Gilpin observer., 1908-07-16
STATE NEWS ITEMS

Rural route No. | is ordered esJab-
lished October 1st at Austin, Delta,
county, serving 700 people and 160
families.
Richard Lee, nephew of Gen. Robert
q. Lee, with his family, visited rela-
tives in Denver during the Democratic
convention.
Mrs. Thomas Macon, wife of the
late Judge Macon, died at her home in
Denver on the 10th inst Her health
mad been failing for some time.
Chief Game Warden Charles Puring-
ton has provided $500 trout eggs to
stock the Denver fish hatcheries. The
eggs We're taken from T'rapper's lake
1t took fifty-two persons to do the
1anitor work and keep the big Denver
Auditorium clean during the Demo.
cratic national convention, to whom
was paid the sum of $1,000.
Four live Teddy bears have been on
exhibition in the California street win
dow of the Colorado Midland railroad
office in Denver. The bears were cap
tured by J. f. Wakefield of Paonia.
The Denver Auditorium, with its
decorations intact, after the adjourn,
ment of the democratic National con-
vention, was thrown open to the in
spection of the public Saturday night
and Sunday afternoon.
The soliciting committee of the
Northern Colorado State fair has near
ly completed it's work, and announces a
bigger list than ever before. Premiums
and purses will aggregate about $3.50
to be distributed at the fair, which will
be held at Fort Collins September 1st,
End, 3rd and 4th.
The directors of the Portland Gold
Mining company on the 7th inst. de.
clared the regular quarterly dividend
of four cents per share, amounting TO
100000 On the 100000 shares of cap
ital stock. This will be distributed
July 18th, and make total of S7,9S7,-
600 paid by the company.
The annual bicycle race from Basalt
to Glenwood Springs has been fixed
for August 2Ed. The race is for twenty
three mics along the county road, and
many prizes have been hung up for
the conte Stants, including one of hun
dreddollar gold medal for any one VINO
breaks the record for the distance.
Morrell Law of Denver, and recently
connected with the Colorado Midland
railroad, has been appointed traffic
manager Of the Santa Fe Central and
Albuquerque Eastern railways, with
headquarters at Santa Fe. Samuel B.
Grimshaw, formerly of Denver re-
signed as general manager and assist
ant to the vice president of these two
lines.
Taking the trip up Pixies Peak on
the Cog road, while a spectacular cleo
trical and rain storm ragged with un-
abating fury, Congressman and Mrs.
Nicholas Longworth and party had
very lively experience. Afterward
their automobile got stalled in the
mud on the way to Colorado Springs.
But they declared themselves i'm
mensely pleased with the visit.
James S. Barber, one OF the first
settlers in the Platte valley, died near
Evans on the 10th inst, aged sixty
three. He was born in Meadville,
Pennsylvania, and came to Colorado
in 1873, settling on big ranch, where
he lived continually. He was a mem
Der of the Legislature during Governor
Peabody's term, county commissioner
several years, A knight Tcmplar and
a member of the Woodmen of the
World.
Three Mexicans. who are alleged to
have been passing counterfeit money
in Lamar were placed in Jail in Colo
rado Springs on the 10th inst by
United States Deputy Marshal Thomas
Clarke. rhe men We're detected by
II. B. Richardson of the secret service,
who found that they had been working
in the beet fields near Lamar and get
ting change for $5. $40 and $3.50 false
gold pieces, usually in the evening.
The men are Thomas Ayala, r. Ayala
and Domingo Ochoa.
Martin Hyles. fifty years old, living
on farm near Greeley with his broth
er Robert, became unsettled in his
mind, brooding over what he regarded
as financial wrongs, and disappeared
at midnight July 3rd. He was found
twelve miles southwest of Greeley on
the 18th inst, living in hut of sticks
and grass, and finally captured by
Sheriff Florance and taken to the
jail in Greeley. He kept the neigh
bors at bay with gun before the sher-
iff appeared.
Northern Colorado is likely to get
ern has put a corps of surveyors in the
field to survey line from Fort Col
Inns to Cheyenne. This will COM
plete the line from Texas to Orin
Junction, Wyoming The determine.
tion of the Union Pacific to build into
Fort Collins in competition with the
Denver, Laramie & Northwestern.
made the arrangement with the Colo
RADIO & Southern to take its cars over
the Union Pacific line undesirable for
that road.
Harris Stratton, for forty-three years
n resident of Fort Collins, sergeant-at-
arms of the first Colorado state senate,
and otherwise prominent in public life.
died at Fort Collins on the 18th inst