The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-01-15
COLORADO NOTES.

two degrees higher in 1900 than in
1899.
1t is announced that the Silverton
railroad, from Silverton to Ironton,
has been closed for the winter.
The board of trustees of Telluride
have granted a twenty-year franchise
to the Colorado Telephone Company.
The Colorado Federation of Women's
Clubs has selected Cripple Creek as
the place for holding its convention
next fall.
William Stiner and William Hood
We're KILLED by an explosion in the
Consolidated mine at Newcastle on the
9th instant.
John w. Crooks, state superintend-
ent of the Baptist missions of Colora-
do, died at Monte Vista on the Sth
instant, from an attack of pneumonia.
A Denver man is said to be at work
on flying machine to be exhibited at
the next Mountain and Plain festival.
1t is designed to carry seven or eight
persons.
The comptroller of the currency has
declared a twelve aud one-half per
cent dividend in favor of the creditors
of Ae insolvent Commercial National
BANK of Denver.
Springs is moving toward municipal
ownership of its water and electric ser
vice and has ordered a survey of GriZ-
ely creek with that purpose in view.
on the 9Th inst, Josiah Lee, lead
ing citizen of Brush, acting as volun-
tary nurse, dropped dead in the pest
house, where he had been nursing a
patient. His death is attributed to
heart disease.
Fleming S. Hover, owner of the Rio
Vista ranch, near Lamar, died at Den
yer on the 4th inst. He was one of
the most prominent residents of Prov
erS county, and is credited with having
originated the annual rabbit hunt at
Lamar.
At a meeting of the Denver Minis
ters' Alliance, Parson Uzzell, of the
noted Peoples Tabernacle. is alleged
to have said: IL have raised $4,000
since last April for my church, and
out of that not $500 has been given me
by Christians"
The coroners jury in the case of
Thomas Steward, who was shot and
killed by Charles Thompson at Dun
can. rendered a verdict of justifiable
homicide. Thompson was afterward
acquitted at his preliminary trial be-
fore Justice Lawrence.
At Trinidad, Nlcoll Ferraro, Lu-
ciano Perrino and Nofrio Calasso, all
Sicilians, We're sentenced on the 9th
instant to not less than ten nor more
than thirty years in the penitentiary
| for the murder mt Berwind of an ltal-
ian, Francisco Pecarrar0
Robert Huntington Of Atlanta, Geor-
| gia, is in Colorado investigating the de-
STABILITY of erecting a factory at
Ford nr alsnNy harp in that viciu-
ity treat watermelons, or the waste
prd II of watermelons. as has been
profitably done in Georgia.
John w. Springer. the stock man, has
been arrested in Denver for bringing
horse with n dOcked tail into the
state. an act prohibited by the statute
enacted two years ago. 1t is under
stood that Mr.. Springer will contest
the constitutionality of the law.
Mrs. Celia Osgood Peterson has
been appointed deputy superintendent
of public instruction, taking the place
made vacant by the resignation of
| Miss Skinner Mrs. Peterson held the
position in 1899 She is n Democrat
and has taught seventeen years in the
Denver public schools.
AT Colorado Springs, January 3rd, at
seven O'Clock In the evening, robber
smashed the plate glass window of II.
| Il. Kapelke's jewelry store, 130 East
| Pixies Peak avenue, and seized and
| carried off two trays of diamond rings
| worth about $3.50, escaping with his
| plunder.
The town board of Loveland has de-
| cided to lay Il twelve-inch water main
| to increase the supply of water made
| necessary by the demands of sugar
| factory and increasing population. The
,nIr tI.. ,t,l, InY five
| times the capacity of the present wa
| ter works.
In the District Court at Trinidad,
Jack Madill was sentenced by Judge
| Northcutt to not less than ten nor
more than sixty years in the peniten-
tiary for shooting his wife on the night
| of February 18th last. Mrs. Madill
| fingered in a half-conscious condition
for A;ne time, dying on April 10Th.
II bunty commissioners and Archi-
| tect Vhith of Ell Paso county recently
| went to Salt Lake City to inspect the
marble and other interior decorations
| of Salt Lake City's new million dol
lar city and county building. The de-
| signs will be studied with a view to
employing them in the new court
| house at Colorado Springs.
Samuel J. Slate died at the home of
George Pendleton, sixteen miles north
west of Carlsbad from injuries receiv-
| ed by well-drilling machine toppling
over and striking him. He died the
following day. Mr.. Slate had been
resident of Lone Tree, Eddy county,
| for a number of years, and leaves n
wife and a number of children.
Miss Julia Dohr is the latest victim
| of Denver's mysterious sandbagger,
making the sixth woman he has as
| ao,,1+o5 Miss Dohr who is an elderly