Gilpin observer., 1908-09-10

full delegation from Denver with which
to put through his Endorsement as the
party's candidate for senator.
The State Bank of Kersey, capital
lied at $4,000, has been organized
with B. P. Brooks president and d. NJ.
Decamp cashier.
By the will of the late Andy Nc
Millen, the pioneer stockman of
Evans, his estate, valued at $4,000,
Is left to his widow and five children.
Sterling has completed the drilling
of five wells and these, together with
the Springdae reservoir, are expected
to furnish enough water to supply a
population of 5000.
Thomas Conway, aged fifty-five, one
of the oldest and most popular pas
senger conductors on the Rio Grande
railroad, died at his home in Grand
Junction on the Bird inst. after long
illness.
Harry G. Browne, superintendent of
the Rocky Ford Electric Company, was
instantly killed on the night of the I'd
inst. by coming in contact with the
large fly wheel His skull was split
open and death was instantaneous. He
is survived by widow, and his mother
resides in Cripple Creek, while half
brother, Frank Glenn, is paymaster of
the Portland mine at Victor. Browne
was thirty-eight years old.
Thomas LuXen, a wealthy Rio Blanco
cattleman living four miles north of
Rifle, Colorado, is defendant in dam
age suit filed in the Federal Court at
Denver, charging him with having al
lowed cattle and horses to Craze upon
the Battlement national forest reserve.
Mr.. Luxen is said to have taken
chances in the hope that favorable
decision will be reached in the United
States Supreme Court.
The county commissioners of Pitkin
county have instructed the county
treasurer to accept the certified check
for $3,151.3S and the personal check for
$227.oS given by eXCounty Treasurer
William II. McNichols to cover the al
legged shortage created during his term
of office and his half of the expenses
for the recent accounting of the coun-
ty books, and have also instructed that
the civil suit against McNichols be
dismissed.
Colorado's peculiar advantages as a
place Of recuperation for persons suf-
fering from pulmonary tubercular
troubles are to be set before the medi-
cal fraternity of the world most forci-
bly, at the International Congress on
tuberculosis, which will take place in
Washington, d. c., September 21st to
October 18th. The state will be rep
resented by a large and able delega-
tion of prominent medical practition-
erS.
The formal opening of the Sanitary
company's canning plant at Brighton
took place September 1st This com.
pany Is the successor of the Wilmore
Canning Company late of Denver. The
company has just completed a plant
costing about $4,000 to can tomatoes
and other garden produce. There
We're several hundred people present
at the opening. Refreshments were
served and music was furnished by the
management.
AT Fort Collins on the 2nd inst S. II
Atwater of Canon City, for eleven sue.
cesslve years president of the State
Sunday School Association, was again
elected to that office. In addition to
the election of Mr.. Atwater, president,
the convention chose the following Off.
GERS: Vice president, II. c. Johnson of
Fort Collins; vice president of the
western slope, +. +. Frazier of Mont.
rose; secretary, w. II. Hardy of Rocky
Ford; treasurer, G. S. Watson of Den.
yer.
At Leadville on the 2nd inst, after
deliberating for two hours the jury in
the case Of Sherman w. Morris, alias
Frank Sheriffe of Des Moines, Ia, re.
turned verdict of guilty of murder in
the second degree. Morris was tried
for the killing of John w. Walsh, a
Leadville saloonkeeper June 25, 1898
His conviction was obtained wholly
upon circumstantial evidence, It being
brought out at the trial that at various
times he had confessed to acQuaint-
ances the killing of Walsh and that on
certain occasions he had boasted OF
the crime.
Dolores county must pay Bird s.
Coler, former comptroller of New
York City, and his business partner,
Leonard II. Fowler. $65.137.05 as the
result of decree entered by Judge
Lewis of the Federal Court. The
amount Is due on funding floating In
debtedness bonds issued by the county
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