The Elk Mountain pilot., 1899-07-11

Colorado, died ON the 9th.
The President has appointed Louis
A. Knackstcdt OF Colorado to be agent
of the Southern Ute Indians.
The Buckeye mill, located near Mag
nolia, Boulder county, was destroyed
by fire last week. The loss is estimated
at $4,000.
Frank A. Wadleigh, general passen-
ger and ticket agent of the Rio Grande
Western, has sent in his resignation.
George w. Heintz will take his place.
Clarence +. Johnstone of Cheyenne
has been appointed an assistant in the
irrigation department of the Agrfcul-
tural Bureau at n salary of 81, 500 year
ly.
A $4,000 fire occurred at Windsor,
Colorado, on the 9th, by which the en-
tire plant and stock of the Windsor
Milling Company was destroyed. 1t
was insured for only $4,000.
The James Doyle contempt case will
not be disposed of until the September
| term of the court of appeals. The
millionaire miner will remain in Jail
at Colorado Springs during the warm
weather.
Rural free delivery postal service has
been established at Morrison, Jeffer-
son county, with one carrier. George
G. Strickland, to take effect July 9th.
The service will cover an area of
eight miles and serve 400 persons
Officers of the Western Slope Hunt
ing Association are arranging elabo-
rate plans for their second annual lion
hunt, to be held at DeBeque, and they
have called upon General Passenger
Agent Bailey of the Colorado Midland
to announce that the hunt Will be held
October 25th this year, instead of in
December, as in 1898.
The Uniter States Supreme Court has
remanded the case of the United States
VS.. The Rio Grande Dam and Irriga-
ton Company back to the Third Dis
trict Court of New Mexico to inquire
TO what extent the dam at Elephant
Butte would interfere with the naviga-
bility of the Rio Grande at its lower
extremity near Ell Paso.
Jesse NJ. Smith of Layton, Utah,
president of the Utah Wool Growers
Association. and Senator Arthur
Brown of Salt Lake City are on their
way to Washington, where they ex-
pect to protest TO the Interior Depart
ment against the recent order OF the
government forbidding the pasturing
of sheep on the forest reserve of the
Uintah reservation.
The illumination of Pixies Peak, so
FAR as the work on the summit was con-
cerned, was n success. a hard battle
with the elements was fought, but the
program was carried out. Fifteen hun
dred pounds of red, white and blue
powder were burned, but the clouds
hung so low over the mountain that
the light could not be seen as far as
had been expected.
The Colorado Telephone Company
has been extending Its lines outside OF
Denver and Colorado considerably. A
toll station at Buena Vista was added
to the long distance system last week
and within the next two weeks several
more stations will be established in
small towns about the state. An ex-
change of fifty subscribers has recently
been opened at Ration, New Mexico.
The Fourth was great day for the
people of Cripple Creek and Victor.
The weather was ideal, and there was
in attendance on the principal day of
the celebration n bigger crowd than has
ever before congregated in the great
gold camps. Fully 10000 people par
ticipated in the festivities, and in one
of the most enjoyable celebrations ever
arranged on the nations birthday.
Something peculiar in the monthly
report of the Board of Health, which
will be issued in n few days, is the
fact that for June the number of
deaths of women about equaled those
of men. This is very unusual, as n
glance through the records of the
Health Department will show. In
May eighty-four males and fifty-one
females composed the deaths, and in
April the ratio was III to sixty-six.
The workings of the Vulcan mine at
Newcastle are becoming so hot that
work is almost impossible. The i'm
mense fans are running Mt full speed
to drive out the great volumes of gas
thrown off. The fire in the vein is
| liable to break out at any moment.
The management is rushing the work
men in an attempt to get out all the
coal possible, but the danger is very
| great and n shutdown must come
| soon.
Great clouds of smoke issued from
all the smoke stacks of the Bimetallic
smelte- Tuesday morning, showing
that once more the plant was in full
blast. Applications for work had been
| coming in steadily. and Superinten-
dent Nutting found that he had sufii-
cient men to blow in his third and last
| furnace There are $50 men on the
smelter pay roll tonight. They are
| working in three shifts. -Four hundred
and fifty tons of ore day is handled.
1t now seems possible that the Strick-
Ter tunnel. to supply water for Colorado
Springs, may be completed by the
time snow flies. 1t is announced that
the work on the west end, which was
abandoned last fall, will be commenced
again. 1t is thought that the water
now in the tunnel can be pumped out
in about ten days. The present short
age of city water is considered by many
as a proof that the tunnel should be
finished without delay because of
financial misunderstandings or any
other cause.