Gilpin observer., 1909-05-20
STATE NEWS ITEMS

dedicated June 4th. Many prominent
people will be present from all parts
of the state.
Rev. G. A. Brandelle, D. D., of Den.
yer, was recently elected for the tenth
time president of the Kansas Lutheran
conference, embracing Kansas, Col
orado and Texas.
Mrs. Rebecca Eaton, widow of the
late Ex-Governor Eaton, and Bruce G.
Eaton. and wife have incorporated the
Bruce G. Eaton Land & Live Stock
Company, capitalized at 100000.
The following Colorado citizens have
been appointed timber cruisers in the
general land office service: Wilson S.
Blaser, Durango; Harry H. Schwartz.
Jr., Harry H. Ward, Jesse X. Chelten-
ten. Denver.
Postmaster Paul ]. Sours of Denver
has gone for a two months pleasure
trip to the Pacific coast. He will stay
short time in San Francisco, where
he will join his family and he will
then attend the fair at Seattle.
A four-color booklet, said to be the
first used in railroad advertising west
of the Mississippi, has been issued by
the Colorado Midland Railway Com
pany, descriptive of Colorado and the
territory tributary to the Midland.
The Union Pacific has filed condem-
nation suits in the District Court at
Greeley against ten farmers in Crow
Creek district with whom the COM
pany has not been able to settle. the
farmers holding their land at over S1O0
an acre.
DR.. Victor C. Anderson, president of
the Colorado School of Mines, went to
Butte, Mont, to join the members of
he senior class of the institution, and
sinish the inspection trip with them.
'he class has been making a months
tour of the West, visiting all big mines,
mills. smelters and power enterprises
in Colorado. Utah, Idaho and Montana.
A skeleton supposed to be that Of
Desier Harnois was found in the
mountains six miles west of Poncha a
few days since by George Webster,
prospector. Harnois disappeared
from his home near Poncha about 1S
months ago, but no trace of him could
be found. He was of despondent ma
ture and once attempted suicide by
shooting himself in the head.
Unable to extricate her foot from
between the bars of the cattle guard
which she attempted to cross with
two other children, Eva Warner, aged
eight, met death at a railroad cross
ing at Windsor on the 18th inst. and
her two little companions almost lost
their lives in an heroic attempt to
aid her. The engineer did not see the
children in time to stop the train.
The Greeley Commercial Club will
ask $40 from each of the big ditch
and reservoir companies of Weld coun-
ty to help create fund to push a bill
in the next Legislature to enlarge the
forest reserves at the head of the
streams in Colorado, for the benefit
OF irrigation. The action was taken
following an address by Directors
Davis and Weld of the Longmont Com
mercial Club.
Denver parties have leased the Jack
son Lake reservoir, east of Greeley, for
$500 a year for the fishing privilege.
A seine 5000 feet long is drawn out
by four horses and the catch often be-
ing over three tons of fish. The les
sees get the carp and suckers weigh
ing more than two pounds. Trout.
bass, ETC., must be returned to the res
ervoir. The captured fish are shipped
alive in big tanks to Denver where
they are placed in artificial ponds and
sold.
Greeley and vicinity will be the
background for scenes shown in many
picture shows in New York and Chi
cago next summer. One will be a bank
robbery moving picture, with the ker-
sey country in the background. James
Stewart, Greeley boy, worked five
weeks training eleven people for the
scene. Among them are five real cow
| boys and Kersey maiden who cap
I lures the robbers. The Kersey bank
be used for the scene.
Mrs. Sarah Morley, who settled in
! Greeley in 1872, celebrated her eighty
sixth birthday at Greeley on the 18th
inst She was the daughter of Judge
Benjamin Raymond of Norfolk. N. Y,
| and the youngest of nine children, five
| of whom lived to be over eighty. In
1886 she went to Chicago to make her
home with Hon. B. w. Raymond, her
Oldest brother, who with Governor Ev-
ans of Colorado founded the towns of
Evanston and Elgin, Ill. The brother
was also mayor Of Chicago several
terms.
The Macarthur Brothers Construc-
tion Company Of New York has in.
stalled one Of the biggest concrete
mixing plants In the country at the
site of the big dam which 1t Is build.
ing for the Central Colorado Power
Company. near Nederland in Boulder
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