Gilpin observer., 1908-06-11
STATE NEWS ITEMS

lhSl sdluS anu GAIL away poultly.
A baby lion has been born at the
Colorado Springs zoo. The cub, which
is a splendid specimen of the African
lion, is named "Zoolita," in honor of
it's birthplace.
What is said to be the largest fish
ever taken out of the Twin Lakes,
weighing twenty pounds and four
ounces, was caught by Edward Lay
cock of Denver few days since.
While placing a revolver in its hol
ster on the 3rd inst, Roy Campbell,
aged twenty-one, son of a well-to-do
ranchman near Collbran, was accident
ally Shot through the heart and killed.
Reports show that for the year
1907-0S exactly 1900 cars of potatoes
were shipped from Eaton on the Union
Pacific and 632 cars on the Great
Western, making total of 1882 cars.
Aided by their wives and daughters,
the officers and directors of the First
National Bank at Fort Collins, enter
tanned over 5000 visitors at the formal
opening of their new building Satur-
day.
Greeley men are proposing to raise
capital and finance an electric railroad
to Pleasant valley then to Pierce,
to Johnstown, with Greeley as cen
ter.
Bishop William Fraser Mcdowell,
formerly chancellor of Denver Univer-
sity, has been appointed to preside at
the conference of the Methodist church
of this state, to be held in Longmont
next August.
Ethan A. Farnham, sheriff of Routt
died of 10 bnn1n N friends in
Grand Junction on the 5th inst, of can
Ger of the stomach. He was serving
his third term as sheriff and expected
to be again reelected.
By the spreading of tine rails on the
Denver & Rio Grande track near As
pen Friday, two passenger and three
freight cars were ditched. Sixteen per-
sons were more or less injured, some
seriously, though not fatally.
The comptroller of the currency has
approved an application to organize
the First National Bank of Calhan,
capital, $4,000; r. C. Larue. H. A. La
rue, L.. E. Smith, A. j. Henbest, E. H.
Woodring and d. l.. Shultz, incorpora-
tors.
While working as a common miner
in the Portland mine at Victor, to gain
experience, Charles Fred Moore.
young mining engineer of Denver, lost
his balance Sunday morning and was
instantly killed after a forty-foot fall
to the bottom of a shaft.
d. w. Spencer, who died at New Cas-
tie, Indiana, on the 9Th inst. came to
Pueblo with the Santa Fe railway and
was one of the pioneer railroad men
of the west For years he was super
intendent of bridges and buildings on
the Santa Fe, with headquarters at
Pueblo.
The Denver Real Estate Exchange
wants to have Denver made city of
marble" and has appointed commit
tee to examine and report on the mar
BILE deposits at Marble in Gunnison
county, where enough fine marble is
said to exist to last for thousand
years
The proposed sugar factory at Man
Zanola in Otero county is an assured
fact. Bonds to the amount of 100000
have been placed in Chicago, and this
with the 100000 already subscribed
by the farmers of the Arkansas val
ley, guarantees the construction of
G00-ton plant. Four contracting firms
are figuring on the job and work will
probably begin September 1st.
The hotel keepers of Colorado
Springs will entertain the members of
the Rocky Mountain Hotel and
Restaurant Keepers Association on
the occasion of the annual out
ing of that body, June 18th and
14th. A frying pan picnic" will
be held in South Cheyenne Canon
June 18th, and in the evening a dance
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What will go into history as the
highest flight of oratory on the
part of a leading political figure in the
country was delivered when John /.
Martin, sergeantat-arms for the ma.
tional Democratic convention, re-
sponded to the appeal of large party
on the top of Pixies Peak and talked
to them for twenty minutes at an alti-
tude Of nearly three miles above the
sea.
Mrs. Ruth Bryan Leavitt. daughter
of the great commoner, is coming TO
Denver, guest of Mrs. Louis Spratlen
Special significance attaches to her ar.
rival. as she will be the only repre-
sentative of Bryan's family to be IN
Denver during the convention. Al
present she Is on her fathers farm at
Lincoln, Nebraska. Numerous parties
will be given in her honor while she is
in the city.
On the 3rd inst. one of the largest
sales in the history of the State Land
Board resulted in the disposal of land
which will eventually represent rev.
enue of a little over S92,175 for the
state. Altogether S,G9S acres were
sold at prices ranging from $3.50 per
acre to $50. The largest tract con.
tanned sos acres and sold for SIG. 100.
Another Of GAO acres brought $4,000,
and one of 240 acres was sold at $50
per acre. The land is situated in Cone.
jos, Otero, Kit Carson, kiowa, Phil.
ling Rnuii a IiInnr and Mnld