The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-03-26
COLORADO NOTES.

The Hotel Colorado at Glenwood
Springs is to be opened May 10.
The new Antlers hotel in Colorado
Springs will open about July 1st
The President has appointed ]. b.
Johnson postmaster at Montrose.
The Democrats of Colorado Springs
have nominated w. C. Jones for mayor
A mass convention at Rocky Ford
nominated Hon. q. w. Swink for may
or.
Pueblo will build some extensive
levees along the Arkansas river above
the city.
DIR. Il. j. Crane was nominated for
mayor of Cripple Greek by the Demo
cratic convention.
Sunday, March 18th. was st. Pat
rick's day, and was observed in nearly
all the larger towns of Colorado.
Charles Landes, president Of the
state board of control of the reform
school, has been reelected president OF
the board.
Several sections of the revenue bill
are being severely attacked in the
Senate, and the measure has been the
subject of extended discussion.
The funeral of Peter Otto, for fif-
teen years superintendent of the Eli
ers' smelter at Pueblo, was attended
by fully 600 employees on the 1Ith
inst.
A recruiting station will likely be
started in Boulder soon for the pur-
pose of enlisting soldiers into the reg
ular army. Those who enlist are to
fill out the quota now at Fort Logan.
The farmers near Platteville are con-
tracing n large acreage of sugar beets
for the Loveland factory. As much
as 200 acres may be planted IL the
movement progresses as 1t has De-
gun.
Ex-senator Thomas II. Carter of
Montana has written to the executive
committee of the National Irrigation
Congress expressing his regret that he
will be unable to visit Colorado on his
way home from Washington.
Colorado Springs proposes to go
ahead with her quarto-centennial cele-
bration Notwithstanding the fact that
the state Senate has recognized Boul-
der. Her motto is pixies Peak or
Bust"
The Denver & Rio Grande and Rock
Island railroads will erect new joint
freight station between Eleventh and
Thirteenth and Wazee and Wyncoop
streets in Denver. 1t will be 132x64O
, feet in size and cost $4,000.
DIR. Alfred Green, n prominent citizen
of Greeley and surgeon of distinc-
ton during the war of the Rebellion,
died March Goth at the age of seventy
eight years. He served as medical di-
rector on the STAFF of General Meade.
James Collins of Red Cliff has pre-
sented to the state historical collection
the largest cliff dwellers' vase now in
the collection. The vase is over four
feet in circumference and was found
by Thomas Collins in Mancos canon
eight years ago.
| The woman voter was distinctly In
evidence at the Prohibition convention
in Denver and none but women were
nominated The ticket is headed by
Mrs. Antoinette A. Hawley, candidate
1 for mayor, and every name on it is that
of Mrs. or Miss.
A Denver Republican reporter de-
scribed, Governor Orman's reception
wrote that most of the members of
the Legislature wore silk hats with IS
suits, no cuffs and tan shoes" The re-
porter is probably wearing some cuffs
by this time, If he didn't before.
In addition to the new railroad in
course of construction and the new
coal mines being opened in Smiths
canon, west of Trinidad, the Colorado
Fuel and Iron Company will at once
begin erecting 400 coke ovens east Of
Weston. About 200 men will be en-
ployed.
Aldace Vondette, who has been for
the past year connected with the Ere
mont Marble Company of Canon City,
was recently arrested at Middlebury,
/ Vermont, on the charge of having sent
poison by mail to Miss Ida Fosburg of
| Orwill, Vermont, to whom he was
about to be married.
The Farmers Mill and Elevator COM
pany's mill at Boulder, new flour
| ing works operated by water power
from the Middle Boulder, is now in
full operation. Its president is Neil
B. Mckenzie of Boulder. The mill has
a capacity of about 200 barrels per
day and is running to it's limit.
| w. S. Montgomery and II. r. Bit
finger of Omaha have purchased the
1,2OO-acre ranch three miles below
Meeker on the White river, known as
the Mediation and Fleming place. The
ranch is already stocked with 1900
| head of cattle but the new owners will
purchase several hundred additional
| head and raise beef cattle for the mar
| ket.
Dr. John A. Kleinsorge, principal of
the training school of the Colorado
State Normal School, died at ST. JOS
ephs hospital in Denver. March 18th.
He was sent to the hospital about four
weeks before to be operated on for ap-
pendicitis, and appeared to be recov.
ering till pneumonia and other compli
| cations set in.
George w. Perkins, who has been ia.
ken in as partner by ]. Pierpont Nor.
gan, formerly lived in Colorado. He
was in Denver twelve years ago as in.
spector of the New York Life Insur