The Elk Mountain pilot., 1902-12-23
COLORADO BRIEFS.


cold storage company with cap
ital of 100000 has been organized at
Rocky Ford.
George Ellis, aged twenty-four, COM
mitted suicide at Nevadaville on the
| 10th instant, shooting himself through
the head with rifle.
General William Booth, founder of
the Salvation Army, had immense au-
| diences during his recent visit to Den
yer and Colorado Springs.
An effort will be made in the next
Legislature to have Larimer county di-
vided and a separate county made out
| OF the North Park country.
The President on the 18th sent to
the Senate the nomination of G. S.
Mott for postmaster at Telluride and
of ID. w. Stone for postmaster at Trim
idad
A Swedish association, of which
John F. Holmberg is president. has
| been organized in Denver for the pur-
| pose of erecting a building to serve
| as headquarters for the Swedes of the
state.
| Governor-elect Peabody has an
nounced that he will appoint John
| Cleghorn to be warden of the State
| Penitentiary upon the expiration OF
the term of Warden Martin next
| March.
| Judge Bailey of Fremont county re-
fused the petition for a change of
venue in the Denver Gas and Electric
Company case. Sixty days time was
granted in which to file bill of ex-
ceptions.
Senator Teller has made application,
in behalf of Charles X. Allis, e. b.
Brown, U. t. Smith. G. w. Splitter and
Wallace Halcomb, for charter for the
First National Bank to be organized
at Castle Rock
Andrfa Offret of Trinidad, accused
on four charges of cutting timber on
| government land, was found mot gull
I ty" on the criminal charge in the
| United States Circuit Court at Denver.
! The ether three were damage suits and
I We're continued.
J 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. i714' l
! The Fourteenth General Assembly of
Colorado will convene in the capitol
building at Denver on Wednesday,
January Z, 1903. The governor will be
inaugurated and all the newly-elected
state officers will assume their, duties
on the following Wednesday. January
/ 18th. rs
| William e Pasmore. Alexander d.
Snodgrass and Charles l.. Chandler
& have been appointed by Judge Lindsey
! at Denver to appraise the personal es-
I tate of the late Arthur l.. Collins, the
I general manager of the Smuggler-Un-
ion Mining Company, assassinated NO
vember 18th.
Gen. Geo. w. Cook who went to
Buffalo, New York. to endeavor to Sc
cure the next annual convention of the
National Car Builders Association
for Colorado, did not succeed, but Den
yer received the second highest vote
and may capture the meeting next
year.
An X-ray picture was introduced as
evidence in the District Court at Pu-
eblo in the case of Mrs. T. Pumphrey,
who sued the city for $1,000 damages,
owing to an injury sustained to her
right hip by falling into an excavation
on Elizabeth street in July. 1901. The
picture in question was taken to show
the existence of a fracture.
w. H. Conant, found guilty OF
sweating coins, was sentenced by
Judge Riner of the United States Dis
trict Court at Denver. to serve six
months in the Arapahoe county Jail
and to pay a fine of $500 The latter
will amount to about thirty days long
er in Jail, as Conant is unable to pay
/ the fine, and will probably avail him
self of the pauper oath.
Barney l.. Ford, the noted colored
pioneer of Denver, died on the 10th
instant, at an advanced aged. Mr.
Ford in early days kept the principal
restaurant in Denver at which he en-
tertained Horace Greeley and many
other distinguished guests. He built
the Ford house at Cheyenne and the
Inter-Ocean hotel in Denver. Mr.
Ford served one term in. the Colorado
| General Assembly.
The railroads in Colorado must pay
for the stock they kill or prove that
they are not responsible for the kill
ing. The six months of grace granted
by the new stock law killing act ex-
pired December 14th as the law went
into effect June 14th. In these six
months the roads were allowed to
fence their rights of way to protect
stock. From now on, stockmen may
collect damages simply by bringing
suit in justice court
Governor Orman has appointed as
delegates to the sixth annual conven-
ton of the National Live Stock Asso-
citation at Kansas City on January
13th-16th, the following Denverites. all
railroad men: w. M. hampton, G. L..
Wellington and George W. Vallery
Mr.. hampton is assistant general
freight agent of the Rio Grande. Mr.
Wellington, traffic manager of the
Colorado & Southern, and Mr.. Vallery
general agent of the Burlington.