Gilpin observer., 1909-10-07
STATE NEWS ITEMS

MauQe really mas been granted a
divorce.
w. H. Mcintosh, teamster. has
mysteriously disappeared from Grand
Junction.
The Routt county school teachers
are holding an institute at Yampu
this week
Three members of the Miner family
at Grand Junction have died within
ten days.
One full carload of Jonathan apples
sold at Fruita recently at 50 per box
F. o. B.
Milliken, the new town on the Den
yer, Laramie & Northwestern, is hav-
ing boom.
The Glenwood Springs bank rob-
bers seem to have escaped all possi-
bility of detection.
Charles Woolf of Golden was bound
over to the District Court on charge
Of cattle rustling.
J. L. Ridgeway is appointed post
master at Wolcott. Eagle county,
Colo, vice A. M. Tuttle. resigned.
Mrs. Lucy P. Steele. aged 6s, was
struck and instantly killed by a
switch engine $50 yards west of the
Harrison avenue railway at Leadville
on the night of the I'd inst.
William Sample, formerly of the
United States coast guard service in
Maine, and Marcia Mckay, daughter
of wealthy cattleman OF Debeque,
Colo, were married at Greeley Mon.
day by the Rev. r. j. Hunter OF tho
First Presbyterian church. Sample
left the government service three
years ago and became a Weld county
farmer.
Thirty warrants were issued Mon
day at Pueblo for the arrest of men
living near the Missouri Pacific round
house, who. it is charged by Special
Agent F. ]. Cox, have stolen almost
enough tools to start another rail-
road. All manner Of railroad property
is included in the list. and it is
charged that even a handcar was
taken.
The body of E. Espineza. miner
eighteen years OF age, employed by
the Colorado Fuel & Iron Company at
Segundo, was found on the railroad
tracks of the Colorado & Wyoming
at that camp Monday. 1t is pre-
eumed that he was trying to beat his
way to Trinidad on a freight when he
fell under the wheels. He was un-
married and lived with his parents.
Driven to desperation by pain. the re-
suit of months of suffering from
stomach trouble, Fred c.. Bucherdee.
aged 60, pioneer of Boulder county,
committed suicide in his home at
Lyons. He first slashed his wrists
with butcher knife, but fearing that
his wife would detect his act before
he could bleed to death. he took
shotgun and blew off the top of his
head.
John E. Caldwell, commander Of
Colorado Springs Post No. %, G. A. r..
died suddenly Sunday morning in San
Diego, Cal. He reached San Diego
Friday. having gone there after sew
eral weeks illness in the hospital in
the hopes that the lower altitude
would benefit his health. The direct
cause OF his death was heart failure.
Mr.. Caldwell was sixty-five years old
and is survived by his stepdaughter,
Mrs. Belle Coulter, with whom he
lived in Colorado Springs.
Reports received at Pueblo from
experts state that the crops in Pueblo
county and the Arkansas valley will
be at least double the average this
year and it is believed that one OF
the greatest crops in the history Of
the state will be garnered. This ap-
plies both to irrigated and non-irri-
gated lands. Corn is the best ever
and sugar beets the most prolific and
sweet for years. Hay alone is scarce
and poor.
Plans have been submitted to the
state engineer for the Decker Creek
Reservoir Company's irrigation
scheme, which contemplates the build
ing of a twenty-foot dam on Decker
creek in Mineral county. and i'm.
pounding 43,422,000 cubic feet OF wa
ter. The estimated cost Of the neces-
sary construction work is $4,000. as
determined by a survey completed
September 20. Charles E. Hal is the
applicant.
The Greeley correspondent Of the
Denver Republican says: Owing to
the continued high price Of lambs in
wyoming, Idaho. Oregon and New
Mexico, It is claimed, few sheep and
lambs can be fed in Weld county this
season. Cattle Will be fattened at the
Windsor, Eaton and Greeley sugar fac.