The Elk Mountain pilot., 1902-10-14
COLORADO BRIEFS.

ing placed underground.
President James H. Baker of the
University of Colorado, returned from
Europe on the Sth instant
Mrs. George Baldesarri, an Italian
resident of Silverton, was crushed to
death October 9Th by the overturning
of a load of baled hay.
Adjutant General Gardner says the
Colorado troops that attended the
army maneuvers in Kansas Will be
benefited by the experience.
The George w. Cook Drum Corps
from the Centennial State were very
much in evidence at the national en-
campment of the G. A. r. in Washing
ton.
Mrs. G. H. Stoiber of Silyerton has
taken out nonresident hunters IL
cense in Montana being the first wom-
an to whom such license has been
granted.
The Baptist convention, which meets
in Denver October goth, will be in ses-
sion for three days. Among the things
to be considered are the plans for the
Woman's College at Denver.
There are giants in these days. The
lightest man in the University OF Ne
braska eleven. who defeated the Uni
yersity of Colorado in the football
game at Boulder. weighed 1s5 pounds.
The colleges and high schools of Col
orado are going in for football this sea-
son as never before and the crop OF
broken limbs from this most strenuous
OF sports promises to be large one
II. Z. Mulnix. of the Worlds Fair
board. is making tour of the state TO
visit the county commissioners and
81 4. n
tions for a creditable display at st.
Louis in 1904.
Grand county has its first bank. 1t
is called the Bank of Grand County and
was opened for business October list
at Sulphur Springs. County Judge
j. T. Wills is president and Frank n.
Briggs is cashier.
Hazel" cottage, the handsomest
cottage on the Boulder Chautauqua
grounds, was destroyed by fire Octo-
Der 9th. The cottage cost upward OF
$1,000, and was the property of John
Duncan of Boulder.
The town of Colorado City will pur-
chase for the sum of $4,000 water
right No. 2 of the Findley ranch on
Fountain creek and will construct
water system of its own. if present
plans do not miscarry.
John NJ. Houk. Denver grocer. COM
mitted suicide on the 4th inst. by swal-
lowing carbolic acid. The act was due
to i'll health and despondency. Houk
is said to have been member of the
A. o. U. w. and p. o. S. of A.
Prominent business men of Colorado
Springs will confer with Chief Hydro
grapher +. A. Newell relative to the
construction of a reservoir on site
seven miles south of the city, to store
the flood waters of the Fountain.
The University of California. after
careful investigation, will give full
credit to students for diplomas in the
following Colorado schools: North
Side high school. East Denver high
school and West Side high school OF
Denver; Pueblo high school, Pueblo.
At its meeting in Fort Collins Octo-
ber Sth. the Northern Colorado Lum-
bermens Association elected the fol-
lowing officers: President. Senator w.
l.: Clayton of Greeley; vice president.
Lambert Sternberg of Boulder. secre-
tary and treasurer. l.. r. Haywood of
Loveland.
R. r. Taylor, tried at Colorado
Springs for the murder of Frank II.
Shader last August. was acquitted.
Taylor's plea was self-defense. and evi-
dence was submitted to show that Ssa-
der had threatened to kill him and was
in the act of reaching for revolver
when Taylor shot.
Mrs. Mary E. Barry, sentenced to
three years in the penitentiary for
stealing house at Victor and moving
it to Cripple Creek, and who was re-
leased from the penitentiary under a
writ of supersedeas and granted a new
trial, has been acquitted by jury in
the District Court at Cripple Creek.
The site for the new postoffice in La.
Junta has been selected by the depart
ment in Washington The property be-
longing to ]. II. Simington was select
ed. The owner will erect a building
and lease it to the government for a
term of years at a stipulated sum. This
is expected to locate the postoffice per-
manently for at least ten years.
The annual convention of the United
Mine Workers of America for Colo
RADIO, Wyoming, New Mexico, at it's
session in Colorado Springs, elected
the following officers: William How
ellis, Coal Creek, president; William
McAllister, Lafayette, vice president;
John Simpson, Aguilar, secretary;
Ni'hhih iANNs AiiSouNo, VAcNueiNc
board member.
The Colorado Association of Elocu-
tionists has been organized in Denver
The society has already invt>ed the
National Association of Elocutionists
to meet in Denver next June and the
invitation has been accepted Miss
Martea Gould Powell has been elected
president of the new organization; Joe
s Newman vice DresidpDt Mrs DOrOtb ~
Shinn Brokate, secretary; Mrs. Liska
Stillman Churchill, treasurer.
Mrs. Dalton of Fontaine, Indiana,
and her son, John Dalton of Chicago,
mother and brother of the missing at
L INrlt 1af Il L.,