The Elbert County tribune., 1902-08-07
COLORADO BRIEF S.

State School OF Mines At Gotlen on
July 2fth-
Roekvsle IS calling in the last OF its
municipal water bonts. OF which slo.-
GO worth are outstanding The water
plant wss built by the city in 1895 al
cost Of $1,000.
An EFFORT viii be made to raise a
fre<h air fund in Denver TO take poor
children into the mountains. where cot
txge-s will be asked to care for them
for a week at a time
A wild coyote. apparently about two
months old. entered the City PARK In
Denver a few days ago and tried TO
get into the cage with the captive coy
otess He was accommodated
While walking up the stone steps n
the Loretto Academy in Santa Fe- New
: Mexico, July 18th. Rev. Joseph r. Car
rigan of St Patrick's Church IN Den
yer. fell and dlsloeated his hip
Building permits were taken out in
Denver during the month Of July for
the erection OF new buildings that viii
I cost S4is-S1O. This is $T00s1 more than
the permits OF the same month last
year.
The State Association of District At
torneys was formed at Glenwood
Springs July 26th by the election OF
Henry Trowbridge of Cripple Creek
president, and H @. Thurman of Cen
tral City secretary.
z. c. whitney writes from Rocky
Ford to the mayor of Trinidad that
for the sum of 81 900 he will produce
three inches of rain In Trinidad within:
four days by an entirely new process
which uses neither prayer nor exoios-
ives.
The required sum of money has been
raised to save the buildings and prop
erty Of the Colorado Woman's Baptist
College at Denver. A further amount
OF $4,000 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 100000. and the direc-
tors for the first year are: T. +. Ey-
man, II. a. Cowan. ]. T. McCorkle. j.
d. Taylor and c. II. Prall Of Pueblo.
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. II Is the largest arte-
sion flow ever opened in Fremont coun-
ty, and is estimated at half a million
gallons OF water daily.
Elwood Mead, chief of irrigation for
the Department of Agriculture, has
written to State Engineer McCune that
he is coming to Colorado Immediately
to Join with Mr.. McCune in a study OF
drainage conditions within the state.
This work by Mr.. Mead is considered
OF especial Importance ON account OF
the new law.
Shortly after midnight on July 31st,
at the crossing of Logan and Alameda
avenues in Denver, a tallyho coach
containing a party Of nineteen was run
into by an electric car and overturned
Several of the party were seriously in
jured. but all are expected to recover
soon. Mr.. LYDIA A. Horton was badly
cut about the head.
The jury In the damage suit brought
in the District Court at Denver by the
Colorado & Southern Railroad Com
pany against the Denver Union Water
Company for 100000 for damages On
account of the breaking of the Chees-
man lake dam in Platte canon in 1900
was unable to agree after deliherating
for twenty-four hours and tie ca sc III
be tried again.
Great commotion was caused at Bal
ley in the Platte canon one afternoon
few days ago by the appearance of
large cinnamon bear and two cubs.
which took possession of the station
for some minutes. After many bear
like antics-wbile the people at safe
distance were discussing the situation
the bears quietly trotted out of town
much to the relief of the entire village.
W. X. Martin has just returned TO
Boulder from Washington. ID. c.,
i,a ole n With
sentatives OF an Egyptian syndicate to
drill four wells 1000 feet deep each at
Cairo. Egypt. Mr.. Martins company
is to receive $4,000 for this work. or
$40 a foot. The average cost of drill
ing in the Boulder belt is So per foot
for deep drilling. and somewhat less
than that for 1,0O0-foot wells.
Arrangements are being completed
for the erection of the new Santa Fe
hotel at Trinidad. The ground on
which the hotel is to be built was pur-
chased from the city by the Santa Fe
Railroad Company and is on a tri-
angular plot north of and adjoining
the depot The sale was made on con-
dition that the Santa Fe should erect
a hotel building on 1t TO cost not less
than 10000. The style of architecture
will be Moorish.
The Denver Republican correspond
ent says the grasshopper pest is be-
coming more and more serious in Otero
county. Farmers have already lost
from twenty-five to forty per cent. of
their crop of Mexican beans. Every
field has wide strip destroyed
around the edge. Alfalfa is still being
damaged by them. On the range they
are so numerous that they bother the
horses of the cowboys almost as badly
as swarm of fieas.
T. L. Monson. state dairy commits
sioner. is sending out the premium list
of the Colorado State Fair. which is to
be held in Pueblo from September 18th