The Elk Mountain pilot., 1902-09-23
COLORADO BRIEFS.

Senator James w. Bucklin of Grand
Junction is making tour of the state
in advocacy of his Australasian land
tax amendment.
A football game is to be played on
October 4th on the Boulder grounds
between the State University and the
University of Nebraska
The Denver Chamber of Commerce
is preparing to welcome the crown
prince of Siam, who is expected to
reach Colorado October 2Sth.
A widely circulated report of the
death of j. w. Benson, former mana
ger of the Camp Bird mine at Ouray,
proves to have been unfounded.
The Republicans have nominated w.
S. WINERY of Lake City for float rep
resentative from the district compris-
ing Mineral and Hinsdale counties.
The newspaper artists of Denver will
give an exhibition of original drawings
during the week of October 18th. Near
ly one thousand drawings will be dis
played.
At Grand Junction on the 11th inst,
G. w. Hoff died from the effects of in
juries received two days previous by
accidentally riding his bicycle over Il
high embankment.
The Prohibitionists of Weld county
have nominated Robert Steele and
Mrs. a. Putnam for the state Legis-
lature. Only four towns in the county
have licensed saloons.
At Denver, ON the 10th inst, p. j.
Moore, Il carpenter, was fatally
stabbed by 4. III. Flood. butcher, in
a quarrel which arose over some beef
steak purchased by Moore.
In the joint Republican senatorial
convention of Pueblo, Teller and Ere
mont counties, held at Canon City,
Louis Campbell of Cripple Creek was
nominated for float senator.
James II. Peabody, Republican can
didate for governor, with his wife and
daughter, mas engaged rooms ut the
New Adams hotel in Denver. He will
remain in Denver during the campaign.
Charles f. Smith of Boulder, brother
of the late Mrs. Charles Fair, has pur-
chased the J. B. Teagarden home on
University hill, in Boulder. one of the
handsomest new residences in that
part of the city.
NJ. J. O'Brien. special agent of the
United States land office, who has been
fighting fires in the forests arounI rs
ties Park, reports that the situation is
greatly improved and hopes that no
further serious damage will result
A dynamite bomb made of a piece OF
gas pipe was found few days ago in
the Presbyterian church at Boulder by
Edwin Baker, the janitor, who lost the
fore finger of his left hand in invesu
eating the strange apparatus.
w. ii. Montgomery has resigned the
office of president of the incorporated
trades assembly of Denver on account
of his having become n candidate for
the state Legislature from Arapahoe
county on the Republican ticket.
A homing pigeon liberated in DEN
yer by G. NJ. Day of the Adams En-
press Company on the 11th of August,
reached Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. on
the morning of September 3rd having
made the trip in twenty-five days.
James A. Semple, formerly a promi-
nent railroad man, died in Denver
September 18th Mt the age of seventy
seven years. He was the father of
Frank Il. Semple, city passenger agent
of the Denver n Rio Grande railroad
in Denver,
The city officials of Denver have
again moved into the city hall, which
las been repaired, remodeled and
greatly improved since the big fire of
several months ago. 1t is no more
like the old building than a parlor is
like pig sty.
Work on the new zinc smelter at Pu-
eblo has fairly begun. One hundred
and fifty carloads of structural iron
will be used in its construction. The
American Bridge Company has charge
of the work. The smelter will be the
largest of its kind in the world.
The trustees of the State School of
Mines met at Golden and passed reso-
lutions deploring the death of w. S.
Stratton, formerly a member of the
board, whose beneficence finds exhibit
ton in various departments of the in
stitution and who gave it ut one time
$4,000.
Joseph A. Holmes, chief of the de-
partment of mines and metallurgy of
the st. Louis worlds fair, while in
Denver recently, said: In all matters
pertaining to gold deposits and gold
mining, and in the treatment of gold
ores, Colorados exhibit at the Louisi-
ana Purchase Exposition is expected to
lead that not only of all the states of
the Union, but also all foreign cOun-
tries"
The Democratic senatorial and rep
resentative conventions of Teller, Ell
Paso and Douglas counties nominated
for representatives Charles 5. Sprague,
d. c. Hall and G. Il. Burger from Ell
Paso county, and \. B. Bernier, Oscar
Walker both of Victor. and Henry
King of Goldiield. Senator Il. NJ. AM
mons of Douglas county was unani-
mously renominated for senator, along
with Frank ]. Hangs of Cripple Creek.
The very unusual spectacle of min.
lister officiating Mt his own wedding
such as occurred in Boulder a few days
ago, when Rev. L. s. Cattell performed