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


as a freight depot.
The assessed valuation Of Larimer
county is $S,513,139 and the tax roll for
1907 amounts to $456,619. which Is
the heaviest ever levied.
The First Bank of Montezuma VAL
ley has been incorporated, the capital
stock being placed at $4,000. The
bank will be located at Montezuma.
The Merchants's National bank of
Salida has been authorized to begin
business with $4,000 capital. James
J. McKenna is president and D. H.
Craig cashier.
The Democratic club at Denver
voted to donate $500 to the fund for Sc
curing the Democratic national conven.
tional convention next year. The en-.
tire sum called for is 100000.
The women of Eaton raised funds to
erect library on ground donated by
Governor Eaton. and since then have
secured the money to purchase books
and pay the running expenses.
DR.. Charles Hendrick, an eminent
New York physician and surgeon and
founder of large santa -um in Ard
more, L. l., is at Colorado Springs max
ing plans to erect a sanitarium at
COSL VI $1OU,UUU.
There are now thirty-two dwellings
under construction at Fort Morgan.
varying in cost from $1,000 to $4,000
with few under the $4,000 mark. A
number of public buildings are also
going up.
]. ]. Dean, a farmer living twelve
miles southeast of Greeley, was killed
on the End inst. by being thrown from
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his body. He lived only two hours
after the accident.
At a recent meeting Of the city coun-
Gil Of Aguilar twenty-year franchise
was granted to Hawkins & Barnett OF
Trinidad to furnish electric light and
power. They also expect to furnish
light and power to several coal mines.
The school board of district No. 1,
Pueblo, has closed negotiations by
which they obtained an option from
M. d. Thatcher on block in north
Pueblo, which will be used as site
for new high school building, to cost
900.
Richard H. Malone. receiver of the
defunct Fidelity Savings association
of Denver has declared five per cent.
dividend, amounting to SAL 1000. This
brings the dividends, SO far, up
to twenty-five per cent. and he expects
to pay fifteen per cent. more.
A. NJ. Copeland, who had made two
previous attempts to kill himself. com.
mitted suicide in the city jail at
kremmling on the night OF the 3Oth ult
by tying silk muffier about his neck
and hanging himself by attaching 1t TO
the iron grating of the window.
At La Junta on Sunday the 1st. inst.
after shooting and instantly killing his
mother-in-law, Mrs. Jose Lusero, and
firing one bullet at his wife, E. E. Ad.
deyta, q Mexican, turned his revolver
upon himself and committed suicide
Mrs. Mrs. Addeyta was not harmed.
The largest family gathering at
Thanksgiving dinner in northern Colo
RADIO was probably that of Tom Beas
ley, farmer living south Of Longmont,
who entertained his uncles, aunts,
brothers and sisters with their fam.
lies. numbering seventy-one persons.
Juan Tafoya, charged with the muir
der of Andreas Arguello at Segundo
last September has been found guilty
in the District Court at Trinidad, the
jury recommending a life sentance.
Arguello was killed in a free-for-all sa-
loon fight following a Mexican dance.
II Senator Nelson's bill, pending in
Congress, becomes a law. Colorado
City will have free delivery. The
bill provides a free delivery for all
towns having a postal revenue OF $S.-
600. The Colorado City postOffice now
has an annual revenue of more than
$4,000.
In the District Court at Fort Nor
gan Vera Moon and John Asmus. the
young ranchman in the Wild Cat Sec
ton, were found guilty on the End inst.
Of murder in the first degree for the
killing OF Robert Mcdowell, an &C.
centric ranchman, several years ago.
The jury fixed the punishment at iife
Imprisonment.
+. o. Stanley. a prominent automo-
bile enthusiast, is having plans drawn
at Denver for three-story summer
hotel to be built at Estes Park. 1t will
contain over 100 guests rooms and 250
people can be accommodated at one
time. The hotel Is to be known AZ
the "Dunraven." The plan includes
outlying cottages, a casino. stage aud
ballroom.
Escaping an attack OF whooping
cough for seventy-one years, Z. ]. Car
yer, who was a personal friend OF
Horace Greeley and N. G. 'Meeker. one
Of the founders Of Greeley, and for
thirty years publisher Of the Greeley
Tribune, is enjoying" that juvenile
disease. Mr.. Carver and his wife have
arranged to remove to Riverside,
California.
The county commissioners Of Fre-
mont county have awarded q contract
to the Pueblo Bridge Company, for the
erection of a steel bridge across the
Arkansas river at Texas creek, forty
miles west Of here. 1t will cost $1,7OO
and must be completed by March /,
1908. There are now sixteen public
bridges across the Arkansas river. In
Fremont county which cost $4,000.
ID. A. Camfield has recently put 800
man nd tom ms on tho ,uorlr x,f ox,ia ,er