Gilpin observer., 1908-01-09
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

The Western Stock Show will be
held at Denver January goth and 25th.
The annual banquet of the Pueblo
County Bar Association will be held
January 25th.
]. F. Mayfeld, F. B. Easterly and c.
B Wade ara the incorporators OF the
new Bank of Amily, which is CAPT.
talized at $4,000.
The court house Of Arapahoe county
at Littleton will be formally opened
January 18th at which time there will
be a public gathering. speeches, mu-
sic and dancing.
A club for the study Of the inter-
national language, Esperanto, has
been formed at Fort Collins. 1t has
ten members, DR.. Scofleld being presi-
dent and instructor.
According to the annual report of
the sidewalk inspector, 31.1 miles Of
walk were laid in Denver during the
last year at total cost Of $90,670.03.
This is exclusive Of the work done by
contractors for the sidewalk districts.
Mrs. Joseph Moss, an original Union
colonist and resident Of Greeley for
over thirty-seven years, died December
both at the home of her son-in-law,
Mayor Thomas Daley of Eaton, at the
age Of eighty years.
The report of the Pueblo land office
for December. 1907, shows that en-
tries of all kinds of land covered
27.779 acres, including: Homesteads,
109; desert, "a; final homesteads, 35;
state selections. 8; coal lands, 1.
The Bank of Del Norte, which has
heretofore reen a private institution,
has reorganized as a state bank with
a capital of 10000. Asa F. Middaugh
is president, Arthur M. johnson, vice
president, and Charles NJ. France.
cashier.
The double tracking of the main line
Of the Rio Grande between Florence
and Canon City will be completed in
six weeks, when the company hopes to
facilitate the handling of both freight
an dpassenger service on the Pueblo
division.
December Both the Lincoln State
bank of Arriba, Lincoln county, filed
its incorporation papers with the sec.
retary of stste at Denver. 1t has been
organized by Samuel F. Boyden, John
capital of $4,000.
Fully 10000 sacks Of flour were man
ufactured by the two Fort Collins
Touring mills in 1907, requiring the
milling of 225,000 bushels of wheat
Fort Collins flour finds a ready sale
at home and in the Southern states.
Hundreds of carloads are shipped
yearly to Texas, Virginia and Georgia
Steve Adams, the self-confessed as
sassin Of Arthur l.. Collins, former
Il rvaVn0 0-al -
Union Mining Company, at the Of
November Is, 1902, arrived at Tellu-
ride on the 31st ult from Idaho in the
custody Of Sheriff Fitzpatrick and c.
c. Hicks. Adams is held in the county
Jail.
Mrs. Mollie Lissner, aged 100 years,
| died at the home of her son, Aaron
Lissner. in Pueblo December Goth. She
served as a nurse during the Franco
Prussian war and resided in the very
heart of the hostile country in the Ger
man rebellion Of 1S4S. She was born
in Posen, Germany, in 1907, and came
to this country twenty-five years ago.
She resided in Denver many years.
An examination will be held at the
state house in Denver, Friday, Janu-
ary oath, for the Office of secretary and
chief examiner of the Civil Service
Commission of the state of Colorado
The duties of the successful applicant
will be to look after the routine work
of the commission and conduct its eX-
aminations. The salary will be 81 800
a year.
At the regular monthly sale OF the
State Land Board at Denver, January
I'd, 1,340 acres of land were sold to
homesteaders. They were in four
tracts, situated in Logan, Kiowa and
Larimer counties. One tract calls for
$40 an acre and the others ranged from
$3.50 ~ $10.75 an acre. On each tract
2 the state made the usual reservation
Of mineral rights.
The following Colorado patents have
been granted: Detlef j. Joehnck,
Rocky Ford, apparatus for handling
beets; Henry V. Johnson, Denver,
liquid measuring device; Edward E.
Schacner, Denver, fireproof stair struc-
ture; Lewis B. Skinner, Denver, puri-
flying hydrochloric acid; Edward A.
Smith, Loveland beet puller; John
c. Vanslicke, Fort Collins, electric
time switch; George E. Williamson.
Durango, trace buckle.
Fifteen million pounds OF sugar and
over half q million dollars distributed
among the growers and employers, is
the 1907 record Of the Grand Junction
plant Of the Western Sugar G. Land
Company. according to a statement
given out by the general manager.
These figures show that for the 1907
crop the beet growers will receive
$336,000. This with $4,000 paid to
the $50 factory employees and $16s,00o
to the 800 field laborers. makes a to-
tai Of $549,000.
Executors Of the Stratton estate
have been notified that the United
States Circuit Court of Appeals, sit
ting In st. Louis, has decided the suit
OF c. w. Franklin VS.. the Matoa Gold