Gilpin observer., 1909-09-23
STATE NEWS ITEMS

Denver is having its annual water
fight.
Colorado Springs spread flower
path to President Taft.
Wilkie Edwards. Colorado Springs
club man, recently died at San Fran
cisco.
George Wilcox. boy, was suffo
Gated in a cave.in at Pandora last
Sunday.
No trace of the bandits who held up
the d. & r. G. passenger train near
Leadville last week has been found.
Trinidad, Colo.-Thomas Patterson,
formerly superintendent at Sopris for
the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company,
and one of the best known coal min
ers of this section, is dead at Oakland.
Cal, of Bright's disease, according to
news received here. The body will be
buried here and the funeral will be
in charge of the Masons.
From the effects of a bad beating
received in fight, it is alleged, Al
bert Kero, an aged tailor living at
1887 Walnut street, died in st. Jo-
seph's hospital, Denver, after under
going an operation performed in hope
of saving his life The alleged as
sailant of the dead man is Eldridge M.
Osborn, thirty-five years old, an agent
for the Stiles collection agency.
A preacher who quit the pulpit to
become a newspaper man, and who in
turn quit that business to go back to
the church, has been appointed pastor
of the Methodist church of Goldfield,
Colo. He is Rev. NJ. NJ. Eaton. for
merly considered the most brilliant
preacher and platform orator of West
ern New York. He left the pulpit be-
cause of failing health and returned
when he became cured.
A railroad survey party reported to
be closely allied with the Colorado &
Southern, is making a survey from the
little town of Mesa to Palisade and
Grand Junction. The party have been
in the field nearly week, are at pres
ent working up Rapid creek 1t is
reported that the surveyors have
found new route that presents a
better line than the one usually fol.
lowed
The Colorado Sunday School Asso-
citation is making preparations to take
a religious census of the entire state
on October l. Every county and town
in the state is being thoroughly or
ganized for this purpose. More vol
unteer helpers, however, are needed,
and those willing to assist are re-
quested to write to the secretary of
the association, 20s Empire Building,
Denver, for instructions.
Colorado Springs people are making
efforts to obtain lease on the Brown
Palace hotel in Denver. owned by the
Stratton estate. The hotel has been
conducted for years by N. Maxcy Ia
bor. whose lease expires October 31st
habor is anxious to retain the hotel.
The hotel will be given a complete
overhauling and made entirely mod
ern. This work will begin October
LIST and means the expenditure of
$500
Congressman Martin at Pueblo re-
ceived notice of the granting of pen
sion to Jose Ignacio Trujillo of Sc
gundo, who served in the Third Colo
RADIO cavalry and was wounded in the
famous battle of Sand Creek. Novem-
ber 20, 1864. For years the veteran
has been unable to get a pension be-
cause the enlisting officer spelled his
name as 1t is pronounced. "Troheo."
He will now receive $3.S00 back pay
and SIT per month for life.
A movement is on foot to reopen the
Belle Vista hotel in Golden. which
would give Golden as large and mod
ern a hostelry as any of the smaller
cities in the West. The Belle Vista
was built twenty-five years ago when
the hotel and the lavish style in which
it was conducted were fully quar-
ter of century ahead OF the town
and its surroundings. After a brief
career ii was closed and has since
been used as student rooming
house.
A big strike of copper-lead ore is re-
ported just over the range in Grand
county, from Boulder, on the property
of the Consolidated Copper Mining,
Milling & Smelling Company, whose
offices are in Denver. A four.foot
body of ore has been opened on the
western slope Of the Arapahoe pass,
several hundred feet from the crest,
the vein evidently being continua-
tion of the old Olympic. a vein rum
ming parallel with the Fourth OF July
dyke, which is located on this side or
the range
Captain Flavius Naylor, sixty.four
years old, pioneer of Colorado and
father of Major II. A. Naylor OF the
state Malta, died at Salida. Sent II.
Born in Nebraska. Captain Naylor
served in the Civil War. first as pri-
vate and finally as captain. and at the
close of the war moved his family to
Denver. He came to Victor five years
ago. He was promoter of the G. A.