The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-05-21
COLORADO NOTES.

Robert NJ Morris, formerly chief
clerk in the insurance department, has
been appointed receiver of the Denver
Life Insurance Company
The proposed midsummer excursion
to Buffalo and the Pan-American ex-
position by the Colorado Editorial AS
sociation has been abandoned.
The Denver Real Estate Exchange
has voted to employ competent experts
and arrange some plan for boring
well in the Denver basin to ascertain If
there is any oil to be found.
preparing to hold street fair and eX-
hibition of home products at Denver,
June 9th to 30th, with n Midway"
cycle parade, horseman's parade, etc.
Denver building permits for the first
quarter of 1901 aggregate 11S buildings
to cost $1,126, 1873, which is gain OF
S359,GO9 over the same period last
year. This looks like building boom.
A recent dispatch from Hastings,
Nebraska, says: over eighty Rus
slams, or two carloads, have just left
here to work in the beet fields ut SUI
gX City, Colordo."
Yhe senior class of the University of
Colorado, at Boulder, is now rehears.
ing Much Ado About Nothing"
which is to be given on the University
campus next month.
During severe electrical storm east
of Colorado Springs, on the 18th inst,
Woodson Kerns, a young man living
in the vicinity of Ramah, was struck
by lightning and instantly killed while
at work plowing.
A contract has been let for putting
up the big canyas-covered structure
near the state house in Denver to be
used for the Army and Navy fair, June
Sd to Sth. The building will be 12Ox
200 feet in size.
The city of Colorado Springs will is
sue bonds to the amount of S11S,OOG
for the purpose of erecting a city hall.
The bonds will draw four per cent. in
terest and Will mature in fifteen years
with an option of ten.
The people of the Cripple Creek dis
trict are not very well satisfied with
the fact that President Mckinley, ac-
cording 10 the present schedule, Will
only spend about an hour and Il Lalf
In the town of the district.
Elaborate preparations are being
made for Denver's annual Festival of
! Mountain and Plain. More money is
being subscribed than ever before and
n more varied and interesting program
is being arranged. The railroads
promise the usual low rates.
Governor Orman has appointed the
following water commissioners: Dis
trict "a, Melton Albert, Costilla county;
District "a, Lewis Jarratt, Montezuma
county; District 30. Charles Macmillan,
Costlila county; District 81, A. kal-
quist, Eagle county: District 3S,
George w. Hull, Eagle county.
G. L. Gafford, well-known physi-
clan of Buena Vista. was instantly
killed on the 9th instant. by accident
ally taking hold of brass hook that
supported n number of electric wires.
He was supposed to have been arrang-
ing curtain and was unaware of the
danger.
Professor L. B. T. Spencer of the
Latin department in the University of
Denver, who has been with the uni
versity eight years, has been given n
leave of absence for n year and will go
East for study. He will spend year
in Harvard doing special work in
Latin and Greek.
Director of the Mint George II. Rob
crts is reported as saying that work
ON machinery for the Denver mint will
now be commenced and carried to
completion without further delay"
Judging from the rate of progress on
the mint building without further
delay" may be Interpreted to mean
some time within the next five or six
years.
In the District Court at Boulder,
Bryant n. Newby of Longmont was
found not guilty of assault with intent
to kill Benjamin Calkins, neighbours
son, after the jury was out all night
This was the third trial of the case
Mr.. Calkins has begun suit for dam
ages against Newly for S25, 900 be-
cause of the wound received in the ad-
mitted shooting. The affair grew out
of a dispute over headgate.
The University of Denver will open
a summer school which will convene
June 18th and continue until July 23d
Vhe larger part of the present liberal
aEA faculty will fill the chairs during
thy summer session, and courses will
be offered in astronomy, languages,
philosophy, mathematics, biology, eco
nomics and psychology. The work is
the same as is offered by the univer-
sity at other times of the year.
At a meeting of the grand lodge of
Colorado, A. f. and a. NJ, Right Emf
nent Grand Commander Billess ap-
pointed w. d. Todd to succeed Il. G.
Parmalee as grand recorder temporar-
lily. G. w. Roe was appointed the Pu-
eDlo grand master. His appointment is
also temporary. Joseph Nilsson, grand
master of the state. will carry the
work along until the fall. when the
grand lodge will meet to regularly
elect officers.
The people cannot recover on the
bond of Matt Adams, the defaulting
clerk of the Arapahoe County Court.
whose trial and nuniShment created