Gilpin observer., 1908-01-23
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

by the Senate.
The Kansas Club will hold its annual
banquet at the Brown Palace hotel in
Denver January Goth.
Edgar Collins, chief clerk in the Fort
Collins postof1ce, has been appointed
a postofice inspector.
The Fort Morgan sugar factory I'm.
ished slicing beets on the 18th inst.
after running about one hundred days
and grinding $4,000 tons of beets.
The report Of the building inspector
shows that permits for 225 buildings
were Issued in Colorado Springs last
year. having total cost Of $500.882.
William R. Mason and Joseph Van
derweide, charged with being the slay-
ers OF Secret Service Agent Joseph
walker, will be tried at Durango Feb.
7tn.
DR.. Ella Mead of Greeley has been
appointed register OF deaths and births
OF Weld county by the secretary of the
state Board OF Health. DR.. Mead is
also city physician.
The Colorado Fuel & Iron Com.
pany's mine at Terico has been closed.
and tho LIS men employed there have
been distributed among other camps
In Las Animas county.
Saving their earnings for their work
In the beet fields for the last five
years, q number Of Japanese surprised
Greeley real estate men by asking to
purchase 20 and 40-acre tracts on
which to grow beets.
Ault has practically completed its
$4,000 water system, and water was
turned into its mains on the 18th inst.
The water is obtained from wells and
controlled by air pressure. Later, deep
wells will be added to the system for
the domestic supply.
The United States Senate passed tho
bill providing for increasing the cost
Limit of the federal building at Colo
RADIO Springs from $275,000 to $780,
600, the increase to be employed in
substituting granite for sandstone in
construction.
The postmaster generals report Of
postoffice business for December
shows that the business transacted at
Denver amounted to $100.933 against
$S8,966 for tho same month in the pre-
vious year. showing an increase for
1907 over 1906 OF $11.967.
A petition has been fled In the
county court Of Weld county for the
! AuCOEpOIdIlOu VI luc toWu Vi IL CobohOs
in southwestern Weld county. Daco-
ma, Frederick and Firestone were 10
Gated less than q year ago. and the
nrst two have been incorporated.
Battery A Of the field artillery Of
the Colorado national guard has been
organized at Walsenburg with 25 mem.
bers. The battery which will be un-
der the command OF Capt J. c. Exline,
has gathered guns and weekly prac-
tice will be held on ground north OF
town.
After a thorough inspection of the
slaughter houses and butcher shops
Of Trinidad, State Inspector Miles OF
Denver reported that only one place
was unsanitary and there he ordered
200 pounds Of meat destroyed. All
the other places have observed the
pure food law.
A novel sentence given at Greeley
TO Guthie Earl, a youth of eighteen.
found guilty Of contributing to juven'
lie delinquency by getting young
companion drunk. Judge Nixon gave
him the alternative OF 80 days in jail
or six months attendance in the
judges Sunday school class. The lad
decided in favor Of the Sunday school.
The sixth annual convention OF the
Colorado and Wyoming Lumber Deal
ers' Association closed its session at
Denver on the 18th inst. o. o. Russell
of Greeley was elected president:
James McNeen Of La Junta, vice pres
ident, and H. H. Hemenway of Colo
RADIO Springs, secretary and treasurer.
The association will meet at Denver
again next year.
In the neighborhood OF 5000 acres
OF peas will be grown for the Empson
Packing Company this year, to supply
the factories at Longmont, Loveland
and Greeley. Besides the peas, beans
tomatoes, asparagus, hominy and
pumpkin this company cans, 1t Is going
to put up wheat in about the same way
as hominy This is something new, as
is also the asparagus.
At the annual examination OF cadets
seeking to enter West Point, held In
Fort Logan on the 14th inst, there
were nineteen candidates. The exam
ination was conducted by a board. OF
which Major Fisher is chairman, and
Lieutenant Dabney secretary. The pa
pers are sent to West Point and the
names Of successful candidates are
made known March 1st
The Denver Pharmaceutical Associa
tion has issued a circular to all the
druggists in Denver calling attention
to the law forbidding the sale OF liquor
to minors, which the courts have con.
strued to apply to all cases. even
where children present orders from
their parents. The same rule applies
to the sale Of tobacco, cigarettes, ETC..
except that the age limit in the case
Of these articles, is II years instead Of
21.
Tho programme for the farmers in
stitute at Longmont, to be held Feb.
9Th, 7th and 9Th, embraces addresses
oa, fruit &orasfrx dalrYinR stock grOK.