The Elk Mountain pilot., 1902-12-16
COLORADO BRIEFS.

| A. R. Gumaer is planning to build q
handsome opera house at Florence.
| Epemio Martinez, tried at Trinidad
for the murder of Temigo Martinez,
was acquitted.
Company d of the National Guard
will give an elaborate ball at Colorado
Springs on January 5th.
Colorado Springs capitalists are said
| to be organizing another national bank
with capital of 100000.
On December 31st the Daily Live
| Stock Record will publish an extensive
review of the live stock business for
| 1902
Governor Orman has appointed Miss
Kathryn NJ. Maloney as superintendent
of schools for the new county of South
Arapahoe.
In the District Court at Durango a
White river Ute, who shot Navajo on
the reservation recently, was adjudged
guilty of murder in the first degree.
The Elks of Fort Collins have decid-
ed to erect a new block, the second and
third stories of which will be used ex-
clusively by that order. The ground
floor will be 5Ox90 feet in size.
A contract has been let to Captain
Boutell for the construction of a beet
sugar factory at New Windsor. of a ca
pacity of 600 tons daily, for the sum OF
$15O,000. Work is to be begun at
once
1t is announced that the Santa Fe
Railway Company is endeavoring To
purchase the old Copper King smelter
and some twenty-five acres of land ad-
joining to be used as a location for ex
tensive railroad shops in Trinidad.
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plying customers December 9Th. The
plant represents an outlay of $4,000
and its two large generators have
daily capacity of 250000 cubic feet and
the reservoir of $4,000 cubic feet.
Frank e. Wheeler, Democratic can
didate for representative from Hins-
dale and mineral counties, has filed
an expense account with the secretary
of state. setting forth the fact that he
spent sS40 in the effort to be elected.
Commercial gas is being manufac-
tured by the Boulder Gas Company
from a combination of Ignite coal and
petroleum. 1t is claimed that the pro-
cess. which is the invention of General
Manager Peter English, is entirely sue
cessful.
The Colorado Section of the Insti-
tute of Electrical Engineers has been
organized in Denver with twenty-eight
members and limitations to join the or
ganization have been sent to electrical
engineers throughout Colorado. Wy
oming and Utah.
The county commissioners of Boul-
der county have effected a compromise
with the railroad companies on the
taxes of 1901. The total amount OF
taxes received by the county from rail-
"a, @ Q AO
than the railroad taxes received by the
county for 1900.
The commissioners of the new coun-
ty of Adams. established by the adop-
ton of the Rush amendment. met al
Brighton, the county seat, on Decem-
Der 4th, and effected an organization.
The county commissioners are Messrs,
Wilson II. Smith, Benjamin Benbow
and F. p. Watts.
At Pueblo on the 9TH inst, John w.
Frush. after desperate quarrel, In
which he tUed to kill his wife and
grown son, placed revolver to his left
ear and fired a bullet into his OVID
brain, ending his life almost instantly.
He had been drinking. and it is thought
he was temporarily insane.
j. F. Swank and Joseph Hunt, OF
Lake City. who were arrested at You
mans, in Hinsdale county. November
21th, with nine whole deer and parts 4
of two in their possession, were tried
before Judge Leahy at Gunnison on the
Sth inst and on conviction were fined
5000 and costs, which they paid.
Mrs Laura McCready was run over
by the cars and killed while picking
up coal along the Rio Grande tracks in
Colorado Springs on the 9th inst. Her
daughter aged nine, and another girl,
were with her, and it was while trying
to warn them of danger from an ap-
preaching train that she was herself
struck. I" -,
President Roosevelt on the Sth inst
sent to the Senate the nomination of
Frank l.. Downer for assayer of the
mint at Denver and of Joseph w. Mil
som for meter. Messrs. Nilsson and
Downer were appointed by the Presi-
dent before the .conyening of Congress
and have been in possession of the Of
fees for some weeks.
A recent dispute at Denver between
State Game Commissioner G. W.; Har- 4
ris and Deputy Game Warden James s.
Bush on matter of mileage resulted |
in demand by Harris that Mr.. Bush
should resign. Mr. Bush would not
nand IN MS resignation 10 tne conmlS-
sioner, but offered it to Governor Or
man. who refused to accept it and
called the parties together to patch up
the, quarrel. 20. ,.s
Several Colorado men are mentioned
i'm general orders No. 2 from national
headquarters of the G. A r. Conrad
Appel of Victor is made member of
the council of administration, while
A. j. Woodside of Denver is named as
an assistant inspector general. Harper |
M Orahood of Denver is appointed, an
assistant to Allan c. Blakewell who