The Elk Mountain pilot., 1902-09-02
COLORADO BRIEFS.

Arkansas Valley Fair.
The Garden OF the Gods Chautauqua
at Colorado Springs closed its first an
nual session August 21st.
Labor Day which comes on Monday,
September 1st, will be largely celebrat-
ed i'll almost every county in the state.
Andrew Peterson was killed by
falling bucket while excavating for the
new brass works Mt Boulder August
26th.
Colorado City is considering prop
ositlon to establish water plant of its
own instead of continuing to purchase
water from Colorado Springs.
The city council of Golden has passed
an ordinance providing for the sale of
500, 600 worth of bonds for the con-
struction of n gravity system of water
works
Headquarters of the new Denver,
Northwestern & Pacific Railroad will
be in the new Majestic (formerly Nc
Murtrie) building, at the corner of SIX
teenth street and Broadway, in Den
yer.
An immense crop of peaches is being
harvested in the Grand valley and the
railroads and express companies Will
be uncommonly busy in carrying the
fruit to market during the next month
or more.
Fred Hastings of Colorado Springs
left loaded revolver in reach OF his
baby daughter, fourteen months old,
and she managed to explode 1t, infict-
ing slight wound in the calf OF her
left lev and missing. her father by
about six inches.
Prot. George Sharpe Raymerr in
structor In the mining department of
Harvard University, is conducting
party of twelve Harvard students
through the mining districts of the
state. Beginning in Clear Creek and
Gilpin counties, they will later visit
Cripple Greek, the San, Juan district
and Leadville.
The forest officers, say there is- n FAR
greater number of hunting parties in
the mountains of Garfield, Rio Blanco
and Routt counties this year than in
any season since the forest reserve was
created. Half n dozen fires have been
checked in the past three weeks. start
ed as the result of carelessness on the
part of camping parties.
Howard L. Miller of Denver has sug-
gested to the Worlds Baip authorities
that the 100000 souvenir gold dollars
for the Louisiana Purchase Exposition
be minted at the new mint in Denver
from Colorado Iouisiana purchase ter
ritory) gold. He must think that the
fair is to be held in 2O04, by which time
the mint will probably be completed.
Two. suicides and a mine accident
were one days, record at Anaconda ON
the 18th instant. Abe Trevarthen, a
well-known miner at Strattons Inde-
pendence, shot himself through the
head. Mrs. John Ronning, aged forty
four and the mother of ten children,
took carbolic acid and died. Nels Mar
kinson was preoipitated to the bottom
Of an eighty-fve-foot shaft by defec-
tive brake and sustained fractures of
his right leg and shoulder, while ].
Ludwing. who was with him, was
badly bruised,
During the session of the Colorado
conference of the NJ. f. church at Gen.
trail City, on the night of August 23d,
the Ladies' Aid Society served BAN
quet in honor of the University of Den
yer. at which Chancellor Buchtel pre-
sided. 1t was the great social event
of the conference and WAS in the ma
ture Of a jollification over the growth
Of the institution and the rapid increase
of the fund now being raised to clear
it Of all indebtedness and leave 1t with
well toward million dollars worth of
unencumbered property
The regents of the University of Col
orado have appointed Dr. John B. Elk
ley to the pIofessorship of chemistry,
which was recently made vacant by
the resignation of Professor Charles S.
Palmer. Professor Ekiey received the
degree of Phi. D., '.multa cum laude,"
from the University of Freiburg. in
Baden. last May. DIR. John b. Phillips
takes the newly created chair of econ
omfcs and sociology. He is graduate
of the University of Michigan, and has
just returned from Europe, where he
has been engaged in travel and study.
At Loveland great arrangements
have been made for the annual corn
roast to be held Friday, September 5th
One of the events scheduled is match
race between the Star hook and ladder
team of Georgetown and the Blrtholf
hose team of Loveland. This will be
a 6OOfeet speed race and will be for
$500 side. The corn roast committee
will also put up 1925, thus making a
purse of 1925 to the winning side.
These are the teams that We're tied in
the match race at Idaho Springs July
4th, and much interest is felt in the
outcome.
A corporation to be known as the
Colorado Exposition Train Company
has been organized in Chicago for the
purpose of booming Colorado climate
and natural resources. 1t is stated that
the company has placed an order with
the Pullman Car Company for com
plete train of five Pullman cars, to be
delivered early next January. The
train will first make the trip to the
Pacific coast, then to Chicago and
cities of the East, and finally. after
passing through the leading cities of
the South, the cars and their contents
are to be on exhibition at the St Louis
fair. The Colorado Legislature will be