The Elk Mountain pilot., 1902-08-05
COLORADO BRIEFS.


chair of mining engineering III the
State School of Mines at Golden on
July 24th.
The annual convention of the Colo
RADIO Bankers Associate will be held
at Colorado Springs August 7th
and Sth
The ninth annual convention of the
Philatellc Sons of America will meet
in Denver August 1th and Sth to dis
cuss the subject of postage stamp col
lections.
The water shortage in Denver prom
ises to be serious until the water COM
pany can finish and fill its new reser-
voir, which Is not likely to be before
next spring.
The Garden of the Gods Chautauqua
Summer School at Colorado Springs
opened ON June 23d with an attend
ance of fifty students, which will be
considerably increased.
An effort will be made to raise
fresh air fund in Denver To take poor
children into the mountains, where cot
tagers will be asked to care for them
for week at time.
a wild coyote, apparently about two
months old, entered the City park in
Denver few days ago and tried to
get into the cage with the captive coy
otes He was accommodated.
While walking up the stone steps at
the Loretto Academy in Santa Fe. New
Mexico, July 25th, Rev. Joseph Z. Car
rigan of st. Patrick's Church iu Den
Yer, fell and dislocated his hip.
Lieut.. Gov. d. c. Coates has started
on a tour of several weeks through
Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska in the
interest of the Western Federation OF
Miners and the socialistic movement.
According to the reading of bicy
cler's cyclometer the distance from
Aspen to Meeker, via the New Castle
road, Is 40 miles-fifty-ni to New
Castle and tifty-one from New Castle
to Meekcr
Bob Reigan of Piceance creek, in Rio
Blanco county, is accumulating wealth
by lassooing wolves and presenting the
pelts at the county treasurer's office
for the bounty. His lariat never
misses fire.
The State Association of District At
torneys was formed at Glcnwood
Springs July 26th by the election OF
Henry Trowbridge of Cripple Greek
president, and II. G. Thurman of Cen
tral City secretary.
Il. G. Whitney writes from Rocky
Ford to the mayor of Trinidnd that
for the sum of $1,000 he will produce
three inches of rain in Trinidad within
four days by an entirely new process
which uses neither prayer nor exoios-
ives.
John Pallister. a ranchman living on
Lake creek, in Eagle county, was shot
and killed n few days ago by Bert
Slddell. living on an adjoining ranch.
The quarrel was about some money
and Siddell Immediately surrendered
himself to deputy sheriff.
The Denver park commissioners have
accepted n three months-old mountain
lion cub captured recently by ID. f.
Howard of New York and L. w.
Hampson OF Salt Lake while on
hunting expedition near Steamboat
Springs, and who made a present of
the animal to the city. The mother of
the cub was killed while trying to pro-
tect it from the hunters.
On July oath three children. the old
est being only twelve years old, made
the round trip to the summit of Pixies
Peak and return OH foot in the record
breaking time of ten hours. The chill
dren are Mary and Gudella Hurt, aged
respectively twelve and ten years, chill
dren of tourists from Missouri, and ten
year-old Earl Keeler of Colorado
Springs.
Great commotion was caused at Bal
ley in the Platte canon one afternoon
n few days ago by the appearance of
large cinnamon bear and two cubs,
which took possession of the station
for some minutes. After many bear
like antics-while the people at a safe
distance were discussing the situation
the bears quietly trotted out of town
much to the relief of the entire village.
w. r. Martin has just returned to
Boulder from Washington, d. c.,
where he closed a contract with repre-
sentatives of an Egyptian syndicate to
drill four wells 1000 feet deep each at
Cairo, Egypt. Mr.. Martins company
is to receive $4,000 for this work. or
500 foot The average cost of drill
ing in the Boulder belt is 81 per foot
for deep drilling, and somewhat less
than that for 1,OOO-foot wells.
The Denver Republican correspond
ent says the grasshopper pest is be-
coming more and more serious in Otero
county. Farmers have already lost
from twenty-five to forty per cent. of
their crop of Mexican beans. Every
field has wide strip destroyed
around the edge. Alfalfa is still being
damaged by them. On the range they
are so numerous that they bother the
horses of the cowboys almost as badly
as swarm of fleas.
Thurston White, county horticultur-
ist of Fremont county, has discovered
that many of the orchards are being
seriously damaged by ravages of the
woolly aphis, and some of the orchards
show signs of being complete failure
this season primarily from the attacks
of this insect. The aphides do the
greatest harm at the roots of the tree
and are hard to exterminate. Mr.. White
fears that unless precautions are taken
within three years the greater part of
rany of the orchards will be so weak
anad by tbis most that tbay will 5in