Gilpin observer., 1908-01-16
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

The Del Monte town council has
voted to increase the saloon license
from $500 to $1,260 per annum.
The Fort Morgan sugar factory fin
ished slicing beets on the 18th inst.
after running about one hundred days
and grinding $4,000 tons of beets.
The report Of the building inspector
shows that permits for 225 buildings
were issued in Colorado Springs last
year, having total cost of $50O,SS2.
DR.. Ella Mead of Greeley has been
appointed register Of deaths and births
of Weld county by the secretary of the
State Board OF Health DR.. Mead is
also city physician.
The Colorado Fuel & Iron Com
pany's mine at Terico has been closed,
and the ITS men employed there have
been distributed among other camps
in Las Animas county.
The Weld County Medical Associa-
tion will urge the necessity of the in
spection of all meat and milk. The
prevalence of disease among hogs this
winter has helped to bring about this
agitation.
The farmers around Johnstown are
considering the project OF establishing
a -four and feed mill. They estimate
that over 100000 bushels of wheat was
grown within six miles Of Johnstown
last season.
Frank Handy, ten-year-old boy,
was dangerously injured on the Sth
inst. at Pueblo when dynamite cap
which he was pounding with hatchet
exploded with terrific force. Both legs
were horribly mangled.
The electric flag which surmounts
the dome of the capitol building in
Denver is to be removed and placed
over the Colfax entrance of the build
ing. An immense electric globe will
be placed at the top of the dome.
The manufacturing interests of Colo
RADIO give employment to $4,000 men
and women, at an average salary Of
ranking among the first in the states
in annual wages to factory hands.
James Weir, a retired farmer, sixty
years of age, was burned to death on
the sth inst at Rocky Ford. By mis-
take he used gasoline instead of kero-
sene to light a fire and an explosion
resulted. He leaves a widow and six
children.
During the year ending December
81, 1907, the fee earning officers of
Pueblo county were able, after taking
out expenses, to turn over to the treas
urer for the general revenue fund,
$12,924.17. In addition, the county
court paid the treasurer $472.92
The will of the late Henry P. Hol-
brook, disposing of nearly S1,000,000
worth of property has been filed in the
County Court at Pueblo. After be-
quests of $1,000 each to the Sacred
Heart ana McClelland orphanages, the
property is left to three sisters, a
niece and brother.
1t is estimated that 1000 sheep are
being fed in northern Colorado for
market, and 100000 in southern Colo
rado. OF the total, ninety per cent,
are lambs, of which the greater part
in the south were purchased in New
Mexico, while the northern stockmen
secured Montana and Wyoming lambs.
Irwin Hescovich, a middle aged Rus
sian, was ground to pieces by the
charging car of blast furnace in the
MinneQua steel works. But few rem
nants of his body were to be found
when the machinery was stopped, and
had it not been for his brass number
check, Identification would have been
impossible.
The cornerstone of the new Odd Eel
lows hall at Coal Creek, now under
construction and to cost $1,000, was
laid on the 18th inst. The services
were impressive. Visiting Odd Eel
lows from all parts of the country were
present The former building was
built in 1883 and was burned last June.
The new building will be completed
in May.
From January 9Th until January 18th
applications will be received of those
who wish to take the examination for
secretary and chief examiner of the
Civil Service Commission of Colorado.
The examinations will be held at the
capitol in Denver January oath, at 10
O'Clock. Candidates must be men at
least twenty-five years of age, of good
address, education and business eXpe
rience.
The Southern Colorado Power Com.
pany, of which j. j. Henry of Denver
is president, and which recently pur-
chased all the electric railways and
light and power plants in Trinidad
and vicinity, has increased its capital
stock to S1,o00000, which it is planned
to float in bonds on the eastern mark.
ct for the purpose Of extending the
electric lines to all mining camps ad.
jacent to Trinidad.
Secretary Taft has notified Senator
Guggenhcim that transfer has been
granted I. Y. Hamilton of Pueblo, from
place in the clerical force in the gov
ernment service in the Philippines to
a position in the postofflce department
in Washington. Hamilton is a son of
w. B. Hamilton Of Pueblo. He was a
member of the Colorado regiment
which went to the Philippines in 1898
and after his discharge entered the
civilian service.
Because of the large number OF pris-
oners escaping from the chain gang
the Trinidad prison authorities EN-.