The Elk Mountain pilot., 1902-03-25
COLORADO BRIEFS.

In April have been made in most Of
the country towns of the state.
Jay Bailey, dairyman, fell from
wagonload of hay at Florence and sus-
tanned a fractured arm and ankle.
| J. +. Torrance, an oil man, had his
| right hand badly mashed while in
| stalling a pump for the Florence Oil
Company.
Bishop Spalding was buried at Fair
mont. near Denver. last Saturday, af-
ter impressive services at st. Johns
cathedral.
George Keller, Florence express
man, died from the effects of an over
dose Of morphine. He was victim to
the habit
| Peter Pepetro, day laborer at the
Canon City smelter, was robbed of
81 200 savings which he had hidden in
the cellar of his house.
The Fort Collins Express states that
the town of Eaton is. under quarantine
by the State Board of Health with sew
en- cases of smallpox.
Harry Carson, an inmate of the state
reformatory at Buena Vista, has es-
capped u scaling the stockade and
made for the mountains.
A proclamation setting aside April
18th as Arbor Day, and asking all the
people of the state to observe it, has
been issued by Governor Orman.
w. Il. Pearson, n coke washer work
Ing at Seyundo, near Trinidad, went
to the spot where his wife had met her
lover, James Bolton, clnndestinely, and
shot him down before her EYES.
The State University Glee and Man
| In hs tnf Wp1npS-
day night They will also appear at
Loveland and Longmont before start
ing on their southern trip.
L. II. Skelly, II. d. Miller, ]. d.
Yoman and w. Il. Jesseys, druggists
of Loyeland, pleaded guilt to violation
of the local option law in the District
Court and were fined 500 each.
Forty houses are to be built on the
Empire farm. five miles south of Ala
mosa, to be used by families of Rus
slams. who will locate this spring and
raise sugar beets. There will be fam
lily to every forty acres.
Herbert Randall, aged nineteen,
while duck shooting in a boat near
Golden. picked up his gun with the
muzzle toward him and Slot his right
arm to pieces. The arm was amputat-
ed and he may recover.
w. ]. Seiger has been arrested in
Red Cliff while attempting to trade
postage stamps for a meal at n restau-
rant. Seiger, who is lad about nine
teen years of age. is suspected of rob-
bing the Glenwood postoffice.
Hon. William Rathmell, judge of the
Ouray County Court, and Miss Minnie
NJ. Holiday. superintendent of schools
of Ouray county, We're quietly married
at the residence of the brides parents.
Rev. George NJ. barley officiating.
The annual distribution of trout In
the Platte river has begun. The Colo
RADIO Il Southern railroad expects to
place from 100000 to S00,00O eastern
brook, rainbow and native trout in the
Platte within the next six weeks.
In order to do away with the smoke
nuisance in the narrow canons and
tourist resorts the Colorado Southern
railroad viii use oil as fuel for its To-
comotives during the summepand aut-
umn. 1t viii cost more than coal.
Clerks in the employ of the Colorado
Supply Company at Pueblo will or
ganize n baseball team, which will be
one of the crack amateur organizations
of the state. An expert pitcher will be
imported to add strength to the team.
Alamosa grew more last year than 1t
ever did in any one year before, but
1902 will be n record breaker in this
respect. More new buildings are
planned now than there were last year
at the same season.-Alamosa Courier.
A Typographical union has been or
ganized in Grand Junction. Deputy
Organizer Charles l.. Fluke of the San
Miguel Examiner promoted the move
ment. ]. NJ Kennedy was chosen pres
ident, X. NJ. Horn vice president and
William Fletcher secretary and treas,
urer. The new organization has seven
teen charter members.
Jack Johnson, foreman of the Empire
Tunnel and Mining Company at Empire,
ten miles above Idaho Springs, was
killed by blow behind the ear deliv-
cred by Clark Cleveland miner. John
son, who is about sixty years of age,
was drinking in a saloon with Clark
Cleveland's father and other miners
when quarrel was started.
H. c. Huntley sustained a broken leg
and three other miners We're injured at
the Calle mine on Raven hill, near
Cripple Creek, by falling timbers. The
men were timbering the shaft. The
bolt rods holding up the lower set of
timbers were loosened, releasing the
heavy timbers. The injured men had
narrow escapes from death.
There was a meeting of representa-
tive cattlemen and sheepmen from
Saguache county at Del Norte Tuesday
last, for the purpose of taking steps
toward preventing the invasion of Sag
uache county by travelling herds of cat
tie and sheep. The claim is advanced
that the Saguache range Is fully oc-
cupied by the herds of those men who
live in Saguache county.