The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-09-10
COLORADO NOTES.

| The Socialist Labor party in Denver
| has nominated a full county ticket for
the fall campaign.
The Prohibitionsts of Colorado are
Preparing to agitate the submission
of temperance amendment.
Three thousand dollars has been
raised in subscriptions for the forma-
tion of n polo club in Colorado Springs.
Normal institutes throughout the
state this year report a large attend
ance and good work done. The profess
sional spirit in teachers seems to be in
creasing.
Governor Orman has issued requi-
sition on the governor of Oregon for
the return to Fort Collins of Mike Ber-
ry, the bicycle thief. who made his es-
cape from the Fort Collins Jail some
days ago, and is now under arrest in
that state.
At the rock drilling contest in Lead
vile on Labor Day. Hupps and Lind
quist of Ouray brose the worlds rec
ord by driving the drill Az inches,
which beats the former record held by
Chamberlain ane Andregg nearly two
inches
"A grocery. a boarding tent, book
store and postoffice. church. and
nearly 200 families living in tents fill
ed with several hundreds of people Is
the inventory morning paper gives of
the Seventh Day Adventists' camp
meeting in Denver.
If satisfactory arrangements can be
made with the American Sugar Beet
and Irrigated Land Company for 10000
acres of land under the reservoirs north
of Lamar, a colony of 800 families
from the eastern and central states will
be located there at once.
The directors of the state fair to be
held at Pueblo September 23d to 2Ith
have received letter from Gunnison
county asking that arrangements be
made to allow the county to have
building made from bales of hay in
which to place its exhibits.
August was the heaviest month of
tourist travel Colorado has ever known,
If the baggage records at the union de-
pot in Denver are correct index. The
number of pieces handled was 03,56S,
while for July it was but 1OO.S3O. This
is also an increase over August of last
year of 1880 pieces.
+. l.. Dana and Charles Zobrist an
nounced their intentions to build Il
street car line to Prospect Lake from
Colorado Springs. The lake is about
, mile and a half from the center Of
the city and the parties intend to make
IL DIG resort i ne DullulHS ol lnlS
car line will be the first step. 1t will
cost $4,000.
During the storm at Loveland Sep
tcmber Sd, two men, William Clark
and Charles Wells, were hurt by
lightning stroke while under their wa
gon, about mile west of town. Their
dog was killed. Lightning struck
some hay stacks on the farm of A.
Rist, four miles west of town, and
about fifty tons were burned.
1t is announced that by October 1st
work Will be commenced on the new
| steel wagon plant at Pueblo to be
[ erected between the Minnequa town.
/. site and the Union Stock Yards on the
Z land of the G. Il. Il /. Company. 1t is
understood that the S350,OO0 of capital
stock of the company has all been sub
scribed, and all possible efforts will be
made to get the work under way.
At meeting of the Cripple Creek
| board of aldermen the granting of an
electric light franchise to Il. Il. Wade
of Colorado Springs was carried by a
vote of to .. The franchise asked by
the Pixies Peak company and Peoples
Electric Light Company We're voted on
by the same vote. The action of May
or Crane in closing gambling in that
city was also indorsed by u majority
IGte.
On the evening of September Sd
fire at Engle, n mining camp few
miles south of Trinidad, totally de
stroyed the mercantile store of Pine &
Co. The stock was entirely destroyed.
The loss was about $1,000, with little
insurance The building belonged to
A. Raskower of Trinidad and was
worth about $1,000 Mrs. Welch's res
taurant and boarding house was also
destroyed.
The following patents have been
granted to Colorado inventors: Leon
ard G. Bailey Florence, bottle; Melvin
II. Beck, Victor, chair for mining
cages; Merritt G. Conley. Longmont,
bedstead; Augustus A. Clough, Denver,
dust trap for street sweepers; Will
! lam ]. Jones, Denver, apparatus for
carbonating liquids; James II. Mont
gomery, Denver, aerial wire rope
tramway; A. X. Rathron, Florence,
book rest.
The worst of a series of violent rain
storms struck Manitou and vicinity on
the forenoon of September Sd, continu-
ing for some time, and wreaking con-
siderable damage. Between Colorado
| City and Manitou, ne;lr what Is known
as Arensdale. $50 feet of the Manitou
street car track was washed out by
the steady downpour of rain. The
street car company was obliged to
transfer passengers around the scene
of the accident.
A Colorado Springs dispatch says:
| Definite plans have been finished for
the new $4,000 hotel to be erected by
Werner Reed of this city at Grand
junction, and the contract will soon be
let Mr.. Reed is now in Europe and
will return about November. The ho-
tel will be two stories high and contain