Gilpin observer., 1902-05-15
COLORADO BRIEFS.

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Civil service examinations will be
held at Leadville and Pueblo, ON May
| 2Sth, for the purpose of filling positions
in the postoffices of the two cities.
Kate, the lioness at Elitchs Gardens
In Denver gave birth to three cubs on
the 9th instant, all of which seemed
likely to survive the perils of infancy.
| Civil service examinations will be
held in Aspen and Fort Collins on May
2Sth for the purpose of filling the posi-
tiOns of clerk and letter carrier in those
places.
On May 9th the Denver baseball
team stood third in the Western
League and the Colorado Springs team
| seventh. There are eight cities in the
! league.
Postmaster L. C. Dana of Colorado
| Springs has received notice from Wash
| ington that his request for four extra
clerks during the summer season would
| be allowed.
The civil service commission will
| hold an examination at Denver on June
/ 18th, 18th and 10Th, for the purpose of
| filling the position Of cadet in the reve-
nue. cutter service.
One hundred and ten bakers went on
a strike in Denver on the 18th instant.
| They want their wages increased from
| 30 cents an hour to 80 cents, also half
an hour for lunch.
The faculty of the State Normal
School at Greeley decided that out of
the senior class of seventy members
| sixty-eight are entitled to graduation
from the institution June 1st.
There are nineteen students from
| Colorado in the University of Michi-
gan, divided among the departments as
| follows: Literary, Z; law, 8; engineer
ing, medicine and dentistry, one in
| each.
The Leadville Christian Endeavor So
ciety has appointed it's committees and
Is making preparations for the four
teenth annual state Christian Endeav-
or convention to be held at Leadville
July Sth.
The members of school board No. 2,
Pueblo, have accepted the offer of the
Minnequa Town Company to donate
eight lots If the board would erect
$4,000 high school building within u
reasonable time.
In the District Court at La Junta
Scanlan and Hannahan, the confessed
bank robbers who dynamited the vault
| in the Bank of Fowler and got away
| Win Sl,OOO bSt were given
from four to ten years each in the peni-
tentiary.
Mrs. Martha A. Shute, secretary of
the Board Of Agriculture, has been ap-
pointed superintendent of the horticul-
tural display at the STATE fair in Pu-
eblo. The premium fund for this dis
play has been increased this year from
$7OO to $780,
1t is reported that Pueblo is likely to
have genuine 'sky scraper." Charles
Henkel, in association with New York
people, is said to be planning the early
| erection Of ten-stOry steel building
at the southeast corner of Third and
Main street.
The executive board of the Western
Federation of Miners will meet in Den
yer on May 22nd for prolonged ses-
sion. The convention does not open
until May 26th. President Boyce an
ticipates the largest convention in the
history of the organization.
Chancellor Buchtel of the University
Of Denver announces that he has Sc
cured pledges for $4,000 of the
amount needed to place the institution
free from debt. Only 100000 remains
to be raised and the prospect of getting
that soon Is very encouraging.
Bishop Henry w. Warren has tele-
graphed from Chattanooga, Tennessee,
announcing the conferences over which
he will preside this summer as follows:
Wyoming, August eth; Utah, August
14th; Colorado, August 21st. He will
preside over two Ohio conferences also.
The Rev. Bruce Brown, pastor of the
Central Christian Church in Denver,
has offered the use of the church free
lab. e..,,
public meetings as they may wish 10
hold. The building is II fine one. and
is not rented for less than $50 night.
The city of Boulder owns its own
water works, which cost about $22O,OO0,
and is receiving enough for water 10
pay Off its Indebtedness ut the rate
of $4,000 year. Boulder's municipal
affairs are operated ON an S-mill rate,
inclusive of provisions for its sinking
fund.
]. II. Crowley of Rocky Ford. a
member of the State Board of Horti-
culture, has written Secretary Shute
that never in the history of the state
i have the fruit trees been as heavily
l laden with blossoms as they are this
spring. He predicts Il crop never be-
fore equaled in his section of Colorado.
Was has begun at Pueblo on exten-
sive improvements which are estimated
to cost $4,000, to be made at Lake
Minnequa by the Minnequa Townsite
Company. The changes include the
building of handsome pavilion and u
small theater. which will be operated
| during the summer.
Congressman Bell has asked the post
Office department for Il rural free deliv-
cry system mt Montrose, where 1t is pro-
posed to establish n route twenty five
miles In length and the first assistant
postmaster general has promised to or.
der an examiner from Kansas for the