The Elk Mountain pilot., 1902-02-04
COLORADO BRIEFS.


1t is said that syndicate is to bore
for oil in Washington county.
Rev. Charles S. Olmst1ad has formal
ly accepted the election as bishop coad-
jutor of Colorado.
A handsome new church was dedicat-
ed by the Presbyterans at Canon City
on the 26th. 1t cost about $4,000.
Representative John C. Bell has ap-
pointed ii. ID. Zimmerman of Colorado
Springs as a West Point cadet, and
Fred Carstarphen of Pueblo as alter
nate.
The President has sent to the Senate
the nomination of Edwin Price to be
postmaster mt Grand Junction. Colo
RADIO, and the nomination was con-
tirmed.
Local parties are to erect big pa
vilion at Idaho Springs near the hot
springs They will provide attractions
In the way of music and entertain
ments for tourists.
The Colorado Fuel & Iron Company
paid S7,OOOO0O in wages in 1901, and
turned out a product. including 4,O43.-
$50 tons of coal and 554, ,44O tons of
coke. of about thirteen million dollars.
]. ]. Burns, superintendent of the
first division of the Denver Il Rio
Grande, with headquarters at Pueblo
for the last ten years, and one OF the
best known railroad men in the West,
has resigned.
The Grand Junction postoffice was
robbed recently by Night Clerk Eu-
gene Phillips. About $50 in stamps
and $40 in cash was taken. Phillips,
who has lived there for the last eight
years and has been well thought OF,
confessed that he committed the rob-
berry, breaking the window and rifiing
the mail pouch to give the appearance
of a theft committed by an outsider.
Arthur f. Francis. secretary of the
Cripple Creek Chamber of Commerce.
has received letter from President
Trumbull of the Colorado & Southern
railroad, thanking the chamber and
the business men for the interest dis
played IN the building of the cutoff
from Denver to Cripple Creek. Mr..
Trumbull assured the secretary that
undoubtedly the road would be built
in the near future.
The Denver police no longer suspect
that Tomasso Minci, who was captured
in the hills north of Fort Collins last
week by Detectives Sanders and Car
berry, is the murderer of Harold Frid
born. They are satisfied that Minci
was in Central City, his home, on New
Years eve, the time of the murder, and
that he is demented. Minci, as soon as
he RECEIVERS, probably will be turned
over to the authorities of Gilpin county.
For the second time within four
months triplets have been born in Pu-
eblo county. On the 9th Mrs. Rosario
Mestas gave birth to three sons, whose
combined weight is twenty-one pounds.
ha 10 a of
Philadelphia smelter and lives at Salt
Creek, n Mexican settlement within a
short distance of Pueblo. The little
fellows are all well formed and
healthy, and the mother is reported TO
be doing well.
The mayor and other officials of Su-
gar City. Colorado, have sent ped-
ton to President Roosevelt opposing
any change in the tariff on sugar for
the beenfit of Cuba. Sugar City, the
petition says, is entirely dependent up
on the beet sugar industry that has
sprung up there within the last two
years. 1t declares that If any reduc-
tion is made in the present tariff on
sugar the town of Sugar City and all
the beet sugar Industry of Colorado
and the West will suffer
Work on the construction of n mon
ster packing plant. TO be erected by
Denver capital near the Denver Union
Stock Yards. WILL 1t is now practically
settled be commenced within the next
forty days. The company, which Is
to include among its incorporators ID.
H. Moffat of the First National bank.
Charles Boettcher and ID. c. Dodge of
the National Bank of Commerce, and
other prominent Denver men, will prob
ably file its articles of incorpora-
tion within the next ten days, and
will begin on the plant.
The county commissioners of Pueblo
county will join the commissioners of
Arapahoe county in the investigation
of affairs at the State Industrial School
for Girls, and before the matter is final
ly disposed of other counties in the
state will take hand in the investiga-
tion. it is said. The Pueblo county
commissioners visited the Arapahoc
county commissioners yesterday morn
ing and stated their belief that their
county had been charged for mainte
nance not only of girls who had long
since left the home. but for some of the
same girls for whom Arapahoe had
been paying.
A number of representatives of Gree
ley farmers have made arrangements
with John ]. Hoff of Lincoln Nebras-
ka. to bring to Greeley In April loO
German families, who will work in the
beet fields around Greeley the coming
season. The farmers will furnish tents
or house accommodations for the Ia
borers. who will contract to do all the
hand work on the beet crop, from thin
ming in the spring to topping the beets
in the fall. for $50 per acre Mr.. Hoff
has had eight years experience in Nor
folk and Ames, Nebraska. in handling
the beet crop with this class Of people,
who are sober and industrious and are
anxious to settle in Colorado. This
manner of procuring hands to work