The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-05-07
COLORADO NOTES.

paratory to opening up two large saw
mills.
A new magazine, called Agricolo
Aridus, will be published by the stu
dents of the State Agricultural Col
lege at Fort Collins.
The Colorado Springs reception COM
mlttee Will arrange to take President
Mckinley up to the Cripple Creek gold
camps and back on June 18th.
The recent school census in Love
land shows 943 pupils of school age,
an increase of 167 over last year.
Additional school buildings will have
to be erected.
Leo Vincent, clerk of the District
Court at Boulder, says it cost the coup-
ty over $1,000 to prosecute the case
against the Eldora men accused of Kill
ing n. B. Bailey.
John f. Farley, the recently retired
chief of the Denver police force, VIII
return to his former occupation as
general agent of the Thiel Detective
Agency in Denver.
Vice President Roosevelt is to be in
vited TO visit the Festival of Mountain
and Plain in Denver, October 1st, md
and 3rd, quite informally, 'incognlto,'
as they say in Europe.
The Union Pacific is said to be pre-
pairing to spend $4,000 in Denver to
build car cleaning shops at Twenty
sixth street The cars will be clean
ed by compressed air.
Mr. Bodine says the company ex-
poets to increase its development
work as rapidly as possible upon the
advent of n railroad which is expect
ed to reach Crestone not later than
June 1st.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas f. Walsh are
preparing to return to Colorado from
Washington early in May. They will
entertain President Mckinley and the
presidential party when they reach
Glenwood Springs.
The Woman's Club of Longmont
has completed a stone walk to the
cemetery, north of town. The work
was undertaken n year ago and has
just been finished. The walk Is about
half a mile long and four feet wide.
The county commissioners of Gilpiu
county in April took up S13,5OO coun-
ty bonds. This cleans up the entire
Indebtedness of the county. There Is
yet remaining in the hands of the
Hereafter Denver people who happen
TO be down town at noon can get the
absolutely correct time. At exactly II
o'clock to the fraction of second,
large ball will drop from n tall steel
shaft over the office of the Denver
Post.
William II. Dayie has been appoint
ed postmaster at Florence. He Is
druggist and has resided in Florence
about five years. DIR. j. w. Rambo,
the retiring postmaster, Is company
physician for the i. X C. G. road and
has held the office about two years.
Game Warden Harris recently re-
ceived a letter from w. G. Cove, OF
Creede, stating that seven mountain
sheep were recently killed by snow
slide near Amethyst, Colorado. The
heads are said to be intact and Will be
preserved by the state.
Minister Conger passed through Den
yer April Both on his return from Chi
na, and was given quite an ovation.
In the party were Mr.. and Mrs. Con
ger, Miss Conger and Miss Mary Con-
ger Pierce, his niece, who shared with
his family the terrors of the Pekin
siege.
Since the new revenue law went
into effect every one about the state
treasurer's office has been working
overtime handling the license fees re-
ceived from liquor dealers throughout
the state. During the month of
April $4,000 was collected from this
source.
William Welch, proprietor of Welch's
st. Nrain summer resort, will build
$4,000 hotel at his place this summer.
The new building will contain private
baths, electric light. steam heat and n
dancing pavilion. The site selected is
one of the prettiest and most pictur-
esQue along the ST. Vrain river above
Lyons in Boulder county.
The Burlington will improve its
Meadow park at the station in Lyons.
The GROUND will be sodded with grass
and the park enlarged TO take in all
the ground from the old original park
along the st. Vrain 30 the Lyons depot.
The old pavilion will be torn down and
n new and larger one will be erected,
trees planted and grass sown.
1T n meeting of the Pueblo Press
Club the matter of trip down the
valley by the association was favor
ably discussed and n committee was
appointed to arrange for the excursion.
1t is planned to invite the Denver and
Colorado Springs newspaper men to
accompany the excursion. A resolution
was passed indorsing plan for free
band concerts during the summer
months.
1t is stated that Samuel T. Bodine of
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, president
of the San Luis Valley Land and Min
ing Company, practically denies that
the Baca Grant No. 4 has been sold to |
n Epu 1tCl
II. Adams, 7One of the former owners
and at present one of the stockholders |
in the company, has been approached |
by representative of an English syn
dictate with an offer for the property. |
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