Gilpin observer., 1901-05-02
COLORADO NOTES.

Inc pOSUOul6e ut MOralne, LtElMcE
county, is ordered removed half-mile
southeast.
Theodore F. Wilson of Colorado has
been reinstated as a 5000 pension Of
flee clerk at Washington.
Clara Whitmore has been commits
stoned postmistress at Valverde, anu
John D1etz as postmaster at Overland.
The postoffice at Curtis, Washington
county, is ordered discontinued. Mail
for this office will hereafter go to Ak
ron.
The Hotel de Paris at Georgetown,
formerly kept by the late Louis Du
Pny, has been reopened by Mrs. l. II.
Burkholder.
The attorney general says that the
new revenue bill does not repeal the
military poll tax. Hence it will be col
lected as usual.
The Colorado Springs reception COM
mittee will arrange to take President
Mckinley up to the Cripple Creek gold
camps and back on June 1th.
The Supreme Order of Married
Mems League, a fraternal and benefi-
ciary society organized in Missouri
has filed its incorporation papers in
Colorado.
The recent school census in Love
land shows 943 pupils of school age,
an increase of 1G7 over last year,
Additional school buildings will have
to be erected.
The recent wolf roundup near Holly
resulted in the capture of two large
wolves. There We're about 200 horse
men and quite number of carriages
in attendance.
John f. Farley, the recently retired
chief of the Denver police force, will
return to his former occupation as
general agent of the Thiel Detective
Agency in Denver.
The Union Pacific is said to be pre-
pairing to spend $4,000 in Denver to
build car cleaning shops at Twenty
sixth street. The cars will be clean
ed by compressed air
The Woman's Club of Longmont
has completed stone walk to the
cemetery, north of town. The work
was undertaken Il year ago and has
just been finished. The walk is about
half mile long and four feet wide.
The hearing in the case of William
Witt and Tony Lepage, at Ouray, ac-
cused of forgery, resulted in both be-
ing bound over to the District Court
on $500 bond each. They failed to
give bonds and were placed in Jail.
The county commissioners of Gilpin
county in April took up S13,5OO coun-
ty bonds. This cleans up the entire
indebtedness of the county. There is
yet remaining in the hands of the
county treasurer the sum of $4,000.
The office of State Treasurer Chip
ley bids fair to be swamped with
| liquor license fees, the clerical force
being hardly sufficient to receive and
register them as fast as they come in.
The receipts for one day were over
| $4,000.
William II. Davie has been appoint
ed postmaster at Florence. He is a
druggist and has resided in Florence
about five years. DIR. J. w. Rambo,
the retiring postmaster, is company
physician for the +. Il c. G. road and
has held the office about two years.
! Game Warden Harris recently re-
ceived letter from w. G. Cove, of
| Creede, stating that seven mountain
sheep We're recently killed by a snow
slide near Amethyst. Colorado. The
heads are said to be intact and will be
preserved by the state.
The Colorado Springs lodge of Elks
wants to have a hand in making an
Elk of President Mckinley, who is
said to have been recently elected a
member of the order by Washing
ton lodge. 1t is 10 be feared that he
will think they are trying to make
game of him.
Dean Samuel Blakeslee of the School
of Music of the University of Denver
/ g., ...,1 f.Ns. -aV
May Goth. 21st and 22nd. The ora
tQrio of Elijah will be sung. and a
chorus of several hundred voices made
up from the various choirs of the city
| and students in the school will sing.
r. J. Holland has been reappointed
superintendent of the state fish hatch
cries by Fish and Game Commission
er Harris, and Il. l.. Hager has been
F. reappointed superintendent of the fish
hatcheries at Denver by the same of
fetal. w. II. Callicotte was an appli-
cant for the position Of superintendent
, of hatcheries.
Edward J. Sexton, the Denver in
surancc man. who shot himself with
suicidal intent at the room of n friend
| in the National hotel at Cripple Creek
April 24th, died Mt the Sisters hospi-
tai two days later Death was direct
/ ly due to hemorrhage resulting from
the bullet wound through the left
lung. Mrs. Sexton was down from
Denver and remained ut his bedside
to the last.
Under the new Colorado revenue law
nm inheritance tax is levied on all
estates valued at $1,000 or over Mt the
rate of So per hundred on property
which shall pass FOR the use of any
father, mother, husband, wife, child,
brother, sister. wife or widow of the
son or husband of the daughter.
| When the interest passes to any uncle.