The Elk Mountain pilot., 1902-04-15
COLORADO BRIEFS.

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police station in Denver awaiting own
ers. Nine bicycles We're reported stolen
in one day recently.
The wife of j. Addison Peralta-
Reavis of Peralta land grant fame,
has sued for divorce in Denver
Reavis has left her and is in Califor-
mia.
The publishers of the new city di.
rectory estimate the population of Den.
yer at 157 .093. which is gain of 3d.
234 over that shown by the census of
1900.
A crowd OF students of the Univers-
ity of Denver had IL ''night-shirt pa
rade' few nights since. Presumably
they had heavier garments underneath
their robes de-nuit.
1t is officially announced that the
Broadmoor Casino and hotel Mt Colo
RADIO Springs will open for the season
on June 18th, the concerts at the Ca
sino to begin one week later.
For economic reasons. the Denver &
Rio Grande and the Colorado Midland
have opened joint agency mt Aspen.
The Denver Il Rio Grande agent VIII
hereafter act for both roads.
a picture by the late Harvey Young.
of Colorado Springs, has been placed
in the Corcoran art gallery at wash
ington. This is n deserved recognition
of his ability by the highest authority
in America.
The Colorado Telephone Company is
arranging to supply the farmers be-
tween Florence and Canon City with
a telephone service. The company will
also install toll station at the cement
manufacturing town of Portland.
Thirteen bridges are to be erected
by the Chicago Bridge Company near
Trinidad ON the line of the Colorado X
Southern railway Men who are now
doing contract work at the Minnequa
steel works will be sent south to take
charge of the railroad improvements.
The attorney generals office will
soon issue the new revenue law in
pamphlet form for the benefit of law
yers and others interested in its con-
tents. The feature of the pamphlet
will be the index and the side margins.
showing at Il glance the contents OF
each section.
The new canal near Fowler, which
was recently placed in the hands of
receiver. is being repaired and extend
ed and put in order for the spring flow
of water. This canal irrigates dis
trict lying several miles south of
Fowler. where Irish potatoes were
successfully grown last year
The contract for grading the exten-
sion of the Denver n Northwestern
railroad from Arvada to Coal Creek
has been let to De Remer X Olson.
Active work was contracted to begin
April 9th and the entire ten miles are
to be ready for steel within sixty
days.
James l.. Smith. n llneman in the
employ of the Colorado Springs Elec-
tric Company, fell from the top of a
pole in the rear of T30 West Cucharas
street April 9TH and sustained injuries
which may prove fatal. Smith was a
well known football player of Colorado
Springs several years ago.
Florence citizens are working for 4
free delivery system. The receipts OF
the postoflice during the fiscal year eX-
ceeded $4,000. the minimum required
for the establishment of the service.
Steps will at once be taken to number
all streets and houses, this being neces-
sary before the service can be estab-
lished.
Judge Green at Council Bluffs, Iowa,
has overruled the motion for new
trial in the Doyle-Burns mining suit.
Judge Green also announced that he
had instructed attorneys to prepare pa
pers for filing judgment of the Si46,-
900. He at the same time will refuse
n petition for an additional Judgment
of $43S, 200 prayed for by Doyle.
Deputy Game Warden James Bush
secured the conviction at Colorado
Springs of w. Il. Burns for killing
eleven deer out OF season. He was
fined SO and costs, amounting to
$3.50 The eleven quarters of ven
ison which he seized from Mr. Burns he
sold for 4.50. Six pairs of prairie chick
ems and twenty-seven ducks, also seized,
netted So He sold four of the mount
ed mountain sheep heads which he
seized at Colorado Springs for S144.S5.
Time keepers at the Minnequa steel
works, Pueblo, have completed the pay
rolls for the month of March, showing
the total amount of wages earned TO
be 1888 11031. Contractors who are
erecting the various new mills have
pay roll of $4,000 for the month of
March. which makes the total dis
bursement of wages for that month on
account of the steel works S307 ,619.31,
or almost $4,000 a day. This pay roll,
which will be distributed among the
men April 18th and 10Th, is by almost
$4,000 the largest amount ever paid
out.
In the last three weeks the Santa Fe
railway has taken to Prowers county
more than 200 families of Dunkards,
from Pennsylvania. Iowa and Illinois.
The members of the colony are all
skilled farmers and expect to raise
sugar beets and cantaloupes. Most. of
them are settling upon forty-acre
tracts The Arkansas Valley Irrigated
Land and Sugar Beet Company, which
owns most of the uuoccupied land in