The Elk Mountain pilot., 1902-01-14
COLORADO BRIEFS.

opened In Denver on FEBRUARY ISL
II. A. Shipman, general manager of
Stratton's Independence mines, has
been presented by his office associates
with $500 silver dinner set.
A fire in the First Methodist Church
at Canon City on the morning of jan
uary 4th, injured the new organ and
occasioned some $1,000 damage.
During the month of November the
Colorado & Southern Railway Compa-
ny earned $49S, 500, an increase of $I5,-
154 and net S1GT, ,397, an increase Of
$37,S59.
Miss Isabel Hill, daughter of the late
ex-senator Hill of Denver, was married
in Paris December Both to the artist, F..
z. Knott. Miss Hill had been abroad
with her mother for the past year.
James Smith. who had his leg cut
Off in railway accident at Divide
January 9th, died at the Sisters hos
pital in Cripple Creek the next day.
No one knew where the man belonged.
The Colorado Fuel & Iron Company
paid 100000 in wages in 1901, and
turned out product, including 4,O43,-
$50 tons of coal and 554.440 tons of
coke, of about thirteen million dollars.
j. S. Teaukenburg of Boulder has
begun a final survey of the new rail
road from Loveland to Berthoud by
way of Hillsboro which will be built
in time for marketing this years beet
crop.
The Denver Bricklayers' Union an
nounces that all its demands for the
coming year have been complied with
They will work throughout the year
eight hours a day, the wage schedule
being $5.
William L. Kimerer has been desig-
mated az n member of the civil service
board for the postoilice at Colorado
Springs and Edward B. Wilson and NJ.
E. Phillips for the postotice at Grand
Junction.
The Colorado State Cattle Growers
Association will probably hold n meet
ing in Denver the latter part of Feb
ruary or the first of March. The ex-
ecutive committee will meet soon to
fix the date.
George Il. West, mayor OF Pueblo,
died December Both, after an illness of
several weeks. Mayor West was born
in Kentucky and came TO Colorado in
1850, being forty-eight years of age
at the time of his death.
]. NJ. Current of Denver committed
suicide at Albuquerque. New Mexico,
on the 9th inst by taking morphine.
The act is attributed to business trou-
bles and dependency. He leaves n
wife and four children, from seven to
fifteen years of age, in Denver.
Mrs. Berta Condict of Florence ac-
complished the feat of writing 2,166
words on an ordinary postal card and
won gold watch by her effort. The
words averaged about five letters each,
making n total of 10,S30 letters, every
one OF which could be plainly read.
The Denver News prints the follow
ing Canon City item: Ripe Strawberries
the first of January are not n usual
thing, even in sunny Canon City. X.
It. Arthur, one of the leading dry goods
merchants of this city, is exhibiting n
cluster that was grown and ripened on
a piece of land owned by him near the
soda point.
At special meeting of the Victor
common council the contract for the
Bison Park water reservoir site was
ratified and completed. The total pur
chase price for the property is $9,-
T09,2S. The property is now owned by
the city, and as soon as practicable
will be improved by the erection of q
hrst-class dam.
The board of education of Florence,
in conjunction with the teachers. is
arranging to give the school children
of the district an opportunity to see
the many wonderful experiments that
can be carried on by means of liquid
air. They have secured Professor II.
n. Hanaford of the Boston School Of
Science to work the experiments.
A La Jara dispatch to the Denver
News says: The annual rabbit hunt of
Conejos county occurred at Henry, and
1t is estimated that between LOO and
1000 of the pests were slaughtered.
There We're ninety guns on the firing
line, under command of Captain A. l..
Moss. This was one of the most sue
cessful hunts ever held in the county.
The Oakes home for consumptives in
Denver is to be enlarged by the erec-
ton of detached cottage to cost $780,
600. The money has been donated by
Charles l.. Adams of Chicago, with
the understanding that the addition be
called "The Mrs. Charles l.. Adams
Memorial House" 1t is to be built in
memory of his wife, ON land adjoining
the home.
On the 9th inst. w. II. Dowery was
appointed assignee of the Colorado
State bank of Grand Junction. ]. II.
Mcfarland, cashier of the bank, is
manager of the Colorado Sugar Man.
ufacturing Company, whose obliga-
tions are held to n considerable ex-
tent by the bank. Officers of the bank
feel assured that the suspension will
be temporary.
Efforts are being made to establish
a day nursery in Denver. The plan is
to hire room near the Tramway loop
on Arapahoe street, where mothers can