Gilpin observer., 1909-06-03
COLORADO ITEMS

commissioner 1Or District No. l by
Governor Shafroth.
The conservation of the Rev. Benja-
min Brewster as Episcopal bishop of
western Colorado will take place in
Salt Lake City June 18th.
The Santa Fe will erect building at
La Junta for division headquarters and
a new freight depot costing $25, 1000 be-
fore the end of the year.
A $4,000 bond issue for the pur-
pose of building new high school was
authorized in an election at Grand
Junction. Less than 100 votes were
cast.
Supervisor A. ]. Spengel has intro
duced an ordinance in the Denver City
Council to tax all kinds of vehicles for
the creation of fund to be used in
street improvements.
Justice Ben Spencer of Pine Grove
pleaded guilty to fishing out of season
before Justice Snyder at Golden and
was fined $25 and costs. He paid the
costs and the fine was remitted
A banquet to Mrs. w. H. Taft, wife
of the President, is being planned by
prominent women of Denver and the
state. while she is here with President
Taft during the Trans Mississippi Com
mercial congress in August.
Former Senator Teller will deliver
the commencement Grafton to the SEN
ior classes of the State University at
Boulder June 9th. His theme will be
The Duties of Citizenship in Repre-
sentative Government"
The trustees of Westminster Univer-
sity at Denver have elected the follow
ing officers: ]. d. Hustled, president;
X. F. Coyle, vice president; H. B. Hen
derson, secretary; Thomas Keely.
treasurer; John c. Murray, attorney.
DR.. James B. Gregg, pastor of the
First Congregational church at Colo
rado Springs, will deliver the COM
mencement day address of Colorado
college, June 10th. He is about to
retire from his pastorate after twenty
seven years continuous service.
William Jennings Bryan will be in
Denver June 25th, and will deliver a
lecture on THE Price of Soul" The
lecture will be under the auspices of
St. Paul's Institutional NJ. E. church,
for the benefit of it's building fund
Mayor Speer has turned the big con-
vention hall over to the church for the
occasion.
The enumeration of school district
No. 8, comprising the city of Boulder,
shows gain of forty over the preced-
ing year. there being a total of 2,S51
of school age within the district Boul-
der expends annually for her schools
approximately $4,000, at an average
cost per pupil of $25,44. Nine school
buildings are required and about sixty
teachers are employed.
c. H. Dunn is the only Civil War
veteran in Greeley whose mother is
now living. She is Mrs. Mary A. Dunn
eighty-seven years old, resides with
him, and can recall events of the Civil
War as though they happened but yes
terday. Mrs. Dunn's father saw SER
vice in the war of 1912, and her grand
father in the Revolutionary War; The
son was in the Sixth Ohio cavalry.
Governor Shafroth, by the advice Of
the attorney general, has refused to
pay the reward of $500 offered for the
arrest and conviction of the murderer
of William Collier, which was claimed
by Sheriff Clapp of Boulder county,
who arrested Lem Mayhem for the
crime. Mayhew, after confessing,
committed suicide in jail The county
commissioners refuse to pay like re-
ward.
The largest acreage of seed pota-
toes ever planted on one farm in Weld
county, Colorado, is on the ranch of
James Z. Graham and his son-in-law,
w. Howard, seven miles east of Lu-
cerne. The seed came from Stove
Prairie, near Fort Collins and from
Maine. and the cost of seed alone
was $4,000. With an average yield
of 100 sacks an acre at the usual SELL
ing price Of 81 a sack for seed pota-
toes, the growers will obtain $4,000
for their crop.
In connections with the construction
of the new Canon City water works
system through the Royal Gorge. three
cable suspension bridges have just
been completed across the Arkansas
river in the canon. They have spans
ranging from eighty to ninety feet and
are from ten to thirty feet above the
current They were built to aid in
maintenance of the pipe line and are
unique and interesting pieces Of bridge
construction.
One of the most interesting illus.
trated lectures ever delivered In Den
yer will be given under the auspices
of the Denver chapter of the Colorado
Society, Sons Of the American Revolu-
tion, on the night of June 7th at the
Central Christian church by Mr.. II. r.
Jackson, an officer of the U. S. Bat
tleship Vermont. who was enabled dur
ing the world cruise of the American