The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-06-19
COLORADO NOTES.

ken into and robbed of 5000 on the 9th
The Colorado Telephone Company
has increased its capital to S3,OOO.OOO il.
order to extend its business.
The State Federation of Labor il
session at Cripple Creek decided to
withdraw its ticket for state officers
and to take no part in politics.
1t was decided Mt mass meeting OF
Pueblo citizens to send the children
remaining in the Fries Orphan Home
to the Grays home on the mesa, pend
ing the result of the work of the com
mittee in establishing a permanent
home for orphan children.
The Denver mint has received !;
supposed gold brick which was found
to be pure copper, worth about SO in
stead of $4,000. 1t was bought by
William Kerr. president of "A bank nt
Hastings Nebraska. Kerr paid IL
slick sharper $4,000 for it,
tally-ho containing number of
wives, friends and daughters of the
druggists who have been holding their
annual meeting in Manitou. was over
turned at the corner of Cascade avenue
and st. Nrain streets, Colorado Springs.
All of the occupants of the vehicle
We're more or less injured. but none
seriously.
The State Federation of Labor in
session ut Cripple Creek elected the fol
lowing officers; President, ID. c.
Coates, Pueblo; vice president, f. c.
Campbell, Cripple Creek: second vice
president, T.. J. Bowden. Silverton;
secretary, j. X. Robinson, Denver;
treasurer Joy Pollard, Altman: execu.
tive board, II. E. Garman, Denver, and
Il. G. Anderson, Colorado Springs.
George. the nine -year-old son of Il.
Bull. a rancher living about eight miles
west of Carbondaie, was thrown from
broncho. His foot caught in the
stirrup and he was killed by being
dragged by the frightened pony. The
boy had been sent to a neighboring
ranch on an errand and was about to
return home when the pony became
frightened and started off on. its wild
run. When caught, the boys life
was extinct. The body will be taken
to the former home of the parents al
Lendville for interment.
The annual readjustment of postmas-
ters' salaries gives the following offices
in Colorado an increase, commencing
July i, 1900, of 800 per annum: Ala
mosa, Bucna Vista, Cripple Creek
Florence Glenwood, Leadville, Ouray.
Canon City, Fort Collins. Rocky Ford.
Black Hawk, Colorado Springs. Den
YER, Fort Morgan, Grand Junction.
Manitou, Salida. The following will
be advanced 5000: Telluride. Anne
thyst Del Norte. Longmont. Walsen-
burg. Goldfeld will be increased S4O0.
There will be no decreases in the state
The Egeria Park Stockgrowers' Pro
tective Association. at its meeting held
on the 9th instant, strongly condemned
the action of the land department In
asking Congress for permission to lease
the various forest reserves for grazing
purposes. The meeting voted to join
the Western Range Stockgrowers' AS
sociation. organized to fight the leasing
of the public domain. and levied a lib
eral assessment to further the interests
of the organization. The settlers in
this section Of the state are determined
TO leave no stone unturned in their ef-
forts to preserve the status quo of the
range industry.
Andrew Sorcnson. "A Swede. thirty
six years old. was found dead near the
Arkansas river bridge. opposite the
Pueblo smelter. The body was lying
in pool of water short distance
from the channel of the river. and had
evidently been washed ashore there by
the current Both jugular veins had
been severed. and the body was in an
advanced state of decomposition. Sor-
enson had been missing since Saturday
night, but his disappearance caused no
alarm. The supposition is that while in
n tit of temporary insanity, he went on
one of the uptown bridges, cut his
throat and fell into the river.
The Cassagrande brothers We're ar
rested near Ouray on the 10th for
stealing ore. They had two sacks of
the Camp Bird ore In their possession
at the time. Several months ago they
We're ARRESTED in Telluride on sim
liar charge, and under similar condi-
tions. and after getting out of the
trouble they Immediately went to Ou-
ray. They are Austrians. The dis
trict is infested with n well organized
gang of ore thieves, who have been
operating for months. officers think
their fence is in Ouray, and that dis
guised shipments are made from that
point They hope to unearth the
whole scheme.
Quite n number of delegates who oh
jected TO the action of the State Fed
Grafton in refusing to put up Il ticket,
met at Cripple Creek after the final
adjournment of the convention and re-
solved themselves in the United La
Dor party. Organization WAS perfect
ed by electing w. w. Ferguson of Vic
tor chairman of the state committee
and w. A. Gibson of Leadville secrc-
tary. An executive committee consist
ing of $. B. Lawrence of Teller. Thom-
as Andrews of El Paso, w. T.. Cy-
piers of Arapahoe, w. A. Gibson of
Lake, Charles Kane of Pueblo was Sc
lected. A chairman in each county
will be selected and organization at
tempted in every county in the state.
The ticket selected by the referendum
of the State Federation was nominated
and n motion adopted that there