Gilpin observer., 1908-04-23
COLORADO news

county, will be discontinued May 18th.
The forest service has announced
the following appointments in Colorado
reserves: Charley c. White, forest
guard, Wet Mountain reserve; George
Fleischman, assistant forest ranger,
San Juan reserve; Thomas w. Rob
bins, assistant forest ranger, Holy
Cross reserve.
Mayor Speer of Denver has appoint
ed the following prominent charity
workers to represent the city of Den
yer at the national conference of
charities and correction, which is to
meet at Richmond, Va, May 6 to
13, 1908: Mr.. James H. Pershing. Rev.
DR.. w. S. Friedman, Mrs. S. Izetta
George, and Mr.. E. L. Scholtz.
Andrew McClelland, founder of the
McClelland orphanage at Pueblo, has
just donated twenty lots to that insti-
tuition, which are to be sold, the pro-
ceeds to be used to build an addition
to the building. The plan is to take
up general subscription and it is ex-
pected that enough money will be
raised altogether to double the ca
pacity of the present building.
For months crowds of spectators
have gaZed with sort of fascination
at the numerous workmen employed at
giddy heights on the Denver audito-
rum. The first fatal accident occurred
April goth, when Emil Fischer,
painter, fell fifty feet from an insufi-
ciently supported platform and was
killed by striking on heap of iron be-
low. He left wife and four children.
The cornerstone of the pavilion be-
ing erected at the Jewish Consump-
tive Relief Society's sanatorium at
Edgewater in the suburbs of Denver
by the New York Ladies' Auxiliary at
a cost of $4,000 was laid April goth.
The pavilion will accommodate twenty
patients. Only those unable to pay for
treatment are admitted to the sana-
torium, and those in all stages of tu-
berculosis are taken.
Ora Haley of Routt county, and ]. l.
Rowell of Longmont, appeared in the
United States Court at Denver on the
18th inst. and pleaded guilty to the
charge of illegal fencing. Their trial
had been set for hearing in May, but
they asked to be allowed to plead and
the court consented to accept their
plea. Each was fined 500 and costs.
Haley, 1t is stated, had some 10000
acres under fence in Wyoming and
Colorado, while Rowell had under fence
between 5000 and 1000 acres. The
fact that they pleaded guilty caused the
court to give them small fine.
In the United States District Court
at Denver Harry Hokasona, Japanese
labor contractor, has been awarded
judgment for $9,415.1S against the city
of Trinidad for excavation done by him
in connection with the recent exten-
sion of the Trinidad water mains. Ho-
kasona alleged that he had a contract
with the city naming specified rates
at which all extra work was to be
done. He says he did about 100000
worth of extra work at the orders of
the city engineer, part OF which the
city had paid. He sued for SIC, ,344.10,
but his bill was cut down by the court.
The Colorado Manufacturers asso-
citation and Traffic club have arranged
for special trades excursion to all
the important towns and cities OF
northern Colorado. A three-day trip
will be made in special train from
Denver provided with sleepers, ac-
commodating about sixty people alto
gether. The dates set for the excursion
are May 5th, 9th and 7th. Among the
places to be visited are Brighton. Fort
Lupton, Platteville, Nantes, Peckham,
La Sale, Evans. Greeley, Lucerne,
Eaton, Ault, Windsor, Timnath, Fort
Collins, Loveland, Berthoud, Long.
mont, Niwot. Boulder, Lafayette and
Louisville.
Captain Thomas ]. Sipple, who was
for five years sheriff of Boulder county,
died April 18th at the University hos
pital in Boulder after a surgical opera
ton for a tumor. 1t proved to be of
cancerous growth and so badly were
internal organs decayed that death
followed. Captain Sipple was sixty
three years old April 1st. He gained
his title by his services on steam
boat. He joined Company F, Ninth
Rhode Island volunteers and served
through the War of the Rebellion. Cap
tain Sipple came to Colorado and To-
Gated at jamestown in 1882. Before
4 his election as sheriff he served as un-
dersheriff under o. c. Hansbrough.
Reports made at a recent meeting of
the Colorado Prison Association show
that during the year 1904, eighty appli.
cants for relief were taken care of. In
1905, 106 were cared for and during the
first quarter of 1908 the association
has received applications from lis. The
association secured employment for
eighty of the 115 applicants, there be.
ing many of the others who did not
need to apply for work. Since the first
of the present year the association has
furnished SIT meals, 251 lodgings and
forty-three lots OF clothing and bedding.
Transportation has been procured for
twenty applicants. money has been
loaned to nine, two have been provided
with tools, medical attention has been
rendered three others and two families
have been supplied with coal.
Those Brennan boys, OF whom nearly
everyone in Colorado has heard, gave
a reputation for family pride as well
as for riding anything that has four