Gilpin observer., 1908-11-19
COLORADO ITEMS

ence has just struck a fine producer,
the oil standing 1921 feet in the well
and giving promise of big output.
Reports from the mountains west OF
Boulder indicate that already this year
more snow has fallen on the upper
ranges than during the entire winter
season of last year.
The farmers of the Holbrook valley
in Otero county have decided to buy
the Holbrook ditch, form an irrigation
district, issue bonds and build a large
reservoir in the mountains.
Frank OLaughlin, aged forty-five,
who died at Trinidad few days since,
left papers which showed that he was
the son of Lord Timothy OIaughlin,
a wealthy man in Ireland.
The Great Western Sugar Company
has it's feed yards at the factory full
OF cattle and has begun feeding pulp.
About 5000 head will be fed this year.
Most of these belong to the sugar COM
pany.
superintendent Casey of the Boul-
der schools has issued an order to
teachers not to assign home work for
the children in grades five and six to
exceed thirty minutes, and in grades
seven and eight not to exceed sixty
minutes.
A syndicate of Rochester, New
York, people, have purchased tract
of land at the base of Flagstaff noun
tain, west of Boulder, and it is ex-
pected that from thirty-five to forty
families will couo from RocboStar to
settle there next spring.
Andrew Mcdonald, superintendent of
the Madonna mine at Monarch, was Sc
verely beaten on the the 18th inst. by
John Gilroy and Harry Barnes, en-
ployes at the mine. The assault was
committed with revolvers used as
clubs. Both men were arrested.
Henry Montoya, an Indian, SEN
fenced from Prowers county, Nov. 81,
1905, for a statutory offense, to term
of from five to eight years, will go free
nine months after Nov. 9th of this
year, his sentence having been COM
muted by the board of pardons.
The first carload shipment of Colo
RADIO white marble to leave the state
started from the quarries near Mar
BILE City last week for Cleveland, Ohio,
where it will be used in decorating the
interior of the new court house now
under construction in that city.
Albert Smith, the Cripple Creek po-
liceman who was shot and killed by
George Goode, a saloon man, was
given a notable funeral by the city
officers, police force and the order of
Elks. Goode, the slayer, who shot
himself through the head after the
act, has since died Of the wound.
In the District Court at Pueblo on
the 18th inst, w. s. Ekstrom and his
son Logan, residing three miles west
OF hero. were found guilty of assault
TO murder w. H. st. Clair, ditch rid
er, on the 2Sth of July last. They
were given fifteen days time in which
to file motion for new trial.
Hon. Harry Casaday, of Boulder
county, senator-elect, is preparing
bill to introduce in the next Legisla-
ture providing for state ore sam
pling works, and an assayer who. un-
der state supervision, will determine
principal mining camps of the state.
Substantiating the claim of F. w.
Nitary of the state pure food commits
sion, that the unrestricted sale of CO.
caine and other drugs in the cities of
Colorado is responsible for much of the
misery and crime, is the record of
the State Humane Society, which
mn nf ha
ing neglected because parents are ad-
dicted to the drug.
Plans have been formulated by the
railroad committee of the Greeley Com
mercial Club to raise $25O,000 in the
Greeley district to help finance the
Greeley Interurban railway by buying
stock. The cost of the road will be
100000 a mile, but this includes a
power house at Fort Lupton, a $4,000
ing stock and equipment.
Pixies Peak is settling at the rate
OF about two inches a year, according
to j. G. Heistand. proprietor of the
Iron Springs Pavilion in Manitou. Mr..
Heistand points out that the gradual
but certain settlement of the founda-
tion of his iron springs, necessitating
repairs every year. is proof OF this.
since the springs are on the same
formation as the Peak. 1t will be some
time, however, before Pixies Peak is
n hole in the ground.
After being out five hours the jury
in the case of w. p. Weatherford at
Greeley found him guilty on the sec.
ond count only, assault with deadly
weapon and with intent to do great
bodily injury. Weatherford WIS
tenant on the farm Of James Pyles of
Windsor, and threats and quarrels, 1t
is alleged, led up to an encounter Au.
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