Gilpin observer., 1910-02-03
COLORADO ITEMS

The city of Denver has over 1,2OC
miles of streets to maintain
Alex. j. Strachen, postmaster at Col
orado Springs. has been appointed
custodian of the public building.
The Colorado Bankers Association
Will holds its next annual meeting at
Grand Junction some time in Septem-
ber.
Leroy Lewis. convicted at Boulder
OF the murder Of Mike Clifford at
Marshall in October. 1909. has been
granted new trial
Kansas City capitalists are planning
an amusement park in Pueblo, similar
to the White City in Denver and Elec-
trio Park in Kansas City.
The Platteville cannery will double
its capacity the coming season, en-
large its buildings and construct a
boarding house for its help.
DIR. G. II. Stover and DIR. Edward
Delehanty, two prominent physicians
OF Denver, who We're recently operated
upon for appendicitis, are rapidly re-
covering and will soon be we'll
The Federated Trades committee at
Colorado Springs indorsed that meat
boycott insofar as packers meat is
concerned, and whatever meat mem
bers require will be purchased from
producers direct.
The Denver Chamber of Commerce
has now 708 active members and five
honorary ones. Its present total as
sets amount to S45,595. The new
building which it is preparing to erect
will cost about $4,000.
In a suit before the Colorado SUI
preme Court the Denver & Rio Grande
and Colorado Midland railways will at
tack the constitutionality of the fenc-
ing law passed by the special session
of the Legislature in 1902.
With the arrest and conviction OF
Edward Boyles, notorious crook and
burglar. at Bowie, Tex, who broke in
to and robbed the Yeagy store at Eat
ON of S4OO and merchandise, the series
of thefts in Eaton, Pierce, La Sale
and the vicinity at Greeley which mys-
titled officers last fall, is solved.
At meeting of the superintendents
of the schools of Fremont, Pueblo and
Custer counties it was decided to hold
the annual teachers institute at Canon
City June 1925, inclusive. The in
structors will be Professors Milton C.
Potter and John F. Heating of Pueblo,
Prof. Valentine Kirby of East Denver
High. and Miss Mary G. Carson of the
Montclair school, Denver.
NJ. Elliott Houston, United States
weather observers at Steamboat
Springs, has forwarded to Moffat road
headquarters in Denver a report Of
climatic conditions in Routt county in
1909. The record shows that 25.17
inches of moisture were precipitated
during the year, and that the rainfall
was very evenly distributed among
the several months. There were no
floods or washouts.
State Auditor Roady Kenehan re-
Gently received a notice from Warden
Felix O'Neill OF the State Reformatory
for Boys. saying that Commissioners
Stracey had returned $s7 to the cash
fund of the reformatory and that Com
missioner Mum had paid back $2O6. 40.
These were the amounts which the
two commissioners spent on trips
which the auditor has decided could
not properly be charged to the insti-
tuition.
The s5.OOO.000 house of granite and
marble at Braddock. Pa, known as
"Lovejoy's Folly" will soon be turned
into an apartment house, according to
advices received at Colorado Springs.
+. T. F. Loyejoy. formerly of Colorado
Springs. was the builder. but when the
house was once to be sold at auction
FOR payment of Lovejoy's debts, An
drew Carnegie came to his rescue,
paid Oft all obligations and advanced
aim money to complete the structure
Bishop Matz and the Sisters of st.
Francis are planning a consumptives'
hospital at Denver. to be conducted as
a branch of st. Anthony's hospital.
1t Is planned to purchase land in Edge
water and erect a building to cost
about 100000. The patients who are
able will till the land. The hospital
will be opened to those who have no
money to pay for their care as well as
those who have. II the hospital is
built the Brotherhood Tent Relief col
ony in Edgewater probably will be
merged with it.
In order to ascertain If the cost of
living has increased in Greeley in the
last year materially over that of pre-
vious years, merchant in business at
Greeley for twenty-five years has gone
carefully over his books, compiling the
cost Of groceries and dairy products in
the years 1890, 1900 and 1910. The re-
suit shows that all dairy and farm pro-
ducts. butter. bacon. eggs, cheese. ETC.,
have increased from ten to fifty per
cent in cost since 1890. but the cost