The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-06-11
COLORADO NOTES.

Colorado Springs We're opened June
LIST.
! The senior class of the State Normal
School played Hamlet in the opera
house at Greeley on the night OF
June 4th.
July list the salary of the postmaster
at Longmont will be advanced from
$1,000 to 81, 100, and at Florence from
1900 to $o.1OO.
The recent rummage sale for the
benefit of the Free Reading Room AS
sociation of Central City, netted
, trifle less than 500.
The order of May 10Th disseminating
the postotfice of Graneros, Pueblo
county, has been revoked and the old
postmaster reinstated.
The La Junta school census, just
completed, shows 1,OS4 children be-
tween the age of six and twenty-one
years, 562 being boys and o22 girls.
Several inches of snow fell at Lead
vile June 4th. This~reinforces the old
saying that Leadville has nine months
winter and three months late in the
fall
Memorial Day was never more gen
orally observed throughout the state
than this year, although in quite
number of places the rain interfered
with the exercises.
The school census of Golden shows
GIG children of school age. This is an
increase of siXty-two over last year.
Other large districts in Jefferson coun-
ty show u like increase.
La Junta, having raised the amount
required as guarantee, is to have
$4,000 open house, with a seating ca
pacity of $50. which it is hoped to
complete by October 1st
The senior class of the State Uni
versity at Boulder played much Ado
About Not, sing" under the trees in the
open air on the college campus on the
evening of June 4th. A special train
load of people were present from Den
yer.
The secretary of the interior on June
1st approved thirty nine permits to
Craze T,716 cattle and 494 horses in
the White river plateau forest reserve
Colorado, as recommended by the gen.
eral land office.
All mystery concerning the strange
disappearance of Mrs. Mertie NJ. Bur
ger from her home in Pueblo, April
2Gth last, has been solved by the re-
ceipt of letter from her to the Pueblo
Chieftain, in which she states that she
is alive and well and in San Francisco.
1t is estimated that the honey ship
ments of Las Animas this season Will
exceed 100 tons, an increase of twenty
five tons from last year, this seasons
honey values being conservatively esti-
mated at $4,000.
Miss Margaret T.. Stratton, gradu-
ate of Oberlin College and for some
time dean of the woman's department
of Wellesley College, has been elected
nf hn
the University of Colorado.
1t is said that the 1900 head of
Mexican steers on the Las Animas
ranges belonging to the Ernest-Wilson-
Towers syndicate are TO be moved to
Montana ranges this summer. the exo-
dus beginning about the middle of this
month.
Colorado Springs is making exten-
sive preparations for the quarto-cen-
tennial celebration August 1st, Ind
and 3rd. General Palmer has given
the committee his check for $500 and
other wealthy citizens have promised
substantial aid.
Some of the Denver newspapers, as
well as base ball fiends. are chagrined
becanse the Denver team has so low
rank in the Western League. As an
old player puts ii, they seem to be
trying TO lower their record every
time they play ball"
Horticultural Inspector Palmer of
Arapahoe county has announced that
shade trees infested with insect pests
must be sprayed by the owners, other
wise it will be done at their expense
as required by law and the cost
charged to the property.
May, 1901, was much heavier
month for tourist travel than May OF
last year. The records for the past
month in the baggage department of
the Union depot at Denver show S,OSI
more pieces of baggage handled than
during the month Of May, 1900.
The state treasury will be enriched
in the sum of $4,000 from the estate
of the late William Church of Denver.
1t will be the first payment, it is said,
under the Inheritance law enacted by
the last Legislature and is based ON
an estimated valuation of S1,OOO,OOO.
On the Both ultimo, Frank NJ Hunt,
n machinist employed at the Gold Coin
mine at Victor, was struck by n cage
of the main shaft and his head entire
ly severed from his body. He was
forty-fcur years of age and leaves a
wife and two children living in Gold
field.
The Pueblo Evening Star and the
Pueblo Daily Journal have been con-
solidated and are now printed as the
Pueblo Star-Journal, both plants hav-
ing been purchased by syndicate of
business men. Frederick w. White,
Jr., formerly of the Western Press As
sociation, is vice president and general
manager, while Il. \. Bingham, well
known in Denver and Laramie, heads
the editorial staff.
Fred Holder, aged twenty-five, n |
trusted employe of the Economic Gold |
Extraction Company at Victor, was |
al, wifi