Gilpin observer., 1902-06-12
COLORADO BRIEFS

Eugene v. Debs, the noted Socialist
and labor leader, is arranging to make
his home in Denver.
The National Bee Keepers Associa-
tion will meet at Denver September I'd
for three-days' session.
The publishers of the new Denver
directory, just out estimate the popu-
lation of the city at 152, 152.
The strike in the La Plata coal fields
was declared off by the miners at
mass meeting held at Durango June
End.
Denver is proud of the fact that
there is no smallpox in the city and
very very few cases ofaliphtheria or scarlet
w. r. Thomas of the Denver News
will deliver two lectures ON irrigation
before the California Chautauqua next
August.
There were twelve students in the
graduating class of the law school of
the University of Colorado at Boulder
this year.
A moving picture of the Denver fire
department making its best time on a
run down Sixteenth street was taken
few days ago.
The large grand stand at Chutes
park in Denver was burned on. the
night of June 4th. 1t cost $4,000 and
was not insured.
There were thirty-five students in
the graduating class of the prepara-
tory school of the University of Colo
RADIO at Boulder this month.
The athletic association of the Uni
VI " of ha
rated by Lucius w. Hoyt, Wilbur d.
Engle, Benjamin Griffith and j. L.
Rossignol.
On June 3rd the Agricultural college
cadets from Fort Collins went into
camp at Poudre canon for weeks
drill. About 100 men We're in line for
the march.
Postmaster Moorhead of Boulder re-
ports an increase of sixty-nine per
cent. in the business of the postoffice
for May over what it was last year
for the same month.
+. L. Dillon of Fort Worth, Texas
recently caught a trout in the Platte
river at Bailey'S that measured sew
enteen and one-half inches in length
and weighed six and one-half pounds.
In the District Court at Telluride
June 9Th John Miller was sentenced
to life Imprisonment in the peniten
tiary at Canon City for the murder of
John Touhy in a saloon quarrel.
The graduating class of the Centen-
NAL high school at Pueblo this year
contained seventeen boys and sixteen
girls, being the first time that the
boys have outnumbered the girls.
The civil service commission will
hold an examination at Denver on
July Sth for the purpose of filling the
position of engineer in the bureau of
chemistry, Department of Agriculture.
Mrs. Nellie Gabrin, widow of Repre-
was suspected of poisoning in Denver,
has been paid $1,000, the amount of his
insurance policy in then Woodmen Of
the World.
Ex-Governor John l.. Routt has re-
turned TO Denver with his daughter,
after a two-years' sojourn in Paris.
He says that Denver looks dirty COM
pared with the clean streets of the
French metropolis.
G. A. Walker, who shot and killed
Jay Taylor at boarding house near
Leadville in April, was tried in the
District Court and found not guilty.
The quarrel was about young lady
and Taylor was the attacking party.
In the District Court at Greeley
June 9th George Warner, who was
found guilty of assault with intent to
murder l.. Forshey of Highland Lake,
was sentenced to serve not less than
three nor more than five years in the
state penitentiary.
The salary of the postmaster at La
Junta has been increased from $1,000
to $1,000; Montrose has been increased
from $1,700 to S1,S0O. James Young
has been appointed postmaster at Alt
man. w. ii. Hersum has been appoint
ed postmaster at Olathe.
Diplomas were granted to 2S6 grad
yates from four high schools in the
city of Denver on Thursday, June 9Th,
as follows: District No. 1 EAST Den
ver), 40; District No. . (West Den
ver), 66; District No. II North Den
ver). 62; Manual Training high school,
District No. /, As.
a townsite comprising 100 acres has
just been laid out by County Surveyor
Woodside on the north slope of Bald
mountain, about ten miles west of
Colorado Springs. The new town will
be called Street City in honor of f. y.
Street, who discovered gold on Bald
mountain about three years ago.
The Cripple Creek Chamber of Com
merce recently issued the first of its
series of official guides to Cripple
Creek, which, 1t is believed, will ac-
complish great deal of good for the
district. 1t is the purpose Of the cham
her to distribute the guide among all
tourists arriving in Denver, Pueblo
ond Colorado Springs.
In the District Court at Greeley the
jury In the case of the people vs.. \. l..
Burdett, on four different charges Of
unlawfully driving cattle from their
accustomed range. returned Il verdict