Gilpin observer., 1900-05-31
COLORADO. NOTES.


office of sos.
Fort Collins people are planning To
institute Raspberry Day as II local hol-
iday. to which visitors will be invited.
Warden ltoyt. in response to the rec
ommendation of the Board of Peniten-
tiary Commissioners that he be re
moved, has asked for an investigation
of his conduct of the institution.
The county assesSors in the south
eastern counties of the state are abou,
to make test case of the attempts
of cattlemen to escape taxation. Near
ly 10000 head of southern cattle have
been imported since May list, and be
fore May LIST, 1901, they will have been
marketed. thus escaping taxation.
At meeting OF the Retail Mer-
chants Association of the Cripple
Creek district. n resolution was adopt
ed stating that in view of the fact that
o'clock closing had not been made
universal throughout the district the
members of the association will herea1-
ter keep their stores open until & p. IN.
The Clerks Union has attempted to en-
force the early closing movement for
the past week, but without success.
Mrs. j. A. Hayes of Colorado Springs
will be the new daughter of the Con
federacy, taking the place in the hearts
of the Southcrners made vacant by the
death of her sister, Miss Winnie Davis.
Mrs. Hayes is the eldest daughter of
the former president of the Confeder-
ate states. A special car was sent to
take Mrs. Hayes TO Chicago, from
whence she will start on ii triumphal
tour to Louisville The Confederate
veterans are holding their reunion
there.
According to a story told by G. l..
Stonaker. secretary of the state board
Of charities and corrections, PROPOSE
ton was presented to the national con
ference of charities and corrections
which closed recently at Topeka, for
the formation of Il matrimonial bureau
whereby the surplus of marriageable
daughters of Massachusetts might be
welded to the Industrious but bashful
Kansas and Colorado farmer boys
This question was discussed in all ser
iousness by the conference" says Mr..
Stonaker. ''rhe discussion followed
the reading of paper prepared by
Prof. f. w. Blackmar of the Kansas
University. on Social Degeneracy in
Rural Districts"
The outside stockholders in the Col
orado Cooperative colony won a vic
wa at tht lt'tHt ltelluS Ol tut
stockholders held for the purpose of
altering the constitution so as to cur
tail the powers of those owning stock
but not living on the lands of the col
ony. Denver stockholders especially
objected to the aggressive policy of Il
few of those living at the colony, who
they said, were endeavoring to freeze
them out. 1t WAS complete victory
for the outside element and among
other changes the old committee
on engineers was thrown out because
of the allegations that it had not done
any work since last August. The col
ony is located at Pinon in the western
part of the state.
Lake county can. by absolutely iden-
tifying the funding bonds issued in ex-
cess of the constitutional Indebtedness,
repudiate them except there be a clause
on the face of the bonds stipulating
that the bonds are not issued in excess
of the limitations. This is the ruling
Judge Riner made in the federal court
yesterday in the case of Flora G. Lucas
against the county commissioners and
involving about $4,000 of the bonds in
dispute, which reach n total of half a
million dollars. about SG6.0OO of which
are legal. The ruling of Judge Riner
seems to reverse that Judge Marshall
made several weeks ago from the same
bench affecting bonds of the same issue
and under the same circumstances.
But there is n great difference in the
value of the evidence submitted and
affecting the vital point.
The government now has a noun
tain sheep. buffalo Jones on the
22d brought in the first results of his
hunt. a fine buck lamb about month
old. Its capture was very exciting.
The camp is in the Coal basin valley.
about eight miles from Redstone where
the sheep have been located for four
days. In the morning the eve and
lamb We're discovered in an accessi-
BILE place. An attempt was being
made to get near them when the eve
discovered she was being rushed. She
at once bounded up the side Of the
steep mountain. The lamb followed,
and gaining a good height the mother
and lamb disappeared. Shortly after
wards the eve was seen ascending
still higher, but the lamb had been
hid. 1t was impossible to reach the
point from below where the lamb had
disappeared. Miss Olive Jones, her
father and the guide made long de-
tour and reached Il point as near as
they could judge directly over where
the lamb was thought to be. Miss
Jones was swung out over the cliff
with a rope tied under her arms, and
search found the little fellow hid in
crevice. The brave girl was drawn
back over the cliff with the lamb in
her arms. This is the first OF the six
pair that Buffalo" Jones expects to
secure under his permit from the state
of Colorado.
Bear hunters have had great luck
during the last two weeks in the noun
tains near Glcnwood. A guide killed
silver tip bear weighing nearly 900
pounds the pelt measuring eight feet
and nine inches from claw to claw.