The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-03-12
COLORADO NOTES.

way home from Manila.
Twenty thousand small rainbow
trout, furnished by the state, have
been placed in Boulder creek.
Colorado Springs is considering the
purchase of large tract or tracts OF
ground to enlarge its park area
George II. Adams of Boston Will
erect a $125,0O hotel building at the
corner of Eighteenth and Welton
streets in Denver.
The Republicans of Trinidad have
nominated II. II. Wood for mayor for
a third term, and the Democrats have
nominated w. e. Lawler.
Adjutant General Overmeyer has
commissioned Charles S. Card, SER
geant in troop C, Denver city cavalry,
to be second lieutenant.
The train from Denver to Boulder
was held at Marshall four hours, on
the evening of March 3rd, because OF
the violence of the wind.
The G. A. Il. Memorial Association
of Denver has been Incorporated. Its
object is to erect memorial building
in Denver.
Thomas W. Goad. for many years
one of the prominent mining engineers
of Colorado, died at Liverpool, Eng
land, March 4th.
The City Council of Colorado Springs
has granted to w. S. Stratton the
right to construct and operate rapid
transit system in the city.
On April 2nd, the voters of Pagosa
Springs will ballot on the proposition
to bond the town for the sum of S1S,-
600 to erect water works.
Nickel-in-the-slot telephones will be
introduced in the drug stores of Colo
RADIO Springs which have heretofore al
lowed the public to use their tele-
phones free.
On February 2Sth Fred Cheney, one
of the Oldest and best known miners
in Aspen, was caught by body of ore
in the shoot in the Bushwhacker mine
and instantly killed.
Lyman L. Baldwin, n Colorado
pioneer, died at Boulder March 3rd. He
came to Colorado in 1859 and was
member of the Denver City Home
Guards during the war.
The Board of Pardons has agreed to
commute the sentence of George Cor
don from ten to six years. Gordon
was convicted in Arapahoe county,
May 3, 1897, ON the charge of criminal
assault.
John Hays Hammond, the mining
eADtTl Ol
son raid notoriety, is again in Cripple
| Creek. where he has charge of the
Stratton's Independence company's
! properties.
c. II. Wolfe, lately with the Rocky
Mountain News, has purchased the in
terest of Il. j. Carver in the Greeley
Tribune Publishing Company, of
which Mr.. Carver acted as manager
for the past twenty years.
'Side Veins" in the Denver News,
says: IF Roosevelt will kindly swal-
low the United States Senate, the
country will forgive many of his past
shortcomings" And the owner of the
-'ews is n member of the Senate!
No certain evidence has been Sc
cured against AL. Cowan, the suspect
ed woman murderer in custody at Den
yer. However, his hatred of women
is established and experts pronounce
him insane and advise his confinement.
Six of the small cottages on the
Chautauqua grounds at Boulder were
blown from their foundations during
the wind storm of Mard 3rd. A funeral
had to be postponed because it was
thought unsafe to drive TO the ceme-
terry.
Alaska advices received via Seattle
state that Fred Watson, aged thirty
four, died November 4th of pneumonia,
in Nome. Fred Watson was son of
Judge Watson, pioneer of Aspen, and
his brother, Sam Watson, is now liv-
ing in Aspen.
The Thirtieth infantry will be re-
| cruited as rapidly as possible at Fort
Logan, near Denver. The men are
to be recruited entirely, if possible,
from Colorado, Wyoming and New
Mexico. 1t has been suggested that it
be called the Rocky Mountain regi-
ment.
For the first time in the history of
the state Colorado is now represented
by Senator who trains with the Dem
ocratic party. Standing arm-in-arm
with Senator Teller, Senator Thomas
NJ. Patterson was sworn in by Vice
President Roosevelt on the 4th of
March,
1t is reported at Colorado Springs
that the new manager of the Antlers
hotel will be C. w. Martin, who has
been managing the Hotel Colorado at
Glenwood Springs. DIR. Bell has al
ready ordered the furniture. which
will probably be in place early in the
summer.
The following appointments have
been made by Governor Orman: Col |
onel Nathan Gregg, Jr., reappointed
military secretary with the rank of |
colonel; Tyson S. Dimes and Dora E. |
Reynolds, appointed members of the !
board of control of the State Home |
for Dependent Children.
The Boulder Chautauqua board of |
directors have instructed Secretary
Freeman to memorialiZh the Legisla-
ture with the view to having the
quarto centennial celebration of Colo
radios admission to statehood located
at the Chautauqua on Auguse 1st,
which is the anniversary of Colorado's