Gilpin observer., 1909-05-13
COLORADO ITEMS

Street cars have arrived for the new
Grand Junction electric line and May
18th has been set for the formal open
ing. Free rides will be given the first
three days.
Another municipal playground has
been opened in Denver, at Lincoln
Park in West Denver, and 5000 chill
dren took advantage of it on the open
ing day.
May 18th and 10th will be designated
by Mayor Eugard of Pueblo as clean
up days. The action of the mayor
was taken on recommendation Of the
Pueblo Real Estate exchange.
The county commissioners of Boul-
der county have voted not to issue a
license to conduct bar in the hotel
at Eldorado Springs. No licenses will
be granted anywhere in the county.
While carrying quantity of dyna-
mite through a drift of the Yak tunnel
at Leadville, Andrew Person, aged for
ty-two. fell, and with sufficient force
to explode the powder, which killed
him instantly.
The Rev. Father Francis A. O'Neil,
church, and one of the most popular
Catholic priests in Denver, died at his
home in Denver on the 9th inst, from
valvular disease of the heart.
The Denver chamber of commerce
has decided to offer two cups worth
S100 each for the best fat cattle, fed in
the state, and the best Colorado swine
bred and fed in the state, the cups to
be presented at the next show of the
Colorado Live Stock association.
The Denver & Rio Grande has put
into service four new observation cars,
built in the Pullman observation shops
at cost of 100000 each. The cars
are of superior type of construction
and will be operated on the through
trains between Denver and Ogden.
Over 5000 acres belonging to the
Lupton Land company has been cut
up into five, ten and fifteen-acre
tracts, each provided with water. by
Ex-Governor Bailey of Kansas and H.
]. Bone. attorney general of Kansas,
who will bring in colonists this spring.
The twentieth annual convention CT
the Colorado Christian Endeavor I'm
ion will be held in the Central Pres
byterian church at Denver July l to
4, 1909. William Shaw of Boston. gen
eral secretary of the United Society
of Christian Endeavor, and other tied
speakers, will be present.
H T. West. ]. Max Clark, Robert
Steele, Ovid Plumb and B. d. Sanborn
toly 70 hn
porate life of Union colony at Greeley
for twenty years, made possible by a
law passed by the last Legislature. 1t
is kept up to correct errors in deeds
and for the purpose of keeping sa-
looms out of Greeley.
The congregation of the First NJ. E.
church at Colorado Springs will ten
der an elaborate reception June in
honor of DR.. James B. Gregg, who re-
Gently resigned after twenty-seven
years continuous service, to live with
his children in Boston. Mayor Spur
geon, President Slocum of Colorado
Springs and President Dodge of the
Y. NJ. C. A. will speak.
Plans are completed at Greeley fol-
the new training school to be erected
on the State Normal school cam
pus east of the library. This building
will cost 100000 and will be com
I pleted by the fall of 1910. The State
normal has the largest enrolment now
in it's history, having about 1,5O0 pu
pills. DR.. r. E. Winship, editor of the
New England Journal of Education o.
Boston, will deliver the graduation ad
dress.
Denver. Governor Shafroth ha:
! raised the estimate for the genera
revenues of the state $4,000 because
of the splendid showing made by in
comes from the inheritance tax law
The original estimates placed the in
come from the inheritance tax law a
! 100000. Governor Shafroth added
100000 to this. The result will b'
that many legislative appropriation
may be saved by this fact which woul'
otherwise have been vetoed by thu
governor.
Edwin A. Brown, wealthy Denve
man, who Is interested in the estab
lishment of municipal lodging houses
visited Pueblo, represented himself al
a poor man out of work and was cour
teously received at the "bull-pen" an,
given a nights lodging in what he al
terward described to Mayor Fugard a
! the most damnable place he had eve
, seen outside of Mexican prisons. II
believes that the Mayor will be sue
cessful in securing a municipal lodgin
house.
"The proposed great automobil
|, highway between Denver and Cano
City can be built by convict labor l
, the next two years If the cities. cour
, ties and good roads associations intel
ested in the project will supply foot