The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-10-15
COLORADO NOTES.

over the neldS by the recent WiHu
storms south of Florence.
The first snow of the season fell at
Denver shortly after midnight OCTOBER
9th. 1t was all gone before morning.
The city of Colorado Springs and the
county of El Paso will unite to build
IA $1,000 pest house, work to be COM
menced Immediately.
The President has appointed Charles
Hartzell of Denver secretary of state
for Porto Rico and he will leave for
that island Immediately.
Many portions Of the state were WIS.,
tied by heavy fall of rain and snow
on Sunday, October 9th. The front
range took on coat of white.
The Letter Carriers National Con-
vention will meet at Denver next year
and arrangements will be made to
show them over the state as much as
possible.
Six new excursion cars, built on the
plan of an observation coach, Will be
ordered for the passenger department
of the Colorado Springs " Cripple
Creek Short Line railroad.
Governor Orman has issued an order
declaring Salida to be n city OF the
second class, in accordance with the
that city n population of 3,I22.
After looking over the bands in at
tendance at the festival in Denver, the
committee from Deadwood. South Da-
kota, engaged the Creede band for the
week of the festival at Deadwood next
year.
Appearances seem to indicate that
attendance at De Beques third annual
w
greatly exceed all previous years. Am
pie provisions for guides, horses and
dogs have been made.
The county commissioners of Garfield
county finished their three days ses-
sion sitting as n board of equalization
without receiving n single request from
any taxpayer to have his assessment
reduced.
For their mutual protection In many
matters the hotel men of Colorado,
Wyoming, Utah and New Mexico have
formed an organization which will be
known as the Rocky Mountain Hotel
Mems Association.
An effort will be made to have the
members of the American Institute of
Mining Engineers to visit Colorado
Springs and the Cripple Creek district
Immediately after their annual meet
ing in the City of Mexico early in No
yember.
In case the Carter museum building
Is built at the east side of the City
park in Denver il is said that arrange
ments will be made with an automobile
company to run automobiles next sum-
mer through the park and up the hill
to the museum.
Pueblo will endeavor to secure from
Andrew Carnegie the gift of library
building into which to transfer the Nc
Clelland public library. j. j. Burns,
j. Il. Rizer and S. ID. Trimble haye
been appointed committee to take the
matter in hand.
The breach of promise suit brought
by Miss Nellie Lewis against Sam
Strong has finally been settled out OF
court. Stipulations to that effect have
been filed with the clerk of the Su-
preme Court by Augustus II. Martin,
attorney for Mrs. Sam Strong.
The comptroller of the currency has
approved the application for the es-
tablishment of the First National Bank
at Las Animas, capital $4,000. Di-
rectors, Paul j. Gaume, Oscar p.
Smith, George ID. Dulin, John McIn-
tosh and Llewellyn Il. Thompson.
on Monday, October Tth. the jury in
Inc jenkins murder trial at Grand
Junction. after being out from Satur.
day night, brought H. i verdict of muir
der in the second degree. jenkins shot
and killed Thomas Hallock in an alfal-
ia field near Whitewater. Sunday, July
9TH. The trial lasted three days and
the defense was ably presented.
julius C. Plumb of Colorado Springs
died on the 4th inst. He had been
twice county commissioner, once al
derman and once mayor of Colorado
Springs. The cause of his death was
cancer of the stomach, from which he
had suffered for the past two years,
Mr. Plumb was for many years promi-
nent in both business and political
circles, being one of the Silver Repub-
lican party in the state. He was inter-
ested in Cripple Creek and was an eX-
tensive owner in the Anchoria-Leland.
The large mill of the Atlas Mining
and Milling Company at Boulder was
burned on the night of October 7th.
The mill was not in use but prepara-
tions We're being made to put in new
machinery and operate it. A large lot
of new machinery was on the outside
of the building. which originally cost
about $4,000. The main part was four
stories high. The building and ore
bins were over 600 feet long. The lat
er improvements made to the mill
make the total loss much larger. The
office and one or two smaller buildings
were saved.
Commissioners of the state insane
asylum in Pueblo have completed ar
rangements whereby the bills of the
asylum hereafter will be paid monthly
instead of quarterly as in the past
This arrangement, it is claimed, will
result in a saving of probably 5000 or
$4,000 annually in the cost of the main
tenance of the asylum. Heretofore
bills have run from one to three