The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-01-16
COLORADO ITEMS.


for showing his ballot.
Three Leadville firemen We're injured
by the overturning of truck while
going to a fire recently.
j. b. Orman, who has the contract
for building the Crystal river railroad,
says that the road will be completed
to Marble this year.
The body of an unknown man was
found hanging under tree few miles
from Florence. He had apparently
been lynched some time ago
The body of William Zaden was
found in n well near La Junta the
other day. He had evidently been
murdered. Two Mexicans are sus-
pected.
The merchants of Grand Junction
have agreed TO close their places of
business at Z o'clock every evening ex-
cept Saturday for the next three
months. This matter was brought
about through the efforts of the Retail
Clerks International Association.
The State Federation of Labor has
placed itself on record in the fight
which has been commenced by the Or
der of telegraphers against the COLO
RADIO & Southern railway. The fedora
contention, and calls upon all union
labor bodies to aid in making the fight
effective by boycotting the road.
Secretary Martha A. Shute of the
State Horticultural Society has been in
consultation with the National Paris
Commission as to the display of Colo
RADIO fruit at the Paris Exposition. 1t
was the intention of the commission to
have fine fruit display in Paris from
Colorado, but the fruit growers of the
state have responded coolly to the ap-
peals in this behalf. Mrs. Shute now
fears that the state will not have any
fruit exhibit at Paris, as the growers of
Colorado do not seem to think that the
effort will bring a fair return for the
expense involved.
The four days from the Tth to the
10th of February are TO be gala days
at Colorado College. Preparations have
already been largely completed for a
double celebration-in honor of the
opening of the new Pickens Fine Arts
building, and in commemoration of the
twenty-ffth anniversary of the found
ing of the college. The exact anniver-
sary date came last May, but it was
decided TO postpone its celebration un-
til the Perkins building should be fin
ished, and then make the joint cele-
bration the most notable occasion of
its sort in the history of the college.
j. |. jackson of Grand Junction has
invented n machine which bids fair to
make for the inventor n fortune. The
machine is beet digger and topper. 1t
has four wheels and is operated by
series of levers mt the command of the
driver. \ plow which is preceded by
n coulter raises the bects out of the
ground and throws them to the side,
and while this operation is going on n
sharp knife slices off the top AS fast
as team can walk the beets are taken
out of the ground, topped and ready
for the teamster to haul them to the
factory. A patent has been applied
for.
A dispatch from Cripple Creek on
the 10th said: A cave-in occurred this
afternoon at o'clock Mt the fifty-foot
level on the Rose mine, on Battle
mountain. Two men We're working
in the drift in which the cave-in oc-
CURED. One of them, j. German, hap.
pened to be on the shaft side of the
cave-in and escaped without injury.
His partner, John West was caught by
the cave-in and at n late hour tonight
was still imprisoned. The relief corps
is hard ut work removing the debris
and endeavoring to release him. Much
trouble is experienced by a continuous
caving, but it is thought that the man
will be at liberty before morning. The
Rose mine is owned by the Rose-Nicol
Gold Mining Company.
The first shovel full of dirt on the
new Colorado Springs & Cripple Creek
short line was thrown out at 1 o'clock
Thursday. President Irving Howbert
performed this ceremony near the
month of Rpnr crock ponpp hout
twenty-five men We're put to work and
the number will be increased to thou
sand in n week. The first work 10 be
accomplished is the cutting of forty
foot roadway through the big hill lying
Just to the left of Bear creek canon On
Saturday Camp No. 2 will be estab-
lished in North Cheyenne canon, and
on Tuesday Camp No. 3 will be estab-
lished half way between the Cheyenne
canon camp, and the present one south
west of Colorado City. The grade will
be about 3N per cent, which is less
than that of either railroad entering
Cripple Creek, and Cameron, $500 feet
above sea level, will be the highest
point on the road.
Word has been received by Major
Silas Grove. former state armorer, that
his son, Lieutenant Colonel William r.
Grove of the Thirty-sixth infantry U.
S. ", has been promoted to the col
onelcy of the regiment. Colonel Grove
is in the Philippine islands, where he
has been ever since he went out as a
captain of the Colorado volunteers.
Colonel William r. Grove is the young
est colonel in the service, having been
only 81 years old the 18th of May last
His military career began in the Ma
tional Guard of Colorado. He was cap
tain Of Company Il of the old First in
fantry, with which he served through
the Leadville campaign When the