Gilpin observer., 1908-04-30
STATE NEWS ITEMS

Monahan as postmaster.
Lewis E. Webber and Ben MCGEE,
TRUSTEES, who escaped from the peniten-
tiary April 23rd, were captured next
day at Skaguay and taken back to
Canon City.
Henry Van Kleeck has been ap-
pointed as delegate to represent the
Denver Chamber of Commerce at the
National Conference of Peace Arbitra-
ton which will meet, as it annually
does, at Mohonk Lake, New York,
May 21st.
r. P. Davie and J. R. McKinnie Of
Colorado Springs will increase by twen-
ty per cent. the capacity of their sugar
plant at Grand Junction. The plant,
which cost upward of $1,000,O00, now
has a daily capacity of 800 tons, so
that when the extension is built the
factory will handle 1000 tons day.
Effective May 1st l.. D. Knowles,
general agent in Milwaukee for several
years of the Missouri Pacific system,
has been appointed general western
agent of the same system, with head
quarters at Denver. NJ Knowles has
been in the railroad business twenty
five years.
Gunnison granite has been selected
for use in the drilling contests in the
international mining exposition to be
held in Madison Square Garden, New
York, in May and June. This beautiful
stone is the product of the Aberdeen
quarry, seven miles south of Gunnison,
and is the same as used in the State
Capitol.
The Royal Gorge will have a tele-
phone line with wires on brackets on
the solid rocks of the canon Men will
be let down by means of ropes from
the brim of the chasm to anchor the
wires. The line is to be constructed
by the Colorado Telephone Company,
and will be used in connection with
the new Canon City waterworks.
The N W. Brock ranch, one of :he
largest of the old-time cattle ranches in
Routt county, has been sold 70 the
Yampa Livestock and Land Company.
This ranch comprises about 500 acres
of the finest bottom land along Bear
river and is one of the best acquisi-
tions yet made to the big Cary Bros. ,
ranch. The price paid is said 10 have
been 100000.
Mayor Green of Greeley issued a
proclamation April 23rd, ordering that
all dogs in the city must be either
muzzled or temporarily confined by
their owners, because many dogs
have recently been bitten by or ex-
posed to biting by dog suffering with
hydrophobia. Every dog not muzzled
or confined was ordered to be killed
by the marshal.
In the District Court at Canon City
the United States Reduction and Re-
filming Company was granted a judS-
ment against the Denver & Rio Grande
Railway Company for 100000 for the
burning of the Union mill at Florence
two years ago. The reduction COM
pany brought suit for $25O,000, claim
ing that the fire started from spark
from a passing Rio Grande engine.
The most elaborate dinner ever Civ
en- at the Cheyenne Mountain Country
club at Colorado Springs was that ten
dered Monday night by Charles NJ.
MacNeil to Charles Hayden and Will
liam B. Thompson of Boston. Fifty OF
the best known men of this state and
Utah were present. 1t is estimated
that more than $100,000,00O was repre-
sented at the table.
A committee from the State Bar AS
sociation, headed by Halsted l.. Ritter,
held memorial services in the Federal
Court at Denver, April 23rd, passing
appropriate resolutions on the death
of various members during the past
year The members who passed away
were Charles w. Tankersley, Herman
H. Dunham, Albert G. Grier. John H..
Murphy, Charles |. Thomson and
Charles NJ. Brown.
At Glenwood Springs on the night Of
April 22nd, John l.. Taylor, convicted
of second degree murder for killing
his wife, and sentenced to not less than
twenty years in the penitentiary,
cheated the court by hanging himself
in his cell at the city Jail. He used a
rope ma'le of strips Of mis- bedding. He
was found shortly after midnight and
had evidently been dead for several
hours. The crime of which he was con-
victed was killing his wife at Coal
Basin last July. His attorneys tried
to prove that his wife committed sui
eide.
A. B. Hulit of the Northern Electri-
cal Company. who is behind the
movement to put in a $4,000, 900 cleo
trical development scheme in the Ar
kansas valley from Canon City to
Dodge City, Kansas. addressed a mass
meeting at Pueblo, April 23rd. He
explained the project at length and 1t
was enthusiastically endorsed by those
present. Another meeting will be held
May 14th at La Junta and business
representatives from every city in the
valley interested will be present. At
this time 1t is thought that decisive
steps will be taken toward the fulfill
ment of the scheme.
The Denver and Interurban road ex-
poets to reach Boulder with its first
cars about May 18th. 1t will enter
Denver via the Twenty.third street via
duct. 1t is estimated 1t will take an
hour and twenty minutes to run from
Twelfth and Pearl streets, Boulder, to
the Tramway loop In Denver Hourly
service will be provided between the
tun pla,oc whan tho pIapt,i, pur nor.