The Elk Mountain pilot., 1902-07-22
COLORADO BRIEFS.

G. E. Palmer of Denver took four
first prizes at the st. Paul horse show
this month.
G. 7. Thompson of Colorado Springs
was drowned in Lake Minnequa, Pu-
eblo, on Sunday, the 18th inst.
S. b. Komaiko, Isadore Ehrlich and
Samuel Rosen will start Hebrew pa
per in Denver some time next month.
Elmer G. MacIlroy, a dairyman, COM
mitted suicide by jumping into the
Roaring Fork river near Glenwood
Springs on the 18th inst.
The open season for dove shooting
began July 18th. The season for deer
and other large game, as well as
grouse, will open August 18th.
The cowboys We're SO insistent that
the Mountain and Plain festival COM
mittee We're compelled to arrange for a
rough rider tournament at Denver next
fall.
At special meeting of the Gale
donian Club of Pueblo 1t was decided
to assist in erecting the Robert Burns
monument to be placed in the City
park. Denver.
At Cripple Greek one the 9lh inst,
Roy Shields, aged twelve, died of lock-
Jaw occasioned by a wound in the
hand made by a blank cartridge fired
from toy pistol
The contract for erecting thel new
Stratton hall of metallurgy for the
School of Mines at Golden has been
let to W. y. Atkinson of Colorado
Springs for S35,Ss0.
A 1900 pound bell, costing &c cents
per pound. has been ordered for the
new county court house at Colorado
Springs. 1t will be the largest and
deepest-toned in the city.
Perry Maupin of Denver. an old-time
overland freighter between Denver and
the Missouri river. died at the resi-
dence of his son, W. C. Maupin, in st.
Joseph, Missouri, on the 10th inst.
Denver's two Trades and Labor AS
semblies elected officers on the 18th
inst w. II. Montgomery was elected
president of the Incorporated assembly
and r. G. Moser of the unincorpornted
assembly.
The Pioneer Society held a success
ful and largely attended picnic at
Elitch's Gardens in Denver on Sunday,
July 18th. Senator Teller, who reached
Denver in April, 1861, was one of the
speakers
The Denver and Gross College of
Medicine of the University of Denver
has elected the following officers for
the next three years: Dean, DIR. Sher-
man G. Bonney; vice dean, DIR. Leon
ard Freeman; secretary, DIR. Robert
Levy.
Henry Williams, Colorado pioneer
and prominent smelter manager in
Montana, died at Butte on July Sth.
Mr.. Williams was Intimately assOciat-
ed with the late Senator Hill, Henry
II. Wolcott and Senator Clark OF Mon
tana.
The state fair at Pueblo September
18th to Goth will be genuine old
fashioned exhibition, with prizes for
agricultural products, live stock, farm
implements, etc. 1t will also include
horse races, rough riding and other
amusements.
The first annual meeting of the Colo
RADIO Condensed Milk Company at Fort
Lupton was held July 14th. The reports
of the officers showed an excellent
financial condition and n considerable
net earning for the four months since
the plant began operation.
Because of the death of his wife, i'll
health and family cares, Rev. David n.
Beach has resigned from the pastorate
of the First Congregational Church of
Denver. Two former designations
We're not accepted but this seems to
be "the third time and out"
At meeting of the State Fair direc-
tors at Pueblo 1t was decided to hold
an excursion of business men down the
valley about the middle of August. The
idea is to advertise the State Fair
throughout the valley and to give Pu-
eblo business men an opportunity to
visit the valley towns and to meet the
business men in the surrounding cities.
surprise was sprung in the trial
of the damage suit of the insurance
companies against the Denver IL Rio
Grande railroad at Colorado Springs
when the attorneys for the defense
placed two witnesses on the stand who
testified to seeing two small boys start
fire on the railroad track about five
minutes before the outbreak of the ho-
tel fire.
The handsome residence of Walter
c. Westcott at Goldfield was badly
wrecked by n dynamite explosion on
the morning of July 9th. Mr.. West
colt, his wife, and Miss Grant, who
were in the house at the time, were not
seriously injured. Westcott was wit
ness in the late ore stealing trials at
Victor and had received threa atening
letters.
The famous case of Mrs. Florence
Maybrick the American woman con-
fined in an English prison for the al
legged poisoning of her husband, is be-
ing taken up by the British-American
Society of Denver and a great petition
is being planned to be sent to all the
British societies in the United States
for signatures. 1t will then be sent to
King Edward.
A party of ten surveyors of the topo-
graphical department of the United
States survey are camped near Boulder
and hnNn hnrun q thnrnunh Suryny of