Gilpin observer., 1913-07-03

Holly's new Presbyterian church is
nearing completion.
La Junta may have a full-fledged
gas plant before the snow flies.
Bids will again be asked for the
construction of the federal building
at Grand Junction.
The canning factory at Loveland is
busy canning peas, a large acreage
having been grown this year.
pencil sketch of plans for l. Jun
tas new theater has been submitted
to the opera house building commit
tee.
Mrs. Horace Osborn, of Montrose,
was found dead in her bed She had
been sufferer from heart trouble for
years.
Fire destroyed the barn and it's
contents on the farm of ]. NJ. Barnes,
at Rocky Ford. The loss is estimated
at $500.
F. C. Burke, of Montezuma, had his
face and body badly cut up by the ex-
plosion of defective cap at his mine
near Montezuma.
Judge Daniel Hawk of Greeley,
pioneer resident of Weld county, died
at the Colorado sanitarium at the age
Of seventy-eight.
July dividend disbursements by
Denver companies, of the stock which
is owned in the city, amounts to
total of $1.521 ,653.
The first civil service examination
for fourth-class postmasters in the
history of the state will be held at
Colorado Springs July 26.
Mr.. and Mrs. l.. E. Eldred, of Canon
City, celebrated their golden wedding
dinner at the family home.
Henry w. Hinkle, thirty-six, col
ored messenger for the Hibernia bank
OF Denver. was arrested on charge
of having stolen nearly 5000 from the
bank.
The Right Reverend Bishop N. C.
Matz. head of the Catholic diocese of
Colorado. dedicated the new. Church
of the Blessed Sacrament in Park Hill :.
In Denver.
The State Supreme Court has de-
MED a writ of supersedeas in the case
of County Judge William II. Harrison
against John p. Allan for the Judge
ship of Lake county.
New engineering shops, to cost be-
tween $1,000 and $4,000, are to be
constructed at Colorado college at
Colorado Springs, and work will start
in few days in razing the old frame
buildings.
Governor Ammons picnicked at Bear
Creek with his High School Glass OF
1880. There were twenty-four in the
class, seventeen of whom are living
and sixteen of whom attended the
picnic.
Denver's new postoffice and the Gas
and Electric building will be repro
duced in detail at the grand Central
palace in New York next September
when the Colorado Industrial exposi-
tion's exhibit is staged.
The seventh annual gathering of the
Boulder county Hawkeyes held at
Boulder Chautauqua grounds proved
the largest and most successful one
ever held. there being from $50 to
400 in attendance throughout the day.
Nearly all the ranchmen OF the
Tomichi and Cochetopa, and the resi-
dents of Sillsville, and business houses
at Gunnison, have signed a petition
to have rural mail route established
from Gunnison up the Tomichi and
Cochetopa creeks to McDoughs ranch,
distance about thirty miles.
Said to be unaware that her unex-
planned absence has caused her father
to fear she had fallen into the hands
Of evil-disposed persons and that the
police throughout the state were on
the lookout for her, Miss Lucy Smith,
daughter Of J. w. Smith, CT Ber-
thoud, returned to Fort Collins.
Governor Ammons has received a
pathetic appeal from Andrew Noone.
Collingdale, Pa. asking him to search
for her father, John. Noone. who de.
serted his family twenty-three years
ago, and a brother who left with the
father.
The secretary Of the interior has
designated 1900 acres OF land In Routt
county for entry under the enlarged
homestead act. He has ordered with.
drawn from settlement 1000 acres
along the Muddy and West Muddy
creeks in the Battlement national for.
est for power site purposes.