The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-12-11
COLORADO NOTES.

made on the Monument dam.
The Colorado Telephone Company
has completed its line between Grand
Junction and Delta.
The receipts of the Pueblo Demo-
cratic county committee We're S6,2O1.SO,
of which amount the candidates con-
tributed $3,69S.25.
The trial of the State School of
Mines students at Golden, charged
with illegal voting at the last election,
has been postponed.
Parson Thomas Uzzell of the Peo-
pies tabernacle in Denver will hold
his ninth annual rabbit hunt at Lamar,
December 10Th and Goth.
The legislative appropriation bill as
reported to the House carries an in
crease of the appropriation for the con-
tingent expenses at the Denver mint to
$1,000.
The Lincoln county report to the sec
retary of state shows that only three
people received assistance from the
county in the past twelve months, cost
ing the commissioners $249.39.
Augustus Anderson, bridge car
penter employed on n Denver " Rio
Graf )e construction gang. was almost
of rock hurled by n blast.
Engineer John II. McCune of Denver
was knocked off the cab of the Colo
RADIO Special, fast Union Pacific train,
near Atwood, December 4th, by a mail
crane. His injuries are considered
likely TO prove fatal.
Charles Green, who was shot in the
election day riot at Denver while act
ing as special policeman, has been
released from the county hospital, hav-
ing entirely recovered. Policeman Car
penter is improving.
III. III. Shepard, the veteran travel
ing agent of the Chicago * Alton road,
, was made general agent of the Al
ton at Denver December 1st 1t Is
! thought there will be no other changes
/ in the local force. Mr.. Shepard FOR
/ thirteen years has been in Denver.
The Missourians of Georgetown held
a cider banquet on the night of De-
cember 1sl A barrel of cider, just III
from Missouri. was tapped and served
| with gingerbread. When the Danu
played "On the Old Missouri Shore
/ the audience went wild.
The Colorado Supreme Court has de-
cded against the legality of the bond
issue of the city of Denver for the pur-
/ pose of building an auditorium. Inc
court holds that eleven distinct purpos-
es were set forth in the proposition to
be voted for, which is unconstitutional
The stomach and other digestive or
gans of George a. Barber, who died
at Pagosa Springs with symptoms OF
virulent poison, have been received by
DIR. ]. A. Sewall, of Denver, for analy-
sis. 1t is feared that Barber was pois-
oned to obtain his insurance, amount
ing ito. $500.
ThdUb enver & Rio Grande railroad
will reHd stockmen's special train to
the National Cattlemen's convention in
Salt Lake. The train will leave Den
ver ut $3.50 the morning of January
18th, and will arrive in Salt Lake at
/ 80 o'clock the next afternoon. The
fare will be SIS for the round trip.
General Passenger Agent Eustis Of
the Chicago, Burlington X Quincy
railroad, who was in Denver II rev
days ago, says that he is personally in
favor of one cent mile rate to Col
orado for the G.. A. II. national en-
campment next summer, and THINKS IL
is likely to be granted.
Within three years Colorado and
Denver will each have namesake in
ltne UnlIeu lht iDNh'NA
will be protected cruiser, costing over
Sl,OOOOOO, and the Colorado" will be
an armored cruiser, costing over ST.
100000 Unfortunately neither the Rio
Grande, the Arkansas, the Platte or
the Grand is deep enough to bring eth
er of them into the state.
The Kiowa county court house at
kheridan Lake, n large two-story frame
building. was burned on the evening of
December 3rd The fire began in the
upper story and is supposed to have
caught from defective tiue. a part
of the records were in three large safes
but many valuable books and papers
were burned. The building cost $1,000
and was insured for $500.
Mrs. Sarah Bennett Walker of Castle
Rock. who won first prize at the
Worlds Fair for her collection of wild
fiowaH. \and who is considered an au-
thorifkau the flora of Colorado, is en-
gagged how in asserting and cata-
loguing the results of her work during
the past summer season. She traverses
mountains and plains and has searched
Pixies peak, Gray's peak and the 9th
er mountains where specimens of wild
flowers are to be gathered.
4 Mrs. Ann Hunt, the only woman
ynember of the directorate of the Colo
RADIO Humane Society, resigned from
the board at a recent meeting. The res
ignation was accepted and George L.
Greer was chosen in her place. The
matter of bills to be introduced in the
.bext General Assembly has been re-
( ERRED to special legislative commit
Tee, consisting of w. n. Byers, j. j.
Elliott and George f. Dunklee. The
bnly bill of importance agreed upon is
30 tlN Gtat ptr-
eau of Child and Animal Protection.
This measure is to make the Humane