The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-02-05
COLORADO NOTES.

have escaped
The President has appointed j. b..
johnson postmaster at Montrose, vice
ID. 10. Sherman, resigned.
There was an unusually high death
rate in Denver during January-almost
twice as great as in January, 1900.
February 4th contract for a new
school in Colorado City will be let, the
building to cost in the neighborhood OF
$4,000.
The January payroll of the Colorado
Fuel and Iron Company at Pueblo was
$146,00O, which is $4,000 in excess OF
any month of last year.
Denver will soon have competition
in electric lighting. The Lacombe
Lighting Company proposes to begin
supplying consumers by March 1st.
The Prudential Life Insurance Com
pany will erect n $4,000 brick block
on the south side of Sixth street, be-
tween Main anG Santa Fe streets in
Pueblo.
Senator George w. Swink of Rocky
Ford was recently presented with an
eighty-piece china set in recognition of
his services TO the Arkansas Valley.
The set was manufactured in Europe
specially for the recipient.
Robert Steele, who lives eight miles
north of Platteville, attempted suicide
by shooting himself January Both. The
bullet entered just below the heart and
probably inflicted fatal wound. He
leaves wife and one child, four
years old.
William @. Downing, n Union Pa
cific special policeman, accidentally
shot himself while guarding freight
cars In the yards at Denver on the
night of January Goth, and was found
dead the next morning. Downing
served IN Company X of the First Col
orado in the Philippines.
Weld county came near making n
century run last year in marriage Ii
censes, ninety-nine having been issued.
few days ago j. w. Tripler of
Montrose, cattleman and president of
the Western Slope Bank, lost the index
finger of his left hand. While handling
logs his fingers We're mangled.
Assistant United States District At
torney Tom Il. McClelland has return
ed to Denver from Chicago, where he
went to prosecute the agents of the
''peeposcope," which has been distrub-
uted in Colorado mining camps. Three
promoters of the device were arrested
in Chicago. They pleaded guilty and
were bound over to the District Court
in 5000 bonds.
The western agent of the Mallory
steamship line at Denver has received
n telegram announcing that the direc-
tors of that company have decided to
name their new boat "The City of Den
ver." This is one of the finest boats of
the kind afioat, having n displacement
nf tan npa Of 1.A
girls in Denver will be selected to
christen the boat next March.
City Clerk Harris has prepared n
statement of the financial condition of
the city of Colorado Springs for the in
formation of possible bidders for the
refundiug water bonds, to be immedi-
ately issued by the city, as passed by
the city council. He gives as a con-
servative estimate of the value of the
city waterworks and city property
S2.0000OO. the value of all prop
erty at S25.O0O,OO0. and the census for
last year at 21,00O plus.
Governor Orman will not comply with
the request of the Grant Memorial
Association to have two of the flags
borne by the Colorado veterans in the
Civil War sent to the New York to be
kept in Grants tomb. Three flags
that led the Colorado regiments are in
the adjutant generals office at the cap
itol and are held so sacred by the vet
Grams of the state that they have been
kept in air-tight cases and guarded
with jealous solicitude.
DR.. Boyles and Dr. Kirkwood of Col
orado Springs and DIR. McCuish of
Leadville. representing the Presbyter-
ian synod of Colorado, have been in
Monte Vista completing arrangements
with Mrs. Julia A. Marsh to accept her
munificent donation to the College of
the Southwest on condition that this in
stitution be removed to Monte Vista
and its course of study enlarged so as
to embrace applied sciences. The de-
tails of the agreement are perfected
and only await the ratification of the
synod to make the transfer of the prop
erty complete.
Henry o. Wagner, colored, Colora-
do pioneer, who was clerk in the first
House of Representatives in this state,
died January 9th at the home of his
daughter, Mrs NJ. n. Beatty, No. 2O3
Santa Fe avenue, in Denver, aged
eIghty-four years. eleven months. Mr..
Wagner had been in good health until
recently, but a severe attack of the
grip weakened him and he died of gen.
eral debility. Mr.. Wagner was n
friend and personal acquaintance of
Frederick Douglas and Horace Greeley
and was very highly esteemed by n
large circle of acquaintances among
the most prominent citizens of Denver.
Mrs. Mary L. Carr. of Longmont,
national president of the Woman's Re
lief Corps, and Mrs. Fannie Hardin of
Denver, national secretary, have gone
east on business connected with the
corps. They will visit Chicago, Cleve-
land New York and other eastern cit
les. While in Chicago Mrs. Carr will
install the officers of America Corps,
the first to institute flag work. Mrs.
Carr will visit Commander Rassieur
and will confer with him about the