Gilpin observer., 1909-07-22
COLORADO ITEMS

The Pueblo Savings Bank has ap-
piled for charter to be known as the
Pueblo Savings Bank & Trust Com
pany. Former Governor Adams is
president.
The names of the nine new townsites
on the Union Pacific branch in the
Grow Creek district are to be Camfield,
Gale, Cornish, Gill, Bell, Foston, Briggs
dale, Harris and Clover.
The Greeley record for a single year
is 1000 carloads of potatoes, made
several years ago, but 1t is confidently
believed that this years output will
come up to the best, If not excel it.
William X. Mitchell, who made
murderous assault upon Sheriff
Schraeder at the county Jail in Grand
Junction several weeks ago, has been
adjudged insane and sent to the asy-
lum at Pueblo.
In order to accommodate better the
tourists who are coming to Denver in
greater numbers every day, the Union
Depot Company will establish a new
bureau of information in the general
waiting room.
The American members Of the in.
ternational executive committee of
the B'Nai Birth, the powerful Jewish
organization, will meet in Denver
August 18th, and extensive plans are
being made for their entertainment.
Edward Maurin, a young ranchman
Of twenty-three, residing on Capitol
Creek, near Aspen, took a dose of
strychnine. supposing he was taking
salts. He rode to a nearby ranch and
died before medical aid could be sum-
moned.
Edward B. Carson of Houston, Tex,
who is in Pueblo to establish a branch
OF an oil refining company, bears the
distinction of being the second man
to scale the walls of Peking during
the Boxer uprising, and proudly wears
a badge Of honor presented him by
the late President Mckinley.
Work is in progress at the stone
quarries and crushing plant of Doane-
Westcott company near Golden. The
rock is quarried from the cliffs OF
South Table mountain, about 400 feet
above Golden. The product is basalt
rock which Is pronounced one of the
finest paving materials to be found in
the United States.
Wilbur F. Cannon, state pure food
commissioner, has announced that the
melon growers of the Rocky Ford dis
trict will be protected this year, and
that merchants in the East who adver-
tice Rocky Ford melons for sale before
they are ripe will be prosecuted. The
real Rocky Ford melons are not on the
market until August Sth.
The Colorado Dental Association at
its convention in Colorado Springs
elected the following officers for the
ensuing year: President, Dr. w. A.
Brierley Of Denver, former vice presi-
dent of the association vice presi-
dent. DR.. F. 8. Mckay. Colorado
Springs; treasurer, DR.. William Smed-
ley. Denver; secretary. DR.. c. A. Mon
roe, Boulder.
Rev. w. G. Hawkins, known as the
oldest clergyman In the Episcopal
church. died on the 18th inst at Mercy
hospital in Denver after long illness.
He was 81 years old and was one of
the most prominent figures in the
church, having filled a number of i'm.
portant charges and preached for sixty
years. He was retired ten years ago
and went to live with his daughter,
Mrs. Frank Smith of Paonia, Colo
Horace Havens Of Leadville. former
deputy secretary of state and three
times candidate for the secretaryship
on the Democratic ticket. has been
appointed as the mineral inspector of
the State Land Board. the appoint
ment having been made as q result
of the expiration OF the term Of DR..
A. A. johnson, who was retained by
Register Jefferson As a hold.over
from the administration of John F.
Vivian.
The secretary of the navy has noti-
fled Governor Shafroth that he can Sc
cure for Colorado the ornamental
shields discarded from the cruisers
Colorado and Denver. The shields are
now in the custody of the commander
Of the Puget Sound navy yard, who
has been instructed to deliver them to
Governor Shafroth for the State of
Colorado, which will have to pay the
transportation charges upon them and
agree to preserve them as public prop
erty
The State Land Board has refused
to sell a small lake adjoining Twin
Lakes to the Lake County Sporting
Club for $3.50 an acre. 1t is the inten-
ton of the board to establish a prece-
dent not to dispose of water on state
land. The board decided to sell to
III A c1 80
lond northwest of Fort Morgan at
prices somewhat in excess of those of
fored in his application. The land is
for the most part under Riverside
ditch.