Gilpin observer., 1908-12-17
STATE NEWS ITEMS


ated to conduct vaudeville theater
at Greeley.
Antonito has voted for a gravity
water system to be owned and oper-
ated by the town, drawing its water
from large springs.
On January 2Sth Leadville will cele-
brate its thirtieth anniversary by
home coming" of Leadville pioneers.
There will be high old times"-about
two miles high.
congress of Colorado Sunday
school associations will be held at
Pueblo Dec. z7th-29th. This will be the
first time the congress has been held
outside of Denver.
The thirty-eighth annual session of
tion will be held in the East Side high
school at Denver, Dec. 2Sth, 10Th, 30th
and 31st.
Manager A. b. Hulit of the Kansas
Colorado Power and Transmission
Company, expects the road to be COM
pleted from Pueblo to the top of the
Royal Gorge by May 1st next.
On the night of the Sth inst. fire
destroyed the shaft house and build
ings of the Mesa Mining & Milling
Company at Unaweep, entailing loss
of $4,000. There was no insurance.
Another per cent. dividend has
been declared by Richard H. Malone,
receiver of the defunct Fidelity Saw
ings Association of Denver. This divi-
dend means the disbursing of SAL, 1000,
ana makes total of 40 per cent. paid
to depostors.
Stephen N. Bennett, pioneer
nearly eighty-three years old, and
brother-in-law of eX-Lieut. Gov.
Brush, died at Greeley on the 10th
inst. of disease incident to old age. Mr..
Bennett came to Greeley over thirty
years ago.
John E. Godding, late president of
the State Bank of Rocky Ford, con-
victed of receiving deposits after the
bank was insolvent and sentenced to
eight to ten years in the penitentiary
at Canon City, was received into that
institution on the 18th inst.
Railway mail service to Walden,
Colo. from Laramie, Wyo., will soon be
turned over to Laramie, Hahns Peak
d Pacific railway. going by train to
within thirty-five miles of Walden and
then by star route. At present seventy
miles is covered by stage.
The scientific students and members
of the University Scientific Society
of the State University are cooperat-
ing with the office of state dairy COM
missioner for the purpose of purifying
the milk and milk products which
are produced in Boulder county.
There is still talk at Fort Collins of
Secretary of Agriculture James Wilson
becoming president of Colorado Agri-
cultural college. While it has not been
definitely decided who will succeed DR..
B. o. Aylesworth, and probably will not
for several weeks, there are rumors
that Mr.. Wilson will be chosen.
The new town of Kuner, nine miles
east of Greeley, has notified c. S. Nor
ey, president of the Great Western
Sugar Company, that 1t will donate
eighty acres for building and furnish
water II he will establish a sugar fac.
tory there. Kuner town has a large
cultivated area tributary to it.
Conrad Markus, who came to Colo
rado from Russia six years ago to work
lin the beet fields, has just purchased
an S0-acre farm mile west of Greeley,
for $4,000 from A. z. Solomon of Den
yer, who has held the land twenty
years. Solomon purchased 800 acres
for $3.50 an acre and values his re-
naming tract at $3.50 an acre.
The Denver Reservoir Irrigation
Company has Just let contract for the
completion of the Stanley Lake dam,
one of the chief works OF the project,
five mics north of the city limits of
Denver. Kenefick & Quigley, of Kan
sas CITY. have undertaken the work
for $4,000. To date on dams, canals
and tunnels for the system, the irriga-
tion Impany has let contracts calling
for an expen iiture of about 81, 1,620, 900.
At Cripple Creek Tuesday William
Campion, brother of Andy ]. Cam
pion, commission man of Denver, sat
down in chair in the lobby of the Ma.
tional hotel and went to sleep. A few
minutes later a porter discovered that
Campion was dead. The coroners au
topsy disclosed the fact that death was
due to blod clot near the heart
Campion was a butcher, thirty-fouI
years old. He leaves widow.
DIR. Ben Beshoar Of Trinidad, Demo.
cratic nominee for the state Senate at
the last election, has served notice OF
election contest upon Senator Cashmere
Barela, who has just received his GER.
tificate Of election from the secretary
Of state. Notice of contest was also
served upon w. w. Boyles and Isaac
Amador, the Republican representa-.
tives-elect, by J. v. Cordova and Max