The Elk Mountain pilot., 1902-05-06
COLORADO BRIEF S.

Colorado Springs people are cherish
ing hopes of visit from President
Roosevelt next summer.
April receipts of the Pueblo post
office show an increase of thirty-one per
cent. over April of last year.
A new company at Grand Junction
will erect an extensive plant for the
manufacture and storage of ice.
The railroads will grant one rate for
the round trip to the Mountain and
Plain Festival at Denver next fall.
James NJ. Duysdale of Denver has
been appointed fourth assistant exam
iner in the pension office, at IA salary of
81 200 per annum.
Mrs. Grenfell, state superintendent,
addressed a very successful meeting of
the Clear Creek Valley Teachers Asso-
citation at Idaho Springs April 10Th
A new state fish hatchery is to be
established at Steamboat Springs.
There are already three in the state
at Denver, Durango and Gunnison.
The new chapel in the State Peniten-
tiary at Canon City was rededicated
Sunday, April 9th. Rev. Thomas ID.
Uzzell of Denver was the principal
speaker
Managers of the Chautauqua asso-
citation at Boulder report highly IA
vorable outlook and the Glen Park peo-
pie expect u larger attendance than
ever before.
j. w. Develine of Boulder celebrated
his ninetieth birthday May 1st and
was presented with handsome and
costly Masonic charm by his brethren
of the fraternity.
The census of School District No. 2
in Larimer county, including Loveland,
shows 1.175 pupils of school age and
places the district in the first class ac-
cording to the provisions of the state
law.
Ground was broken April 25th for
the new 100000 city hall at Colorado
Springs. The building will be CON
structed of Colorado Trinidad sand
stone and is to be completed during the
year.
The controversy between the Pueblo
county commissioners and the Denver
x Rio Grande company has been set
tied and the railroad will be granted
franchise TO lay its tracks to the new
zinc smelter over IA route agreed upon.
Eric Johnson fell eighty feet down n
raise in the Camp Bird mine at Ouray
and although he carried with him in
the fall a drilling machine, no bones
We're broken or Internal injuries sus-
tained. and he will recover soon from
his bruises.
, Charles w Caryl has added to his
first donation of thirty acres to the
Brotherhood of Light Society fifty
more acres adjoining the first tract,
south of University Park on University
avenue. south of Denver. The organiz-
alton was formed to provide "A home for
waits.
Captain Lennon, superintendent at
i. Teller Institute, Grand Junction, has
received word from Washington that
acetylene gas will he the system of
lighting the building and grounds
at the indian schools in the future and
that the government Will supply the
plant at once.
W. s. Stratton is rapidly completing
the attractions of Cheyenne park, mt
Colorado Springs, which he will shortly
throw open for the use of the public.
one thousand new benches, each ac-
commodating four people, Will be in
stalled, while innumerable swings Will
attract the children.
Mayor Robinson of Colorado Springs
has received "A letter from Jacob Itils
of New York expressing his willing
ing al the Springs this summer. Pres
idcnt Roosevelt appointed Mr. Rils TO
an important position in the Danish
islands, which he declined.
A whirlwind ~ Cripple Creek April
2Ith unroofed the grand stand at Tn
ion park and damaged that structure
to the amount of S4Oo. The park was
NOT in use and the stand was unoccu-
pied one huge section of the roof
was carried fully 200 feet in the air
and landed 100 yards or more away
from the building.
The Denver weather bureau report
showed an excess of seventy-six lie
grees temperature for the month OF
April and an accumulated excess OF
POS degrees since the first of The year.
The total precipitation for the month
was 0.60 of an inch. or In below nor
NAL. and Since January list it amount
ed to LIS inches, or 80 inches below
normal.
At Pemberton. about fifteen miles
north of Woodland Park, Lee Elliott.
a miner working for the Ohio Mining
Company, was found dead about 200
yards from the shaft, which he had
been working alone. 1t is supposed
that he met death from an explosion
caused by n missed shot. after which
he managed TO crawl to a water hole,
200 yards away,
County. Attorney Howe of San Mi
guel county has been instructed by
the county commissioners TO bring suit
against former County Clerk Hairy l..
Servis and his bondsmen to recover
funds alleged to be due the county.
The commissioners claim that Servis
appropriated the county funds to his
own use. The shortage is not believed
to be large. Mr.. Servis is in Denver
The Otero county board of roundup
commissioners mot ut La .InnIl Anil