Gilpin observer., 1909-03-11
STATE news ITEMS

year tour of the world.
The Colorado Springs Democratic
city central committee has set March
18th as the date of the city convention
The primaries will be held on Satur
day, March 18th.
The City Council of Canon City has
elected George r. Tanner as mayor to
fill the unexpired term of Mayor A H.
Seeley, resigned, the latter having re-
moved to Denver.
The Fort Collins Pioneer Association
will purchase the first permanent
building erected in Fort Collins. 1t is
an old log cabin which at one time
served as hotel.
The women members of the chorus
of 1000, which will sing at the Gypsy
Smith reviva! meetings at the Audi
torium in Denver will wear white shirt
waists and the men white waistcoats.
Attorney T. j. Leftwich, who shot
William Austin last summer on a Col
orado & Southern train, will be put on
trial again March 22nd at Fort Collins.
His last trial resulted in hung jury.
A herd of thirty-five tame antelope
is a curiosity on the John Painter
ranch at Roggen in Weld county. The
early SHOWS last fall drove the animals
into the ranch for food and they have
been cared for all winter with the cat
tie on the ranch.
The railroads have promised special
reduced rates for the department en-
campment of the Grand Army of the
Republic at Trinidad in May. Trini-
dad people propose to give the veter-
ans and their auxiliary societies 4
hearty welcome and the best of enter
tainment.
On the 4th inst. the town of Gilcrist,
Weld county, was notified by an Off
Ger of the Union Pacific that the name
of Nantes was off the railroad map
and that Gilcrest had taken it's place.
The new depot at Gilcrest is about COM
pleted and is model structure.
Among the projects planned for Gil
crest the coming year is a canning
factory.
A load dumping apparatus that is in
big demand among sugar factories is
the cause of suit for $50 900 damages
fornia against Merritt |. Tuttle, one Of
the wealthiest sugar beet growers in
FIT. Morgan. Carroll claims to be the in
ventor of the apparatus and alleges
that Tuttle has been using it in his
factory without permission.
The Reverend and Mrs r. ].
Van Valkenburg celebrated their six.
ty-sixth wedding anniversary at their
home in Greeley on the 1st inst.
The Reverend Mr.. Van Valken.
burg enjoys the distinction of being
the oldest Odd Fellow in Colorado,
and for thirty-one years has officiated
as chaplain at every session of the
grand lodge. The couple were mar
ried in New York in 1S43.
Articles of incorporation have been
filed at Glenwood Springs for the Mu-
tual Light, Heat G. Power Company
capital $4,000, with H. ]. Holmes, Geo.
Palmer, C. e. Hubbard and John l..
Noonan directors. The company pro-
poses to furnish light and heat for cit
izens of Glenwood, and power. If
needed and has filed on 200 feet of
water from the Roaring Fork river.
Plans and specifications for the new
postoffice building at Boulder have
arrived from Washington. The build.
ing is to be of gray brick and cut
stone, the ground floor being S5x5O
feet, one story high, "a feet to the
cornice. The main working office will
be 4SX32 feet, surrounded on three
sides by special offices, lobbies and
corridors. The plans call for the
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81, 1910.
Fearing that their bill will be tabled
during the rush of the closing days OF
the legislature, the Fremont County
Roads Association, which is asking an
appropriation of 100000 from the state
for macadamized driveway between
Fremont county points and Colorado
Springs has decided to send ono of ils
members to Denver to lobby in the in.
terests of the bill The object Of this
driveway is to draw tourists from Colo.
RADIO Springs.
Local option is expected to cut quite
figure in the coming Pueblo city cleo
tion. Petitions have been filed with
the clerk by the antisaloon people ask.
ing for local option elections in the
First, Second Fifth. Seventh and
Eighth wards. Petitions are now being
circulated in the Fourth and petitions
have also been filed asking for elec.
tions in two precincts in both the
Fifth and Eighth wards.
w. II. Kincaid, general superinten-
dent of the state fish hatcheries under
Governor Buchtel, has applied to the
United States government for lease
of the Grand Mesa lake on Grand Mesa.
Mr.. Kincaid announces that If he can
secure lease on the property for at
least ten years he will stock the lake
with a number Of varieties of trout
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