Gilpin observer., 1908-09-17
COLORADO NEWS

cessful.
The University of Denver has
opened school of commerce, accounts
and finance. Graduates will be given
the degree of B. c. S-Bachelor Com.
mercial Science.
The Democratic State Press Asso.
citation held a meeting at Pueblo at
which H. c. Branch of Denver was
elected president and George NJ. Kim.
ball of Golden secretary.
BY the will of the late Mrs Kathryn
Mclaughlin, who died in Denver re-
Gently, her entire estate escept few
minor bequests will go to the Old La
dies Home Association of Denver. The
income rs estimated at $50 a month.
The Boulder Fish and Game club has
been incorporated, the articles of incor-
poration stating that the association
Is not fof profit but to stock the
streams and woods of the region with
trout and game. The incorporators are
Daniel E. McAllister, Peter C. Johnson
and Adam Weber.
Superintendent Deacon OF the Union
Printers Home will take charge of
the homes exhibit at the International
tuberculosis Congress in Washington,
ID. c., September 21st. A model steam
heated tent, patterned after those
used at the home, will be feature
of the exhibit.
A Hartford, Connecticut, dispatch OF
the 10th inst says that the gray geld
ing trotter, Doctor Harvey, was sold
at Charter Oak Park today to G. E.
Estabrook of Denver. The consdera-
tion was $4,000, and horsemen here
are of the opinion that the Denver
man made wise move.
Governor Buchtel has appointed Mrs.
]. ID. Whitmore of Denver and Mrs.
II. |. Wood of Trinidad, members of
the Colorado Travelling Library Com
mission. Their terms will be three
years each and their duties will be to
read and select works best fitted for
the libraries.
Koliang Yih, son of a Chinese admi-
raj and member of the nobility OF
the Chinese Empire, arrived in Cripple
Creek from Cornell University few
days since, where he is taking post
graduate course in mining and will
spend some time in the gold camp in
vestigating mining conditions.
Forty-two delegates to the National
Irrigation congress have been ap-
pointed today by Mayor West of Pu-
eblo and the county commissioners.
The delegates will take fine display
of photographs and Pueblo products to
the congress and will make a strong
bid to secure the next meeting for
Pueblo.
Mrs. Frona R. Houghan, for thirty
years teacher in the Denver public
schools and at present principal of the
Gilpin school, has been named as the
Denver representative of a committee
of educators who will shortly leave for
Europe where careful study of the
school systems abroad will be made
with a view to making improvements
in American educational institutions.
During the first twelve days of the
month an approximate total of $4,000
tons of ore has been produced in the
Cripple Greek district, of which $4,000
tons has been shipped to the valley
mills and smelters. The figures ex-
ceed considerably those of the previ-
Gus month and if the weather remains
favorable the output for last month
will be greatly surpassed:
Taft" and Mrs. Taft" the two pet
antelope in the state fish hatchery
near Denver, were killed Tuesday night
by dogs, which leaped the wire inclos-
antelope were about a year old, and
were presented to the hatchery by the
members of the state fish and game
commission, one of the game wardens
having caught them when they were
lawns only few days old.
Fruit shippers are considerably wor-
ried over raise in freight rates which
they claim will be in the nature of dis
elimination against Colorado because
the new rate on fruits from the Pacific
states'is the same as that to st. Louis.
The tariff on apples from Portland to
Denver goes up from so cents to 81 in
carload lots. The rate on fruits of the
Hood river section in Oregon is ad.
vanced 70 cents to 80 cents.
The big fruit crop in the North Fork
country has necessitated changes in
the train service on the Rio Grande
branch from Delta to Somerset. Be-
ginning Sunday, September 18th,
trains Nos. 377 and 37S, on the North
Fork line, have been changed from
mixed trains to straight passenger
trains. The business of carrying the
fruit crop 20 market will be taken
care of by special trains.
Camp Cleghorn, in Las Animas coun.
ty, where so or 80 convicts are at work
on the state highway. is entirely with.
out a guard and the convicts are upon
their own honor. One of their men,
bers patrols the camp at night to keep
hoboes away. Since the guards were
taken off there has been no attempt
at escape, and the prisoners openly de.
clare that II anyone tries to get away
they will assist in having him returned
to the penitentiary.
Owing to the late season 1t is not
thought that the sugar campaign in
Weld county will begin until Oct. 1st,
although the factories are In readiness
for operation should crops be ready
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