The Elk Mountain pilot., 1902-06-24
COLORADO BRIEFS.

crowd into Estes Park.
A hail storm did considerable dam
age in the vicinity of Fowler on the
10th instant.
The newspaper artists of Denver will
give an exhibition of their work at the
Brown Palace hotel.
postoffice at Sellar, Pitllin county,
has been established, with Otto B. Kill
patrick as postmaster.
The newly completed Meeker canal,
which cost about $4,000, will do much
toward beautifying the town.
The Colorado & Southern is meeting
with success in its efforts to attract
visions to the Platte canon this sum
mer.
Roy Bourquin. a boy of IA, had both
hands blown off while playing with
powder at Cripple Creek on the 10Th
inst.
The Grand Junction School Board
has purchased sites for two new school
buildings and will erect handsome
structures.
Greeley will celebrate the Fourth of
July with n big firemen's tournament.
All the volunteer teams of the state
have been invited.
The Denver base ball team by repeat
edly defeating Omaha has reached sec
ond place in the Western League and
is crowding Kansas City for first.
The following Colorado postoffices
will become international money order
offices July 1st: Breckenridge, Buena
Vista, Delta, Gillett, Golden, Lamar,
Loveland
Henry Hurley, wanted in Denver for
trial on several accusations of robbery,
was brought from Kansas City, Kan
sas, and placed in Jail at Denver on the
18th inst.
President Benjamin e. Andrews of
the University of Nebraska delivered
the address on the occasion of the
graduating exercises of the Leadville
high school.
Stakes have been driven for the loca-
ton of the new station of the Colo
RADIO & Southern in Loveland. 1t will
be n fine building 172x7O feet in size
under cover.
The Fruit Growers Association of
Boulder shipped 1873 crates of straw
berries in one day recently. This large
amount does not include shipments by
individuals.
President James II. Baker OF the
Colorado State University left Boul-
der on the 11th instant for trip to
Europe and will spend the summer and
part of the autumn abroad.
At Colorado Springs June 10Th James
Walsh, n barber, was killed by stab
from a pair of scissors in the hands OF
Joe Scott. Walsh had interfered to pro-
tect Scott's wife from an assault by
her husband.
The Union of Grocery Employees of
Denver has arranged for a big picnic
on the Fourth of July. This will not
take the place of the annual joint pic
mic of grocers and their employees lat
err in the summer.
Rev Canon Bywater Of Grace Cathe-
drnl, Topeka, and member of the fac
ulty of Kansas Theological Institute,
has been appointed by Bishop Olmsted
archdeacon of the Denver diocese OF
the Episcopal Church.
Van +. Rouse one OF the state COM
missioners to the st. Louis exposition,
states that Colorado will have the best
site on the grounds. secured by early
choice The site is on a beautifully
wooded knoll, 1000 feet from the south
entrance.
The Denver & Rio Grande railroad
Is said to be contemplating n pavilion
and other improvements at Parkdale,
several miles west of the Royal Gorge,
with the view of making that place a
pleasure resort.
The Requena Oil Company of Cali
fornia is doing extensive work in
Colorado and expects soon to have six
wells under way, or producing. in Rio
Blanco county. which promises to de-
velop several large oil district.
A Chicago dispatch says that men,
bers of the Interstate Commerce Com
mission will go to Leadville, Colorado,
where an inquiry will be made con-
corning charges filed by the Board of
Trade of that city against the trans
continental lines.
The Ammons bill. requiring all rail.
ways to erect fences along each side OF
their tracks in Colorado, became law
on the 14th inst. The railroads claim
that it will cost S375,0OO to comply
with the law in full and n test case Is
expected within short time.
Supervising Architect Taylor has re-
jected the bids of the Congress Con-
struction Company for the interior fin
ish of the Denver mint. This bid
amounting to S219,326, was the only
one furnished in response to the adver-
tisement. New bids will be called for.
This is the old. old story told again.
The Union ore Extraction and Re
duction Company's plant and the ware
house of the S. III. Supply Company al
Thirty-first and Wewatta streets In
Denver were destroyed by fire on the
morning of the 10Th inst. The loss on
the reduction plant is estimated at $45,-
600, on which there was $1,000 insur-
ance.
Rural free delivery service to COM
mence August 1st has been ordered for