Gilpin observer., 1908-04-16
COLORADO NEWS


the same month last year.
The secretary of the interior has ap-
proved a Colorado school indemnity
school land selection list for 1850
acres of land in the Sterling district.
The county commissioners of Pueblo
county have offered reward of $50 for
the capture of Castano Senatore, the
Italian who, 10 is charged, shot and
killed his wife on the 18th inst. and
escaped.
The following Colorado postmasters
have been appointed: Redstone, Pit
Joseph j. Smith. resigned; Cameron.
Teller county, Helen Rhodes, vice b.
Chadomy, resigned.
J. M. Van Deren, former resident
of Boulder and also Of Denver, died
at Paonia on the 18th inst, in his
seventy-f1fth year. Mr. Van Deren
came to Colorado in 1859 and made
three trips. across the plains by OK
team.
One of the most important features
OF the religious and ethical confer
ence which is to be held at Colorado
College May 11th-14th, is the Organ
ized Charity's Day." for which spe-
cial program has been carefully pre-
pared.
Five hundred thousand seedlings
from the government nurseries at
Bear creek and Monument will be
planted within the next year or two
in the adjoining region, and shipment
of 10000 trees will be planted near the
Monument nursery at once.
According to Albert Ross, architect
for the Denver public library, Turkey
Creek sandstone quarried thirty miles
west of Pueblo, is the best he has ever
found, being superior to the product
that is imported to New York at high
expense.
The assessed valuation of Fremont
county property is $6.651 ,734. The
schedule shows that eighteen resi-
dents have property valued at $365,635
and that seventy-five people pay taxes
on 1884 ,050, while 1925 others are
assessed on only $2,S17,6S4
The annual conference of the mis-
sionaries Of the southwest district of
the American Sunday School union,
will be held in Colorado Springs next
October, with a number of the national
officers, as well as representatives of
the northwest district and New York
in attendance. The conference will be
in session for one week.
The members of the Senior Glass
of the Colorado Agricultural College.
who will graduate in Horticulture in
June, will help to prune the utility for
est plantation of Mr.. F. J. Chamber
lain of Denver The work will be ac
complished under the direction of Prof.
B. o. Longyear of the Department of
Botany and Horticulture.
State Pure Food Commissioner Will
bur F. Cannon is serving notice on can
ming and preserving establishments in
the state that beginning with the pack
ing season all windows and doors in
the plants must be carefully screened
against flies. Inspectors will make reg
ular visits during the season and any
plant violating the rule will be imme-
diately closed.
A golden eagle, supposed to be the
Oldest ever captured in Weld county,
was recently shot by George Bates in
the Crow creek district. From the tail
feathers of the bird and other charac'
teristics, Curator Adams of the State
Normal school believes the bird at
least seventy-five years old. 1t meas
ured over six feet from tip to tip, and
will be mounted.
Oue Vi Tie BeSl SulplilcHAS VI iiNC
stock ever made from Colorado left
Pueblo on the 11th inst. for Kansas
City. There were fifty-one cars of cat
tie and sheep from the feeding ranches
near Fowler, Manzanola, Rocky Ford
and Swink There were twenty-six
cars Of steers and twenty-five cars of
spring lambs. The shipment was val
ued at $S1, 900.
The first steel ties to be used in lay
ing any extensive section of street
railway in Denver are now being put
down along Arapahoe street. from
Thirteenth to Twenty-third, by the
Tramway Company in completing the
Denver & Interurban electric line
from Denver to Boulder for the Colo
rado & Southern railway. The ties
are shaped like rails. but are not so
heavy. They will last much longer
than wood.
Mrs. Mary f. Price, one of the old
est pioneers of Jefferson county, died
at the home of her son-in-law. Will
liam c. Carroll, at Ralston Crossing
on the 18th inst, aged eighty-five
years. Mrs. Price was born in Ohio
and came to Colorado in 1859. She
leaves three children. Mrs. Alfred
Hurst, Mrs. Carroll and Mrs. e. j.
Doyler. Prior to her death there we're
five generations Of her family living
on Ralston creek.
w. ID. kaessner, who has been en-
ployed for the last year by the Colo
RADIO Springs Electric Company at its
power plant. left Colorado Springs on
the IL tn inst for San Francisco, where
he will join the American fleet on its
trip around the world. He will be as
signed to Admiral Evans flagship, the
Connecticut, as assistant to the chief
engineer. He has already served four
years in the navy and has been in
every European harbor.
The Gunnison tunnel was advanced
about a29 feet during the month Of