The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-05-14
COLORADO NOTES.!

Denver letter carriers nave ueciueu
to adopt the shirt waist for summer
wear.
Pelton's Lake, a summer resort near
Montrose, was opened with Cance ON
the night of May 1st.
The Stubbs capital punishment bill
did not contain an emergency clause
and hence does not go into effect until
July 1st.
An attempted auction of real estate
in Denver Il few days ago did not
prove successful Only two lots were
sold and those at less than their value.
In the list of births during he
month of April, filed with the city
health commissioner of Denver, the
girl babies outnumber the boys two to
one.
General Irving Hale and Henry Il.
Rogers will represent Denver Unitar-
ians at the annual meeting of the
American Unitarian Association in
Boston the last week in May.
Denver building permits for the first
quarter of 1901 aggregate rs buildings
to cost 81, 1876 1873, which is a gain of
1859, 600 over the same period last
year. This looks like n building boom.
According to the reports which they
have filed with the city clerk, the Re
publican city committee spent S20,213
on the late city elections in Denyer,
and the Democratic city COMM lee
spent $50, 121.
John C. Henry, who died at Denver
May Bird, is claimed to have been the
inventor of the overhead trolley for
electric railways, which was first used
in Kansas City in 1888. He made
fortune out of his inventions.
d. C. Crawford. who was the first
auditor of the state of Colorado, died in
Denver May LIST. He was formerly
manager of the Crawford house at
Colorado Springs and the Lindell no
tel in Denver.
A report that an association of liquor
dealers had decided to raise the price
of beer TO 10 cents glass and whisky
to 10 cents straight. caused great con-
sternation in Denver Il few days ago.
But the calamity was averted.
Governor Orman has named Friday,
June 11th, as Flag Day. The Sons
and Daughters of the American Revo-
luton are preparing an extensive pro-
gram in Denver and will ask all the
school children to assemble in the City
park.
On the 9th inst. Amos Frazer. super
intendent of the Scott X Ogden lease
Pitkin county. was instantly killed by
snow slide. His remains Were
shipped to Aspen, where his family re-
sides.
B. S. Newland. lately appointed dep
uty dairy Inspector, has arrived from
Victor and taken charge of his desk Mt
the capitol in Denver. j. L. James,
his predecessor, is now acting as in
spector of foods for the State Board of
Health.
Parson Uzzell of the Denver Taber-
nacle has arranged with the manage
ment of the Loveland beet sugar fac
tory to supply several hundred work
ers from his congregation for enAg-
ency labor in the beet fields this s1ln-
mer.
The recent heavy rains caused sew
eral large rock slides on the track of
the Denver 4 Rio Grande railroad
along the Grand river near Glenwood
Springs. The water in the river was
also at n very high point, occasionins
good deal of anxiety.
With the recent orders secured for
steel rails from the Colorado Midland
road, there is enough work on hand
to keep the rail mill at Bessemer busy
throughout the summer. At present
work is being done on large order of
eighty rails for the Santa
Fe road.
The school census just completed at
Central City shows school population
of 1,115, as against 935 in 1900. This
puts Central City in the list of first
class districts and entities it to school
board numbering five instead of three,
but no change will take place till next
year.
Jesse A. Moore, convicted in the
District Court at Glenwood Springs
of the murder of Walter Phillips, was
sentenced to the penitentiary for life.
Moore received his sentence with APP
parent Indifference. This is the first
criminal sentence passed by Judge
Shumate.
In the new science building at Colo
RADIO College in Colorado Springs there
Will be department for the accommo-
dation of the museum. recently much
enlarged by the purchase in California
of the Coronado collection, secured for
the college through the generosity of
w. $. Stratton.
Reduced rates have been mazda by
the railroads for the American IN yker-
alton of Musicians convention at Den
yer. May 18th to Goth. for the annual
meeting of the Western Federation of
Miners to be held ut Denver May 2Ith
to June 4th. for the racing meeting at
Colorado Springs May Both to June
3rd, and for the annual convention
Colorado Federation of Labor ut Lead
vile or June 3rd.
At its recent meeting at Fort Collins
the State Board of Agriculture estab-
lished "A department of veterinary sci
ence, and appointed DR.. George II.
Glover of Denver at the head of it. at
an annual salary of $1,000. Harlan
Thomas and Professor L. G.. Carpenter