Gilpin observer., 1901-05-09
COLORADO NOTES.

Herman Darling recently made FL
ings at the Montrose land office pre-.
paratOry to opening up two large saw
mills.
The Stubbs capital punishment bill
did not contain an emergency clause
and hence does not go into effect until
July list.
In the list of births during he
month of April, filed with the city
health commissioner of Denver, the
girl babies outnumber the boys two to
one.
Leo Vincent, clerk of the District
Court at Boulder, says it cost the coun-
ty over $4,000 to prosecute the case
against the Eldora men accused of kill
ing n. B. Bailey.
Vice President Roosevelt is to be in
vited to visit the Festival of Mountain
and Plain in Denver. October list, 2nd
and 3rd quite informally, 'incognito,"
as they say in Europe.
General Irving Hale and Henry T.
Rogers will represent Denver Unitar-
ians at the annual meeting of the
American Unitarian Association in
Boston the last week in May.
Denver building permits for the first
quarter of 1901 aggregate rs buildings
S339.GO9 over the same period last
year. This looks like n building boom.
According to the reports which they
have filed with the city clerk, the Re
publican city committee spent $20,213
on the late city elections in Denver,
and the Democratic city committee
spent S20,127.
John C. Henry, who died at Denver
May 3rd, is claimed to have been the
inventor of the overhead trolley for
electric railways, which was first used
in Kansas City in 1888. He made a
fortune out of his inventions.
D. G. Crawford, who was the first
auditor of the state of Colorado. died in
Denver May 1st. He was formerly
manager of the Crawford house at
Colorado Springs and the Lindell ho-
tel in Denver.
Mr.. and Mrs Thomas f. Walsh are
preparing to return to Colorado from
Washington early in May. They will
entertain President Mckinley and the
presidential party when they reach
Glenwood Springs.
A report that an association of liquor
dealers had decided to raise the price
of beer to 10 cents n glass and whisky
to 10 cents straight, caused great con-
sternation in Denver few days ago.
But the calamity was averted.
Hereafter Denver people who happen
to be down town mt noon can get the
absolutely correct time. At exactly II
O'Clock to the fraction of n second,
large ball will drop from tall steel
shaft over the office of the Denver
Post.
b. S. Newland, lately appointed dep
Il l,ne,
Victor and taken charge of his desk at
the capitol in Denver. ]. p. James,
his predecessor, is now acting as in
spector of foods for the State Board of
Health.
Parson UZzell of the Denver Taber-
nacle has arranged with the manage
ment of the Loveland beet sugar fac
tory to supply several hundred work
ers from his congregation for emerg-
ency labor in the beet fields this sum
mer.
The recent heavy rains caused sew
eral large rock slides on the track of
the Denver Il Rio Grande railroad
along the Grand river near Glenwood
Springs. The water in the river was
also at n very high point, Occasioning
good deal of anxiety.
With the recent orders secured for
steel rails from the Colorado Midland
road, there is enough work on hand
to keep the rail mill at Bessemer busy
throughout the summer. At present
work is being done on n large order of
eighty y-five-pound rails for the Santa
Fe road.
The school census just completed at
Central City shows Il school population
of Lib, as against 935 in 1900. This
(antral m 1ist of rSt
class districts and entities 1t to n school
board numbering five instead of three,
but no change will take place till next
year.
Minister Conger passed through Den
YER April Both on his return from Chi
ma, and was given quite an ovation.
In the party were Mr.. and Mrs. Con
ger, Miss Conger and Miss Mary Con-
ger Pierce, his niece. who shared with
his family the terrors of the Pekiu
siege.
The Colorado Human Society has ap-
pointed these agents: John II. Van
Dcrpool, Debeque; Mrs. Ada Il. Han
ma, Victor; Henry Abel. Arling Wilson
and Ralph Ward. Denver, and Horace
Park, Greeley. An agent viii be ap-
pointed in Routt county for the eX-
tremc northwestern part of the state.
who Will have charge of n vast area Of
country. The nearest p0stoiiice In
Colorado In his district is sixty miles
away. and the nearest In Utah. twenty
five miles away. There are now 400
agents of the society In the state.
State Game and Fish Commissioner
Harris has appointed II. $. Crooks SUI
pcrlntendent of the fish batcheries Mt
Gunnison, and w. II. Crane assistant.
Mr.. Crane at present Is superintendent
and Mn Crooks the assistant. ON be-
ing Interview n few days since In re-
gard to this hatchery. Mr.. Crane said:
''There Is n great amount of water in
the streams and much snow on the
hills, which effects the work at this