The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-07-03
COLORADO NOTES.

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24th.
A Colorado Springs boy died Of ny
drophobia the other day, the result Of
the bite of n dog.
Mrs Elizabeth G. Goddard of Colo
RADIO Springs has donated $4,000 in
cash to Brown university. 1t is her
subscription to the John ID. Rockefeller
million-dollar fund, which the friends
of the university began to raise nearly
year ago.
All of the coal miners at the Union
mine, sixteen miles above Glenwood on
the Cardiff branch of the Midland,
went on strike Monday. The cause ap-
pears to be the ungranted demand for
an increase of twenty cents per car for
digging and minor grievances. Fifty
men are involved.
A whole shift employed on the Santa
Rita mine has been discharged be-
cause of the disappearance of some
high grade ore. The management was
unable to detect the thieves, and there
fore made the wholesale discharge,
hoping to include the guilty parties in
the lot. 1t is said that the ore has been
traced to an assay office in Victor. Fur
ther developments are expected. -
The following named state agents of
the Colorado Humane Society have
been appointed since May Goth and
prior to June 18th: Charles Wheeler,
Elizabeth; f. b. Bowles, Gilpin; ]. NJ.
Handy, Nederland; Paul Hahnawald,
Leadville; Thomas Scott, Leadville;
Charles Il. Berger, Rico; w. @. Fay.
Fondis; Victor ]. Kersten, Alcott and
A. M. Boyd, George Green, George l..
Greer, John NJ. Essington, John l.. Lee
and John NJ Berkey, all of Denver.
Representatives of the railway men
of the state met at Pueblo on the 26th
and organized under the name of the
Congress of Colorado Railway Organ
izations, and the following officers
We're elected: w. j. Martin, o. X. r.,
Colorado Springs, president; George ID.
Wright, o. r. T., Denver; w. L. Dick,
S. U. of A. Colorado City; L. A. Park
hurst, o. r. T., Pueblo; ]. w. Rice, b.
of l.. E., Pueblo, and Charles Coleman,
b. of l.. E., Pueblo, vice presidents; b.
j. Taubman, Pueblo, representing the
o. r. T., was made financial secretary,
and Avery C. Moore, Denver, b. of l..
f., corresponding secretary.
The water question at Leadville
which has been disturbing factor in
politics for nearly two years has been
settled and the result is substantial
victory for the city. About two weeks
ago the city submitted a final pSoposi-
ton to the water company insisting on
a large increase in the service, to ex-
tend over the entire city, together with
a material reduction of rates to con-
sumers. Should this proposition be re-
fused the city intended to build a new
water plant. The president of the wa
ter company, Henry b. Cleaves of
Maine, with other water company Off
cials, have been in the city several
days negotiating and the result is that
the water company agrees to accel
the proposition of the city in its entire
ty. A contract has been signed rum
ming for fifteen years. The city also
obtained the reduction of about thirty
per cent. in the cost of fire plugs.
A La Junta dispatch says: Rev. Dr.
Weaver, pastor of the First Presby-
terian church of Pueblo; Rev. DR..
Patchell, pastor of the First Congre-
gational church at Pueblo, and Rev.
DR. Farley of the Central Christian
church of Pueblo, came down Monday
morning and n meeting was held at
the NJ Il. church regarding the re-
establishment of the Fries Orphans
home at this place. These gentlemen
contradicted the statements made in
the papers as to Mr.. Fries neglect Of
the home. They say that under the eN-
citement of the hour neither the people
nor the daily papers gave Mr.. Fries
chance to be heard and that he has
been basely misrepresented. Mr.. Fries
said that there was no doubt but that
the home would be located here; that
he was daily receiving letters from
various parts of the state assuring him
of financial assistance. a tract OF land
will be purchased shortly, and it is Mr..
Fries plan to raise money in the East
to erect suitable buildings. He also
stated that his goods formerly used
in Pueblo are here and will be stored
until definite arrangements are made.
What within a comparatively short
time will be the largest coke plant in
the West is now in its infancy at Red
stone, Pitkin county, according to
Henry Denman, state coal mine in
spector. Near Redstonc, Pitkin coun-
ty, he found new mine, the Con-
Basin, in c---ration under the propli
torship of the Colorado Fuel and IfSA
Company. Some development work
was done. on this property about four
years ago. but the mine was aban-
doned. The Colorado Fuel and Iron
Company prospected the ground later
and found that it produced a fine quail
ity of bituminous coal, especially
adapted for the manufacture of coke.
Recently the company began taking
out coal, and last month the embryo
coke plant, consisting of fifty ovens,
produced 500 tons of coke, the first
output of the works. 1t is intended, If
the circumstances continue favorable
to the new project, to have 500 ovens
in operation at Redstone before the
coke plant is considered complete.
w. S. Stratton has donated $4,000
to aid in the erection of the national
Elks' home, provided the grand lodge
decides to locate the home in Colorado
Springs. This gift came entirely un-
solicited and is another eXample of his