Gilpin observer., 1908-04-09
COLORADO NEWS


this year.
Civil service examinations for clerks
and carriers In the post Office service
will be held at Grand Junction April
29th.
Louis Weir, a North Longmont sa.
loOnkeeper, was sentenced to six
months in the county jail and fined
$500 for keeping disorderly house.
A cowboy tournament and wild west
show is being arranged for In Denver
at the time of the Democratic national
convention. The managers expect to
rope in the delegates.
Samuel Richards, who has been run
ing hack line from the coal camps
to Florence for twenty years, has dis
continued the service because of i'll
health and the fact that the line does
not pay.
New patents issued to Coloradans
include the following: j. r. De Remer,
Glenwood, water wheel; l.. Chapman,
Berwind, wrench; H. Lutz, Denver,
friction clutch; M. B. Smith, Gunnison,
folding umbrella.
Orders for SIS carloads of coal per
month for the next three months have
been placed by Kansas and Nebraska
dealers with the Colorado Fuel & Iron
Company and will be filed from the
Rockvale mine at Florence.
Sam F. Dutton, manager OF the AL
bany hotel at Denver, Is making ar
rangements to also conduct the new
Boulderado hotel at Boulder, which he
proposes to open about the July lst,
in time for the Democratic convention
in Denver.
There were sixteen mining claims
located in one day recently in eastern
Weld county by Fort Morgan men who
believe that the gold mining district
said to have been discovered in the
Wildcat region in Morgan county ex-
tends over into Weld.
The school house at Watervale,
in Las Animas county. was de-
stroyed by fire on the night of March
Both, causing loss of $500. The school
building was completed and opened
five weeks before. and was the only
school house at that place.
Robert l.. Addington of Gardner.
Colorado. has been appointed forest
guard on the Wet mountain national
forest reserve. and Frank j. BIoll of
Sapinero, Colorado, has been appointed
an assistant forest ranger on the Gun
nison national forest reserve.
The grain elevator at Erie was de-
stroyed by fire April lst, causing a loss
of $4,000 Three freight cars of the
Union Pacific. standing on the siding.
were also consumed. No grain was
stored in the building, the only con-
tents being 10000 grain sacks.
The city of Denver maintains large
collection of wild animals at the City
Park and the park board has engaged
j. Alden Loring at a salary of 81. 500
to take charge of them. Three beav-
ers. lately added to the zoo, are at
tracing a great deal of attention.
The little town of Oak Creek. ON
the Moffat road is showing much aciiv-
ity. One hundred Japs and u camp OF
thirty teams is established there. and
the coal mines about the place are
opening up The men are grading the
Moffat road toward Steamboat Springs.
Miss Manning of Chicago, IA graduate
deaconess. has been employed by the
Methodist church at Greeley to assist
the pastor. Mr.. Davis. in his duties
with his congregation. This is the first
church TO employ pastors assistant,
She will Je paid regular salary by the
church.
About 100 persons were present at
the annual reception given April Sd To
normal conductors and instructions,
county superintenjents and prominent
educators from all parts of the state by
Miss Katherine l.. Craig. state superin-
tendent Df public instruction liz her Of
flee in the state house.
Work is being pushed in the con
struction y: a 1.900-foot tunnel through
the hogoack near the northern limits
of Canon City. This work is in CON
nection with reservoir which will
store the flood and seepage water Of
Sand creek to irrigate 600 acres of val
liable lands near the fair grounds.
Fifty convicts are employed on road
work in the eastern end of Fremont
county. New roads are being graded
and old ones improved. The state gives
the free use Of the convict labor and
all the expense to the county is for
their board and guards while on duty.
They will be worked all summer.
At the annual meeting of the North
ern Colorado Power Company held in
Denver, April 4th. a $3.00O.000 bond is
sue was authorized. and 1t was an
nounced that the proceeds OF the sale
of the bonds will be expended in com
pleting the plans for the development
of the company's work in northern Col
orado.
Col. s. X. Hooper, general passenger
agent of the Denver 4 Rio Grande rail
road, has just issued a new edition of
Camping in the Rockies" 1t is n care
fully compiled and beautifully illustrat-
ed guide to desirable camping places in
Colorado, Utah and New Mexico and
gives estimates of the cost of various
outings.
Ninety-one years of age, Mrs. Abi-
gail Dunham. the oldest woman among
the Union colony of pioneers who
founded Greeley. has again planted her
garden. doing all the work alone. so