The Elk Mountain pilot., 1899-11-21
COLORADO ITEMS.

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Secretary Long is bringing his
daughter to Colorado for her health.
The Uintah Indians are reported to
have returned to their reservation in
Utah.
The town of Gillett has sold its wat
er works plant to private parties for
enough to pay its debt.
The annual convention of the Colo
rado Horticultural Society will be held
at Denver November 9th, 2Sth and
18th.
w. S. Stratton has offered to present
a gold brick to the Colorado Springs
Press Club, to be used in making
badges.
There is good prospect that rail
road line will be built from Pueblo to
Beulah. The required bonus, it is be-
heved, will be speedily raised.
A. III. Weatherbee who was elected
assessor of Montrose county on the
fusion ticket last week, was found
dead in the road some distance from
town. Heart disease is believed to
have carried him off.
John Haenni, one of the best known
and popular citizens of Chaffee coun-
ty, was shot and seriously wounded
about 0 o'clock Tuesday evening by a
robber, whose identity has not yet
been discovered. The shooting oc-
CURED at st. Elmo.
A carload of Cliff Dwellers' relics has
been started from southern Colorado
for New York. The relics are destined
for the Museum # Natural History,
and comprise many of the most strik-
ing objects, gathered from the ruins
near Mancos, that have ever been dis
covered in Colorado or the Southwest
Professor Rubin Goldmark of the
| Colorado College Conservatory of Mu-
sic has received n signal honor in the
acceptance of his concerto by the Bos-
ton Symphony orchestra. The concer-
to will be produced by the full orches-
ira January 18th. Professor Gold
mark will be present the first evening
the piece is rendered.
| The report is current at Colorado
! springs that powerful syndicate has
made proposition to purchase all the
mining holdings of the Woods Invest
| ment Company. which is one of the
lafgest, If not the largest, holders of
cripple Creek property. The consider
auon rumored is S15,O0O,OOO though
that sum seems high.
The University of Colorado will be
well represented at the Paris Exposi-
ton of 1900. New photographs and
views of the grounds, the interiors of
lecture rooms and laboratories, sched-
ules of courses offered methods of in
struction, charts and diagrams and
outlines of work. are being prepared
for all of the various departments.
Secretary and Mrs. Long, Miss Helen
Long, and her cousin, Mrs. Carter, ar
rived ut Colorado Springs on the 18th
in the private car Atlanta of the Penn
sylvania railroad to place Miss Long
here for the winter on account of her
health. Mrs. Carter will remain with
Miss Long during the winter. Secre-
tary Long spent n part of the day
driving around the city. This is his
first visit there. and he is delighted
with the place. He and Mrs. Long
left for the East Thursday.
The official count of votes cast In
Jefferson county was completed by the
canvassing board Monday, showing the
election of the Republican ticket by
substantially the same majorities as
was shown in the unofficial count. 1t
developed that the vote for sheriff
was tie between Jno. Nichols Rep.)
and William ii. Barrick (Fus.). The
canvassing board and the two candi-
dates agreed to draw straws for the
office. Again the fortune turned
against the Silver man, and the office
went to the Republican candidate, put
ting the entire Republican party in
control of Jefferson county.
A. s. Ross of Wilkesbarre, Pennsyl-
vania, is in Lamar on a novel mission.
He wants to secure 1000 live Jack
rabbits with which to stock rabbit
farm near Wilkesbarre. Mr.. Ross has
twenty-five acres of land at home sur
rounded by tight board fence set
two feet in the ground, and in this
enclosure he will turn his rabbits
loose to increase and multiply. He
figures that tender, juicy. young Jack
rabbits will command better prices on
the eastern market than Belgian hares
and that they will be raised much
cheaper and easier. A rabbit drive
will take place in n few days TO get
the stock that Mr.. Ross wants.
Seven thousand of the 5000 acres
of land lying in the Arkansas valley
between Pueblo and the Kansas state
line required by the American Beet
Sugar Company for the culture of ST.
gar beets to be used in its proposed
big factory, have been secured. ]. G.
Hamilton, vice president of the COM
pany, expresses confidence that the
remaining 1000 acres will be contract
ed for in few days. Work VIII be
commenced on the new million dollar
plant as soon as the location has been
decided upon. 1t will be either a few
miles west of Vineland and ten miles
east of Pueblo. or three miles west of
Rocky Ford.
Ed Hawthorne made another desper-
ate attempt to escape from the county
Jail at Cripple Creek Wednesday night.
Jailer O'Bryan, while engaged in pass
ing food to the cell occupied by Haw-
thorne and Otis Perry, had wire