The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-09-04
COLORADO NOTES.

tlonal Bank hns been appointed post
master.
There are at least five new creamery
enterprises soon to be started in Colo
RADIO. The industry continues to grow
slowly but surely
1t is announced that Florence will
very soon have an automobile factory.
A large two-story structure Will be
commenced in about two weeks for
factory building.
The thirty-eighth annual session of
the Colorado Methodist Episcopal
Church convened in Salida on the 2Sth,
and there is n large attendance of min
listers and great interest in several
items of business to come before the
conference, notably the University of
Denver and the deaconness work of the
state.
The interest pertaining to the drill
ing contest al Duray last week has not
died out and a contest was held on the
22nd between Sam Hupps and Andrew
johnson ON wager of $500 each man
to drill fifteen minutes with n man TO
turn the drills. The contest was very
close, resulting in Hupps drilling 30
ZIG inches and johnson % BIG inches.
n. w. Sample. for many years gener-
al superintendent of the Denver Il Rio
Grande railway. has resigned. The
vacancy Will be filled by w. S. Martin,
formerly with the louisville & Nash
vile railroad Under Mr.. Metcalfe's
new policy it is expected that there will
be shifting of other officials within the
next few months. There has been talk
of changes for long time, but it has
been left to the new general manager
TO make them
Spencer Dicks, who murdered Orville
Miner, near Castle Rock on Sunday
night, drove into Rocky Ford Tuesday
night, put his horse in n livery stable
and sent a telegram to the officers at
Castle Rock to come and arrest him.
He said he might 90 to the penitentiary
but could stand no longer the life he
had led since Sunday night. Dicks was
completely exhausted. and after send
ing the telegram he registered at the
st. James hotel under his own name
and went to bed. He carried two re
rolvers.
At o'clock Friday evening a dis
tressing accident occurred at Aspen.
which resulted in the instant death of
the 12-year-old daughter of Dennis Sui
livan. y shotgun in the hands of
younger brother was accidentally dis
charged, striking the sister full in the
face at short range. An older brother
had been out hunting and left the gun
In the house without removing the
loaded shell. The little boy took the
gun into the yard, where the weapon
was discharged.
The State Board OF Health, under the
direction of Secretary Tyler is prepar-
ing tabulation of deaths 3ud the
causes leading TO these deaths. These
figures show that for the first six
months of this year 1856 more males
than females died. According to the
school census of Arapahoe county the
male children of school age number
1854. while the females number 49,
ol5. or 661 more than the males. The
other counties of the state establish
the same general proportion, which
gives Colorado many more girls than
boys.
Sugar beet growers of the Arkansas
valley will commence to send the result
of their summers labor TO the factory
about October LIST. The crops in that
section of the state will not be as large
as anticipated, owing to the damage
caused by insects and heavy rains.
Grasshopers have proved very trouble
some and large part of the damage
is attributed 10 them. In the early
part of the spring the excessive rains
caused slight crust of earth to form
over the young plants injuring them
great deal. The drouth that has pre-
vailed in this section for some time has
continued and the situation has become
very serious. The third crop of alfalfa
is practically total failure, and the
second crop was only fair.
One of the most damaging fires that
Leadville has suffered for some time
occurred on the 2Sth. when the Weldon
mine No. was completely destroyed
by flames, causing damage of some
thing in the neighborhood of $4,000.
and through which one man was fatal
ly burned. Luckily for the miners who
We're ut work underground, the Weldon
has numerous connecting drifts with
other mines, and of the twenty miners
who We're at work when the fire start
ed, all of them We're landed in safety
through the Starr shaft. Just how the
fire started it is impossible to learn to-
night. Even those who We're in the en-
gine room at the time when the flames
burst out cannot state exactly the
cause of the fire. but believe that it
was either through the explosion of a
small lamp, or the falling over of a
torch Sebas stan Rapp, a fireman, was
horribly burned in the fire. but is get
ting along as we'll as could be expect
ed. He was nlling a lamp, which eX-
ploded and caused the fire
Mechanical Engineer Harry Pfayger
and Chief Draughtsman Knapp of
Pullman's Palace Car Company are
two men the company has commits
stoned to metamorphose the vicinity of
Fortieth street and the smelters into
a smaller town of Pullman. They ar
rived in Denver on the Both and imme-
diately began plans for extensive alter
atons of the old Union Pacific shops.
Mr. Pfayger brings news of a definite
character in regard to the number of
nen who will be employed. -Four hun