Gilpin observer., 1908-02-06

The annual report of the patent COM
missioner shows that 460 patents were
granted to Colorado citizens during the
past year.
The work of the construction of the
foundry OF the Pueblo Iron Foundry
Company at Pueblo will be commenced
within a short time.
| The Fort Collins street railway car
ried 42,206 passengers during the first
thirty days Of its operation and its pat
ronage is steadily increasing.
One the order of County Judge
Charles Mccall Sheriff Whipple OF
Jefferson county destroyed six large
slot machines found in the three sa-
looms raided at Morrison.
The First National bank of Eagle
county, at Eagle, has been authorized
to begin business with $4,000 capital.
]. H. Fesler. president; Frank Doll,
vice president; Louis SchmarZ, cash
Ter.
At Greeley on the 3rd inst. William
Croil was fined 800 and costs for
shooting an antelope near Hardin.
Game Warden Roberts says the slaugh-
ter of antelope has been going on ruth
lessly this fall.
The Colorado & Southern announced
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after be employed on a nine-hour shift.
Recently the company cut the working
day to eight hours on account of the
financial stringency, the men being
paid by the hour.
The pipe foundry at the Minnequa
steel works at Pueblo, after being
! closed down since the holidays, re-
sumed operations Monday morning.
The foundry will employ 100 men at
first and more men will be added grad
ually until the mill is running full
blast.
Richard G. Warren dropped dead in
front of the town hall at Nevadaville
February 1st after returning on the
morning train from an extended stay
in Denver for his health. He had been
a sufferer from miners consumption
for years. He was forty-eight and an
old resident of the district.
The Ault Military club, separate
organization from the Ault militia
company but affiliated with it, has es-
tablished a we'll equipped gymnasium
in connection with the club. Arrange
ments will be made for a ladies' auxil-
larry club to have use of the gymna-
SUM on certain days.
]. A. Enright of Greeley has sent
! HTeSlQenI nOOSeNGlI bEeelty Sdlcn-
dar for 1908 which carries a small ad-
vertisement and a photograph of En-
right, his wife and eight children. The
Oldest child is twelve years of age,
Mrs Enright, twenty-eight and the hus-
band few years her senior.
Contract for the construction Of a
ditch to cost $750,000 on the Orchard
mesa, near Grand Junction, has been
awarded to the Woodland company.
After the bid is submitted to an elec-
ton OF the district the work on the
ditch will begin. The canal is to re-
claim $1,000 acres of fine fruit land.
The University of Colorado intends
to erect on the bluff near the hospital
a number of cottages, in which con-
sumptive patients will be located, thus
giving better clinical advantages to
the medical students. The cottages
will be under direction Of DR.. Alvin r.
Peoples, professor of internal medr-
cine.
Walter S. Taylor of Pittsburg, Penn
sylvania has purchased the Rocky
Mountain Paper mills, near Overland
Park at Denver, for $4,000. Three
warranty deeds we're filed in the Office
OF the recorder Of deeds. The mill
and it's site sold for 100000, the COM
pany houses for $4,000 and some ad-
joining lots for $500.
At Lake City on the 1st inst. S. II.
Kinsey, charged with attempting to
murder b. F. Cummings April 2, 1907,
and Deputy Sheriff Joseph A. Hunt in
September, pleaded guilty to the first
charge and not guilty to the second In
the District Court. He was sentenced
to not less than six years, nor more
than seven on each charge, the SEN
tences to run concurrently.
To aid in the good roads movement
farmers in Pleasant valley, Weld
county donated $50 days of work and
with county funds available have built
two miles of roadway east of town.
All over the county farmers are gener-
ously assisting in road building. The
Great Western Sugar Company has
agreed to build one mile for every two
miles made by the county.
The incubator baby at the Deaconess
hospital in Colorado Springs is excit-
ing no end of interest and the medical
fraternity is loud in its praises OF mod
ern science which has made it possible
to save the life of the infant. When
the child was born a month ago 1t
weighed only two pounds. The mother,
Mrs. Bert Snyder of Manitou, was re-
moved from her home to the hospital
and the baby placed in the little glass
cage 1t has occupied ever since.
An attempt to assassinate A. Alex
ander superintendent of the mine at
Frederick, near Trinidad, and his en-.
tire family, was made shortly after
midnight January 31st, when a guam
tity Of dynamite was exploded under
his residence at Segundo. wrecking
one wing Of the house, breaking all
window glass and destroying consider
able furniture, the family having a
wonderful escape from injury or death.
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