The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-11-26
COLORADO NOTES.

Fifty thousand dollars was received
by the county treasurer of Teller coun-
ty on the first day of the delinquent
/ tax sale at Cripple Greek.
| Denver's Needlework Guild has just
sent out 3,010 articles of wearing ap-
parel to different institutions for dis
/ tribution among the needy.
| Colorado Springs has closed sub
scriptions for the Mckinley memorial
! fund after having collected nearly ST.
900, mostly in sums less than 81.
, Assessed under the recent revenue
law, Lake countys valuation is placed
at $14, ,269,9TT. against something like
four and one-half millions last year.
Henry Pigg, charged with selling
| whisky to the Indians on the Wind
River reservation, pleaded guilty in the
| United States court at Cheyenne and
| was sentenced to two months in jail.
/ Mrs. James II. Baker, wife of the
president of the State University, and
her father, Rev. Mr.. Hilton, arrived in
/ Boulder on the 18th instant, after
sojourn of several months in Europe.
| The total cost of the recent election
to the taxpayers of Teller county Will
| be about $4,000. In precinct 81, where
| only twelve votes We're cast, the ex-
pense amounted to $93.50, approximate
ly SIS vote.
/ The Florence Oil Company is laying
three-inch pipe line from its wells in
the southern district to the refinery
for the purpose of pumping the crude
oil to the refinery. 1t will be more than
three miles long.
| The Y. NJ. G. A. at Colorado Springs
is erecting $4,000 building and on
Sunday, the 17th instant, ten churches
abandoned their services for mass
meeting to raise funds for the continu-
alton of the work.
, A report is circulated that the Buena
Vista hot springs, situated six miles
west of Buena Vista, have been sold
/ to the Aspen-Buena Vista railroad,
which company viii enlarge and make
an ideal summer report out of them.
| The Colorado State Band Associa-
ton is the name of n new organiZa-
ton Incorporated in Denver by Roy Q.
! Howells, G. J. Woodward and Milo ii.
McMinn. * proposes to organize
band of fifty pieces and build n large
dancing hall.
| A. II. Rice, n young man who came
from New York 20 Denver in the last
stages of consumption, died on the
18th at University Park after having
consumed 100 gallons of oxygen daily
for several days in an an effort to
prolong his life.
Harry Waring, an operator upon
Merganthaler machine in the office of
the Times-C Citizen at Cripple Creek, es-
tablished a record on the 10Th instant,
setting 3,403 lines, equal to SS,4IS ems,
in eight hours, the machine speeded to
eighty-four revolutions per minute.
Arrangements are being made by the
Cripple Creek lodge of Elks to hold n
mask ice carnival to which all the
lodges in the state will be invited. IT.
is proposed to flood Union park, where
band concerts will be given every even
ing and prizes offered for the best
skaters.
The Greeley Ice and Light Company
has been organized to supply the city
with ice, light and power. Jesse S.
Sale is president. The company ex-
poets to begin business in few
weeks with combined ice and light
plant in the old pump factory south
east of town.
The Pacific Jurisdiction, Woodmen
of the World, has paid $4,000 for two
lots on fremont street, near Fifteenth,
1 in Denver, and will erect a handsome
building for lodge purposes and for
the head offices of the order. The
building, as planned, will cost up
wards of $4,000.
The stock of the Colorado beet sugar
which was stored at Missouri river
points has been sent to st. Louis and
Chicago, where it finds a good mar
ket The cut rate at the Missouri riv-
er does not apply at st. Louis and Chi
cago and Colorado sellers took ad-
vantage of this fact.
f. l.. Dana has presented to the Colo
RADIO Springs city council II petition
signed by 5000 residents in support
of his proposed franchise for n local
street railway to be run in opposition
to Stratton's road, now in operation.
| The franchise permits thirty miles of
line to be laid within the city.
Colonel James NJ. ]. Sanno of the
Eighteenth infantry, the new comman-
der of the Department of the Colorado,
is one of the best known officers of the
army having served with distinction
I'm the War of the Rebellion numerous
I Indian campaigns and the t1llpino
War. His headquarters will be in
Denver.
1t is stated that President Frank
Trumbull. of the Colorado & South
ern, will soon place an order for twen-
ty-five additional locomotives. With
these locomotives in service and the
100 freight cars already ordered and
being constructed at Denver and in
the East, the system will be amply
supplied with rolling stock.
r. Z. Powell was killed on the 18th
instant, near the Lucky Star mine, be-
tween Wall Street and Gold Hill, by
d. explosion of giant powder. Powell.
who was formerly from Grand Rap
| ids, Michigan, attended the medical
department of the University of Colo
| ,.oJn laSt yanr and was niDin,r shi-