The Elk Mountain pilot., 1902-05-27
COLORADO BRIEFS.

| be In progress on five or six oil wells
near Rangely in Rio Blanco county by
| July
The Meeker high school is making
collection of fossils and other speci-
mems and finds n rich field in the ge-
illogical formations of the vicinity.
President Frank Adams of the Den
yer Fire and Police Board, who has
been dangerously i'll for some time,
is reported to be slowly recovering.
The Pueblo Elks' Building Associa-
tion has been organized for the pur-
pose of acquiring real estate and build
ing lodge room for the Elks of Pu-
eblo.
Postmaster l.. G.. Dana of Colorado
Springs has received notice from Wash
ington that his request for four extra
clerks during the summer season would
be allowed.
Civil service examinations will be
held in Aspen and Fort Collins ON May
2Sth for the purpose of filling the posi-
tions of clerk and letter carrier in those
places
Up to May 10Th the Denver base ball
team, in the Western League, had won
fourteen games and lost seven, while
the Colorado Springs team had lost
thirteen and won nine.
On June LIST, the Santa Fe will put
on a new train between Pueblo, Colo
RADIO Springs and Denver and eastern
points, the equipment including an OBJ
servation and buffet car.
There will be a civil service exam
ination held at Denver on June nth
and 18th for the purpose of filling the
position of medical inspector and ply
sipiun in tba pbilfnnipa spryipp
Twenty-three young men and one
young woman We're graduated ON the
10Th inst. by the Colorado College of
Dental Surgery, which is the dental
department of the University of Den
yer.
About 200 Pueblo Indians arrived
in Rocky Ford on the nth inst. to
work in the sugar beet fields. They
are good workmen, understand irriga-
tion. and are said to be especially
schooled in the cultivation of beets.
The Rev. o. Carlson, pastor of the
Swedish mission at Colorado Springs,
on the 18th inst. immersed ten men
and two women in the icy waters of
Prospect lake. Hundreds of people
Were out to witness the chilly baptism
Harry Niemeyer, n young man who
carried paper certifying that he was
member of the Society of the Army
of Santiago de Cuba, shot himself
through the brain in front of the cap
itol building in Denver on the 10Th
inst.
The executive committee of the Col
orado Equal Suffrage Association met
in Denver and indorsed Mrs. Helen l..
Grenfell's candidacy for reelection as
state superintendent of schools. 1t will
ask all political parties TO put her on
their tickets.
The triennial international Sunday
school convention will be held ut Den
yer June 26th to 3Oth. Besides dele
gates from all parts of this country,
representatives are expected to be
present from Canada. Mexico, Porto
Rico, Cuba and the Philippines.
In the progress of improvements the
old government hospital building ut
Meeker has been torn down. The bar
racks have been mostly removed and
only the officers quarters are left. y
number of wounded men from the bat
tleheld at Rangely We're cared for in
the hospital just destroyed.
A Grand Junction dispatch of May
10Th to the Denver News says: The
wool clip of the Clark flock was load
ed to-day for shipment to st. Louis.
Forty-two hundred sheep yielded 90
600 pounds of wool and the price paid
is said to be 13 cents per pound. Clark
X Son will ship their sheep TO the
range in Gunnison county for the sum
mer in II few days.
4 roundup of wild horses has been
in progress on Wolf creek, Crooked
Wash and Blue mountain by horsemen
from Rio Blanco and Routt counties.
1t is very exciting sport and many fine
animals have been captured. These
wild horses have been troublesome to
stockmen, as they entice away tame
stock, hold down the springs and
water holes and run cattle off the
ranges.
In the high school athletic contests
at Boulder, May 18th, the score. in
points, stood as follows: East Denver,
high school. 80; Colorado Springs high
school, 81; Boulder ni+ersity prepara-
tory school, 10; North Denver high
school. II; Greeley high school, T. Pu-
eblo Central high school, 3. Annis
and Sales. both of East Denver, tied
for the individual prize, each winning
10 points.
The report of the Colorado Fuel and
Iron Company for the month of March
and for the nine months of the fiscal
year. is highly satisfactory to stock
holders 1t shows net earnings for the
month of March S1S0,625, an increase
of SCI ,512 over the corresponding
month of last year. The net earnings
from all sources for the nine months
was 81 ,225.795 The surplus for the
same period amounted to 1851, TS5.
The United Irish-American societies
of Denver, including the Ancient Or
der of Hibernians, Irish-American Pro
gressive Society and the Daughters of
Erin, will hold II picnic at Rocky