The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-08-13
COLORADO NOTES.

A $500 belt will be offered for the
best exhibition of rough riding at the
approaching Denver festival.
Charles II. Simpson, who drew 100
acres in the land lottery at Lawton,
has lived in Pueblo for somewhat over
year.
The Pueblo Y. NJ. C. A. has added
fifty members in three weeks since the
accession of the new secretary, Mr.. G..
w. James.
The fiftieth annual meeting of the
| American Association for the Advance
ment of Science will convene in Den
| yer August 26th.
In Denver on August Sd Carl Meng
| shot and probably fatally wounded his
next-door neighbor. w. d. Hogan, as
the result of family quarrel.
The Denver Eye, the principal sub
urban weekly paper of Denver, has
| been purchased from the estate of j..
| G. Garrison Of l.. n. Zalinger.
The total precipitation at Denver
| during the month of July was one
hundredth of an inch. Hardly equiva-
lent to moderate fall of dew.
Fred Jeffries was killed at Black
| Hawk on the night of the Sd instant
| IL
He was the only son of widow on
whom she was largely dependent for
support.
Ticket sales last month at the union
depot in Denver were $4,000 greater
than for July of the year before and
there was an increase of 20, IO3 in the
number of pieces of baggage handled.
| Colorado has been full of tourists.
The colored people of Fremont and
| Pueblo counties celebrated Emancipa-
| ton Day at Florence, August 9th.
| There was an excursion train from Pu-
| eblo which brought several carloads of
visitors, accompanied by the Pleasant
| Grove Band.
| Captain C. II. Hilton, Jr., who served
during the war with Spain and during
the Philippine insurrection with the
| Colorado regiment and the Thirty
ninth infantry, United States volun-
teers, has received notice of his ap-
pointment as first lieutenant in the ar
tillery branch of the regular army.
In the Telluride Journals voting
J contest for the most popular young
lady in San Miguel county, Miss Min
ME Tosh, assistant postmaster, won
first prize, trip TO the Buffalo Expo
sition, and Miss Genevieve Mcleod of
|
the Mountain and Plain Festival.
At last reports II. B. Palmer, the
| gunner who was dangerously injured
In firing salute at the Boulder Quar-
to-Centennial celebration, was doing
well in the hospital at Boulder, and
| likely to recover. He has lost one
arm and three fingers of the other
hand and is in danger of losing one
| eye.
The Grand Junction city council has
| voted to give the Peach Day committee
the benefit of the license that may be
assessed against shows, etc, during
the three days celebration, August
2Sth, Doth and Both. The committee
hope in this way to raise several hun
dred dollars more toward the big cele-
| bration.
Orville Wilson, who was brought
from Durango to Salida by Sheriff An
kle on a charge of being implicated In
the death of Eta Fowler, was taken
before the coroner's jury and made his
statement to that body. He was taken
to the county jail ut Buena Vista and
| the preliminary trial was set for Au-
! gust Goth.
| The Manitou City Council has passed
| an ordinance to the effect that after
| suIdo"h w are htpt
for hire shall be banished from the
| city, to remain in exile until morning.
| The ordinance applies as well to dogs,
| cats, parrots or any other beast or
| bird that may become troublesome
during the night time by reason of un-
earthly noises.
A deplorable accident occurred on
the 9Th instant at the home of Van B.
Kelsey, five miles north of Fort Lup-
ton. Wheeler Kelsey, boy of eight
cen, while performing with n revolver
supposed to be empty, shot and killed
Harry Rafferty,, aged thirteen, the son
of n neighboring farmer. The bullet
entered at the inner corner of the left
eye and penetrated the brain.
Thomas Conway, recently returned
from the Philippines, was instantly
killed at Anaconda on the night of the
4th instant by taking hold of a live
wire. Conway was about twenty-five
years of age and his father at one time
was superintendent of bridges on the
Florence & Cripple Creek railway.
He has two brothers who reside at Du-
range.
Lightning struck the dome of the
federal postoffice building in Denver
on the afternoon of August 4th, tear
ing a patch of plaster off the wall,
breaking an electric light globe and set
ting fire to a pile of rubbish. The fire
was quickly quenched and no real