Gilpin observer., 1909-09-30
COLORADO ITEMS

near Trinidad, by 7. Aragon.
Despondent because he could not
secure renewal of his farm lease,
Gus Pape committed suicide at Broom.
field by shooting himself in the head
with rifle.
The body of ]. ]. Hagerman, who
died at Milan, Italy, will be sent to
the United States on September 25th,
the date he and Mrs. Hagerman ex-
pected to sail for home.
Because Peter Nelson, an embalm-
er. was overheard saying II hope Taft
will fall and break his neck the Den
yer police locked him in Jail until the
president departed.
A baby few weeks old was found
in a box at the Union depot in Den
yer recently. The youngster was well
and apparently happy. No trace OF
the unnatural mother is found.
AS the result OF large orders of coke
for the Pueblo steel works. orders
have been issued for the Segundo
coke ovens to be fired up and worked
full time. There are 500 coke ovens
in Segundo.
Hereafter all butter manufacturers
and dealers in Denver VINO sell their
product under weight will be prose-
cuted and will be liable to a fine, II
a measure drawn by the sealer OF
measures and weights. w. B. Mullen.
Harry Cramer and Howard Tre-
lease, while searching for firewood on
the hillside about a mile below Tel
luride near San Miguel, discovered
the remains of Arthur w. Allen, who
mysteriously disappeared November
IS, 1908. There was little beyond the
bones and fragments of clothes, and
the remains were identified by a Ma
sonic watch charm attached to the
chain.
Rev. Beadle of Denver. an evangel-
cago singer, are conducting an ener-
getic revival at Lafayette. The meet
ings have been going on now for over
two weeks and the nightly attendance
is from 500 to 1000 people. There are
from three to ten conversions daily.
chorus of sixty voices, together with
the Lafayette Welsh choir, assists in
the singing.
John E. Caldwell, commander of
Colorado Springs Post No. 22. 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.
The superintendent of the Grover
division of the Burlington road says
that surveyors will reach Grover this
month and line thence run westward
to Greeley. Grover will be made a
division point. By the building of this
line the Burlington will be enabled to
compete with the Union Pacific for
Weld county freight and there will
also be given to the fast developing
region between Grover and Greeley
railroad facilities for which 1t is LJw
handicapped.
The $125.000 Temple of Comemrce
to be built by the Denver Chamber
of Commerce. adjoining the Ideal
building. on Champa street between
Seventeenth and Eighteenth streets,
will be started October 1st. Entirely
new plans furnished by Marean &
Norton have been accepted and the
work is to be pushed forward as rap
idly as possible. The building Is a
five-story affair, with roof garden
and will be one of the finest struc-
lures of its kind west of the Missis.
sippi river.
AS a memorial to her husband, the
late ex-governor B. II. Eaton, Mrs. Re
becca Eaton of Greeley will present
building. The building will be of con-
crete and complete in every way.
Plans are drawn and work OF building
will soon begin. The town OF Eaton
was founded over twenty-five years
ago. was named after Governor Eaton,
who promoted the first large irriga-
ton system in that region and devel-
oped thousands OF acres of prairie
into farms.
Tobias Mattox. living a mile south.
west of Greeley, will take $1,000 in
fruit from an eight-acre orchard this
season. having one OF the best crops
since he planted 1t seven years ago
There are twenty-eight varieties OF
apples. different varieties of .plums
grapes. pears, peaches, etc. The aver
age harvest of each plum tree brought
a return of $40 and over n ton and a
half ton of grapes will be gathered
Mattox intends to increase his orch.