Gilpin observer., 1908-05-28
COLORADO NEWS

Fort Morgan will spend over 1000
on fourth of July celebration.
The Fraternal Bankers of America
of Illinois has applied for admission
into Colorado.
Hermann Pfeiffer, a former Denver
fireman, has inherited one-sixth Of a
$1,o00,000 estate in Germany.
The Elks' club at Canon City has
signed an agreement to quit the sale of
liquor to its members or others pend
ing decision by the state Supreme
Court.
Company of Ault is preparing
to send a rifle team to the state en-
campment at Golden next July. The
team will consist of eight men under
Lieutenant Swone.
The Rev. ]. Thomas Grove, for ten
years rector of st. Luke's Episcopal
church at Fort Collins has resigned to
take effect July 1st. He will accept a
West Virginia pastorate.
An order for alfalfa meal has been
received from Germany. The firm in
Germany desires to see of what it Is
made and to test its value and efficacy
for feeding purposes.
The financial committee of the Flor
ence City Council has just made a re-
port which shows that the municipal
debt has been reduced forty-five per
cent. in the last five years.
Joe Cozzi, a fifteen-year-old Italian
boy of Aguilar, has been sentenced to
a term in the state reformatory at.
Buena Vista. He was the leader of an
organized gang of boy thieves.
Slot machines seized in raids re-
Gently made on orders of the district
attorney at Cripple Creek were burned
by order of Judge Owen on the 10th
inst. The machines were valued at
$500.
The Fruit Belt Power Company, an
auxiliary of the Central Colorado Pow
er Company, has announced that work
will be started on the Grand juno
ton street car system about October
1St
The school board of district No. /,
Pueblo, will employ physical director
to conduct athletics. 1t has arranged
for an athletic field in one of the
parks and for the use of the Mineral
Palace.
Preston Smith, known as the cham
pion broncho buster of Middle Park,
was almost instantly killed May 23rd,
while breaking a broncho on Trouble
some ranch, a few miles from Sulphur
Springs.
Walter F. DAILY, chief of the Colora-
do department of the naturalization bu-
reau, has left Denver to make a tour
of the courts in Nebraska, Utah and
Colorado to attend hearings in the nat
uralization cases.
The tri-county fair board held a meet
ing at Aspen and elected w. S. Cope
land president and Charles Daley sec
retary. 1t was decided to have straw
berry shortcake day, probably to be
held June Goth.
The department of biology and ZOO
logy of the State University has bor-
rowed an exceedingly valuable collec-
ton of bees from the Royal Amber
museum of Prussia for research and
advanced study purposes.
Frank Ives, who pleaded guilty to
the charge of dynamiting the home of
Superintendent A. Alexander of the
Frederick mine at Segundo. last jan
uary 30th, was sentenced in the Dis
trict Court at Trinidad to a term of five
to fourteen years in the penitentiary.
Anton Caponetti was previously SEN
fenced for the same crime.
Boulder Strawberries are beginning
to ripen. There will be about half a
crop. Apple raisers say there will be
practically no apples, as while the
flowers seemed bright after the frost,
the fruit producing substance was
frozen and now the fruit stems are
falling from the trees. There will be
some grapes.
The United Oil Company at Florence
has just started another oil well to
pumping. II is 1000 feet deep and
there is 1000 feet of oil in the hole.
The well is expected to maintain a
production CT seventy-five barrels a
day. This company has had remark
able success with its drilling ventures
in the last few months, more wells
having been brought in than in a year
previously.
The following new patents have been
issued to Colorado inventors: A. E.
Bonesteel, Denver, kitchen cabinet;
s. w. Brown, Colorado Springs, chute;
NJ. c. Clemens, Denver, attachment for
rocking chairs; j. b. Despriest, Man
assa, railway tie; l.. X. Kramer, Monte
Vista, blasting tool; w. Z. Phillips,
Colbran, attachment for cameras; s.
w. Wibel, N. ]. McAloney and w. r.
Cunningham, Denver, electric lock.