Gilpin observer., 1909-12-02
STATE NEWS ITEMS

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will reach $12,OOO,OO0.
The Northern Colorado Poultry AS.
sociation will hold its annual exhibi.
tion at Boulder December 18th to
18th. ,.flestg
Franklin E. Brooks, former con-
gressman-at-large from Colorado, mas
returned to Colorado Springs from an
extended trip abroad.
The breaking of plank in the In
dependence mine at Victor caused the
death Of William H. Record, a we'll
} known miner. His skull was fractured
by fall of thirty feet.
In the District Court at Lamar No
vember 26th Henry Starr was sem
fenced by Judge Hunter to seven to
twenty-five years in the penitentiary
for robbing the Amity State Bank JuN
8, 1908.
The directors of the State Fair
Association met at Pueblo, and de-
cided to hold the fair during the week
beginning September 19, 1910, immedi-
ately preceding the sessions of the
National Irrigation Congress.
For the arrest and conviction of the
practical joker who took from his Of
flee in room 312, Kittredge building,
the diploma which was conferred on
him by the Rush Medical College in
Chicago. Dr. F. E. Crandall, Denver
physician, is offering reward of $50.
The Denver, Laramie & Northwest
ern railroad has announced it's inten-
tion to establish passenger train SER
vice from Denver to Greeley January
LIST. One train will be run each way
daily for the first few weeks opera
ton, and after that an additional train
will be put on each day.
1t is stated that the famous Seattle
production of the Monitor and Merri-
mac naval battle, which it cost s65,-
900 to build there, will be brought to
Denver and installed in Elitch's gar
dens, at cost approximating $4,000.
Twenty-Five cars of the material are
said to be now en- route to Denver.
Permission has ben granted to the
Kansas-Colorado Railroad Company to
run its tracks on the levee skirting
the grounds of the State Insane Asy
lum at Pueblo, with the stipulation
that the company is to keep the levee
in repair and build high board fence
along the part of the grounds where
the levee extends.
1t is now stated that the proposed
Cheyenne Mountain Scenic railway at
Colorado Springs will be built next
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electric railway from Stratton Park
to the top of Cheyenne mountain, the
steep incline to be overcome by de-
vice patented by Col. Lew Ginger,
president of the company.
1t has ben decided that the edifice
the State Normal school will be an
industrial arts building, in which will
be housed the manual training and do
mestic science departments. 1t is un-
derstood that the structure will cost
$4,000 or more. The building is to be
of two stories, with an eight-foot base
ment. In the lobby will be shops for
the arts-crafts department which is to
become more important.
At a mass meeting held in Greeley
for organization of an Associated
Charities and Relief" association,
twenty-four persons were appointed to
serve as board in divisions of eight
for one, two and three-year terms re-
spectively. This organization will
handle all charity work Of the city
and the adjoining country under the
auspices of the Greeley Commercial
Club, the Ministerial Alliance and
other civic organizations.
John T. Burns. secretary of the Dry
Farming Congress, which has perma-
nent headquarters in Denver, recently
went to Washington for the purpose
of interviewing Secretary Ballinger, of
the Department of the Interior. Sec
retary Wilson of the Department OF
Agriculture, and Commissioner Fre1 l..
Denett, of the General Land Office,
with a view to establishing a closer
exchange of information between
those departments and the Dry Farm
ing Congress.
]. H. Brinkerhoff, general superin-
tendent of the Grand junction rail-
road, operated Jointly by the Denver
& kio Grande and Colorado Midland
railroads between New Castle and
Grand Junction. has resigned to su-
pervise the building OF an electric
railroad designed to connect several
cities of the Grand Valley. This line
will extend through the fruit belt, nast
and west of Grand Junction, with the
newly-built road in that city as a nu-
cleus.
1t is stated that F. p. Ernest OF
Denver, owner OF the Mansions hotel.
Manitou. who is improving the prop
erty and drilling to pipe soda water
into the house, is so encouraged over
the outlook of his prospective bath
hhuca that ho. will drill twa -walla ff,