The Elk Mountain pilot., 1902-08-12
COLORADO BRIEFS.

loupeS tnlS season appeared on the
Denver market August 9Th.
A Rocky Ford couple have given up
the idea of n runaway marriage be-
cause this is the cantaloupe season.
The joint ticket agencies at Denver,
Colorado Springs and Pueblo estimate
there are 21,o00 tourists now in the
state.
About 100 members of the Tennessee
Press Association will arrive in Den
Yer, August 14th and make a trip into
the mountains.
The Colorado Fuel and Iron Com-
pany's power house at the Crested
Butte mine was burned on the morn
ing of August 3rd.
j. Wallace Gum has resigned the pas
tora:e of st. Paul's Episcopal church
at Florence, and on September list will
take up work in the city of Ouray.
On August 18th 1900 tickets were
stamped at the Colorado Springs offices
of the Western Passenger Association.
The previous record for a day was
1000.
Rockvale is calling in the last of its
municipal water bonds, of which S1O,-
900 worth are outstanding. The water
plant was built by the city in 1898 at
cost of $50, 900.
The Normal institute of the Fifth
district began n two weeks session at
Colorado Springs, August 4th. The
district embraces Teller, Douglas, Ei
Paso and Elbert counties.
William Coyne, who died at Helena.
Montana, n few days ago, was one of
the first printers on the Rocky Noun
tain News in Denver when the paper
was founded by William n. Byers.
Building permits were taken out in
Denver during the month of July for
the erection of new buildings that Will
cost S44S.S7O. This is S70,0S1 more than
the permits of the same month last
year
While Colorado Fuel and Iron Off
cials We're debating the propriety of
shutting down their coking plant for
want of water, word was received that
the employees were drowned out and
had to fly for their lives.
Grant Upton of Hygiene aged about
thirty-five. who was declared insane
in Boulder county and taken TO DR..
Works private asylum at Pueblo, Sun
day, died there August 4th. He leaves
a wife and two small children.
A village improvement society has
been organized at Glen Park and Pal
given to preserving the natural beah-
ties of the two resorts and prizes will
be awarded for the most attractive
premises.
The required sum of money has been
raised to save the buildings and prop
erty of the Colorado Womans Baptist
College at Denver. A further amount
of $50, 900 is needed to complete the
building ready for the opening of the
school.
The Pueblo Gas and Fuel Company
has filed incorporation papers with the
secretary of state. The company is
capitalized for $500, 600, and the direc-
tors for the first year are: Il. f. Ey-
man, II. A. Cowan. j. T. McCorkle, j
d. Taylor and G. III. Prall of Pueblo.
As dance was in progress at Bal
ley, Platte canon, on the night of Au-
gust 2nd, meteor was discovered
about l o'clock in the eastern part of
the sky. 1t was like one grand illu-
mination and the rare beauty of the
scene stopped the dancing until 1t had
passed.
In Difference to the difficulties that
tenderfeet have in pronouncing names
derived from the Spanish, the Santa
Fe railway has ordered that in all its
signs and advertising the word can
on shall he spelled canyon AS for
instance, Canyon City, Cheyenne Can
yon, etc.
Pueblo. Canon City and Rockdale
are competing for the artesian water
flow from the well drilled by the Colo
RADIO Springs Oil and Gas Company at
Chandler creek. 1t is the largest arte-
sion flow ever opened in Fremont coun-
,,,l ss- ha1F
gallons of water daily
President Il. II. Malone of the Den
yer chamber of commerce has appoint
ed Governor Orman. Senator Pat
terson, Mitchell Benedict. B. +. Wood
ward and George f. Dunklee 10 rep
resent the chamber at the Transmits
sissippi congress, which will convene
in st. Paul August 10Th.
Official advices received in Denver
from the home in London, England,
confirm the appointment of Walter S.
noyt, formerly of Denver as general
manager of thc smelling and refining
works of Australia, located at Dapto,
| n. S. w. Mr.. Hoyt was formerly con
nected with the Grant smelter.
The Board of County Commissioners
of Pueblo county are moving for n test
case to secure a decision on the consti-
tutionality of the law enacted by the
| Thirteenth General Assembly which
| provides for the reduction of the num-
ber of county commissioners in coun-
ties having a population of less than
| 100000, from five members 20 three.
Ten men were enlisted in the United
States navy at the recruiting station
in Denver on the 9th instant, and
three more with only slight defects
will be put in the ranks when the de-
partment at Washington is heard from
| in reCard TO this noint The total NUM-