The Colorado statesman., 1908-06-06
COLORADO NEWS


| convention of Elks June 18th and 18th.
Glenwood Springs proposes to raise
$4,000 for the erection of an audi
torium.
The school census just completed
in Fort Morgan shows an increase
from 372 children of school age in 1900
to 1,471 in 1908.
The Lakeside park and summer re-
sore grounds, just completed at Den
yer at cost of 100000, was formally
opened to the public on Memorial Day.
A baby lion has been born at the
Colorado Springs zoo. The cub, which
is splendid specimen of the African
lion, is named "Zoolita," in honor OF
its birthplace.
Edwin T. Howe, an attorney who
was to have assisted in the prosecu-
tion in the Steve Adams trial at Grand
Junction next month, died at Telluride
June End of pneumonia.
Civil service examination will be
held June oath at Denver, Cheyenne,
Trinidad and Grand Junction for the
position of clerks and collectors in the
revenue office at Denver.
Concrete, the new cement town sew
en- miles east of Florence, is to have a
master 1t will serve about 500 people
and will open in few days.
While placing a revolver in it's hol-
ster on the 3rd inst, Roy Campbell,
aged twenty-one, son of well-to-do
ranchman near Collbran, was accident
ally shot through the heart and killed
Paul Wilson, president, and 7. ].
Skaggs, secretary of the Colorado
State Rp nv Dnn1arc' AGcoaiotinn haVa
issued call for the second quarterly
convention to be held at Pueblo June
26th and 9th.
AT the last meeting of the regents
of the University of Colorado gradua-
tion day was permanently set aside
as a day on which to decorate the
grave of A. ]. Mackey, in commemora-
tion of his magnificent bequest to the
State University.
OF the two hundred fifty member
ships at $110 each which are required
to insure the erection of two hundred
thousand dollar pavilion for the use of
the Western Stock Show Association,
it is reported that 1875 have already
been secured.
In the District Court at Ouray Judge
Shackelford overruled the motion of
Attorneys for Steve Adams, charged
with the murder of Arthur Collins, de-
manding that the prosecution furnish
the defense with copy of the alleged
confession of Adams The defense was
given twelve days in which to file ex-
ceptions.
Work has begun in Steamboat
Springs clearing the right of way for
the entrance of the Moffat road, and
grading camp will be established. Grad
ing camps dot the right of way all
along the route from the Springs to
Yampa, and it is believed that trains
will be running into Steamboat Springs
by Christmas
The following Colorado postmasters
have been appointed: First One, Weld
county, Thomas c. Coombs, vice, Roy
j. Dutton, resigned; Gray Creek, Las
Animas county, William E. Sperry,
vice l.. A. Klinger, resigned; Radiant,
Fremont county, James Mathews, vice
w. e. Sperry, resigned; Weldon, Nor
gan county, w. l.. Day, vice G. Grif
fifth, resigned.
The hotel keepers of Colorado
Springs will entertain the members of
the Rocky Mountain Hotel and
Restaurant Keepers Association on
the occasion of the annual out
ing of that body, June 18th and
14th. A frying pan picnic will
be held in South Cheyenne Canon
June 18th. and in the evening a dance
will be held at Stratton Park.
Thomas Grove, aged fifty-six, and
proprietor of the new Southern hotel
at Pueblo, died June End after a short
illness. Mr.. Grove was an old resi-
dent of Pueblo, and was considered one
of the best steel men in the West For
several years he was superintendent of
the converter department of the Min
nequa plant. He was an elk and
member of the Royal Arcanum, and is
survived by widow, three sons and
two daughters.
The production o. the Cripple Creek
gold mining district for the month of
May has eclipsed all previous records
so far as tonnage is concerned, al
though by reason of the unprecedented
shipments of low-gl ade dump ore the
average value of the product has been
materially reduced. The actual ton
mage, as computed from the figures Sc.
cured from the Elill and smelter ac-
credited representatives, totals 65,193
tons, of gross bullion value of $1,354,-
800. The general average value of all
grades of ore is S20.S0.
Denver and Colorado Springs Elks
together with all other antlered breth-
ren over the state, are negotiating
with John w Pigg, a noted hunter of
Canon City who has an elk reserva-
tion in the Black Mountain district, to
take a carload of live elk to the ma
tional convention in Dallas, Texas, this
summer. Mr.. Pigg has 100 elk on his
reservation, pair of which he has
trained to drive, and the idea is to
have r. l.. Holland of Colorado
Springs, who is slated for grand ex-
aited ruler. drive through the city be-
hind the trained animals.