Gilpin observer., 1908-10-15
STATE NEWS ITEMS


$4,000 hotel to be erected in the busi-
ness section of Grand Junction.
The cornerstone for the new club
house for the boys of the First Con-
gregational church at Pueblo was laid
Sunday.
On the University grounds in Den
yer Saturday the University of Den
yer football team defeated the eleven
of the University of Utah by a score
of IL to Is.
The new addition to the Denver
postoffioe has finally been occupied
and opened to business. 1t cost about
$4,000 and is much smaller than was
really needed.
Judge Ben B. Lindsey has announced
his intention of running for judge OF
the Juvenile Court in Denver on an
Independent ticket that will contain
only his name.
William Barth, a Denver capitalist,
has bought the Equitable building In
Denver of the Equitable Life Assur-
ance Society for $l,4OO000 1t is the
finest buesiness building in Denver.
DIR. Hugh L. Taylor, state health
commissioner, thinks it is not impos
sible that bubonic plague may appear
in Colorado. the danger being in the
japanese laborers who work part of
the year in California and then come
to this state.
Work is progressing on the River
side ditch and dam and before another
+Nl t,Nl 1,
finished. This is one of the largest
projects in the state and will bring
under irrigation 100000 acres of Nor
gan Sounty farm land.
During the year 1907 the state OF
Colorado led in the production of tuns'
sten minerals, 1,146 tons of wolframite
ore approaching wolframite in compost
ton, valued at s573, 3,642.74, being taken
from the mines located in Boulder
county.
Paul Livesay, the sixteen-year-old
son of j. S. Livesay, left Greeley with
his father on the 10th inst. for Austin,
Texas, where he will enter the Pasteur
institute to be treated for infection
from rabies. He was bitten by a dog
that afterward showed symptoms of
rabies and was shot
DR.. H. Bowles, veterinary surgeon,
returned to Cripple Creek few days
since from hunting trip to the Black
mountain county, 60 miles west, bring
ing back one of the largest bald eagles
ever killed in Colorado. The eagle
weighs little under forty-seven
pounds, and with wings spread out
measures eight feet and one and one
sixteenth inches from tip to tip.
The Denver Symphony Orchestra
Association has been incorporated
with the following directors: J. A.
Thatcher, E. b. Field, John F. Cam
pion, John w. Springer, w. A. Hover,
Thomas F. Daily. George b. Berger,
o. Il. lie Fevre Franklin Guiterman,
Philip Feldhauser, Godfrey Schirmer,
William G. Evans Lucius NJ. Cuthbert
and C. j. Hughes, Jr.
Two of the candidates for state su,
perintendent of public instruction
have Katherine" for their first name
and the other two are named Cath
crime" Following are the names as
they will appear on the ballot: kath-
crime Craig, Republican; Mrs. Rather
inc Cook, Democrat; Catherine
Schooler, Prohibition, and Catherine
Phillips, Socialist. Katie is sure to be
elected.
1t has been arranged that the State
Pharmacist association shall visit Es-
ties Park June 12, 1909 to open the
Stanley hotel. now in process of CON
struction. At least $50 delegates, with
their families and friends will be pres
ent. A great hydroelectrical plant is
to be built in Estes Park. The power
house will be established near the fish
hatchery, so that the two institutions
may be cared for at the same time at
small expense. The plan is to tap the
stream below Horseshoe park. The
minimum summer fall of the stream
is 4vJ horsepower. The power will
supply every building in Estes Park
with light and will also be used in
heating the hotel and for cooking pur-
poses.
William c. Stover, a member of the
first Legislature in Colorado, and a
resident of the state since 1860, died
on the Sth inst at the home of his son,
DIR. G. II. Stover, in Denver. Mr.. Stov-
er was born in Virginia in the year
1871. He came west. with a wagon
train and settled on the Big Thompson
river in Colorado. Later he became
interested in placer mining and wen,
northwest for time. For several
years he ran an oX.wagon train be.
tween Denver and st. Joseph, Missouri
His next location was at Loveland
which was then known as old st. Louis
In 1869 he moved to Fort Collins and
engaged in the mercantile business