The Elk Mountain pilot., 1902-03-11
COLORADO BRIEFS.

Oll OerflckS are SnrlnSlnS up arOunu
Berthcud and also at Longmont, Erie
and Fort Collins.
w. ID. Lee has been appointed super
intendent of the Rio Grande Southern
railroad, with headquarters at Ridg-
way.
The Rio Grande railroad system now
has mail department with o. l..
Teachout of st. Louis as general
agent.
j, j. Burns, miner in the Monarch
district, STABBED a stranger named Ray
in drunken quarrel at Garfield. Ray
may die
Very dhNaging evidence was intro
duced in the trial of Lake and Kuyken-
dali, charged with stealing ore at Grip
pie Greek.
Stainer's cantata. the CrucifiXion, was
sung at st. Johns cathedral o. Sunday
evening and will be repeated every
Sunday this month.
Walter r. Shamp, one of the leading
merchants Mt Holyoke, died of appen-
dicitis after brief illness. Interment
will be at York, Nebraska.
The Lupton condensed milk factory,
owned by n local corporation. has be-
gun operations. 1t has capacity Of
4O,OOO POUNDS OF Hlllk udlly.
1t is proposed to raise the fund for
gift to the cruiser Denver by securing
contributions of 500 each from 100
business men.
The flow of oil in the Buckeye well at
De Beque has been greatly retarded
by heavy flow of water, which began
Immediately after the oil sand was
reached.
Pueblo's city council must call spe>
cial meeting to elect mayor to sue
ceed the late George +. West. This is
the decision handed down in the Dis
trict Court.
John J. Cotter has been appointed
superintendent of the first division of
the Denver q Rio Grande railroad.
with offices at Pueblo. He succeeds ].
]. Burns, resigned.
The corner stone of the new science
and administration building of Colora-
do college was laid Monday by DR.. II.
Benjamin Andrews, chancellor of the
University of Nebraska.
Inability to realize on premium notes
and greater loss than anticipated
among the stock insured, has forced
the Western Mutual Stock Insurance
Company of Denver to the wall.
The United Oil Company struck oil
in a new well at 2,2I5 feet, the fluid
rising in the hole more than 1000 feet.
The well is three miles south of Flor
ence and will produce go barrels a
day.
The jury disagreed in the trial of
Roy Pennington, accused of assaulting
Jessie Kinport in Denver July Sth last
The boy set up an alibi although the
girl. who knew him well, identified
him as her assailant.
Frank A. Mahaney, the game warden
who killed w. A. Womack at the
Grand Mesa lakes. will have to re-
main in the penitentiary. The Supreme
Court has denied his application for a
writ of habeas corpus.
Harry F. Sharpless agent of the Cen
tral Pueblo Investment Company. an
nounces that his company will build
three business blocks on its down town
property as soon as plans can be COM
pleted. Two of the blocks will be on
Grand avenue.
Lyons is to have electric lights. A
twenty year franchise has been grant
ed to George NJ. Gilmore of Denver.
The plant is to be in operation within
six months. with dynamo capable Of
carrying $50 lights of sixteen-candle
power each.
The Kansas City Tunnel Site Mining
Company has ben Incorporated in Wy
oming by w. s. Pontius, James Il. Nc
Donald and James II. Hynne all of
Kansas City; capital stock $4,000; to
operate liz the Cat Greek district, Rio
Grande county.
For seven weeks the Anti-Saloon
7 on pf Douypr has hppp without a
head. and practically non-existent, but
no one knew even that it had gone, un-
til Sunday. when Rev. w. II. Talmage,
superintendent, resigned, says the Den
yer Republican.
All the union painters of Pueblo, eX-
cept those in the employ of the CO.
Operative Paint and Wall Paper Com
pany, went ON strike. brought on by
the refusal of their employees to pay
an advance of 30 cents per day in their
wages. Some thirty men are out.
The sociological department of the
Colorado Fuel and Iron Company will
build $4,000 mission at Bessemer,
with baths, reading rooms and other
appointments for the comfort of labor
ers without homes of their own. Men
cut of work will have chance to earn
their board by work in woodward an
mex.
Lindsey Irons, twelve-year-old boy,
confined in the Arapahoe county Jail,
explained his filthy condition when ar
raigned in court by the statement that
there was no opportunity at the Jail
for him to wash or comb his hair.
Judge Frost investigated the matter
and this condition will be remedied in
future.
The Denver & Rio Grnnde bids fair
this year to eclipse the record of earn
ings of $11 ,563.7 III. The fiscal year be-
ginning July 1st. The earnings for the
present fiscal year from July l, 1901
to EehrllarY 2l 1N02 are 81 IO2 100