The Colorado statesman., 1909-05-22
STATE NEWS ITEMS

four wells at Florence, and two Of
them are below the 2,5OO-foot mark.
A bronze memorial tablet will be
placed in Palmer hall, Colorado Col
lege, by the generals old regiment,
the Fifteenth Pennsylvania.
Mrs. Elizabeth Cass Goddard of
Colorado Springs was elected presi-
dent of the Colorado Society of Colon
lal Danes at the convention held at
Colorado Springs this week.
Colorado postmasters appointed:
Minturn, Eagle county, Dora Baker,
vice D. ]. Maynard, resigned; West
minister, Adams county, Loren D. Null
ford, vice r. H. Mellett, resigned.
The National Orchard Heater Com
pany has been incorporated at Grand
Junction. capital 100000, and will
erect factory and manufacture fire.
pots on an extensive scale.
The following Colorado citizens have
been appointed timber cruisers in the
general land office service: Wilson S.
Blaser, Durango; Harry H. Schwartz,
Jr., Harry H. Ward, Jesse X. Chelten-
ten, Denver.
The Department of Commerce and
Labor has given favorable Endorsement
to Senator Guggenheim's bill estab-
fishing an additional fish hatchery in
Colorado. The bill provides for its To-
cation at Estes Park
G. S. Billheimer, state secretary of
the Y. NJ. c. A, was elected secretary
lf ha nj to
fill the vacancy caused by the resigna-
ton of F. l.. Starrett, who went to
Oakland, Cal, two weeks ago.
Governor Shafroth will preside at
he labor mass meeting to be held in
| The Denver auditorium on next Sun
day afternoon, under the combined
/ auspices of the Presbyterian general
assembly and the Denver Trades and
Labor assembly.
Denver's school population continues
| to jump, an increase of ASP per cent.
being shown by the census of the chill
dren between the ages of six and TWEEN
| ty years, inclusive. The enumerators'
returns show $3.50 children of school
age, an increase of 1915 during the
past year.
The continued cold weather has af-
fected fruit prospects around Boulder
and the cherries, plums and prunes
will fall short of full crop. Apple
trees are unusually full of bloom
and indications are good for one of
the largest crops ever grown in that
section.
Information has reached DIR. Leach,
chief of the federal laboratory in Den
yer, that the Association of Official
Agricultural Chemists will meet in
Denver at the same time that the
Pure Food and Dairy Commissioners
Association holds it's meeting here.
This will be from August oath to 9th.
The body of DR.. Stephen Douthitt,
killed in the snowslide at the Camp
Bird mine on January 22nd, was re-
covered Tuesday. 1t was buried I'M
der fifty feet of snow, $50 feet below
the trail. The body of George Witt
wer, killed at the same time, is still
in the snow, and hose line is being
used to wash away the snow.
The federal census bureau esti-
June 80, 1910, will be S73,416, an in
crease of 81 per cent over the popula-
ton shown by the report of the bu-
reau in 1900. The estimate for Den
| yer is 249, S51, and the officials of the
bureau say that this estimate prob
ably will have to be raised to above
100000.
The invitations for the thirty-fifth
annual commencement of the Colorado
School of Mines have been issued by
the Board of Trustees and the faculty
of the school. The commencement
will take place Friday afternoon, May
2Sth, at Simon Guggenheim hall. in
Golden. The annual address will be
delivered by Mr.. John Hays Ham
mond.
When the shift came at both head
ings of the Gunnison tunnel on the
morning of May 17tn the distance be-
tween the two was Just 900 feet. AT
the present rate of progress they will
come together by July goth, when the
2O,640 feet of the big bore will be
completed The opening day will be
between the 18th and goth of August,
when President Taft has announced
his intention to be present.
]. H. Day of the form of Gobel &
Day, produce merchants of New York
city. was in Montrose the middle of the
week, making an inspection of the fruit
situation. He stated that fruit in the
Hood river country in Oregon would
be short this season and that Idaho
would have only small crop.
He stated that Colorado had the best
fruit crop prospect of any state of the
West.
The government census of the Den
yer district for 1910 will be in charge
of A. B. McGaffey, who will relinquish