The Elk Mountain pilot., 1902-09-16
COLORADO BRIEFS.

The board OF directors decided TO al
low no gambling games on the grounds
of the State Fair at Pueblo.
Several destructive forest fires have
been in progress for considerable
time in the vicinity of Longs peak.
William Pring and another man las
soed a bear cub near Monument few
days ago and led it home in triumph.
Boulder business men have inaugur-
ated crusade against street fakirs
who make a market-place of the prin-
cipal streets of the city.
Professor f. II. Ormsby of Denver
has been selected as instructor of the
Agricultural College Glee Club, which
he successfully managed last year.
Large forest fires are constantly in
sight from Denver and 1t seems as If
the foothills of the Eastern range
must soon be entirely bare of timber.
A party of scientists have been max
ing a survey of the large glacier ON
Arapahoe peak in Boulder county and
| will later publish a full description OF
it.
| The football team of Colorado College
at Colorado Springs has begun practice.
1t is reported that the University of
Denver will also have team in the
field
Denver fans" stoutly assert that the
Denver baseball team will again win
the Western League pennant, though
beginning its series of home games at
fourth place.
| The ordinance closing barber shops
on Sunday, which was recently adopt
ed in Denver, has been sustained by
Judge Lindsey of the County Court of
Arapahoe county.
Capt. Lyulph Ogilvy and wife left
Greeley few days ago for Scotland.
where they will spend the next year at
Castle Airlie, the ancestral home of
the captains family.
The Gates system of mercantile
houses, creameries and cheese factories,
has inaugurated $50 miles of barbed
wire fence telephone line on the Divide
east of Palmer Lake.
At Pueblo a few days ago Mrs. r. A.
Hartman and her four-yearold daugh-
ter received painful burns from the ex-
plosion of a patent stove polish which
they bought from peddler.
The United States Geological Survey
party in charge of +. NJ. Taylor and w.
III. Greathead has been running levels
in Estes park from which to correct
the determination of the height of
Longs peak.
The State Federation of Labor has
sent out circulars all over the state,
calling upon workingmen to make cleo
tion day n holiday in order that work
ingmen may attend to their duties at
the polls.
Several strings of cow-ponies have
been attracted by the large purses of
.fered by the Colorado State Fair at
no 10
relay races promise to be the best ever
held in the state.
The State Normal School at Greeley
has opened this fall with the largest
attendance ever known. The seventy
four members of the class which grad
uated last spring have all secured good
positions as teachers
The Denver horse show closed Sep
tember 9th, having been highly sue
cessful both in attendance and interest.
There was a grand display of horses
and money enough was received to
leave a surplus in the treasury.
1t seems likely that the new Lead
vile electric power and railroad scheme
will be carried through. The company
proposes to build railroad connecting
the mines and smelters of the district
and to furnish power to mining plants.
Arrangements are in progress for the
fitting celebration of Emancipation
Day at Colorado Springs, September
22nd. The inability of Booker T.
Washington to attend, owing to pre-
vious engagements occasions much re-
gret.
A brilliant meteor was seen on the
night of the 9th inst. by the citizens of
lola, ten miles below Gunnison. 1t
looked as large as the moon and broke
in two pieces before disappearing. A
search is being made for fragments at
the place where it is believed to have
struck
Colorado State Grange Day at the
Agricultural College, Fort Collins, will
be on September 26th. Prepara tons
will be made to entertain 1900 or
more visitors. There will be n basket
dinner, after which a short program
will be rendered and the visitors Will
then inspect the college.
At Colorado Springs. September 9th,
Charles Rohman pleaded guilty of
stealing a grip from the Rio Grande
depot and was given from three to five
years in the penitentiary. The severe
| sentence was imposed because of the
fact that Rohman was already out on
parole from the Buena Vista reforma-
tory.
The incorporators of the Fort Collins
Sugar Manufacturing Company have
elected as officers the following bust
ness men of Fort Collins: President,
b. f. Hottell; vice president, Hon. j.
b. Arthur; secretary f. NJ. Shaw;
treasurer, c.. II. Welch. The directors
for the ensuing year We're elected as
! follows: j. S. Brown of Denver. j. S.
|
J. B. Arthur and b. f. Hottell.
w. G. Johnston and Cary S. Burford
of Denver have organized the Denver
Sugar. Land and Irrigation Company
| which controls 1000 acres OF land in
i Los IL A.n1 han GniIptinS Ilnler