The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-06-05
COLORADO NOTES.

| Fort Collins people are planning to
| institute Raspberry Day as a local hol
| iday, to which visitors will be invited.
Warden Hoyt. in response to the rec
ommendatlon 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 about
to make n 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.
l.. a. Thompson, editor and publisher
of the Weld County Republican, has
received n telegram from Washington
from y. w. Nachen, superintendent of
the rural delivery system, stating that
he has been appointed, upon the recon-
mendation of Senator L. o. Wolcott
special agent of rural free delivery.
At a meeting of the Retail Mer
chants Association of the Cripple
Creek district, II 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 lereaf-
ter keep their stores open until s p. m
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 Southerners 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. \ special car was sent to
take Mrs. Hayes to Chicago, from
whence she will start ON n triumphal
tour to Louisville. The Confederate
veterans are holding their reunion
there.
The complete program for Strawber
ry Day exercises. June 10th, at Glen
wood is being published. 1t embraces
entertainment for all classes of people,
and an attractive feature is that every
thing will be free. The management
has decided TO have IA mask carnival
from . to Z O'Clock p m, during which
the mayor has proclaimed that all per-
sons must be merry. Two grand balls
will be in progress all night. commenc-
ing at s o'clock, one at the Opera house
and the other in the Public square and
under the starry sky. a free bath In
the mammoth pool and all the berries
and cream that one can eat will I've
features, as in former years.
According to n story told by c. L.
Stonaker. secretary of the state board
of charities and corrections, a PROPOSE
ton was presented to the national con
ference of charities and corrections
which closed recently Mt Topeka, for
the formation of matrimonial bureau
whereby the surplus of marriageable
daughters of Massachusetts might be
welded to the Industrious but basbful
Kansas and Colorado farmer boys.
This question was discussed in all ser
iousness by the conference" says Mr..
Stonaker. THE discussion followed
the reading OF paper prepared by
Prof. Il. W. Blackmar of the Kansas
University, on Social Degeneracy in
Rural Districts
Lake county can, by absolutely iden-
tifying the funding bonds issued in eN.
cess of the constitutional Indebtedness.
repudiate them except there be n clause
on the face of the bonds stipulating
that the bonds are not issued in excess
of the limitations. This is the ruling
Judge Rincr 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 Il total of half
million dollars. about $4,000 of which
ltSdi ne FuilllS VI lulSt
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 great difference in the
value of the evidence submitted and
affecting the vital point.
Joseph Decovi. an Italian miner. had
n horrible experience at Ouray the other
day. Decovi is employed at the Reve-
nue. mine. and, while at work near the
shaft, stumbled and fell headlong into
the opening. The rope cable, attached
to the windlass above, was swaying in
the shaft. and Decovi. in falling, by
the merest chance. caught hold of it.
But it only partially impeded his fall.
The rope, rapidly passing through his
hands, tore and burned the flesh in a
shocking manner. But Decovi madly
hung on. and in few seconds reached
the bottom of the shaft, more dead
than alive. having slid down the cable
distance of 800 feet Decovi was un-
conscious when found The flesh OF
his hands was nearly torn off, and
what was left was burned to n crisp.
exposing the bones.