The Elbert County tribune., 1902-05-08
cOLORADO'S CAPITAL.

liiF titArta AVA bAAo IN
the completion OF the Denver mint
They will be opened June Tth.
The spawn OF rainbow trout in thu
Gunnison river is being collected By
men employed by the game commits
sioner. The spawn will be put In tht
natcheries and eventually distributed
n other streams.
The Board of Capitol Manager
has let contract for building an
iron stairway from the rooms OF the
State Horticultural Society In the base
ment to the sub basement. where the
society has library and other collec-
ions.
The game commissioner recently de
creased the great collection of confis
Gated heads and hides that has accum-
ulated at his office by selling TO John
@. Osgood the heads of four Rocky
mountain sheep for 500. The com.
missioner hopes eventually TO sell all
the trophies that he has gathered.
During the last month number OF
interesting relics have been added to
the war relic department at the capitol
including articles from various battle
fields OF Virginia. borings from six
teen-inch steel rifle, which has range
OF ninteen miles and was made at thu
Washington navy yard, some relief
from the field of Santiago. and finally
n two-edged bolo with handwrougm
scabbard, presented by the Sultan Of
Samar to Lieutenant Wettengel of thu
navy.
The Supreme Court will decide
whether child born after its fathei
dies and left without n legacy can af.
forwards receive n share In the prop
erty. The question is raised In thu
suit filed In the State Supreme Court
In contest over the will of the late
George ii. Hobson. a banker of Pu.
eblo. The suit is brought by his broth
ers and sisters against Mrs. Sella j.
Hobson, on an appeal from the County
Court of Pueblo county, where the
widow won.
A small roasting plant has been erect
ed in the yard In the rear of the Den
yer branch mint. and 1t is doing good
work in the treatment of sweeps
These are gathered from the floor Of
the assay and refinery rooms, then sub
jected TO n light roast for disintegra-
tion, after which 1t is ground to about
thirty mesh and then washed. The
sweeps" are regularly accounted for
IN all mint reports. Formerly they
Ntlt sOlu III NilS tlty W thS hiEHSot
and best bidder.
Commlssioner-ln-C Chief George w.
Thatcher of the Colorado st. Louis
Fair Commission has appointed the
following advisory board: Agriculture.
Mayor George W. Swink, Rocky Ford;
NJ v. b. Page, Fruita; Jesse Harris.
Fort Collins; Senator Il. NJ. Ammons,
Littleton; Senator w. II. Adams, Ala
fattIfl Gnt
Hotchliss: b. II. Rockafellow, Canon
City; Charles Evans, Fort Collins.
Live Stock: Il. II. Grubb. Carbondale;;
George Ballantyne, Denver; Mors
Wyatt, Greeley.
The State Historical Society. through
Curator VIII G. Ferril, has been pre-
sented with thlrty-five bound volumes
of the Congressional Record for the
fifth-four1h and succeeding Cong
resses. The records were given by Con
gresham John Il. Shafroth. The socie-
ty was also presented recently with n
curious potato scraper,' which was
used in Ireland over a century ago. III.
X. Denroche, an old man, presented 1t,
saying that his great-grandfather had
used 1t. The society received from the
slime source, a supposed fac-simile of
the characters that We're inscribed on
the tower of Babel.
Senator Teller In n letter TO Mayor
Wright OF Denver, says: "If 1t is SO
can | shall be very glad to attend the
launching of the cruiser Denver, but l
cannot say now, on account of the bus
iness in the Senate, whether IL will be
possible for me to leave or not We
have some things now pending that l
regard as of considerable importance
to the people OF Colorado, and l feel
that it is my duty to stay here and
look after their interests. l refer more
particularly to the pending bill for the
reduction of duty on sugar. which l
think will very materially injure Colo
RADIO If 1t should pass" 1t may be
several months yet before the launch
The warrant that was sworn out by
Deputy Game Warden Bush against
William G. Ferril, curator of the State
Historical Society at the state house,
was served April both. Deputy Sheriff
Brown read to the curator the warrant
charging him with wantonly killing
song birds without first securing a per-
nit from the state game and fish
commissioner. Curator Fefril went
with the deputy sheriff to the court
house and was released upon his own
personal recognizance. His hearing
will be held May Sth. His defense will
be that there is no law now in force in
the state forbidding the killing of song
birds, that the law of 1897, which did
so protect these birds. was repealed by
the law of 1850. He Will also argue
that the birds he killed were intended
sor scientific purposes, that they are