The Delta independent., 1901-05-03
COLORADO NOTES.

The poetoffice at Moraine, Larimer
| county, Is ordered removed half -miie
southeast.
Theodore F. Wilson of Colorado has
been reinstated us a 5000 pension Of
flee clerk at Washington.
Clara Whitmore has been commits
stoned postmistress ut Valverde, ana
| John DietZ as postmaster at OVerianu.
The postoffice at Curtis, Washington
| cOusty, 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. |. H.
| Burkholder.
The attorney general says that the
new revenue bill does not repeal the
military poll tax. Hence ii will be col
| lected us usual.
| The Colorado Springs reception com
mittee will arrange to take President
Mckinley up to the Cripple Creek gold
camps and back on June 18th.
The Supreme Order of Married
Mems League, II fraternal and beneh-
ciary society organized in Missouri,
has filed It's incorporation papers in
| Colorado.
The recent school census in Love.
land shows 943 pupils of school age,
ain Increase OF 16I over last year.
| Additional school buildings will have
| 10 be erected.
| The recent wolf roundup near Holly
resulted in the capture OF two large
wolves. There were about 200 horse
| and unit.. n nItm lst nf .snfriul,ss
In attendance.
| John +. 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 10 spend $4,000 In Denver TO
| build ear cleaning shops AT Twenty
sixth street. The ears win be clean
\ ed by compressed air.
| The Womnn's Club OF Longmont
has completed a stone walk to the
cemetery, north Of town. The work
! WAS undertaken year ago aud has
just been finished. The walk Is about
half a mile long and four feet wide.
The hearing in the case OF william
| Viii and Tony Lepage. at Ouray. ac-
cuscd OF forgery. resulted In both be-
| Ing bound over TO the District Court
on 500 bond each. They failed 10
give bonds and were placed In jail.
The county commissioners of Gilpiu
county In April took up Sl3.!nO coun-
iy bonds. This cleans up the entire
Indebtedness OF the county. There Is
yet remaining In The hands OF the
county treasurer the sum OF $1,000.
The Office OF State Treasurer Chip
ley bids fair so be swnmped with
liquor license fees. the clerical force
being hardly sufficient TO receive and
register them rs fast as they come In
The receipts for one day wer. over
5000.
William II. Davlc has been appoin'-
ed postmaster af Florence. He is
druggist and has resided III Florence
about five years. Dr. J, W. Rambo.
the retiring postmaster. is company
physician for the +. X g. e. road and
has held the Office about two years
Game Warden Harris recently re-
ccived n letter from W. c. Cove. OF
creede. stating thnt seven mountain
sheep were recently killed by snow
slide near Amethyst. Colorado. The
heads are said to be intnc, and viii he
preserved by the state.
The Colorado Springs lodge OF Eiks
wants 20 have n hand In making an
Elk OF President Mckinley. who *
said TO hbyc been recently elected a
member OF the oidcr by Washing
ton lodge. IL IL 10 he feared TIM, he
will think they are trying TO make
game OF him.
Dean Samuel Blnkeslee OF the School
OF Music Of the University Of Denver
In preparing for musical festival
May Goth. 2ist and 22nd. The ora
torlo OF Elijah" will liz sung. and
chorus OF several hundred voices made
up from the various choirs OF the city
and students In the school viii sing.
T. j. Holland has been reappoin,ca
superintendent OF the state fish hatch
cries by Fish and Game Commission
or Harris, and T.. l.. IIager has been
rcnppointcd superintendent OF the fish
hntcherics nj Denver by the same Of
iicinL w. X. Callicottc wnS nm appli-
cant for the position OF superintendent
Of hatcheries.
Edward j., Sexton. the Denver iii-
surancc man. who shot himself with
suicidal Intent nt the room OF n friend
In the National hotel nj Cripple Creek
April 25th. died nt the Sisters ho~pi-
tai two days later. Death wns direct
ly due 10 n hemorrhngc resulting from
the bullet wound through the LEFT
lung. Mrs. Sexton was down from
Denver and remained Mt his bedside
10 the last.
Under the new Colorado revenue law
mn Inheritance tax IN levied on all
estates valued at 5000 or over Mt the
rate OF So per hundred on property
which shnll pass Tor 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.
aunt. i,iece, pephew or any other lineal
descendant the Tux is 80 per hundred.
ColonIst business continues cxtraor-
dinarily large FOR this season of tho
year. More than 1,40O colonists' tick
ets DOSSe1 through tho Ifnion denot