North Park union., 1901-06-14
COLORADO NOTES.

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Eighteen students were graduated oy
the Trinidad high school June 4.n.
The Broadmoor hotel and casino ~
Colorado Springs were opened June
LIST. ;.
The senior class of the State Normal
School played "Hamlet" IN the opera
house at Greeley on the Mghe oi
June 4th.
July LIST the salary OF the postmaster
at LOngmont will be advanced from
So 900 to 81, 100, and at Florence from
81 800 to 81, 100.
The recent rummage sale Tor the
benefit of the Free Reading Room AS
sociation Of Central City, netteo
trife less than 500.
The order of May 18th discontinuing
the postoffice of Graneros, fueDio
county, has been revoked ana tne oiu
postmaster reinstated.
The La. Junta school census, just
completed. shows 1.OS4 children pc
tween the age of six and twenty-one
years, 562 being boys and oZ2 glrls.
Several inches of SNOW fell at Lead,
Vile June 4th. This reinforces the oid
saving that Leadville has nine months
winter and three months late III Tue
fall.
Memorial Day was never more gen
orally observed throughout the STATE
than this year, although IN quite q
number of places the rain interierco
with the exercises.
The school census Of Golden SHOWS
9l6 children of school age. rms is an
increase of sixty-twO over last year
Other large districts in Jenerson coun-
ty show a like increase.
La Junta, having raised the amount
required as q guarantee, is to nave u
$4,000 open house, with seating ca
pacity Of 75O. which 1t is hoped to
complete by October LIST.
The senior class of the State uni
yersity at Boulder played Much ADO
About Nothing" under the trees IN tne
open air on the college campus on tne
evening of June 4th. A special train
load of people were present from Den-
yer.
The secretary of the interior on June
LIST approved thirty-nine permits 10
Craze 7,716 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
26th last, has been solved by the re-
ceipt of letter from her to the Puepio
Chieftain, In which she states that she
is alive and we'll 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 conservativeiy esu-
mated at $25,OOO.
Miss Margaret E. Stratton, gradu-
ate Of Oberlin College and for some
time dean of the wOman's departmehs
of Wellesley College, has been elected
dean of the woman's department OF
the University of Colorado.
1t is said that the 1900 head OF
Mexican steers on the Las AnlmaS
ranges belonging to the Ernest-Wilson-
Towers syndicate are to be moved to
Montana ranges this summer, the exc
dus beginning about the middle OF this
month.
Colorado Springs is making exten-
Give preparations for the auarto-ccn-
tennial celebration August LIST, 2nd
and 3rd. General Palmer has given
the committee his check for 300 and
other wealthy citizens have promised
substantial aid.
Some of the Denver newspapers, as
well as base ball tends, are chagrined
because the Denver team has 30 low
rank In the Western League. As an
old player puts Il. 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 1t will be done at their expense
as required by law and the cost
charged to the property.
May, 1901, was a 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 SO67
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, 1t 10 said,
under the Inheritance law enacted by
the last Legislature and is based ON
an estimated valuation Of $1.OOOOOO.
On the 3Oth ultimo. Frank N. Hunt,
a machinist employed at the Gold Coin
mine at Victor, was struck by cage
of the main shaft and his head entire
ly severed from his body. He was
forty-fcur years Of age and leaves
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 ". White,
Jr., formerly Of the Western Press As
ISOLATION, is vice president and general
manager. while e. A. Bingham, well
known In Denver and Laramie, heads
the editorial staff.
Fred Holder, aged twenty five, a
trusted employe of the Economic Gold
Extraction Company at Victor, was
arrested June 4th, charged with steal
ing from the moulding room of the
company's mill In Eclipse gulch, a gold
pig weighing something less than Ave
pounds and valued Mt $1,000. Holder