The Lamar register., 1909-05-26
COLORADO ITEMS

%-o'VVV DouuS lot an duultlOn 10 tle
school house. There are 703 persons
OF school age in the Windsor district.
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
peen appointed timber cruisers in the
general land office service: Wilson S.
Blaser. Durango; Harry H. Schwartz.
Jr.. Harry H. Ward, Jesse K. 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 10
cation at Estes Park.
G. S. BilIheimer, state secretary of
the Y. NJ. C. A, was elected secretary
OF the Denver Y. NJ. C. A. yesterday to
fill the vacancy caused by the resigna-
tion of F. L. Starrett, who went to
Oakland, Cal, two weeks ago.
Information has reached DR.. 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 its meeting here.
This will be from August oath to 9th.
An anti-Jap movement has been
started at Florence with the organiza-
ton of a branch of the United Mutual
Brotherhood, whose object is to pre-
vent the immigration of Japanese to
America. A large membership was en-
, rolled. The organizers claim this
movement is rapidly spreading over
the country.
The first "grandchild" in the herd
OF buffalo in the City Park at Denver,
was born few days since. The little
fellow is a bull and has been the cen
ter of interest ever since his arrival.
Its mother was born in the park and is
three years old. The sire is one of
the Pablo Alta herd from the Flathead
reservation in Montana.
The body of DIR. 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
wer, killed at the same time, is still
in the snow, and a hose line is being
used to wash away the snow.
mates that the population of Colorado,
June 80, 1910, will be S73,416, an in
crease of GO per cent over the popula-
ton shown by the report Of the bu-
reau in 1900. The estimate for Den
yer is 249. ISL, 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.
The government census of the Den
yer district for 1910 will be in charge
of A. B. McGaffey, who will relinquish
the position of secretary of the State
Board of Equalization on June LIST
There will be two other districts in
Colorado and Timothy OConner. for
mer secretary of state, will be super
visor in one of them. Census super
visors receive $500 year with All
additional fee of 81 for each thousand
names. The work will cover a period
of three years. beginning July list.
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. Al
the present rate of progress they will
come together by July goth. when the
20,64O 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 G
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.
Secretary of the Interior Ballinger
explained to Messrs De Long and Aup-
perle of the Grand Valley Water U.s.
ers' Association, who called on him in
Washington, that the stoppage of work
on the Grand valley high line reclama-
ton project was due to two causes
doubts of the authority of the depart
ment to make the contract with the
association and shortage of funds. The
attorney general will be called on for
an opinion as to the former question.
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 twen-
ty years, inclusive. The enumerators'
returns show $3.50 children of school