Gilpin observer., 1903-06-18

COLORADO BRIEFS.

Dr. Flor1an 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 H. Wan
| gelin, president of the Colorado editori-
| al Association.
A class of fourteen graduated at the
Leadyille High school June 18th. Pres
ident Slocum OF Colorado College de-
livered the address.
The new $26O.0OO science building of
Colorado College at Colorado Springs
(Palmer HalD will be ready for occu-
pancy next September.
A state convention of the Democratic
party will be held at Denver Septem-
Der 7th to nominate candidate for the
Supreme Court bench
The Retail Coal Dealers Association
of Denver met 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 DIST, be advanced from
! the fourth to the presidential class
and the postmaster receive $1,000 per
year.
| Land owners in the Platte valley
above Denver are organizing to fight
alleged encroachments on their water
rights by the Denver Union Water
Company.
At meeting of the Methodist Min
listers Association it was decided to
take up a collection in all the Meth
odist churches in Denver for the flood
sufferers in Kansas.
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 500.
The salaries at Amethyst and Victor
will be reduced 800 each and at Flor
ence will be reduced 5000.
1t is stated an anti-mashing league
Is to be started in Denver. Its object
! will be to smash the features of the
silly would-be mashers who annoy la
dies with their impudent attentions.
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.
In suit before justice of the peace
in Denver few days ago, over the
ownership of certain piece of prop
erty known and designated as one
queen bee, a hive of bees was brought
into court and speedily removed.
The Normal Institute of the Fourth
district of Colorado opened in the high
school building in Golden June Sth
with large attendance of teachers
from Clear Creek. Gilpin and Jefferson
counties, of which the district is COM
prised.
A morphine fiend who had been sent
to the Denver county Jail for term of
ninety days for vagrancy, found on his
release that he was not cured of the
habit and voluntarily sought another
months confinement, which was duly
awarded.
The county commissioners of Weld
county awarded. the contract for the
construction of the county poor house,
to be erected about mile and a 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
RADIO, has been presented a beautiful
pin set with diamonds and pearls by
the Woman's club of Boulder in ac-
acknowledgement of her services to that
organization.
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 and b of
East Denver school and c of West
Denver are represented.
William NJ Morris of Monte Vista
has applied to the Colorado Worlds
Fair Commission for financial aid in
the construction of an airship to be
exhibited at st. Louis next year. His
plans call for a structure thirty feet in
diameter and $50 feet long.
Judging by the condition of the play
ers of the Denver team of the Western
League, several of whom are entirely
disabled, while nearly all are battered
and bruised until they are hardly fit
to take the field, base ball is only
little less strenuous than football.
Tama Umemura. little Japanese
girl who was stolen and brought to
Denver for a life of shame, has been
rescued and placed in the House of the
Good Shepherd. where she is a great
favorite. She is learning English and
is being taught sewing. cooking and
housework.
The Union Pacific railroad has Just
issued new illustrated folder to ad-
vertise Colorado. 1t contains list OF
pleasure and health resorts, hotels, ETC.
and fine panoramic view of the city
of Denver. The demand for this folder
is said to be almost unprecedented,
showing that tourists are turning their
attention this way.
The Longmont City Council at its
June meeting on the 9th inst. passed a
prohibitory law. making 1t punishable
to buy or sell any alcoholic stimulant