The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-07-30
COLORADO NOTES.

L Hc IeSlteHl mas appointed W. IL.
Ogle postmaster at Lake City
The new Antlers hotel at Colorado
Springs Will be run strictly on the
European plan.
The newsboys of Denver propose to
give n fair August 18th to nth to raise
money to pay for uniforms.
The plant of the Golden Pressed
Brick Company at Golden, which was
reoSntly burned, will be rebuilt imme-
diately.
The executive committee of the
Transmississippi congress at Cripple
Creek awarded the first prize of $50 in
cash for the best decorated building to
the fire boys of station No. l.
The chlorination plant of the Eel Paso
Milling Company at Florence was COM
pletely destroyed by fire on the morn
ing of July 22d between and 8 O'Clock.
The loss is estimated at 5000 900; in
surance, $4,000.
An eastern automobile firm is said
to be considering the project of estab-
fishing an automobile service at Colo
RADIO Springs and Manitou to carry
tourists to the Garden of the Gods and
other points of interest.
A break occurred in the Victor city
dam on the southwest side of Pixies
peak about 4 o'clock on the morning of
July 23d and carried away about
twelve feet of the dam, also causing
loss of 100000 gallons of water.
Running races Will be held at Glen
wood Springs August Dist, 22nd, 23rd
and 24th, at which $1,000 in prizes
viii be offered A cowboys tourna-
ment will conclude the races, in which
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pate.
Extensive forest fires are reported in
Park and jefferson counties. A great
fire has been spreading on Mount Ev-
ans, destroying hundreds of acres of
pine. Another great fire has been dew
astating the mountain forests between
Evergreen and Pine Grove.
The Pueblo Single Tax Club has
been organized with b. ID. V. Reed as
president and j. w. Printlinger as sec
retary. j. X. Herman, who has been
giving lectures ON the street corners in
Denver and Pueblo on the single tax,
has gone west to continue his lecturing
in other cities.
]. E. Carney, foreman of the pipe
line construction gang, recently
brought to Loveland skeleton which
was uncovered near big dam west of
Loveland. The skull and jawbones in
dicate that 1t was an Indian. stir
rup and bride bit We're found in n per-
feet state of preservation.
Aided by the use of electrical min
ing machines lately installed by the
Fremont coal mine at Williamsburg,
better known as Bear gulch, the Colo
RADIO Fuel and Iron Company is said to
be producing as much coal with sixty
men as it did last fall with 40.
The net earnings of the Denver e
Rio Grande in the second week in July
We're S25O,2OO. an increase of S41 900
over the corresponding week of last
year. The first two weeks of July the
net earnings were S464 300, an increase
of $6O,S over the corresponding two
weeks of last year.
Colored members of the knights of
Pythias from Colorado Springs, Cripple
Creek and Leadville met in Pueblo re-
Gently and founded the first Afro
American Pythian grand lodge in Colo
RADIO. There are some 24O members
among the colored people of the state,
but no hitherto recognized lodge.
Long mountain trips on foot, on
horseback and by wagons are one of
the popular features of the Glen Park
mer A recent three days trip includ-
ed Manitou park, Woodland park, Ute
pass. Green Mountain falls, Cascade
canon and the Garden of the Gods.
James Page, postmaster at Whites
water. Colorado. has Informed Postof-
flee Inspector Sullivan at Denver that
his office had been burned on the night
of July 10th. The loss was somewhere
between $50 and $50 in stamps burned,
just the amount could not be deter
mined until the safe was recovered and
opened.
a largely signed petition was receiv-
ed by the Fort Lyons Canal Company,
directors while in session at Las Ami
mas few days ago, requesting that
suit be instituted against the Amity
canal and the oxford Farmers canal
to determine their rights to the use of
water as against the rights of the Fort
Lyons canal.
The Pueblo Press Club will keep
open house in Colorado Springs to the
editors of the state during the Quai>o-
Centennial celebration, August 1st, 2nd
and 3rd. Joseph ID. Glass, the repre-
sentative of the club, has secured, sub
ject to the approval of the Press club
at its next meeting, headquarters in
the Antlers hotel
Harry w. McCauley, who represent
ed the Denver Republican in the Phil
ippines during the stay in that country
of the First Colorado, has been desig-
mated by the President for eXamina-
ton with a view to his appointment as
lieutenant in the United States army
Mr.. McCauley had already engaged to
20 to Manila as teacher and was due
to sail from San Francisco July Odd
He will therefore take the eXamina-
ton in Manila.
f. S .Passmore, the Colorado preach
er whose criticism of his fellow cler-
gymen led to his expulsion from the
Methodist Church in this state, was
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