The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-07-24
. COLORADO NOTES.

Senator Welcott has returned to Colo
RADIO.
Much-needed showers have fallen
over most Of the state.
The Colorado Iron Works in Denver
had $4,000 fire Monday.
Gran Junction will celebrate Sep
tember 10Th as Peach Day.
Mr.. Stratton has made the State
School of Mines a present of S2o,Ooo.
A Boulder family were seriously but
not fatally poisoned by eating impure
Ice cream last week.
Congressman Champ Clark of Mis-
souri, lectures at the Boulder Chautau-
qua on the 9th, and all ex-Missourians
In Colorado are expected to be there to
welcome him.
NJ. Lindley of Chicago. manager of
the Century Mining Company of that
city, has been in Grand Junction the
past week investigating that point as a
location for smelter plant. He was
more than pleased with the outlook
and will advise the members OF the
company he represents to locate a
smelter in that city instead of at an
other point farther west
The long spell of dry weather that
has prevailed in this section is at last
having the effect of starting forest
fires. Dense volumes of smoke are ris-
jng from the Book Cliffs, twenty miles
Nest of Debeque. The fires are sup
posed to be raging at the head of Dry
fork. The wind is blowing from the
west and the town is covered with a
mantle of smoke.
The Federal Union of Pueblo, the
lor in H.
drawn from the Western Labor Union.
1t is thought by some labor leaders that
this is the beginning of the end of the
Western Labor Union influence in Col
orado The Pueblo union withdrew be-
cause it does not believe that 1t derives
benefit from the Western Labor Union,
the headquarters and offices of which
are located in Montana.
Ranchmen in water district No. 10,
who get water from the st. Charles
river. are preparing to make deter
mined fight against the plans of the
Colorado Fuel and Iron Company to
divert an additional amount of water
from the river for the purpose of sup
plying the new reservoir which the
company is about to construct three
miles south of Lake Minnequa to sup
ply the rolling mills with water.
Pensions have recently been granted
Coloradoans as follows: William N.
Sheets, Georgetown, SS; John NJ. Kortz,
Fort Collins, $40; Oscar L. Chaplin,
Poucho. SO; Adam Jardine, Delta, $12;
Mary +. Kortz. Fort Collins, So; Mich
olas Mullen Cripple Creek, SO; james
w. Kearns, Denver, SO; Edwin Squires.
Colorado Springs, $40: William IL.
Brockway. Greeley, So; Charles Il.
Blanke. Golden, Sc; Luke II. Monson,
Fort Lupton, $50; Edwin \. Curtiss,
Trinidad. ST. John G. Furniss, ElmorO,
$40; Michael Hoolahan, Fort Logan,
SIT.
Roadmaster Ridgeway of the Colo
RADIO & Southern will soon make a trip
of inspection and location up the Purg-
at0ire river, between Trinidad and
S0snewall, and before snow again flies
construction will begin on new and
important Colorado & Southern branch
railroad. The new road is to run up
the Purgatoire river, take in the Stone
wall region and the heavy anl virgin
pine lumber grOwths on the head Of
Ponil creek and will have San Luis
valley localities as early objective
points with Alamosa as an ultimate
terminal.
Denver will be connected with Raw
Inns, Saratoga, Fort Steele and the rich
mining section of southern Carbon
county by telephone in two or three
days. Gangs of workmen are now set
ting the last poles on the connecting
link between Pinkhampton, Colorado,
and Saratoga, and it is expected the
line will be ready for use not later than
Sunday. The construction gangs will
at once be transferred to points be-
tween Rawlins and Rock Springs and
the line between those two points
built as soon as possible. When this
link has been filed in Denver will be
enabled to talk to Rock Springs, Green
River, Evanston, Ogden, Salt Lake.
and all of the larger Utah-Idaho points.
Just as Denver & Rio Grande
freight train was leaving Granite We'd
nesday morning big negro entered
the caboose, which was unoccupied at
the time, and locked the doors, exclud-
Ing the trainmen. He held possession
of the caboose until the train reached
Buena Vista, where the local authori-
ties succeeded in pulling him out after
a desperate fight. He was finally land
Ell inJthe county jail. 1t is believed that
the negro is .demented. He gives his
n Dpe as Calhoun, but he is unable to
g the sheriff connected account of
himself. Advices from Granite state
that the man is crazy.
The sugar beet prospects in the vi
cinlty of Rocky Ford, over 1000 acres,
is said to be the finest ever known
by the American Beet Sugar Company,
which has factories in a number of
states. This company has had a corps
of experienced men in the field, edu-
eating the farmer to grow beets. The
outlook Is so good at present that the
company is advancing the farmers all
the money they need to take care of
the crop, and they express themselves
as being satisfied that the Arkansas
valley can raise a sugar beet with the
largest percentage of sugar of any
,,Jaao co fnr triaI in tha TTnitad Statoc