The silver star., 1897-05-06
COLORADO BRIEFS.

The Portland mine mas new pump tnat
lifts 500 gallons 1000 feet per minute.
Berthoud pass Will not be open for wagon
travel until about the middle or the last Of
May.
W. II. Meyer has been appointed agent OF
the Southern Ute agency by President Nc
KInley
| What was taken for an airshp has been
| aeon over several towns in the western part
of the State recently.
Martin Michaels his wife and three chill
| dren. were poisoned by eating pork at AS
| pen. They will recover.
| Two Telluride miners while drunk. entered
| a Chinese restaurant and cut on the queue
| OF Lou Toy, a Chinaman.
| Walter Rcam. who poisoned little girl.
| has been found guilty Of voluntary man
slaughter in Jude Boughton's court at Boui-
| der.
| Two Pueblo girls who were dissatisfied
| with the grading Of their papers In the ex-
| animation for teachers, have appealed to
Miss Patton.
Judge Steele. Of the District Court at
Denver. has decided that an ordinance for
bidding the opening Of certain stores on sun
day is illegal and class legislation.
William Catnay has been adJudged Insane
at Leadville. He Is a colored man who. Tor
fifteen years, has passed unsuspected as
woman. working for many Pueblo families
as a laundress.
President Otto Mears of the Silverton
Railroad. announces that Hhe road Will be
open to travel on May IL. The operation OF
the road during the winter months has been
prevented by snow.
Tax Agent Freeman. Of the Colorado Mid
land Railroad is authority for the state
mcnt that the Colorado Midland and Rio
Grande will fight Pitkin county In the courts
on their taxes for 1870. The amount In
volved Is about $4,000 The roads were not
included in the horizontal reduction made on
county taxes.
The twelfth annual session of the County
Superintendents' Association of Colorado.
will be held In Colorado Springs May 4. 5
and q. Following close on the adjournment
OF the Eleventh General Assembly. this
meeting is expected to he of special value
In the opportunity 1t will afford to acquire
perfect understanding OF the school law in
Its new bearings.
Five hundred colorcd families of Alabama.
Georgia and Tennessee are ready TO emigrate
TO one of the Western States, and a commit
tee will shortly reach Colorado to investigate
,he possibilities of the Shenandoah valley. In
Montrose county. The settlement will be
located either there or In some part of Idaho.
The colony proposes TO start a town. which
will he named Mckinley City.
THE Buttermilk Boy will face ..The Tn
paced King on the Denver Wheel Club
track. Saturday. June II. That Is to say. q.
Il. Hachenberger has been matched with
Walter Sanger. The distance will be five
miles. the riders TO start from opposite sides
Of the track and ride In the same direction.
The purse will be 500 and the winner will
also take 81 per cent Of the net gate re-
cciris.
John IL Bloom who Is well known To the
newspaper men VI the State i now lncar-
cerateL In the couejos county Jail under a
sentence Of thirty days for contempt OF
court He was sent there by Judge Holbrook
because of criticisms on the judges charae-
ter made by Bloom In his paper. The cell
where he has to spend his time Is represent
ed as being dl>gustingly dirty and un-
healthy place.
The Denver Board Of Public Works has.
within A week let contracts for public I'M
proyements amounting to over <sn"c.
which should b, completed this year. Three
separate contracts for paving are included
In the list. and the work on all three should
h. In fun swing by June should no unfor-
seen circumstances interfere The big VIA
duet across the Platte at Fourteenth street
's also to be built.
Professor c. Z. Gfliett. entomoiosis, Of the
State Agricultural College has left Denver
for the western slope. to examine appointees
20 the position OF county horticultural In
>pector>. This. says the Rocky Mountain
News. would seem strange prccedure-to
examine Appointee> instead Of applicants
for appointments. but the way the new law
resd> nils the place first and then provides
for tn. examination Of the appointee for his
eligibility to. carry a license.
\ coloEed boy of Denver carried of the
honor> al the examination for positions In
the pa>tof.ics department. which was held
in Denver last February The Denver boy
stands iir>t out of iN a>pirant> aud. accord
Ing 10 rhe rules ~ the department the hrst
vacancy tn the class to which he applied
for admission will he awarded 10 him. The
usni. ~ the champion "a Julius W. Fields
lie i -Dn u the late Rev. Fields, Of Den
yer. and graduate of the East Denver
Hish >chos..
The Stale Beard of Charities and correSr-
ttons has abandoned the attempt TO suggest
a plan of employing the state eonvtcts.
owing to the opposition % the Denver Labor
unions The penitentiary beard will con
slider the question and the State Federation
% Labor will also discuss II at Its meeting.
rhrse men In cabin Beacon Hni. Vie
TOR. awoke to un1 box containing nifty
pounds o., eidn, powder on nre. They 90,
Away bgTri-.iIy The powder did not ex.
pIode. bat the cabin wa. bnrned down.
Henry BRADY. of Denver. has been ap-
pointed nssit.f In the branch mint at ben.
yer.
The state quarantine regulations against
s-ah aud other shssp infsctions are TO be
uueh more stringent this year than they
ever werv hefcrr II 1. the Intention Of the.
State Veterinary Sanitary Hoard. a. Indi-
cstet at = naesttng held yesterday In State
Veterinarian Grs>weir. office. 20 cipy In this
, particular the policy adopted by the United
States authorities. What this policy will he
has besn shown by action taken at Chicago
three days ax'A Heretofore sheep or lamb.
-hiprs'l thrnuxh frvn one stat. o. Territory
10 another were allowed TO pass through
| Intervening stats- &c Territories FRYE Of tbs.
l quarautin. law. That Is. they were only
ln.ps~stsd on lraying the startin. point os
/ th~lr tsurrsy aud on landing At their dr-ttna
tion- SECRETARY u Agriculture Wilson has.
however. started la by taking away the i'm
uiunlty srou Inspection aud suarantiae On
the through teurnsy.
State Labor Commissioner jeaninxS Is In
ve-stxatinx the Provisions Of the eoripul.