Gilpin observer., 1908-08-20
COLORADO NEWS


and 9th.
The Association of State and Ma.
t1onal Food Officials will meet at Den
yer next summer
Pumpkin Pie Day at Longmont on
Thursday. the 18th was a great success.
The attendance was larger than ever
before.
The Florence Daily and Weekly
Tribune has been sold to j. F.. Tor
renee. The paper will continue as a
daily.
The word welcome" on the up
town side of the Denver welcome arch
has been removed and "Mizpah'' sub
stituted
A two-year-old black bear was cap
tured eight miles from Trinidad a few
days ago by two Mexicans, who sold
it to Trinidad butcher.
The semiannual meeting of the Col
orado Osteopathic Association will
convene at Colorado Springs, Friday
and Saturday, August 2Sth and 29th.
While Mrs. Jesse Noln, wife of the
superintendent of the Greeley water
works. was watching a game of ball in
Longmont she was accidentally struck
in the eye by the ball, being knocked
down and rendered unconscious.
The annual polo contest for the Dew
ereauX challenge cup will be held at
Glenwood Springs the latter part of
this month, probably on August 9th,
between teams from Glenwood Springs,
Denver and Colorado Springs. The
challenge cup is now held by the
Glenwood Springs team.
Thirty three women of Denver have
pledged themselves to raise S100 each
by January 1, 1909, for the building
fund of the Children's Hospital Asso-
citation. They are members of the
board of directors of the hospital and
the money is to be raised in various
ways, but wholly by individual effort.
At a special meeting of the Boul-
der city council Monday night $780,
600 bond issue for waterworks i'm
provements was authorized and a bid
of w. E. Sweet & Co. of Denver was
for the entire issue at ninety-five cents
was accepted. The bonds draw four
and a half per cent interest
By AN explosion of about fifty
pounds of dynamite in the Ingram
mine at Salina, in Boulder county, Sat
urday night, Charles Calicutt, Ote
biouSHtou anu II Fduh oHed were III
stantly killed They were working in
the 245-foot level of the mine and what
caused the explosion is not known.
By filing a declaration in the secre-
tary of states office that it would
build branch from its junction with
the Colorado & Wyoming railroad to
Craig in Routt county, the Union Pa
cafic has apparently finally confirmed
the story of its connection with the
Moffat road. The line will be 41.5
miles long, and will run through the
anthracite coal fields of Routt county.
State Engineer Jaycox has sent
letter to the boards of county commits
sioners of Delta and Mesa counties an
nouncing his decision in regard to the
controversy over the disputed land
which the two counties have been
fighting for in the courts, in which
case Mr.. JaycoX has been conspicu-
Gus witness. This opinion sustains the
claims of Mesa county regarding the To-
cation of the boundary line between
the counties.
At the instance of DR.. Hugh l.. Tay-
lor and Wilbur F. Cannon of the state
boards of health and pure foods and
drugs, respectively, vigorous prosecu-
ton will be started at once against
grocers and keepers of meat markets
who are found violating the law in re-
gard to proper care of ice boxes, pres
ervation of produce, meats and other
perishable goods. Mr.. Cannon says
that flies must be kept away from
organic matter and vegetables and that
screening or glass must protect the
goods which are placed on the market.
Following are dates of Prohibition
county conventions: Boulder county
Monday. August 18th, at Boulder; FL
Paso county, Tuesday. August 18th, at
Colorado Springs; Otero county, We'd
nesday. August 10Th, at Rocky Ford;
Bent county. Las Animas, Thursday
August 18th. at Colorado Springs;
Otero county, Thursday, August goth,
at Brighton; Prowers county, Friday
August 21st. at Lamar; Weld county
Friday. August 21st. at Greeley; Pueb-
10 county, at Pueblo, Saturday, August
22nd: Larimer county, Saturday, Au.
gust 2lnd. at Loveland.
Knabenshue. with his famous pas
senger carrying airship, will arrive at
the Colorado Interstate Fair and Ex-
position grounds, Denver, August 25th.
Pain. the fireworks king, will arrive
there on the same date. These are two
of the big attractions at the Denver
fair and exposition to be held Septem-
ber 7th-12th. Knabenshues airship Is
the largest now in existence, except
the one built by Walter Welman for
| Arctic exploration. 1t can carry two
people. aside from Knabenshue. This
will be the first opportunity western
people have had of seeing an airship
that not only actually flies, but car
ries passengers. Pain gives the car
nival of Naples. requiring 300 people
to produce and comprising ballets.
vaudeville. acrobatics, hippodromes,
| feasts and fetes, followed by the erup-