Gilpin observer., 1909-04-01
STATE NEWS ITEMS

pare an exhibit of Pueblo made goods
in centrally located storeroom. to be
kept up several weeks in a campaign to
have the people support home indus
tries.
Colorado Springs delegates to the
annual convention of the American
Federation of Musicians in Mime
apolrs May 10th to 10th, will en- leavor
to secure the projected national home
OF that organization for Colorado
Springs.
The suit for water rights on Pixies
Peak between the city of Victor and
Colorado Springs will be tried at Pu-
eblo June 1st This case has been in
the courts over five years and has at
tracted much attention in the district
securing it's water supply from the
Fixes Peak shed.
At recent meeting la Denver the
Rocky Mountain Baseball league was
organized for the coming season. The
league comprises the following clubs:
Denver Gas G Electric Co. Colorado &
Southern, Continental Oil Co., Colo
rado Telephone Co, First National
Bank, Sechrist Manufacturing Co.
Articles of incorporation have been
filed by the Plateau City Water Works
Company of Grand Junction capital
lied at $4,000. 1t is composed of
prominent Grand Junction property
owners who will Immediately install a
water system which may subsequently
be taken over by the municipality.
The poultry raisers of the Grand
valley met at Grand Junction a few
days since and found a local organiza-
tion with C. A. Smith president, w.
X. Dow vice president, and c. II. Bur
CESS secretary. 1t is planned to con-
struct cold storage plant at Grand
Junction for poultry and eggs to avoid
shipping them across the range next
summer.
The Pueblo state fair directors have
decided to change the dates of the fair
from September 1918 to September
POPS, by request of fruit growers of
the Western slope, who believe they
can make better showing at the later
dates. They ask that one day of the
fair be known as Peach day and one
grower has agreed to donate three car
loads of peaches to be given away to
visitors that day.
1t is stated that Frank Shercliffe,
alias Morris. now in the penitentiary
at Canon City, has employed a lawyer
to appeal his case to the Supreme
Court. Shercliffe was convicted on a
charge of numbering a Leadville sa-
loonkeeper fifteen years ago On his
way to state prison he escaped from
Sheriff Bonner of Leadville, and was a
few weeks ago brought back from
Minnesota, where he was acquitted OF
a charge of train robbing
The stockholders of the Grand Val
| ley Water Users Association have
voted to ratify the contract recently
signed by former Secretary Garfield
for the construction of the High Line
canal. 4 call will be issued at once
for the collection of the sl25,0OO sub
scribed by members of the association
and it is expected that work on the
extensive project which is to bring un-
| der irrigation thousands of acres of
rich fruit land will begin at once
Warden Cleghorn of the penitentiary
| gave n complimentary dinner few
days since to Chaplain Blake and TWEEN
ty-two teachers. who have been con
ductins the prison school successfully
for the last two years. All the teach
ers are convicts, some of them being
college graduates, and all the common
branches are taught. The enrolment
of the school number 1875, among them
hnt
lege. while there are others who can
not read nor write.
Farmers reservoir No. l. the first
of several to be built by Theodore
Jones in southeastern Weld county,
east of Platteville. will provide irriga-
tion for several thousand acres now
cultivated. The capacity of the Farm.
ers' reservoir No. l will be ia, ,435, ,42t
cubic feet of water and the cost will be
$41.577. Ranch Draw reservoir is also
one of the irrigation enterprises to be
built. 1t will be located about twenty
miles northeast of Fort Lupton, will
have capacity of 900,000,000 cubic
feet of water, and cost $62, 1000.
When any person achieves notoriety,
good or bad, his or her name is i'm.
mediately associated with Denver. A
Denver paper prints the following
Sharon. Pa. special: James II. Boyle,
kidnapper of Willie Whitla was mar.
ried about year ago to Hiss Helen
Faulkner of Denver. The pair came
to Sharon n year ago and were roy
ally received at the home of his
widowed mother. Miss Ella Boyle, the
kidnappers only sister, was pleased
with her new sister-in-law and took de.
light in entertaining her when she Wis.
tied here. Boyle's wife made favor
able impression here. She was attrac.