Gilpin observer., 1909-06-24
COLORADO NEWS

destroyed tne eleCtrlC ISnt plant. lne
city of Trinidad was again lighted by
electricity.
Regular train service to Ward over
the Denver, Boulder & Western has
been established, after a blockade of
over five months by snow.
The June term of the District
Court at La Junta opened on the 18th
inst, with Judge Essex on the bench
and over 100 cases on the docket.
The State Normal School and the
Greeley Commercial Club will arrange
daily excursions from Denver to Gree
ley during the five days of the n. E. A.
convention at Denver.
A contract has been awarded by the
Colorado Fuel & Iron Company for
construction of twenty new concrete
houses at Coal Creek and work will
be started at once. They will cost
$4,000.
Fred Lombard of Colorado Springs
has been named by Governor Shafroth
for the post of water commissioner of
the tenth irrigation district, one of
the most important districts within Ell
'Paso county.
James T. Egan of Denver plans to
reclaim 1900 acres Of desert land in
the extreme eastern part of Weld
county by the building of two small
reservoirs. Each will have a capacity
of 5,50O,OOO cubic feet.
The Hawkeye Club of Denver will
hold an outdoor meeting sometime ear
ly in July at Denver. w. w. Griggs,
1912 California street, Denver, is chair
man and wishes to hear from all Iowa
people now in this state.
The Fremont and Ell Paso county
surveyors are laying out the new
boulevard between Colorado Springs
and Canon City. AS soon as the sur
vey is finished work on the road will
be started by the convicts.
e. ]. Carver, an original Union col
onist an associate of N. c. Meeker.
founder of Greeley, in the Greeley
Tribune, and resident of Greeley
over thirty-five years, died on the 18th
years Mr.. Carver was engaged in
newspaper work in Greeley He was
seventy-four years old.
Professor o. B. Whipple, for many
years in charge Of the State Agricul-
tural experiment station Of the West
.ern slope, has resigned. He has ac-
cepted similar position with the Mon
tana Agricultural College at Bozeman,
Mont. He will be succeeded at Grand
Junction July LIST by George P. We'll
don.
In the presence Of his wife and five
Pine Grove, Jefferson county.
drew revolver and shot him
self through the heart. McCutch-
con had been acting queerly for sew
eral weeks, and it is believed took his
life while in a fit of insanity. He was
about forty years old and had lived in
this county about three years.
v A beautiful oil painting of Gen. U. S.
Grant, made from life while he was
President, and portrait Of ex-Gov.
Routt of Colorado were recently pre-
sented to the State Historical depart
ment in the Capitol building In Den
yer on behalf of the Routt family.
Both OF the pictures are artistically
framed.
dents are arriving to attend the State
Normal summer school at Greeley, and
indications are that the attendance
will reach 600. Fifty teachers will
come from the schools of St. Joseph,
MO, and as many from the Indian Ter
,ritory. A delegation has already ar
rived from Memphis, Tenn, and Louis
lana will send twenty-five students.
Everything is ready for letting the
$5.OO0,000 contract to the Empire Con-
.struction Company for building of res
.ervoirs and bitches for the Greeley
Poudre Irrigation Company. which
owns 100000 worth of the reservoirs
and bitches to be used, and has prop
osition by which 2,000,000,000 more Gu.
bic feet of water can be furnished for
the use of the Greeley-Poudre district.
Passengers on a tourist sleeper
which was standing in the Union de.
pot yard at Pueblo were the victims of
"a robbery few nights since. Some
one went through the car and obtained
$31.40, two gold watches, a grip and
several railroad tickets. A pair of
trousers belonging to ]. ID. Dexter
were found lying beside the track in
the yards with $24 gone.
These Colorado banks have been au.
thorized to begin business: The Platte.
vile National of Platteville, with $25,.
900 capital; j. NJ. Kutchen, president;
w. d. Inger, vice president; w. A.
Suttpin, cashier; the Farmers Ma.
uonal of Sterling. with $50,00O capital;
G. Sherwin, president; J. p. Dillon,
w. PrSpst and w. j. Patterson, vice
presidents; d. A. Bartholomew, cash
Ter.
Frederic Zanetti. Austrian, was held
by Justice Updegaff for trial in the
District Court at Telluride in the sum