The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-12-24
COLORADO NOTES.


Extensive improvements, to cost in
the neighborhood of 100000, will be
made in the d. & r. G. shops at Den
Yer.
A Washington dispatch says that
Mrs. r. r. Gibbon, wife of Justice Glib
bon, has been appointed postmistress
OF Ward.
Colorado Springs capitalists talk of
building summer concert hall at La
Vergne, a new suburb just south Of
Colorado City.
The Brighton Vegetable Growers
Association has been organized by the
gardeners living in the Platte valley
near Brighton.
Michael Ambro aged eighty-four,
was struck by freight train and in
Stantly killed at Colorado Springs on
the 18th instant.
Holyoke people now hello" on a new
telephone hne which they hope to have
connected with the long-distance line
before long.
Hosea Townsend OF Colorado has
been reappointed judge of the United
States Court (Southern districD of In
dian Territory.
The City Council of Victor refused
to grant license for a saloon in the
nOIel on account OIL II Delup
close to n church.
Attorney A. b. Mckinley, who was
terribly mangled by a street car in
Denver some six weeks ago, is reported
to be almost well again.
Tracklaying on the extension of the
street car line at Boulder has been be-
gun. The rails were secured from the
Tramway company of Denver.
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ganized to combat an alleged traffic in
horse flesh, which, it is asserted, is be-
ing sold by peddlers as beef.
Judge ]. L. Semmes, adjutant of the
department of Colorado, Patriarchs
Militant, l. o. o. F., died suddenly at
Colorado Springs on the 18th instant
of heart failure.
The Railway Mems Cooperative
Supply Association will start a coop
erative store in Denver with n cash
capital OF $4,000. G. NJ. Hubert is
president OF the association.
The enrolment of students at the
State Agricultural College, Fort Col
Inns, has reached 42S. This is the larg
est number registered at a single
term in the history of the institution.
The Colorado Telephone Company
has just completed an extension of its
lines from Livermore, Larimer county,
to st. Cloud, n distance of twenty
miles, where 1t reaches an important
cattle section.
The Colorado Springs Y. NJ. G. A
building fund has received a handsome
embroidered couch cushion from Mrs.
Theodore Roosevelt. Accompanying the
gift was a note from the Presidents
wife expressing her good wishes. 1t
,,-lI l.. TOD nd nl,ph Ia W hn
sold at auction.
Lawrence Hex, negro, on trial at
Pueblo for the murder of Lizzie Alley
and William White, both colored, was
found guilty by the jury. who also
agreed upon the death penalty. His
was the first murder trial in the Pueblo
courts since the enactment of the capi-
tai punishment law.
Members of the Denver Restaurant
Keepers Association have devised a
scheme to buy farm and raise onions
on cooperative plan for use in their
restaurants. The farm, it Is said, will
soon be purchased. Every kind of ta-
BILE delicacy that may come under the
head of vegetables will be raised.
A. r. Gumaier, purchaser of the Por-
ter stock of thoroughbred horses in
Denver, last week, is preparing to
build race track on his land south of
Florence and will also put up fine sta
bles. He has already fenced in several
thousand acres. The animals will ar
rive soon. They We're purchased at a
cost OF $4,000.
The Colorado State Optical Associa-
tion held its regular monthly meeting
December 11th, at the office of Presi-
dent Robert Brooks Finch in Denver.
DIR. Edward Jackson addressed the as
sociation on "Prisms," giving technical
explanations of their various phases
and uses. President Finch also ad-
dressed the members. State and city
members will meet January 11th next
for grand banquet.
II. NJ. What, man about sixty-five
years of age, was found frozen to
death three miles from Fairplay on the
18th instant. lie had started with a
horse and cart 10 drive from near
Hartzel to Park City, and his horse
gave out after passing Fairplay, when
Whaite was overcome by the storm.
He leaves wife and three children
living on the ranch near HartZel. The
horse was so frozen that it had to be
killed.
The still house of the Florence OIL |
and Refining Company at Florence |
was burned on the afternoon of De
cember 10th, the loss being estimated
at about $1,000. Located in the still
house were four tanks, each one con-
tanning 500 barrels of crude oil that |
was being refined. One of the stills |
sprang leak and the crude oil imme-
diately caught fire from the firebox of |
the boiler. close by, which furnishes
steam for the refining process.
1t has been announced that ]. A.
nd ol ,icsi Of ba |
Santa Fe route, will resign January |
1st to be succeeded by Wesley Merritt, |
the roads present agent at Chanute, !
Kansas Tn Mr. Davis WAS largely |