Gilpin observer., 1903-05-07
COLORADO BRIEFS

day for riding bicycles on the side
walks.
The first work Of the grand jury al
Colorado Springs was to bring ten in
dictments against keepers Of houses o1
ill-fame
E. H. Martin, former warden of the
state penitentiary, has sold two bears
badger and a fox. to be placed in the
City park at Denver.
Mrs. Helen Grenfell, state superin.
tendent of instruction, addressed the
Teachers Association of eastern coun-
ties at Holyoke, May End.
Warden Cleghorn has already en-
ployed thirty-one new men in the pen
itentiary. The entire interior Of the
prison has been repainted.
L. R. Ingersoll of the class of 1902 In
Colorado College, has secured fellow
ship in physics for the coming year al
the Northwestern University.
The Chrysolite saw mill and lumber
yard on Fryer hill, at Leadville, was
burned on the night of May list, the
loss being estimated at $4,000.
,, An automobile race will be run from
Denver May Both to some point in the
state and return. It is intended more
for an endurance test than for speed.
At recent meeting in Denver the
Colorado Osteopathic Association
passed resolutions commencing Gov
ernor Peabody for vetoing the Sanford
medical bill.
From the fact that l. Harry Stratton
has sent for some of his furniture to
be shipped to Pasadena, Calf, 1t is
though that he will not return to make
his home at Colorado Springs.
Secretary Martha Shute of the State
Horticultural Board has received from
Senator Patterson $500 small packages
of vegetable seed for gratuitous distri-
button from her Office at Denver.
The town of Globeville has surren-
dered its books as well as other effects
to the officers of the City and County
of Denver, thereby establishing the
record of being the first suburb to will
'ingly enter the city.
George w. Andrews & Co. nave
closed deal for the purchase of the
old Hiawatha garden at Manitou. An
opera troupe has been engaged for sew
eral weeks and entertainment through
out the summer will be provided.
Thirty-three medical students were
graduated by the Denver and Gross
College of Medicine, branch of the
University of Denver, on Tuesday
April 2Sth. They hail from eleven diff
ferent states of the Union ana one is
from Canada.
Following are the dates appointed
by State Engineer Carpenter to hold
examinations for irrigation division
engineers: Pueblo. April 3Oth; Den
yer, May 9Th; Alamosa. May 11th:
Montrose, May 18th, and Glenwood
Springs, May 18th.
The directors of Denver's first social
settlement, the Neighborhood House in
West Denver, has arranged for the
purchase of the Gross Medical College
building at a cost of $4,000 This will
give the settlement well located and
commodious headquarters.
A handsome photograph of William
N. Byers has been presented to the
State Historical and Natural History
Society of Colorado by Mrs. Byers
Mary Byers Robinson and Frank Sum-
ner ByerS Mr.. Byers at the time of
his death was president Of the society
DR.. Arthur Allin. professor of psy-
chology and education at the State uni
versity, will deliver the commence
ment Grafton at the University of New
Mexico June 5th. President Baker will
deliver the commencement Grafton at
the University of Wyoming June 18th.
Fully 800 delegates will be in attend
ance at the sessions of the convention
of the Brotherhood of Railway Train
men, which will meet in Denver, be-
ginning May 18th. They will repre-
sent locals from every state and terri
tory in the Union, also the Canadian
provinces.
Captain Hamilton s. Hawkins, Unit
ed States cavalry, has been assigned to
duty at Denver as assistant to the
chief commissary of the Department
of the Colorado. He will relieve Cap
tain Frank A. Cook. who will proceed
to Omaha for duty in the Department
Of the Missouri.
Mr. Brooks, cOngressman-at-larg
for Colorado. has written to Hot Sui
.phur Springs that the petition recently
sent in for the establishment OF mail
route between Kremmling and To-
ponas is being considered at Washing
ton and that it will receive his most
earnest support.
Vincent Lappin, captain and man
ager of the Leadville Blues of the
State Baseball League, was fatally in
jured by a fall in the Meyer mine at
Leadville April 9th. He fell a dis
tance OF fifty feet and his right leg
was terribly fractured, besides bruises
and internal injuries.
A Madison. Wisconsin. dispatch,
says: Prof. w. l.. Madison. professor
of animal industry In the State Uni
versity, has decided to accept posi-
ton offered him as professor of agri-
culture in the State Agricultural Col
lege of Colorado. He will not leave
Wisconsin until the end of the college
year.
Manager Ridgway is said to have
given instructions to the agent of a
Denver employment bureau to have
more than 1000 men sent on the Moi
fat road when requisitioned by the