The Delta independent., 1910-09-09
items Of COLORADO
Euents of Importance
Throughout the State

ed to fill the vacancy temporarily.
Spencer has been with the company
fifteen years and was candidate
for state senator two years ago.
For the first time in the history
of railroad construction work in the
state, the Union Pacific is using tel
lirium steel in building trestle over
Fossil creek near Greeley. The bridge
Is aT5 feet long and the grade line
Is s. feet above the bottom of the
creek bed.
haustive study of sugar beet grow
ing and marketing, the result of
which he will embody in a report
to the department of agriculture at
Washington, Prof. H. Morehouse of
Denver is in Greeley.
Lacking only Al days of reaching
the century mark. Charles Clay. a
neer of the Poudre valley. died the
last of the week. Clay claimed to
be SO on his last birthday, October
10, 1909. He was father of a large
family and retained his faculties to
the last.
Returns for the month of August
show $4,000 tons of all classes of ore
to have been shipped from the Lead
vile district. This is big increase
over the preceding month and is
due to the heavy shipping of the
mines of the outlying districts.
Mistaking strychnine for headache
powders, William j. Gilbert. aged
As years, a freight conductor of the
d. & r. c., swallowed a large guam
tity of the poison in his apartments
in the Mechanics block in Pueblo on
last Friday night and died a few
minutes after he was rushed to a hos
pital The act of Gilbert which re-
suited in his sudden death. was wit
messed by his wife. After coming
in off his run that evening he COM
planned of severe headache. Be
ing subject to such attacks, he had
purchased remedy of
powders for the ailment. A few
days before he had purchased some
tablets, which had
been placed near where the head
ache tablets were kept. Believing he
was securing the latter, Gilbert re-
moved the contents of one of the
tablets and swallowed the entire
amount.
A new high record of production
from the Cripple Creek mining dis
tIict for 1910. is returned by the mill
and smelter representatives hand
.OS9 tons of the bullion value of
ling the ores with an output of 72.-
$1,366,O44. These figures show the
increase due to the long working.
The total tonnage from Silverton
during the month of August was
5,275 tons of ore. This is an in
crease over July of 275 tons and
over August of 1909. 2.4SO tons.
The average value of the ore was
$50 a ton, or a total valuation Of
$263.150.
A telegram has reached Glen
wood Springs, announcing the safe
arrival at Perrintown. Ohio. of the
overland auto trip from Glenwood
Springs to that place. The party was
20 days on the road and had an
easy trip with the exception of a
few stretches of muddy road in Mis-
souri, and southern Illinois. The
chaffeur was Martin Gavin. the
13-year-old son ofAustin Gavin who
is president of the Glenwood Springs
board of trade.
That the Union Pacific Is prepar-
ing to double track from Greeley to
point where its Crow creek lines
join the main line, is the belief of
railroad circles. Men We're put to
work last week, widening cut
about six miles north of town and
the dirt taken out has been used to
fill the barrow pits along the line
between the cut and the city limits
of Greeley. When the track Is laid,
the Crow creek trains will have a
separate line into the city and will
not interfere with traffic on the
main line.
Fire started Saturday afternoon
In the heavy timber leading to the
Laramie river, fifty miles west of
Fort Colloins. News of the conha-
grafton was received at the Office of
the Colorado national forest through
Charles Ramer, ranchman at
West Lake. who got the information
from campers. They had been OBJ
liged to drive a long distance out of
the way on account of the flames.
Ramer sent out ranch hands to fight
the fire. r. c. Mcconnell. forest
miles from the fire. was dispatched
to the scene. The fire is just out
side the forest boundaries In a thin
ly settled region.
VIM. Irwin, assistant amalgama-
tor at the Liberty Bell mine near
Telluride. pleaded guilty Saturday
In a magistrates court. to having
stolen $10.434 worth of amalgum
He had only been employed about