Gilpin observer., 1901-06-20
COLORADO NOTES.

A lcng snow shed on Marshall pass
was burned on the 14th instant.
The chief of police of Pueblo has APP
pointed dog catcher and put him on
the war path.
An active canvass is to be made in
Pueblo for the state fair fund. The
sum Of $4,000 has already been
pledged in large amounts.
The University of Denver will con-
duct summer school at the request OF
many students and outsiders who have
signified their desire to attend.
The postoffices at Florence and
Rocky Ford. Colorado, have been ad-
vanced by tie Postoffice Department
from third to second-class offices.
Dr.. Barton o. Aylesworth, president
of the State Agricultural College,
spending Il months vacation in Illi-
nois.
Great preparations are being made at
Cripple Creek for the meeting of the
Trans-NIississippi Commercial Con-
gress, July 10th to Goth.
Several hundred boys have gone
from Denver and other large towns in
the state to work in the beet fields in
the Arkansas valley and near Love-
land.
The trustees of Colorado College, at
Colorado Springs, have appointed
committee to raise money for a greater
endowment fund to keep pace with the
rapid growth of the institution.
The annual election of the American
Association for the Advancement of
Science will be held in Denver August
oath to 3Oth. This association has af-
tiliated with it several other societies.
Work has been commenced on the
foundation of the La Junta opera
house. The building will be 52x140
feet, two stories high, built of La
Junta pressed brick and sandstone
trimmings. 1t will cost $4,000.
At n special election at Eldora the
citizens by vote of 81 to l, ratified
the actions of the trustees in granting
a franchise for the use of the streets
by Messrs. II B. Whitted of Denver,
William b. Ogden and w. II. Mcleod
of Boulder for electric light purposes.
An excursion of the Denver Cham
ber of Commerce and Denver Real Es-
tate Exchange, III strong, visited the
Cripple Creek district over the Short
Line on Saturday, June 18th. They
found the roads too muddy after the
snow storm to get about as they
would have wished.
Denver preachers and newspapers
are having lively discussion over the
celebration of the Fourth of July.
Some of the former, as well as many
other citizens, want to do away with
firecrackers, pistols and toy cannOns.
Others do not, and the latter class
seem to be on the winning side.
Mrs. Annie L. Miller of Denver, who
won the house and lot at Colorado
Springs donated to the Grand Army
memorial fair ut Denver by w. S.
Stratton, is the widow of COnfeder-
ate soldier who was n Leadville pio-
neer and at one time prominent min
ing man. Her present circumstances
are spch that the gift will be of great
help to her.
A call for the second annual Con-
gress of Railroad organizations of
Colorado, to meet in Colorado Springs,
on June 25th, has been issued by the
president, w. J. Martin of Colorado
Springs. This organization was insti-
tuted in the city of Pueblo on June
81, 1900, for the purpose of benefiting
the railroad men of the state in the
passage of much needed legislation.
Sergeant Ivy Baldwin, the govern
ment aeronaut, who won fame in the
war in Cuba, has returned to Colorado,
and will build balloon and thoroughly
test it in Denver during the summer.
lie intends to make it one that can be
kept high in the air for n great length
of time. In the fall he will take 1t to
the Atlantic coast, where he is to con-
duct experiments with balloons and
immense kites.
In the District Court at Cripple
Creek, John Styne, who pleaded guilty
to the charge of stealing ore from
Stratton's Independence, was SEN
fenced to from five to seven years,
which was later suspended, and Styne
will return to work on his old job. He
turned states evidence against Green
& Mccullough, who purchased the
ores for their assay office at Victor,
and who were declared not guilty by
n jury.
At recent meeting of the Western
Slope Fair Association at Montrose,
the subscription committee made such
n favorable report that 1t was decided
to enlarge many features of the fair.
Arrangements will be made with the
railroads to run special trains from
the neighboring towns and cut rates
will be made from all points. The
day and Friday, September, 18th, 18th,
10Th and Goth, were approved.
The recent school census in Arapahoe
county shows population of 44,631
children of school age. being an in
crease of 3.173 over that of last year.
Other counties reporting show n school
population as follows: Park. 695,
loss of three: Huerfano. 32i2, n gain
of 245; Teller. GIG, n loss of 7T4.-
Kowa, 1885, n loss of twenty-two; Mon
tezuma. S13. n loss of twenty
Huerfano county reports three mutes.
all boys. and one blind girl. Teller
county has one blind boy and Kiowa
county n blind girl.