The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-01-08
COLORADO NOTES.

WlIe celebrated the twenty seventh all
niversary of their marriage on the
Goth ultimo.
Mrs. Hattie Ward, widow living on
well-known ranch near Hayden, was
burned to donth frw dayS ago by the
burning of her house.
The Northwestern is believed to be
arranging to build a line from Valen-
tine, Nebraska, into Denver. A pre-
liminary survey is being made.
In Denver, December Doth. Barton
B. Runyon shot and fatally wounded
Edward Windbauer, young man who
had been visiting Munyon's daughter.
The act was the result of quarrel.
In Denver, December Doth, George
Hobbick, n South Omaha stockman,
first tried to shoot his wife and then
shot himself through the head.
Governor Thomas has appointed Mrs.
Harriet G.. Wright to fill the uneXpired
term of Mrs. George on the board or
control of the State Industrial School
for Girls.
The new artesian well at the Tabor
Grand opera house in Denver mas
struck n flow of water ut 100 feet that
rises to within $50 feet of the top. 1t
Will be sunk deeper.
The date of the Jeffersonian banquet
at Denver in honor of Governor Or
man has been changed to the night
before Inauguration. January Ith. 1t
is to be genuine Democratic feast, to
cost 50 a plate.
The Denver Post figures that the
gold output for Colorado for the year
1900, something over $50 100000, would
make n brick containing about eighty
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49N tons.
On January Dps Governor Thomas
issued requisition. for Criss Harris, ac-
cused of horse-stealing in Routt county.
and for Charles Grover. Harry Hess,
Ella Groves and William Norton,
charged with aiding him. The five are
under arrest in Oklahoma.
The annual dinner of the Colorado
Yale Alumni Association will be held
January 9th at the University Club in
Denver. Notices have been sent to
the members, but the date on them
reads January 9th, which is n mistake,
and will be corrected by Il supplement
AIRY invitation.
a movement is on foot to hold auto
mobile races at Overland park. in Den
yer. this year. The Cycling West Will
conduct n cycle show there next
spring. and it is expected that the in
terest aroused by the exhibition VIII
result in races arranged by the makers
of rival machines.
Victor Kallman. n miner in the Com
modore mine ut Creede, was probably
fatally injured January LIST by fall
of 30 feet from the ID level to the
shaft bottom. The miners lamp blew
out, and in stumbling around he took
his awful plunge. kallman was
brought out of the mine in n dying con
dition.
The state board of charities and cor
rection has sent n letter to Judge
Moses Hallett. president of the Bar
Association. asking that he urge the
association to go on record in favor
of juvenile courts in which first of
tenders can be tried without being
brought into contact with old and de-
termined criminals.
The twentieth century banquet and
dance given by the ',Old Missouri CT
der Club, on New Years eve. at
Georgetown. was one of the grandest
affairs ever given, eighty seven couples
participating. Refreshments consisted
of cider and gingerbread. The former
was served out of large cut glass bowls
aggregating in cost $3.50, by uniformed
colored walters.
State Treasurer-elect Chipley yester-
day announced his list of appointments
in the treasury. For deputy treasurer
he has appointed Thomas III. Tulley, at
present secretary to Governor Thomas.
This appointment is credited TO San
Juan county. Julius II. Clark of Arap-
ahoe county will be appointed chief
bookkeeper and Thomas A. Bradford
of Pueblo registry clerk.
At the annual meeting of the Delta
Town and improvement Company the
following officers We're elected: George
Stephin. president: J. Frank Sanders,
vice president. and A. X. King, secre
tary. The officers were authorized to
grant n right of way and donate land to
the proposed electric line which is to be
constructed to Surface creek and the
North Fork country. in Delta county.
There are twenty-five free rural mail
delivery routes now in operation in
Colorado, and six more will soon be
put into operation. These have been
established from the following post
offices: Berthoud, Boulder, Broom
field. Denver. Durango. Edgewater,
Eaton, Fort Collins. Golden. Greeley.
La Junta, Las Animas. Longmont.
Loveland. Monte Vista. Morrison,
Platteville and Rocky Ford. There
will be additional establishments from
Fort Collins, Loveland, Pueblo, Little
ton and Walsenburg-
At Silver Cliff. January 3rd, Louis
Ate made determined attempt to com
nit suicide half an hour before he was
to have been married to Miss Nora
Stuart. He left the hotel and was
traced by trail of blood for two
miles into the country. where he was
found lying unconscious on the ground
with terrible gashes on his arm and
wrist. and it was later learned that he
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