Gilpin observer., 1903-08-13
COLORADO BRIEFS.

A full-blooded buffalo calf was born
at the City park In Denver few days
ago. 1t is the second that has been
born there.
The contract for the erection OF the
new school building at Brush has been
let to George Cudworth for $4,000,
work to be commenced at once.
The Denver District Conference Of
Methodist ministers will be held Aug
ust Gath, preparatory to the annual
State Conference, which will begin
August Oath. and at which Bishop
Cranston will preside.
The short dove shooting season
opened August LIST and an astonishing
ly large number Of permits were taken
out in many parts of the state. In
Denver 800 permits were issued in one
day and 154 were issued in Pueblo up
to August End.
The Colorado State Fair Association
Is preparing to give the State Fair at
Pueblo this year during the week OF
September 14th to 18th, and the man
agement is now sending out premium
lists and other information regarding
the big exposition Of 1908.
The Rev. Bruce Brown, now of Chi
cago but formerly the popular pastor
of the Central Christian Church in
Denver, has been ordered before the
War Department for examination as to
his fitness for an appointment as chap
lain in the regular army.
The Cripple Creek Short Line re-
ports that the tourist business to the
camp this summer has broken all pre-
vious records. Last months total ag-
gregated $500 more passengers than
during July of last year, with August's
business SO far in proportion.
H. H. Tompkins, member of the
lower house In the Thirteenth and
Fourteenth Colorado General Assem-
blies, who lives near Buena Vista, on
the 4th inst, took swallow Of car
bolic acid in mistake for cough medi-
cine and came near losing his life.
A, Trinidal dispatch Of August 4th
to Denver paper says: Sunday aft
ernoon at Beanea, in the Stonewall
valley. four inches of large hail fell.
At Stonewall three inches Of snow fell
and laid until sun-up next day. At
Tercio it was so cold that people had
to wear overcoat collars turned up.
The cattle exhibit at the State Fair
at Pueblo this fall promises to exceed
anything of the kind ever before seen
in the state. Cattle growers from
Missouri, Illinois and other states, re-
alizing the Importance Of reaching the
Colorado stock raisers, will be there
with their herds of fine stock.
Adjutant General Bell has returned
to Denver after avisit to Washington and
to President Roosevelt at Oyster Bay.
He went for the purpose OF trying to
make arrangements by which the fall
military maneuvers may be held as at
first proposed and hopes that his mis-
sion may prove to have been success
full.
A Washington dispatch says that the
Secretary of the Interior has approved
the bond of William M. Peterson, the
newly appointed superintendent of Ft-
| Lewis Indian school. AS soon as he
receipts to Superintendent Breen, who
Is still In charge, for all supplies and
property at the school, Peterson will
assume charge.
The Miners Magazine, the oficial
organ of the Western Federation of
Miners, has absorbed the Colorado
Chronicle and the Socialist, and will
be issued weekly in magazine form un-
der the editorship OF ]. M. O'Neill
Messrs. Thum and Coates, having sold
the Chronicle. will retire from the
newspaper field.
Permits were granted for 112 dwell
ings by the Denver building inspector
during July. This Is considered the
most phenomenal record for this class
of houses in the history of the city.
Nine-tenths of these dwellings are be-
ing erected by the owners for personal
occupancy. The dwellings averaged
81, 900 each in cash.
F. D. Pastorius Of Colorado Springs
has been appointed immigration COM
missioner of Ell Paso county by the
Board Of County Commissioners. His
duties in this position are to advance
the interests of the county in every
possible way as a farming community
and to attract desirable farmers to this
county for residence. He serves with
out salary.
The pay roll an announced by the
chief clerk of the Minnequa works at
Pueblo will be $305. .678.7S for the
month of July. This amount included
$50, 500 paid out to the employees of the
Colorado & Wyoming road. This pay
roll Is unusually low on account of the
Fourth of July being observed at the
plant, and on account Of the ma
chinists' strike, which lasted two
weeks.
The Western Negro Press Associa-
ton. at its meeting in Colorado
Springs. passed resolutions directed to
Pope Plus X. calling his attention to
the race problem and asking his good
ofiices to preserve friendly relations
between the two races and to break
down the spirit of uufairness 40 Dreva-
many instances deprive the negro Of
an opportunity to earn an honest liv-
ing for his family.
A surveying party left the once of
State Engineer Carpenter August 4th