The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-09-24
COLORADO NOTES.


Work will be commenced Immediate
ly on the new water works system at
Longmont.
The State University Mt Boulder has
opened with an increased number OF
students.
1t is estimated that nearly forty
square miles of timber has been killed
by the recent fire near Eldora.
y. G. Dewitt, arrested at Denver on
the charge of forgery, is said to have
record of having forged over 800
checks.
Miss Odessa Ross of Kiowa has been
selected as maid of honor for Elbert
county at the Mountain and Plain fes-
tival.
The grand stand for the Festival of
Mountain and Plain in Denver looks
as If it We're intended to hold all the
people in the state.
The Bent County Fair at Las Ami
mas, closed September 18th, after
three days of successful exhibition
and entertainments.
A large crowd gathered in Littleton
the other night and burned in etfigy the
assassin Czolgosz, and Emma Gold
man, whose words served as inspira-
| tion for his crime.
| Miss Rose Moody of Monte Vista has
been chosen to represent Rio Grande
| county as maid of honor at the FeStl-
| val of Mountain and Plain.
Surveyors are now at work ON the
Eldora extension of the Colorado n
| Northwestern railroad. Several routes
will be surveyed and the most feasible
one chosen.
Miss Louise Roseberry has been Sc
| lnstp1 Inv a maid of
honor to the festival queen. She is
eighteen years of age and was raised
i'll the Wet Mountain valley.
The directors of the State Fair at
! Pueblo have changed their plans of
having Midway, but will introduce
! the feature of German village, to-
| gether with other novel attractions.
Miss Edna Sweeney of Walsenburg
| Will be maid of honor from Huerfano
county in the Festival of Mountain
and Plain, and Miss Ida AIillinger of
Holly will represent Prowers county.
The worst of series of violent rain
storms struck Manitou and vicinity on
the forenoon of September Sd, continu-
ing for some time, and wreaking con-
siderable damage. Between Colorado
The village of Ash. Il short distance
north of Ouray, was almost completely
destroyed by fire on the 10th inst. The
Graham supply store was totally de
stroyed. Loss about $1,000; insurance,
| S3,400.
Miss Ella Naomi Penfold of Bur-
| lington has been chosen maid of honor
to the Mountain and Plain festival
queen from Kit Carson county. She Is
"A daughter of j. w. Penfold, county
treasurer.
IL l,ne, h.n nr.,rn rliv
principally among the Woodmen of the
World of Fort Morgan to build an au-
ditorium and lodge room. 1t is pro-
posed to erect Il building at Il cost of
about $1,000, to seat 600 people
On Sunday, September 10Th, the day
after the death of President Mckinley
nearly every pastor in Colorado devot-
ed his sermon to topics connected with
the great national tragedy. Large pub
lie gatherings We're also held in all the
principal towns of the state.
Oliver p. Virgins, the aged scout
| and Mexican war veteran who has
been stationed as officer in the postof-
flee building at Denver for many years,
has been replaced by a younger man.
Officer Virgins was a picturesque fig
ure and will be much missed.
The members of the a. o. U. w. are
| arranging for II grand union meeting
and initiation ceremonies at Canon
City on the evening of October 2Sth,
| in which lodges from Pueblo, Florence,
Coal Creek, Canon City, Westcliffe
and Salida will participate.
On the day of William McKinley's
funeral Nathaniel Lyon Post No. 8, G.
A. r.. of Boulder, adopted resolutions
calling on Colorado's senators and con-
| gressmen to secure federal legislation
against anarchy and suggesting an in
ternational bureau in that connection.
September Goth was Pioneers Day
Mt the fair in Glenwood Springs, of
Eagle, Pitkin and Garfield counties.
Anyone who moved into the region be-
fore January 1, 1887, is accounted Il
pioneer, though If he We're n baby at
the time he can hardly be an "old pi-
| oneer."
On the 18th instant DIR. ID. L. Nc
| Murtrie, of Emerson. Iowa, who was
staying with his son in a cabin at Il
mining claim on Quinn mountain, near
Eldora, was so badly burned while
trying to save some property from the
cabin. which took fire from the blaz-
ing forest. that he died next day from
his injuries.
Six men We're killed and four in
jured on the 10Th inst. by terrible eX-
plosion in the Spring Gulch mine of
the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company,
fourteen miles from Cardiff on the Je-
rome branch of the Colorado Midland
railroad. The dead are: =. G. Picker
ton, - Andres, Peter Deldora, David
Collier, George Cassenger and an un-
known Italian.
September 10Th, the day on which
| President Mckinley was buried at
Canton. Ohio, was observed as a day
of mourning in every town in Colora
| do Sp far bpur1 from In all tbn