Gilpin observer., 1900-04-05
COLORADO NOTES.

March IL $102,03O, this being Tor nve
houses begun during the month. Alto
gether the amount of building going on
In the city amounts to nearly, If not
quite $1,OOO,OO0.
Harper NJ. Orahood, depaMment COM
mander of the Department of Colorado
and Wyoming. G. A. r., elected ut the
last encampment, has made announce
ment of the following appointments:
Thomas j. Foote, assistant adjutant
general. Denver; Marshall s. Craw-
ford, assistant Quartermaster general,
Denver; Charles Grabert, department
inspector, Leadville; II. Nj. Minor,
judge advocate, Longmont; G. A. Ham
ilton, chief mastering officer, Denver;
A. S. Holbrook, chief of staff, Colorado
Springs; George X. Kimball. senior
aide, Golden. Each post commander
of the department is requested by Gen
eral Orahood TO forward the name OF
one comradc suitable for aide on the
department staff and one for assist
ant inspector.
Ex-Governor Alva Adams and Mrs.
Adams are in Washington en- route
from an extended visit in Cuba to their
home in Colorado. Governor Adams,
in an interview, said that his visit to
Cuba had convinced him that the island
should become n part of the United
States. ut is rich" he said. "in agri-
cultural and mineral resources, and
with the protection of American laws
extended to capital, will become
profitable field for investors. What
impressed me greatly was the cheap
| freight rates upon products shipped
| from the island to United States ports.
Rates on sugar are but II cents hun
| dred pounds from Havana to New
York, n marked contrast to our west
ern freight rates. With equitable
| laws Cuba should become one of the
| greatest wealth-prodUcing regions of
| the republic"
An opinion handed down by Erwin
| l.. Regcnnittcr. district attorney for the
| First judicial district of Colorado, indi-
Gates that neXt fall students of the
| State School of mines and some EN-
| ployes of the State Industrial School at
| Golden, will he prosecuted if they nj
| tempt to vote mt the coming fall cleo
| ton. The opinion was requested as
an instruction covering the questioned
| legality of votes in jefferson county.
| The construction of the state constitu-
tion by District Attorney Regcnnitter
| applies rs well to students of every col
| lege in the state and employees of cv-
cry state institution. and should the of
| ficinls of the First judicial district
make Il test case in jefferson county,
as is the intention Of the district attor-
ney, the Supreme Court would doubt
less be called upon to construe the con
stitutional limitations. which. Attorney
| Regcnnitter Insist are violated in ev-
cry county where state institutions are
! located.
! i. +. Cleary and Dewitt Cleary, ac-
cused of cattle rustlng in the western
| part of Douglas county We're tried be-
fore Justice Crawsnaw at Castle Rock
on the Both. The case attracted much
| attention. A number of the witnesses
examined admitted completely in the
killing of cattle but claimed that the
, Clearys We're the prime movers. |. +.
Cleary, the father, conducted n saw
mill and boarded n number of men.
and it was to his boarding house that
the stolen beef was taken. but he
swore that he was absent and knew
nothing of it until later his son, De
witt. admitted that he and Newton
BuzDec, son-in-iaw of Cleary, had
killed the steer. The effort of the de-
fense seemed to be to shift the blame
TO young Cleary, who is rot yet of age.
l. Il. Cleary was bound over in $500
bonds and Dewitt Cleary in $1,000.
The father will probably be able TO
| give bonds. The prosecution was con-
| Quoted by the Colorado Cattle Grow
| ers' Association, represented by Ralph
| Talbot of DeEyer. George Il. Dunn
and L. c. Withaup We're for the de
fense. If either of the prisoners gives
bail he will be arrested again on other
charges.
The Republican State Convention to
choose two delegates mt large and two
alternates to the national convention
| will be held in the Broadway theater
May 10th. The number of delegates de-
cided on is 792. The convention for the
nomination of candidates for state of
fees and for presidential electors will
be held in Denver, September 7th. The
convention of the First congressional
district to choose one delegate and one
alternate TO the national convention
will be held in Denver May 1lth. The
| convention to nominate "A congressman
to succeed John +. Shafroth will be
held in Greeley September Sth. The
| convention of the Second district to
choose national delegates will be held
May 9th in Pueblo. The convention in
| thst district 10 choose II nominee for
| congressman to succeed j. &. Bell will
be called after the May convention.
In II quarrel over measurement of
timber on which they had been work
Ing, near Breckenridge. Samuel Copncr
struck his partner. Philip Willicks
with an axe, killing him almost in
stantly. The murder was committed
at the Mount Pride mine Copnrr's
blow caught Wlllicks on the head. near.
| ly scNering 1t In two. After the killing
Copncr gave himself up TO the sheriff
j. j. Frey, who. until January lst Of
this ycnr. was general manager OF the
Atchson. Topeka ~ Santa I'r railroad,
has been elected president of the Flor
oLcc Il Cripple Creek. the Canon city