Gilpin observer., 1908-01-02
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS


known as Eagles nest.
In the County Court of Weld county
Walter Had'cy and Charles Nicholas
were found guilty of running a disor-
derly house at Mead Judge Nixon
gave Hadley six months and Nicholas
ninety days in Jail.
A company capitalized at 5000 is
being organized by John b. Taylor for
in Pueblo. Contracts will be made
with farmers in the Arkansas valley
for vegetables and fruit.
An early morning fire December
9th at Eureka, a small town eight
miles from Silverton, destroyed four
buildings, the EuI eka hotel, the Eu-
reka saloon and two livery stables,
with loss of $4,000. The total insur
ance rs only $4,000.
On Christmas night at midnight the
night shift of 100 men at the Greeley
Sugar factory were served IA fine tur-
key dinner in the factory by their en-
ployers. When the men went to eat
their midnight luncheon they found
the feast spread for them.
Ell Paso, Texas, people have incorpo-
rated the New Mexico Development
Company in New Mexico, to build
railroad from Columbus, New Mexico.
near Ell Paso, to the coal fields of San
Juan county, New Mexico, and La
Plata and MonteZuma counties in Colo
RADIO
Captain Augustus Paddock, father of
l.. c. Paddock, editor of the Boulder
Camera, died at Boulder, December
oath, from pneumonia. He was in his
SD year. Up to 1873 he was one of
| the leading lumbermen of Michigan.
For the last four years he lived in
/ Boulder.
| AS the states portion of the sale of
government lands during the year just
passed, SIT ,046S1 has been turned over
to State Treasurer Alfred Bent. The
state is allowed five per cent of the
total sum realized by the federal au-
thorities from the sale of government
lands IN lieu of taxes.
During the national Democratic con
vention next July a meeting of the
Single Takers of the United States
will also be held in Denver. Among
those who will attend the convention
are Louis Post of Chicago, Bolton Hall
of New York. Mayor Tom Johnson of
Cleveland. and Henry George, Jr., of
New York.
Finding that the Denver & Rio
Grande Railway Company, through the
negligence of it's employees. responsible
for tha famous Adobe wreck. a jury in
Judge Shattuck's division of the Dis
trict Court at Denver, has awarded
Pat Brennan $4,000 damages for the
death of his son. who was killed il
the wreck.
A large force is at work for the Den
yer & Interurban road in and near
Boulder, setting poles for the trolley
wire. The company hopes TO be able
to run cars between Boulder and Den
yer within few months. Most of the
grading is done. The new grade will
be used by the steam cars and the old
grade b.. the electric cars.
There is now stored in the Greeley
starch factory 900 pounds OF potato
starch in 1000 sacks, awaiting ship
ment to market. The starch campaign
has fairly begun and potatoes are COM
ing in freely at 20 cents sack. These
are unmarketable, and it is expected
that by spring six times the amount OF
starch now on hand will be ready for
market.
To form a state association of the
district attorneys and their assistants,
movement is on foot to call meet
ing of all he Colorado district attor-
neys to be neld in Colorado Springs
early in February. The object of the
Organization will be to bring the dis
tiIct attorneys into closer sympathy
and to suggest to the legislature from
| time to time changes in existing OF
proposed laws.
In report just completed by Cash
| ier Broderick the business done by the
Denver postofiice during the past year
ending with November goth shows an
increase of S.S per cent. or SIG
over that of last year. From the sales
of stamps, boxes, etc, the receipts
amounted to 1899, ,1S4.SG against $S63,
077.6 in 1906. Altogether, Uncle Sam
will get $S20,S63.20 from the Denver
postotfice this year.
Judge Ben b. Lindsey of Denver, re-
turned recently from a lecturing tour
in South Dakota and resumed his du
ties on the Juvenile Court bench. He
will start out in two weeks for an eX-
tended trip through the South. partic-
ularly Oklahoma and Texas, where the
legislatures will create juvenile laws
this winter. Instead of remaining
away for six months, however, he will
return to Denver about May list.
The Badger Reservoir Company
has filed maps of its reservoir and
bitches with The county clerk of Nor.
gan county. This reservoir is to be
located twelve miles south of Fort
Morgan on Badger creek. and have
capacity of 430,000,000 cubic feet, GOV.
ering 1000 tcres. 1t will be filled with
flood waters from Badger creek dur.
ing the spring. The reservoir has n
drainage area of six townships, and
will bring under irrigation about 10,-
900 acres.
Mayor. Vivian of Golden, has ordered
lxaaIaar cl1aa. LII.