The state herald., 1901-05-03
COLORADO NOTES.


southeast.
Theodore +. Wilson of Colorado has
oeen reinstated as $500 pension Of
ice clerk at Washington.
Clara Whitmore has been commits
stoned postmistress at Nalverde, anu
John Dietz 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
Puy, has been reopened by Mrs. l. III.
BurkhOlder.
The attorney general says that the
new revenue bill does not repeal the
military poll tax. Hence 1t will be col
lected as usual.
A new magazine, called Agricolo
Aridus, will be published by the stu
dents. of the State Agricultural Col
lege at Fort Collins.
The Colorado Springs reception COM
mittee will arrange to take President
Mckinley up to the Cripple Creek gold
camps and back on June Tth.
The Supreme Order of Married
Mems League, fraternal and benefi-
ciary society organized in Missouri,
has filed its Incorporation papers In
| Colorado.
| The recent school census In Love
land shows 043 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 were about 200 horse
men and quite n number Of carriages
In attendance.
John Il. 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 mt Twenty
sixth street. The cars VIII be clean
ed by compressed air.
The Woman's Club Of Longmont
has completed n stone walk to the
cemetery, north Of town. The work
was undertaken n 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 Gilpiu
county in April took up S13,50O 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 so 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
5000.
William II. Davic has been appoint
ed postmaster ut Florence. He is n
druggist and has resided In Florence
about five years. DIR. j. w. Rambo.
the retiring postmaster, is company
physician for the'F. n c. c. road and
has held the office about two years.
'iiut NuTu'u IlutEiS IttthiiN ~
ceived a letter from w. c. Cove. OF
Crccdc. stating that seven mountain
sheep We're recently killed by 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 hand In making an
Elk of President Mckinley, who Is
said to haye been recently elected a
member OF the oldcr by n Washing
ton lodge. Il Is 10 be feared that he
will think they are trying to make
game OF him.
Dean Samuel Blnkcslcc OF the School
of Music OF the University OF Denver
IL preparing for musical festival
May Goth. 2ist and 22nd. The ora
torio OF Elijah" will bc sung. and n
chorus OF several hundred voices made
up from tile various choirs OF the city
and students In the school will sing.
Il. ]. Holland has been reappointed
superintendent OF the state fish hatch
cries by Fish aud Game Commission
er Harris. and T.. l.. Hagcr has been
rcappointed superintendent OF the fish
hatcheries at Denver by the same Of
fetal. w. II. Calllcottc was nm appll-
cant for the position of superintendent
OF hatchcrles.
Edward j. Sexton. the Denver In
surnncc man. who shot himself with
suicidal intent at the room OF n friend
In the National hotel nj Cripple Greek
April 2iih, died at the Sisters hospi.
tai two days later. Death was direct.
ly due to hemorrhngc resulting from
lao. l.,.ll fhpA.t.vh I.IF
lung. Mrs. Sexton was down from
Denver nnd remained at his bedside
10 the last.
Under the new Colorado revenue law
an inheritance tax Is levied on NIL
estates valued at 5000 or over nt the
rate OF 50 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 10 any uncle.
aunt. rlccc. nephew or amy other llncai
descendant the tax Is 81 per hundred.
Colonlst business continues exirnor.
dlnnrliy large for this season OF the
year. More than 100 colonlrts' tick.
cts passed through the Union depot
agency Mt Denver within the last week
In April. So rapidly hns business In.
creased within the last six months ON
Colorado ronds TINT the motive power
hns been taxed To It's utmost. Al Of
the ronds have large orders In eastern
factories for new locomotives and
coaches.
The annual report OF the Denver 4
Southwestern system, for the ycnr
ending November 20. 1900. has been
mndc public. The ne, earnings were