The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-10-29
COLORADO NOTES.

| rural free delivery letter carrier At Lit
tleton.
Three burglaries occurred in Pueblo
| on the night of October 18th. Money,
| jewelry and clothing were taken.
Thirty-three building permits have
been issued since April LIST by the city
cleEk of Longmont, and the estimated
| cost of their construction was placed
Mt $4,000.
The members of the Gentlemen's
Driving and Riding Club of Denver
are again agitating the building of a
grand stand at City park race track.
| The polo games attract great crowds.
Nearly quarter of million dollars
was distributed on the 10Th instant at
the Minnequa steel works in Pueblo
among the employees of the institution
and the men angaged in doing contract
work there.
Carl Wulsten, field director at Silver
Cliff, is to prepare. among other exhib-
its for the st. Louis exposition, plas-
ter of paris model of the volcanic re-
gion of Custer county, as an adjunct to
the mineral display.
The secretary of the interior has af-
firmed the action of the general land
office dismissing the protest of James
G. Weller against the homestead entry
OF james >. Clark OF tract III tne
Montrose land district.
The county commissioners of Pueblo
county have disposed of sixty tons of
alfalfa, the product of the poor farm,
at $6.25 n ton. The hay crop has been
good and is in large measure helping
to defray the expenses of the poor
farm.
A new shipping station has been es-
tablished two and half miles north
of Longmont on the Colorado & South
ern. 1t is called Boettcher. in honor of
the president of the Loveland sugar
factory, and was put in for the accom-
mediation of the beet raisers.
Lafayette Durkee, Denver man, is
introducing his mining machinery into
the far-away mines of South Africa.
He has made application at Bloemfon-
tein for patent for n motor-operated
rock drilling engine. 1t is called the
Durkee Lightning drill.
A contract has been awarded by the
county commissioners of Teller coun-
ty for n hospital and poor house, to be
built mt Broadway and Moynahan ave
nue., in Cripple Creek. The contract
was let to Edwin Barrett. The build
ing will be two stories high and will
cost about $1,000.
The contract for the work on the
new Longmont water system has been
let to r. L. Mcdonald of Denver. The
contract includes only the work to be
done, the city having purchased the
pipe for the twelve miles of the main
line. The price for the work was S1S,
600. BY agreement Longmont labor
will be used as far as possible in the
work.
Deputy Sheriff Clampitt returned
from North park to Fort Collins Octo>
Der 22nd, having in charge Dan Nc
Farlane, charged with cattle stealing.
McFarlane had II hearing before JUS
tice Charles w. Cowdrey and was held
in 81 900 bail. James McFarlane, ST..
Dams father, and Hugh. his brother,
were each held in $1,000 bail. They
furnished bail and We're released.
Harry Sudenberg. who few weeks
ago passed forged checks aggregating
nearly S400 in amount on Victor mer-
chants. pleaded guilty in the District
Court 10 forgery and was sentenced
to seven years in the penitentiary.
Sudenberg is twenty-five years of age,
and at the time of passing the checks
was on the rolls OF the reformatory,
where he had been sent two years be-
fore for similar offense.
A letter from Emma Keene Sullivan,
the agent of the Humane Society at
Grand Junction, to Secretary White
head at Denver, informs him that
twelve-year-old Willie Jeremiah, the
runaway found few days ago at
Grand Junction by Mrs. Sullivan, de-
clares that he saw the Jesse James"
gang of boys murder Homer Reahard
and that he was himself robbed by the
gang before he ran -gay from his
home in Denver
ID. Q. Charles of Denver sued the
Colorado Colony Company for the re-
covery of expenses incurred in attend
ing n meeting of the directors at Pinon.
He also held claims of other directors.
In the District Court at Denver, Judge
Malone held that transportation. hotel
bills etc. incurred by directors in con-
nection with the company's business
cannot-be recovered unless so stipulat-
ed by the corporation. An appeal from
the decision has been entered.
In the Denver 4 Rio Grande yards
at Salida, October 22nd, while A. V.
Hubbard, air brake inspector. was ex-
amining n brake on some cars on
side track, he was run over by
freight car and instantly killed. The
switch had been carelessly left open
and in making a flying switch, the cars
striking the car he was repairing,
knocked him under the wheels, cutting
him in two and severing one hand and
foot. He leaves n wife and two chill
dren.
Another change in the method of op-
Grating the plants of the American
Smelling and Refining Company has
been announced and will be effective
Immediately. A few months ago at
each of the three plants the local op-
Grafton of an the plants was put in
charge of Karl Elers. Under the