Gilpin observer., 1908-05-21
STATE NEWS ITEMS

The American Bankers Association
will meet in Denver during the first
week in October.
Mrs. George S. Mott has been ap-
pointed superintendent of schools in
San Miguel county, vice Charles S.
Watson, deceased.
Roger. Williams has been appointed
postmaster Of Williamsburg, Fremont
county, to succeed F. w. Morgan, de-
ceased.
f. d. Flutz, teacher in the Central
high school at Pueblo, has been ap-
pointed principal of the Canon City
high school.
H. L. Deweese, son of John A. De-
weese of Denver, has been appointed
third lieutenant in the Philippine con-
stabulary.
Nearly 1000 persons attended the
dance given by the Pixies Peak Press
club at Stratton Park pavilion, Colo
RADIO Springs, Monday night.
Steve Adams, charged with the muir
der of Arthur l.. Collins at Telluride,
has been granted change of venue
from San Miguel county to Mesa coun-
ty.
OF the $500 acres of sugar beets
planted for The factory at Fort Morgan
only few acres each will have to be
replanted by about half dozen peo-
pie.
The residents of Box Elder valley
in Weld county have voted to form an
irrigation district to provide water for
10000 acres of land lying above the
Latham ditch.
Paddy Mullaney, former president of
the Free Coinage union, w. F. NJ, was
taken in custody at Florrissant and
taken to Jail at Cripple Creek to be
examined as to his sanity.
The damage by fire that destroyed
the four large ice houses of the Den
yer & Rio Grande railroad at Palmer
Lake on the 18th inst, is estimated at
upwards of $4,000.
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.
The Steamboat Springs Milling Com
pany has started up its mill again after
a five years shutdown. The flour is
made from wheat raised principally in
the valley about Hayden and Craig.
ground have been found ten miles
east of Holly. The mounds are said to
be covered with rocks forming the out
lines of horses, deer, men and women.
The Denver Homeopathic College
and Hospital Association has granted
degrees to the following: G. e. Os-
born, w. c. Lucas, |. M. Bierman, E.
B. Price, S. T. Egeness and A. ID. Allen.
press messenger who was the victim of
holdup on train near Seattle few
days ago, was formerly a resident of
Pueblo and depot agent for an express
company.
Nearly all the foreigners of Euro
pean origin who come to the Greeley
district and other agricultural sections
of northern Colorado are anxious to be-
come American citizens as soon as pos
sible.
Tony Capanetti, convicted at Trini-
dad of attempting to blow up Superin-
tendent a. Alexander of the Frederick
mine at Segundo, has been sentenced
to term of ten to twelve years in the
penitentiary.
The school census of Greeley, just
completed, shows 2,175 children of
school age, gain of 109 over last year.
The compilers estimate that popula-
tion of the city at S,S1S, not including
the 500 Normal School students.
The summer season on the Moffat
road was inaugurated Friday the Is tn
inst. with the first of the seasons
tourist trains. The regular excursion
season opens June IS, when the West
side Denver Tramway employees take
their outing.
Fire on the 18th inst. destroyed the
tipple, shaker house, powder house,
engine room and boilers of the Stan
dard mine, two miles east of Lafay-
cite, with an estimated loss of $4,000,
reported to be fully covered by in
Surance.
City Marshal Williams of Greeley
has been presented with fine glass
case in which to store his boarded
knives, revolvers, burglar tools, etc,
taken from prisoners. He has many
relics which were found on well-known
criminals.
The Moffat road is now operating it's
road as far as Mccoy, on the border of
Routt county, and 157 miles from Den
yer. The completion Of the line to that
point has caused change in the mail
route to Steamboat Springs ana the
service has been considerably short
ened.
Emmet Poe Coughlin, of Denver, has
passed an examination for cadetship
in the revenue cutter service, standing
second on an application list Of 130.
Only twenty-one of this number
passed. He will go from Washington
to Baltimore and join the revenue cut
ter cadets on their cruise to Europe
on the schoolship Itaska. The course
at Baltimore lasts three years.
The band and First battalion, Twen-
ty-first infantry. in command of Ma
jor Almon l.. Parmenter, returned