The Grit-advocate., 1903-06-19
COLORADO BRIEFS.

Parties of schoolboys are being or
ganized at Pueblo to work in the beet
fields of O;ero county
DR.. Florian Cajori has been appoint
ed dean of the new school of engineer
ing at Colorado College.
The Western Publisher for June con-
tains fine portrait of Otto II. Wan
gelin, president of the Colorado editori-
al Association
A class of fourteen graduated at the
Leadville High school June 18th. Pres
ident Slocum of Colorado College de-
livered the address.
Inc new $2SO, 900 science building OF
Colorado College at Colorado Springs
palmer HalD will be ready for occu-
pancy next September
The Retail Coal Dealers Association
of Denver met a few days ago and
agreed to an increase Of twenty-five
cents ton on the price of Ignite coal.
The postoffice at Steamboat Springs
will, on July lst, be advanced from
the fourth to the presidential class
and the postmaster receive $1,000 per
year.
An investigation into the fall OF the
Michaelson building in Denver few
weeks ago has led to the arrest of the
architects, contractor and city building
inspector.
Land owners in the Platte valley
above Dapver are organizing to fight
alleged encroachments on their water
rights by the Denver Union Water
Company.
Judge Orr of the County Court at
Colorado Springs has appointed George
Irwin administrator of the estate of
the late Alvaro Hemeneway. His bond
is fixed at 100000.
July l the salary of the postmaster
at Telluride will be increased $lOO.
The salaries at Amethyst and Victor
will be reduced 500 each and at Flor
ence will be reduced 5000.
The widely-known Hotel de Paris at
Georgetown, kept for so many years by
the late Louis Dupuy, with its wine Gel
iar and library. has been purchased by
a Denver investment company.
On the night of June 18th Governor
Peabody delivered an address to the
graduates of the Centennial High
school in Pueblo. There were thirty
five graduates, of whom twenty-four
were girls.
The members Of Upton Post Grand
Army of the Republic. have erected a
granite monument on the federal
grounds park in Pueblo. 1t is sur
mounted by four ffteen-inch shells
used by the Union army in 1864.
In suit before justice of the peace
in Denver a few days ago. over the
ownership of certain piece of prop
erty known and designated as one
queen bee, hive Of bees was brought
into court and speedily removed.
Three hundred members will attend
the twelfth annual convention of the
National Association of ElOcutioniStS
in Denver, June 22nd to 26th inclusive.
These will represent teachers of elo-
cution in all parts of the country.
On June 18th bad accident hap
pened to the stage en- route from Red
Mountain to Ouray. The stage upset
with eight passengers on board and
went down an embankment nearly 200
feet. No one was fatally injured.
The county commissioners of Weld
county awarded the contract for the
construction of the county poor house,
to be erected about mile and half
northwest of the city, to Chancellor &
Robinson of Greeley for the sum of
$500.
Mrs. James H. Baker, wife of the
president of the University of Colo
rado, has been presented a beautiAii
pin set with diamonds and pearls by
the Woman's club of Boulder in ac-
acknowledgement of her services to that
organization.
THE Pines" beautiful tract of 100
onr ,anf will hn out
ed into cemetery this summer 1t
has been bought by the Monument
Park Cemetery Association, recently
incorporated. Colorado Springs is the
nearest large town.
The High School Cadets of Denver,
sixty strong, went into camp at Ly-
Ons on the 10th inst. Lieutenant Har-
tung of the National Guard of Colorado
is in command. Companies A and B of
East Denver school and of West
Denver are represented.
William NJ Morris of Monte Vista
has applied to the Colorado Worlds
Fair Commission for financial aid in
Me construction of an airship to be
exhibited at st. Louis next year. His
plans call for structure thirty feet in
diameter and $50 feet long
According to the number of names
printed in the new city directory the
population of Denver is 164571. This
is based ons the ratio established by
comparing the number of names in the
directory for 1900 with the population
shown by the United States taken in
that year.
Mrs. N. X. Smith celebrated her
ninetieth birthday anniversary at
Boulder June 18th. She has resided in
Colorado since 1860. Mrs Smith is
mother of Mrs James P. Maxwell, Mrs.
c. NJ. Tyler. Mrs. E. j. Temple and
Mrs. G. A. Platt. all residents of Boul-
der, and r. M. Smith of Longmont and
Lou Smith of Tacoma, Washington All
of these children survive and the