The Elk Mountain pilot., 1902-07-01
COLORADO BRIEFS.

Engineers have surveyed the site of
the new sugar factory at Fort Collins.
The Bolles Institute of Osteopathy at
Denver graduated five students on
June Goth.
A forest fire on Tenderfoot mountain
near Dillon has destroyed nearly 3,ooo
acres of timber.
The teachers institute at Colorado
Springs will begin on the first Monday
in August and last for two weeks.
w. III. Moore. the defaulting city
clerk of Durango, has been held for
trial at the September term of the DIS
trict Court.
Crickets have been doing much dam
age to alfalfa and garden products in
some parts of Rio Blanco county, but
are reported not to like corn.
Arthur Arterburn, the twelve-year-
old son of Charles +. Arterburn OF
Colorado City was killed June 21st by
the kick of a horse
Department Commander j. w. HUH,
G. A. r., has established headquar-
ters at Victor with w. w. Ferguson as
assistant adjutant general.
1t is stated that w. S. Stratton pro-
poses to build a club house and gym
nasium for the benefit of his Colorado
Springs street car employees.
The merchants of Rio Blanco county
point to the large sales of agricultural
implements this year as a proof of the
rapid development of the county.
In his libel suit against the Denver
Post, Rev. Henry Tesnow of Denver
was awarded 1 cent damages. 1t Is
stated that the Post will apply for
new trial.
The regents of the University of Col
orado have appointed Prof. George II.
Rowe, a graduate of the University of
Michigan, to be dean of the School OF
Applied Science.
Mr.. John b. Langs or New York City
| has been appointed instructor in music
] for the University of Colorado at Boul-
/ der, and director of the Colorado
School of Music.
The next session of the University
of Colorado will begin on Monday, Sep
| tember S. 1902. Registration Will conf
mence on the Friday previous and con-
tinue on Saturday.
The property of the Jarvis Han
school for boys at Denver has been
sold by the Episcopal Church author
tiles and no attempt Will be made TO
revive the institution.
treSluent Frank AuaInS OIL tne Deh-
yer Fire and Police Board, who has
been dangerously sick for long time,
is reported to be much improved and
in fair way TO recover.
Denver's lack of an auditorium Is
emphasized by the meeting of the In
ternational Sunday School convention.
which has to split up into sections that
cannot at any time meet all together.
wi ha plnctric
competition in Denver. The managers
of the Denver Gas and Electric Com
pany have purchased a majority OF the
stock of its rival, the Lacombe Elec-
trio Cnmnanv----
James +. Secrest. formerly banker
of South Side Camp No. II. Woodmen
of the World. In Denver was arrested
on the 18th Inst. on a warrant charg-
ing him with embezzling S1,50445 of
the funds of the camp.
At the eighth annual banquet of the
alumni of the STATE School of Mines,
held at the Albany hotel in Denver,
DR.. Regis Chauvenet retiring pres-
dent of the institution was presented
with a magnificent loving cup.
Pursuant to an order by the District
Court, sustained by the Court of APP
peals. the City Council of Pueblo has
ordered n special election to be held
August Sth for the election of n mayor
to succeed the late George ii. West,
who died last Christmas.
On a 1,OOO-acre beet farm five miles
southwest of Alamosa, three seN Nen-inch
artesian wells have been sunk and
contract let for ten more wells the
same size. An ample flow of water
from each well is obtained and a large
yield of sugar beets is assured.
The cattlemen of Routt county have
held meetings and decided TO levy IL
tax of cents per head on all stock on
the range in order to raise n bounty
fund, $50 being the price for each wolf
scalp. Wolves have been numerous
this spring and have killed many
calves.
The Glenwood Springs annual bicycle
road race will take place on Sunday,
July 9th. The race will be over the
twenty tive-mile course from Basalt to
Glenwood. Last year John Beard of
Fruita covered the distance in 1:16:2O
which Is the best record ever made on
tina troad
Sontora Doettla, an Italian, shot and
killed Emil Carmina between Weston
and Torres in Las Animas county on
June 2Oth. Afterward he killed an
other man with n knife in order to es-
cape. The crime was on account of
the recent marriage o. Carmina to a
woman who had refused Doettla.
The Pueblo City Council has passed |
an ordinance granting the Pueblo Trac-
ton and Lighting Company cer.ain |
street franchises which 1t is expected !
will be Immediately followed by the |
construction of an electric line on
South Santa Fe avenue TO the smelters |
and steel works and on North Main
street to Mineral Palace park.
Mrs. Martha \. Shute, secretary of |
the State Horticultural Society calls |