Gilpin observer., 1908-07-09
COLORADO ITEMS

Senator La Toilette OF Wisconsin
will open the Greeley Chautauqua July
oath and speak on Representative
Government"
The thirty-fourth annual convention
of the American Bankers Association
will meet at Denver Monday, Septem-
Der 2Sth.
The Leadville tonnage for the month
of June was about the same as for the
previous month, $4,000 tons of all
classes of ore.
Pumpkin Pie Day will be celebrated
at Longmont August 23rd, when the
whole world will be invited to come
and eat free pie.
Telegraphic reports show thai the
Fourth of July crowds in nearly every
town and resort in Colorado broke all
records. There's big crop of people
this year.
A special election for the purpose
of approving the issuance by the city
for S55,000 in water bonds was held
at Fort Morgan and carried by vote
of 2S4 to 16.
Governor Buchel has appointed Fla
vius Naylor, Michael Donovan and
Frank Auken commissioners for the
purchasing of burial places for old sol
diers at Victor.
Mrs. Martha A. Shute of the State
Horticultural Society received an
elaborate fruit exhibit from Fremont
county for display during the Demo-
cratic convention.
The Hawkeye club, composed OF
more than 500 former residents OF
Iowa, will keep open house at the Al
bany hotel in Denver during conyen-
tion week for the Iowa visitors.
]. G. Gwynn, who has been acting
as chief engineer of the Denver & Rio
Grande railroad since the death of
Chief Engineer E. j. Yard, has been
appointed permanently to the office he
has been filling.
Approximately 2,500 acres of state
land was sold at auction by Register
John F. Vivian in the office of the land
board at the State house in Denver
July 1st. The land brought from 81 to
$25 per acre.
There was a snowstorm on the Ra-
ton mountains in sight of Trinidad,
July 3rd, leaving Fishers peak capped
with white. The temperature at Trim
idad fell to forty-five degrees above
zero.
The Single Takers of Denver estab-
lished headquarters at S11 Fourteenth
stdeet for convention week. Among
the distinguished Single Tax visitors
are Mayor Tom L. Johnson of Cleve-
land, George Fred Williams of Massa-
chusetts, Mayor Brand Whitlock Of
Toledo, Raymond Robins of Chicago
j. Herbert Quick of Sioux City, and
many others.
State Dairy Commissioner Bishopp
stated recently that he had an applica
tion from Twin Falls, Idaho, for 1000
Colorado milch cows, and that he was
in position to supply only few hul.
dred head at the present time. Some
time ago Charles Brand of Colorado
Springs shipped about forty head o,
Red Polls to Idaho which We're abso-
lutely free from tuberculosis.
Seven damage suits, aggregating
S37 800, We're filed in the District
Court at Pueblo on the 3rd inst,
against the Colorado Fuel & Iron Com
pany, as the result of a gas explosion
at the Minnequa plant about a year
ago, when five men lost their lives
and two others received injuries which
totally disabled them. The victims
were nearly all foreigners and the suits
are filed by relatives.
Miss Susa Carpenter, the Colorado
singer (born in Grand Junction. who
appeared at the Auditorium benefit
concert in Denver, last Sunday night,
is dramatic soprano with a fine
voice, well cultivated. Her studies
and career abroad have met with sue
cess and she is shortly to return to
Rome, where she is under contract
with the National Italian theater to ap-
pear in grand opera.
While attempting to board a Rio
Grande train between the engine and
the baggage car at Salida on the 9Th
inst. James F Jennings of Leadville
caught his foot in the frog of switch,
was pulled under the train and run
over. his head being crushed in such n
manner As to cause instant death His
father, Peter Jennings, was in Denver
at the time of the accident to attend
the Democratic convention.
George n. Raymond, editor of the
Evening Herald OF Durango, who has
been writing up. M" after his name
for the past five years, is no longer
postmaster of Durango, having been
succeeded by w. w. Parshall. 1t is
understood that Mr.. Parshal will re.
tain s. w. Strader as deputy and will
make no changes in clerks. MIR. Ray
mond proposes to devote his entire
time to the Herald.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas F. Walsh of
Wolhurst, near Denver. have recently
announced the engagement of their
daughter, Miss Evelyn Walsh, and Mr..
Edward Mclean of Washington, ID. c.
Mr.. Mclean is a member of a proml-
nent Washington family. He is the
son of Mr.. John X. Mclean. owner of
the Cincinnati Enquirer and the Wash.
ington Post, and the nephew of Mrs.
George Dewey, wife of the admiral.