enc
of the month.
The Colorado City Chamber OF Com
merce will cooperate with the Colo
RADIO Springs Chamber of Commerce in
constructing a sugar palace in Colo
RADIO Springs. The plan is to call or
the sugar factories Of the state tt
contribute about twenty tons of beei
sugar and coat the blocks with q
waterproof mineral veneer.
It is expected that Boggs Flat, q
large arid section of land about ter
miles southeast of Florence, will be
brought under irrigation by a system
Of artesian wells which are to be
drilled at various depths within the
next few weeks. The plans for the
campaign have been finished and der
ricks and drilling ma :hinery ordered
Arrangements have been completed
for the fifth annual bench show Of the
Colorado Kennel Club, to be held al
Coliseum hall in Denver on February
26th, 9th and 2Sth. About $4,000 in
cash prizes will be given away, and
James Mortimer will officlate as judge
of all breeds. The entries to the show
will close on February 18th. H. G
Bryan of 533 Seventeenth street, Den
yer, is secretaiy of the club.
The members of both houses OF the
General Assembly at Denver have &C
cepted the invitation of Governor
Henry A. Buchtel to good fellow
ship" dinner at the Savoy hotel on the
night Of January 31st The invitation
| also includes the justices of the Su
preme Court and the state officers, and
the heads OF the various institutions
in the state, and Of some Of the com
mercial organizations Of Denver.
Charles Warren Dake, founder oi
Pine Grove. Colorado, and author oi
the state game law, died on the 18th
inst. at his ranch near Pine Grove, al
the age Of sixty-eight years. Mr.. Dake
was formerly member Of the state
Legislature. being elected a member oi
the lower house from Jefferson county
In 1892. While in the Legislature he
framed the state game law, and did
much for the State School Of Mines at
Golden.
At last the water has been turned
into the new G. F., and l. canal near
Adobe station, thirty miles west OF
Pueblo This Is the canal which cost