The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-07-23
COLORADO NOTES.

There are many more people on the
Ohautaqua grounds in Boulder than
on any previous year.
The new Antlers hotel at Colorado
Springs will be run strictly on the
, European plan.
new postoffice has been estab-
lished at Vona, Kit Carson county,
with Sarah Q. Webb as postmfstress.
The Womnns Club of Boulder has
placed wire settees in various parts of
town in shady places, for the beneht
of strangers.
large working model of Cripple
Creek has been proposed as one of the
chief exhibits of this state at the st.
Louis Worlds Fair in 1903.
While drilling a well twenty miles
south of Granada, in Prowers county,
Ley Blackwell struck n heavy flow
of artesian water at IA depth of 100
feet
The fact that there were (allegeO
Rocky Ford melons on sale in Denver
before the vines at Rocky Ford were
fairly in blossom is troubling the mel
on growers.
Peaches from Grand Junction and
other parts of the Grand River valley
are now on the market throughout
most of the non-peach growing por-
tions of the state.
The directory publishers who have
just finished a new directory for Pue1
10, estimate the population at 1900.
The census of 1900 gave Pueblo pop
ulation of 2S,1
Superintendent of Fish Hatcheries
Holland recently went to Estes park to
put 25,OO0 young trout in the brooks of
that section. The fish We're Matched in
the Denver hatchery.
C. w. James of Denver has been
chosen general secretary of the Y. M.
G. a. at Pueblo, after having made re-
markably successful record as depart
ment secretary of the Denver associa-
ton.
The City Council of Rocky Ford, hav-
ing $4,000 issue of water bonds tG
dispose of, accepted the bid of Chi
cago firm which offered to take the
bonds at par at four and one-half per
cent. interest for ten years.
The committee in charge of the hor.
ticulture show at the Festival OF
Mountain and Plain at Denver has de
cided to divide the state into the six
horticultural districts for the purpose
of offering sweep stake prizes.
Arapahoe county will take few Sc
lect boarders 1t has agreed with Sher-
iff Adm Putnam of Ebert county to
keep in the Arapahoe county jail such
prisoners as he cannot care for mt home
at cost of 80 cents a day each.
Five new street ears patterned after
the convertible open and closed ear.
which recently won a grand prize mt
the Paris exposition, have been ordered
for the Colorado Springs railway and
will probably be in operation by Sep
tember 1st.
While John Mosconi Ed. Gabarsky
.sF q. f,,t,. .fatsy ftat Tan-
tral City, were out east of Denver
hunting coyotes one Sunday recently,
Mr.. Mosconi had his right arm badly 4
bitten by coyote that had beer
brought to bay by the dogs.
The Pullman company in its repair
shops at Denver will pay the list and
10th of each month. conforming with
the new state law calling for BIZ
monthly payments of employees. There
are 300 men now employed. but 1t Is
expected that the number Will be
raised to between 700 and 500.
The Colorado Il Southern has ap-
piled for franchises ON the streets OF
Denver so that they may reach the
central portion of the city with an
electric line. The company is plan
ming to operate by electricity trains on
its tracks from Denver to Boulder,
Platte canon. Central City, Idaho
make a 3-cent rate within the city lin
its and pay to the city a portion of
the receipts.
The Seventh Day Adventists pro
pose holding n monster camp meeting
in Denver for n fortnight, beginning
August 25th and concluding Septem-
ber 9th. Heretofore they have
pitched their tent in the suburbs, but
now they have secured permission
vriU OH m
cant lots at Champa and Twenty
ninth, Thirtieth and Thirty-second
streets. They propose to erect more
than 200 tents.
Messrs. Orman & Crook, the firm of
which Governor Orman is member,
have been given n contract for grad
ing 13O miles of new railroad line
extending from pemng, New Mexico,
to Eel Paso, Texas. The work is for
the Southwestern railroad, which has
about 100 miles of road in operation in
the same region. Outfits of the firm
were shipped from Pueblo, Trinidad
and Denver and the actual work on
the grade will be commenced as speed
lily as possible.
During an electric storm at Leadville
on the 11th instant, the residence of III.
r. Lea, on Capitol hill, was hit by
lightning and Mr.. Lea his wife and lit
tie daughter were rendered uncon-
scous, the house set on fire and almost
ruined. All three We're very badly in
jured Mrs. ii. c. Dimick was enter
tanning guests at her residence, when
she received a severe stroke of light
ming Her hair was partly burned from
her head. Several of the guests in the
house received severe shocks.
George w. Kramer has been appoint
ed assistant to Il. T. Jeffery, president
of the Rio Granle WnStern As As