The Elk Mountain pilot., 1902-06-17
COLORADO BRIEFS.

and labor leader, is arranging to make
his home in Denver.
w. r. Thomas of the Denver News
will deliver two lectures on irrigation
before the California Chautauqua next
August.
The recent book carnival at Colorado
Springs netted $1,15S, which will be
used to buy books for the public
library.
There were twelve students in the
graduating class of the law school Of
the University of Colorado at Boulder
this year.
There were thirty-five students in
the graduating class of the prepara-
tory school of the University of Colo
RADIO at Boulder this month,
The athletic association of the Uni
versity of Denver has been incorpo-
rated by Lucius w. Hoyt, Wilbur ID.
Engle, Benjamin Griffith and ]. Il.
Rossignol
The indications of the tourist rush
to Colorado thus far are said to point
TO great increase over that of 1901,
fully justifying the estimate of 100000
visitors this year.
Postmaster Moorhead of Boulder re-
ports an increase of sixty-nine per
cent. in the business of the postoffice
for May over what it was last year
for the same month.
Miss Katie Bruderlin. who made the
best record in this years graduating
class of the East Denver High School,
has been offered a scholarship in the
University of Chicago.
+. T.. Dillon of Fort Worth, Texas,
recently caught a trout in the Platte
river at Bailey's that measured sew
enteen and half inches in length
and weighed six and one-half pounds.
In the District Court at Telluride
June 9th John Miller was sentenced
to life Imprisonment in the peniten-
tiary at Canon City for the murder of
John Touhy in a saloon quarrel.
The civil service commission will
hold an examination at Denver on
July Sth for the purpose of filling the
position of engineer in the bureau OF
chemistry, Department of Agriculture.
Ex-Governor John l.. Routt has re-
turned TO Denver with his daughter,
after two-years sojourn in Paris.
He says that Denver looks dirty COM
pared with the clean streets of the
French metropolis.
The Gunnison Stockgrowers Associ-
alton, which held its annual meeting
June 7th, has 1S2 members and is one
of the most active in the state. 1t Of
fers 500 reward for the arrest and
conviction of persons responsible for
forest fires.
Denver is making great preparations
for the International Sunday school
convention, June 26th to July 1st. The
preachers and leading colored people
of Denver are indignant that the col
ored line has been drawn by ordering
colored delegates to be separately
seated.
G. w. Booth of Chicago has pur-
chased 10000 acres of land of the
Union Pacific, and is preparing to in.
troduce a colony of his friends upon
the land. The land is located near
Bennett. twenty-five miles north of
Denver, ind can be watered from Kio-
wa and Box Elder creeks.
The Cripple Creek Chamber of Com
merce recently issued the first of its
series of official guides to Cripple
Creek, which, it is believed, will ac-
complish a great deal of good for the
district. 1t is the purpose of the chain
Der to distribute the guide among all
tourists arriving in Denver, Pueblo
and Colorado Springs.
In the District Court at Greeley the
jury in the case of the people VS.. a. l..
Burdett, on four different charges of
unlawfully driving cattle from their
accustomed range, returned verdict
in each case of not guilty. Mr.. Bur-
dett, as agent of the Humane society.
took possession of several hundred
head of cattle which he claimed were
not cared for by the owners.
The First regiment of the National
Guard of Colorado expect to attend the
st. Louis exposition in 1904. Colonel
verdeckberg has been in st. Louis to
make arrangements and has issued
circular stating that the exposition
managers will take care of the regi-
ment while there and assist in Its
transporta ton, so that $50 each will
be all that the members need to raise.
Pueblo must hold special election to
choose successor to the late George
West, who died last January. before
his term as mayor had expired. A de-
cision rendered by the Court of ,Ap-
peals sustains the District Court of
Pueblo county, directing the City
Council to order the election. Acting
Mayor j. e. Rizer will, therefore, soon
be out of office unless he comes for
ward as candidate at the election
and is successful.
Plans have been adopted for the new
Carnegie library at Pueblo. The build
ing will be of white pressed brick, 10Sx
GA feet. The site selected is Royal
park, and the front of the building
will face Abriendo avenue. In the
basement will be hall with seating
capacity of 400 people, while the libra
ry proper will be on the first floor. The
entire 100000 will be spent on the
building and will not include tinishings
of the second floor. the money for
which will be raised by the taxpayers
of Pueblo
G. e. Adams, editor of the Gunnison
Tribune. who visited this city yester
day is nlShinp the renutatiOn of that