The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-11-06
COLORADO NOTES.

Brick walks have been put down be-
tween the tracks at the Union depot In
Denver.
The annual Pioneers Society ball will
be given in Kassler's hall, Denver, in
the first week in December.
Thieves broke into "Parson" UzzelPs
new tabernacle building in Denver and
robber the carpenters chests of tools
worth $75.
On the evening of the 24th the shaft
houserecenty built at the Eithoff tun-
mel at kokomo was burned, practically
destroying the plant of machinery.
Pueblo registration shows a total of
14,514, as against 12,O61 last fall or an
increase of 2,453 in the city registra-
ton.
The state travelling library belonging
TO the Colorado State Federation of
Women's clubs Will receive 500 of the
state fund
The Longmont Gun club is issuing
programs for two days shoot
Thanksgiving day. and a large crowd
of crack shooters is expected.
Donacio Trujillo. boy eighteen
years of age, was run over by a coal
car and killed at the Starkville coke
ovens, near Trinidad, October 18th.
1t is expected that the census returns
will give Colorado another congress
man, as the population is 1897 more
than enough for three congressman un-
der the present ratio.
William Claus II middie-aged single
man, was killed in the Nevada mine at
Salina a few days ago. Claus was en-
gagged IN picking out a delayed shot.
His body was badly mutilated.
The net earnings of the Denver &
Rio Grande for the third week in Oc-
tober We're S244. 400, an increase of
S2I,OOO. The net earnings from July
LIST We're S3,691,6 800, an increase of
S595. 700.
Ross Miller, the Denver & Rio
Grande brakeman who knocked
would-be train robber of the car with
his lantern, has been taken care of by
the company and placed on n good run
near home.
The school board OF District No. ],
Denver, known as the East Denver
district, has arranged to have children
in certain remote parts of the district
taken from their homes TO school in
the morning and back at night in ON
nibuses.
Incorporation papers of the National
Jewish Hospital association have been
filed with the secretary of state. The
organization is that arranged for by
the national meeting in Ohio a few
weeks ago. so that the institution may
be placed on n business basis.
A gallon jug full of corn whisky was
recently received at the revenue office
in Denver AS proof that an Illicit dis
tillery formerly existed in that section
of Elbert county, near the Arapahoe
line, known as THE Breaks" The
still, however, seems to have disap-
peared.
The mayor, board of public works
and other city officials of Denver re-
Gently visited the site of the Goose
creek dam of the Denver Union Water
Company and gave ii n careful inspec-
tion in view of the expected negotia-
tions for the purchase of the water
plant by the city.
At the recommendation of Special
Agent Amin Of the postal department
and Postmaster Mitchell of Pueblo, n
rural free delivery Will be established
in the Artman and NinelaDd districts
in Pueblo county November 18th, and
will be the twenty-second rural route
established in the state since July.
A d. Vance, who has n seven-year
sentence for forgery hanging over him,
and Tom Collier, United States pris-
oner confined in the Pueblo county jail,
secured four saws and hid them in
their bedding, but. they were discover
ed by Sheriff Beaman before the pris-
oners could make use of them to es-
cape.
A brilliant meteor was seen at Den
yer shortly after II o'clock on the night
of October Goth. attracting the atten-
tion of many. The course of the great
dash of fire was from southeast to
northwest, and so brilliant and spark
ling was it that "A long radiant trail was
left streaming behind like the fiery
trail of huge sky rocket. The expect
ed meteoric shower that failed to put in
an appearance last year seems to have
arrived this fall, as numerous meteors
are seen every night
Il. Il. Barnes. IA Cripple Creek stock
broker, committed suicide October
Both. He went to his room, lay down
on the bed, placed the muzzle of a 49,
caliber revolver to his head and pulled
the trigger. Death was instantaneous.
Mr. Barnes had been resident of the
camp since 1892 and bore an excellent
reputation. 1t is generally believed
that he was on the wrong side of the
stock market. He was treasurer of A.
o. u. w. lodge No. 81. 1t is believed
that his accounts with this society are
all right. He was also member of the
Modern WoOdmen. He left wife and
two children.
In the case of the wife of Robert AL
len against the Pacific Jurisdiction of
the Woodmen of the World, tried in the
District Court at Boulder, the jury
found for the plaintiff in the sum of
S2,O93. 1t was a majority verdict, the
Jury standing ten for the plaintiff and
two for the defendant. On the jury