Gilpin observer., 1901-05-30
COLORADO's CAPITAL


sued general order permitting any
troops who desire to visit the Pan
American exposition to pass through
the state armed.
Surgeon General w. w. Grant, Ma
5or M. R. Root and Lieutenant R. r.
Hutchings have been appointed as
delegates to the annual convention Of
national military surgeons to be held
at st. Paul May 30th, 31st and June
1st.
Brigadier General John Chase of the
national guard will conduct an exam
ination for captains. first and second
lieutenants in the Twenty-sixth street
the guard desiring to take the examin-
alton may secure forms at the adju-
tant generals office.
Ben Mitchell sentenced from Pu-
eblo county December IS, 1899, to from
five to eight years for manslaughter,
appeals to the board for commuta-
ton of sentence. He says that his
crime was committed while in the
heat of passion and excitement.
George Bond, who was sentenced
from Arapahoe county November 2,
1899, for the murder of Maud McCon-
key, has made application to the board
of charities and corrections for a par
don. he pleads drunkenness at the
time of the commission of the crime.
Bond is serving a sentence of twenty
five years.
State Dairy Commissioner T. L.
Monson has asked the auditing board
of the state for new testing ma
chine, said to be able to distinguish
butter from oleomargarine without
chemical analysis. In The work of the
dairy commissioner the cost of such
analyses is one of the principal ex-
penses Of the office.
Philip Schuch, Jr., of Cripple Creek,
has sent to the state historical collec-
tion a copper kettle hammered from
native copper. which he found in Feb
ruary. 1891. in the ruins of an Aztec
temple in the northeastern part of
Yuma county, Arizona, discovered
while he was tracing the course of
prehistoric canal, evidently fed at one
time by the Colorado river
Governor Orman recently received
an express package from the Canon
City penitentiary. 1t contained hand
some walking cane. The stick was
oShI " tiiS SONtlnOI ny II. VI. oCOlI,
convict No. 4,65b, who made it. 1t is
fine and finished piece of workman
ship. Probably Scott hopes that the
governor will appreciate the gift when
he walks out and permit the donor to
do the same.
That the Kansas Colorado water
suit is attracting national attention is
evidenced by letter received at the
attorney generals office from Corpora
tion Counsel G. l.. Sterling of New
York city. He speaks of having seen
an account of the suit and says that
the city of New York is defendant in
similar suit. He sends his brief in the
New York case and asks for Attorney
General Posts brief in the water case
Embodied in a petition for pardon
for George Fisher, who was sentenced
to the penitentiary from Pueblo coun-
ty March II. 1900. for a term of from
three to five years for grand larceny,
is strong plea for clemency. While
Fisher admits his guilt. he says he
was incapable of making a living for
himself and mother, and that it was
extenuating because he appropriated
his ill-gotten gains to living expenses
for his mother and himself.
c. NJ. Hammond. who introduced
and assisted materially in securing
the passage of the bill appropriating
$4,000 of the proposed Gunnison ca
nal has been appointed by Governor
Orman as chairman of the board of
control of the canal, which is more
definitely specified as state canal No.
3. In addition to Mr.. hammond, who
Is member of the Legislature and re-
sides at Paonia, Delta county, John J.
Tobin of Montrose and Franz E.
Dodge of Delta were appointed. All
are prominent business men.
Professor C. p. Gillette. state ento-
mologist, and Mrs. Martha A. Shute.
secretary OF the state horticultural
board, drove about Denver a few days
ago and found that the insect known
as the leaf roller was doing deadly
work on trees and vines al over the
city. Evidences of the ravages of the
insect were most noticeable at Elitch's
Gardens and City park. Mrs. Shute
thinks that the law requiring owners
of orchards to spray trees as pre-
caution against the increase of pests
applies equally to the owners of shade
trees.
The exodus from the state house of
the Gagged animals of the Carter collec-
ton to the Gustafson building on Lo-
gan avenue, where the bear. buffalo.
elk and other beasts are to be re-
mounted by Rudolph Borcherdt before
being taken to City park, was com
menced yesterday. says the Denver
News. The bear are being taken out
first and several of them have already
had their fine hair combed and been
placed on new pedestals. The mon
ster elk with its graceful but cumber-
some horns gave Mr. Borcherdt and
his assistants a great deal of trouble.
The great doors OF the basement were
not sufficiently large to allow the ami
nal to pass without much twisting and
tugging at It's head.