Gilpin observer., 1908-02-13
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

The towns OF Mead and Mum are
taking steps to incorporate. having
filed petitions at Greeley.
The annual report of the patent com
missioner shows that AGO patents were
granted to Colorado citizens during the
past year.
Over 100000 pounds of -four were
shipped from Lamar on the 7th inst.
direct to Liverpool, England, by the
Lamar Milling & Elevator Company.
Fort Collins is preparing to entertain
the annual department of the Grand
Army of the Republic, department OF
Colorado and Wyoming. next May.
The Colorado Fruit Commercial AS
sociation and the Grand Valley Fruit
and Produce Association have formed
consolidation under the former name.
In order to secure a charter for
lodge of Elks. members of that order
have just completed a census of Fort
Morgan. They find the population to
be 3,205.
In order to establish headquarters
for the western states the Salvation
Army has appropriated $150,000 for the
purchase or erection of a building in
Denver
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 $25,000 capital.
J. H. Fesler president; Frank Doll,
vice president; Louis Schmarz, cash
ier.
At Greeley on the 3rd inst. William
Croil was fined 500 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.
While sinking a hole for the founda-
ton of the proposed Pueblo court
house workmen uncovered a metal disc
showing that by the United States Ge-
illogical Survey in 1872 the elevation
of Pueblo was placed at 4,690 feet.
Hudson r. Morton, an Ann Arbor.
Michigan, banker, holding Judgment
bonds" of Philips county to the amount
of $22, ,59S, has secured judgment for
that amount from Judge Robert f.
Lewis in the United States court at
Denver.
The Colorado Southern announced
Monday that its shop men would here
after be employed on 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.
Over 100000 trout fry will be liber-
ated in the mountains streams of Ere
mont county within the next week or
hos
with Game and Fish Commissioner
Farr for about 500, 900 fry to be placed
during this year.
The contract for the industrial build
ing to be added to the equipment OF
the State School for the Deaf and Blind
has been awarded to Charles Grissler
of Colorado Springs. The contract price
is s17,3S5.75. The building is to be
completed by June 1st.
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 Neyadayille
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 1t, has es-
tablished a well equipped gymnasium
in connection with the club. Arrange
ments will be made for a ladies' auxil-
iary club to have use OF the gymna-
SUM on certain days.
The State Land Board on the 5th
inst. sold 5000 acres OF public land in
various counties OF the state at prices
ranging from $3.50 to $20.50 an acre.
Ebert county land was heaviest in de-
mand, 1000 acres being sold in that
county alone. In Huerfano. Eagle and
Routt counties $40 acres each were dis
posed of.
Judge Garrigues of Greeley will con
duct the first hearing on the question
OF the disposition OF the state inheri-
.ance fund. Judge Garrigues has given
notice that he will hear the State Uni
versity demand against the inheritance
fund on April 2, 1908. A new set Of in
heritance tax forms have been pre-.
pared for attorneys.
Surveyors arrived at Boulder on the
9th inst. and laid out the line for the
Colorado & Interurban electric car sys-
TEN. 1t is expected that construction
OF the line will be commenced soon and
that cars will be running between Den
yer and Boulder by June 1st. large
force Is surfacing the new grade be-
tween the Louisville curve and Denver.
Chief Game Warden Fred A. Gordon
OF Glenwood Springs arrested James
Bright February 9Th for having In his
possession three green deer hides. He