The Elk Mountain pilot., 1899-12-26
COLORADO ITEMS.

y telephone line mas Deen competed
to Glcnwood Springs, and will be car
ried west to Grand Junction.
For two weeks longer the beet sugar
factory at Grand Junction will run,
and then the work for the year will be
completed.
Thirty sticks of powder exploded in
the Pillory shaft house at the Orizaba
| No. ! mine, Cripple Creek, at 8 o'clock
Monday night. Trigg Pillory, the en-
| gineer, was killed and the shaft house
was demolished.
Louis II. Ball. the State School of
Mines senior who received an appoint
ment for examination ut Fort Leaven-
worth with n view to his entrance TO
| the regular army, has returned, having
passed creditably. He will probably be
appointed second lieutenant in the reg
ular service soon. Ball has studied at
the School of Mines with credit tbe
past three years.
VIII L. Wilson, secretary of the
Colorado State Grange, Patrons of
Husbandry, has issued the call for the
annual session, to be held in Denver
Tuesday, January 9th, and to continue
three days. The fifth and sixth de
grees will be conferred in full form
on the evening of Wednesday, January
10th. All fourth degree Patrons are
urged to attend, and visiting Patrons
Will be made welcome.
Judge Hallett decided upon a case in
the United States Circuit Court the 9TH
er day, and his decision was of such Il
nature as to he Of considerable i'm
portahce. According to his mind n
photograph cannot be copyrighted un-
less it Is arranged IN such n way as to
show originality, liz pose or draping of
an T.N,,,, \. nod
grotesquely by Photographic art from
some scene of nature.
The Colorado Fuel & Iron Company
is planning to build n big hospital in
Pueblo. I'VE are simply working on
plans. said j. A. Kebler yesterday.
In all probability the building will be
built, wing at time in order to
avoid any great outlay. 1t has been
estimated that ii will cost in the neigh
borhood of 100000. However, 1t is
difficult to judge of the cost at this
time rs the entire scheme is in its in
fancy"
If the government gains its injunc-
ton suit against the Elephant Butte
Dam Company, and the court holds
that the river is navigable and that
navigation will be affected by the dam.
the people of Colorado who reside
along the Rio Grande and use its wa
tiers for irrigation purposes will be
more or less affected by the decision,
for the government will then assume
control of the entire river and Congress
Will provide for an equitable dstribu-
tion of its waters and possibly for the
building of an international dam at El
Paso, Texas.
The water works election Mt Lead
vile Tuesday was a Waterloo for the
water company. Quite n hard fight has
been made the past two weeks by the
water company in hopes of winning
this election, but the vote resulted 465
to 56 in favor of the city owning its
own water plant. The Board of Trade
and the City Council have both been
working to win this election, and de
spite the efforts of the water company
they came out on top. Just what the
next move will be in tile water stu-
alton is not known. but it is believed |
that the Leadville Water Company will |
not place such n high value on its plant
as IL has in the past.
\ condition now exists which is in |
deed gratifying to all-the abatemen,
of the tramp nuisance, says the Fowler
Tribune. Up to within six months ago
our town and valley was pestered with |
an undesirable class of vagrants beg
ging for "A meal from door 10 door |
which kept the more timid housewives
in a state of insecurity bordering up
ON fear. for n man now out of employ |
ment or without some means to keep
himself from want is not known The /
tramp has either left Colorado or
Joined the prosperous throng and gone
to work, which. in either event. we can /
all breathe more easily. Whether it is |
Republican prosperity or the reforma- /.
ton of this peculiar class of humanity |
we certainly have abundant cause Tor /
thanksgiving.
Rev j. ]. Reardon of the Brighton |
Roman Catholic church was arrested |
the other day, charged with assault |
and battery by Joseph II. Wolschon.
The governing committee of the Col !
orado Springs Mining Stock Associa- |
tlon has voted to increase the fee re-
quired for listing from 500 to 500 in |
the case of prospects, and from 500 TO |
$500 in the case of mines. The great |
number of companies which have been |
organized lately has made the gov
erning committee realize what II means |
for a company to have its stock repre- |
sented on the board of the exchange. !
one member of the committee said he !
believed that it was worth $1,000 to n |
company TO have its stock listed. |
Heretofore the fee has been only 500, |
and this was merely to cover the eN-
penses of having the company's af-
fairs examined by the attorneys of the |
exchange. The governing committee |
voted also to change the name of the |
association from the Colorado Springs !
Mining Stock Association to the Colo
RADIO shining Stock Exchange.
A peculiar accident occurred at An
aconda last Wednesday. \ heavily |
did considerable damage to the house
of j. J. Monaghan, just below the
Midland tracks. The big wagon was
londed with ore from the Howard |