The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-02-26
COLORADO NOTES.

ihS Ior tHe East
A great quantity of rock from the ba
salt cliffs at Golden will be used in the
streets of Denver.
Recruits are being received in Denver
for the Thirtieth infantry, which is to
rendezvous at Fort Logan.
The Santa Fe railroad has complet-
ed its two large ice houses at La Junta
and has them about filled with ice.
1t is stated that the Santa Fe com.
pany proposes to build handsome
new depot at Florence in conjunction
with the Florence II Cripple Greek
road
There are 1855 members in good
standing in the Department of Colorado
and Wyoming G. A. II. During the
past six months the gains We're 159 and
the losses 126.
The speaker appointed as the com
mittee to investigate the abilities of the
clerks of the House: Messrs. Schwei-
CERT. Ballinger, Madden, Garcia and
Mcclure.
The gross receipts of the Denver City
Tramway Company for last year
amounted to $1,302, $50, which is n con-
siderable Improvement over those Of
the year before.
An examination for postal clerks and
carriers will be held in Denver, April
9th. Application blanks must be filled
out and turned in to the board of eX-
aminers before March 9th.
The Health Board of Denver is pre-
pairing for vaccination crusade with n
view of utterly stamping out smallpox
in the city. A house to house SYSTEM
or visitation and vaccination rs talked
of.
DIR. Francis Kennedy, professor of
philosophy in the University of Colo
RADIO, died at Boulder. February 10Th,
of typhoid fever. He was n graduate
of Princeton University, and was only
twenty-six years old.
Roderick L. Lawther, who died from
injuries received Mt the Pocahontas
gold mine. was buried at Glenwood
Springs, February 18th. He was in
stalled as superintendent of the mine
only the week before the accident. and
was prominent in mining circles.
r. C. Russey of Parachute. Colorado,
has donated to the bureau of war relics
in the capitol building at Denver,
Mauser rifle taken from Filipino. The
calibre is only .2S, hut the bullet will
pierce six feet of seasoned pine.
known civil engineer and former coun-
ty surveyor of Otero county, but latter
1y an auctioneer of Boulder county,
died at the home of his sister, Mrs. w.
G. Houston, in Boulder, February 10Th.
Joseph Inman, Colorado pioneer
and member of the Greeley colony in
the early days, dropped dead of heart
disease while walking along the street
Mt Nineteenth and Lincoln avenues in
Denver on the afternoon of February
18th.
On March 9TH the people of Central
City will vote on n proposition to issue
school bonds to the amount of $4,000
for the purpose of erecting two brick
school buildings on Lawrence street,
south of the present high school build
ing.
1t is stated that Game Warden john
son has granted Curator Ferril of the
State Natural History Society permis-
sion to kill lonely old buffalo in Lost
Park. in order that the hide may be
stuffed and preserved in the state mu
scum.
An attractive woman who gave her
name as Mrs. w. A. Ward, but who
destroyed all clues of identity, COM
mitted suicide by inhaling gas at 2432
She was apparently about thirty-five
years of age.
According to the annual statement of
the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company,
that company is capitalized for S25.-
100000. and of this amount S19OOOOOO
has been fully paid in. S1T.000,0O0 be-
ing in property and S2,0OO,OO0 in cash.
The debts of the company amount to
$7,O44, ,243.
At n meeting held in Buena Vista
resolutions were adopted to be forward
ed to the governor setting forth that it
is the desire of large number of the
leading citizens of Chaffee county. ir-
respective of politics. that A. o. Dutch
er, present warden of the reformatory,
be reappointed.
Sophia Galley, an old French woman
who has been a familiar figure around
the Hotel de Paris at Georgetown for
many years, died February nth. The
estate which she recently inherited
from Louis Dupuy. amounting to $15,-
600. will be divided among her rela-
tives in France.
The census summary of Colorado
shows a singular coincidence in the
close similarity of the figures from
three fine towns up the river. They
are: Florence. 3.T2S; Canon City, 3,7T5;
Salida. 3,722 The difference between
the count in Florence and in Salida is
six.-Pueblo Chieftain.
Curator w. C. Ferril Of the State His
torical Society has written the Colo
RADIO delegation in Congress to the eff
feet that 1t was he who in 1889. first
broached the idea of celebrating the
centennial anniversary of the Louisiana
purchase at st. Louis in 1903. A New
York almanac gives the credit for the
idea to Charles NJ. Harvey, st. Louis
newspaper man, and Mr.. Ferril is de-
sirous that the error should be recti
fled