The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-09-03
~COLORADO NOTES.

ney Is seriously i'll at Ouray.
The Colorado Springs horse show,
which closed August 22nd, was de-
'clared to be decided success.
The first Colorado & Southern train
since the washout of August Sd reach
ed Buena Vista from Como August
25th.
On his short private visit to Boulder
August Goth, w. J. Bryan spoke to a
small impromtu gathering in the court
room.
President David Starr Jordan of Le-
land Stanford University preached in
Calvary Baptist Church, Denver, on
Sunday, August 25th.
The people of Arvada, on the Colora-
do & Southern line between Denver
and Golden, expect to have an electric
line into Denver this winter.
The Central City lodge of Elks is
preparing to hold a fair and festival
from September 18th to 21st to raise
funds for the erection of n building.
The proposed new power house and
plant of Strattons electric street ran
way system in Colorado Springs will
cost about S150,OO0 and will be one OF
the finest in the West.
A Victor Ladies' Pioneer Club has
been organized by the ladies who came
early to Victor. Mrs. r. III. Atchison
was elected president and 1t was de-
ed to hold annual meetings.
The five large steam laundry plants
in Pueblo are endeavoring to effect a
combination and have been consider
ing the erection of n big plant to ac-
'commodate the whole business.
Thomas e. Barr, founder of the
peoples Pulpit work in Milwaukee,
will endeavor to reorganiZe the famous
Broadway Temple Association of the
late Myron W. Reed at the Broadway
theater in Denver.
Francis Truth, the so-called 'hcaler,"
who has been operating in Denver and
who was arrested on several charges,
has agreed to go out of the business in
Denver and endeavor to get heeled in
some other vocation.
There was great rejoicing among the
baseball enthusiasts in Denver when
the Denver Western League team
climbed from eighth place to fourth,
leaving Des Moines and Colorado
Springs to fight for the BOBBY prize.
Mrs. Matte Wilson has been appoint
ed county superintendent of schools by
the county commissioners of Fremont
county. She succeeds the late super
intendent, j. NJ Hanks, who died re-
Gently, and is n sister of Mr.. Hanks.
The annual picnic of the State
Grange, Patrons of Husbandry, will be
held at Fort Collins in the college
grounds on September 11th. Among
the speakers are President B. o. Ayles-
worth, j. +. White Professor l.. O.
Carpenter. James NJ. White, j. a. New
comb and w. X. Thomas.
Jpinbo,J old reSi1aDt
of Coal Creek, committed suicide Au-
gust 26th, by shooting himself through
the heart. He was sixty-one years of
age and leaves n wife and several
children. He had been suffering from
an abcess in the brain caused by in
A,ies received in a mine.
The Beaver Creek Reservoir Com
pany has been Incorporated at Fort
Collins with Philip Wilson, Il. j. Greg
ory and Charles A. Button as incor-
porators. The purpose of the corpora
ton is 20 construct and maintain six
reservoirs above the source of Beav-
er creek in Larimer county.
James a. Fleming, formerly of Den
yer, but now n wealthy mine owner
of Phoenix, Arizona, has been sued for
$4,000 damages by Miss Jessie NJ.
Graham. who alleges that Fleming
promised to marry her in 1890, and
has failed to do so. Miss Graham for
merly lived in Butte, Montana.
United States photographer A. S.
Fellows, who returned to Denver n few
days ago from n trip through the west
ern part of the state, says that there Is
more water in the rivers on the western
slope this year than there has been be-
fore for fifteen years. Mr.. Fellows
t1,a pitr lrt
his trip.
Grant Crumley, who shot Sam
Strong, was well known in Colorado
Springs in 1894, as was also his broth
tr, Sherman, who went to Cripple
Creek and soon attracted public at
tention by being accused of participa-
ton in the robbery of a Florence &
Cripple Greek passenger train short
distance from Victor.
John Bradford and Brick Price, cat
tlemen living six miles of Erie, en-
gagged in an argument n few days
since. They exchanged blows and
finally resorted to firearms. A couple
- shots were exchanged but no harm
done Bradford is the man whose
cl In was riddled by bullets some two
months ago by unknown parties.
A Mancos dispatch to the Denver
News, dated August 26th, says: At
11:3O this morning an electric bolt
killed a valuable horse ridden by Ar
thur Spencer and Spencer himself is at
the point of death. Hyde Fielding,
who was riding beside him, was
stunned and thrown from his horse.
The accident occurred about one mile
east of town.
A Cripple Creek dispatch says: A. j.,
]. II. and j. F. Woods yesterday killed
n female bear and two cubs on Black
mountain, some twenty-five miles west
of this city. They brought the animals