The Elk Mountain pilot., 1902-07-08
COLORADO BRIEFS.


TO have extnguished many forest
fires in different portions of the state
The postoffices at Barr. Gladstone.
Tiff, Roggen, San Pablo and Thatcher
have been made domestic money order
offices.
Capt. AlonZo |. Coan has turned over
to Judge Junius Henderson 100 British
fossils for the State University mu-
scum at Boulder.
The Colorado Automobile Club has
recently been organized at Denver and
is expected to take in most of the 13o
owners of automobiles in Colorado.
AT Leadville on June 2Sth nearly six
inches of Snow fell between and
p. m. and tourists from the East
greatly enjoyed throwing snow balls
bout $50 members from all portions
of the state attended the fifth annual
meeting of the Colorado Bar Associa-
tion at Colorado Springs, July 1st and
2nd.
The first midsummer meeting of the
Colorado Horticultural Society will be
held nj Boulder on July 23rd and 24th.
Premiums will be given ON the best
displays.
a carload of registered shorthorn
bulls, twenty-five in number, We're re-
Gently driven into Rio Blanco county
by Foreman T.. II. lines of the Bar
Triangle ranch.
1t is reported at Cripple Creek in
connection with the announcement of
settlement of the rate war, that the
passenger traffic will be thrown. as far
as possible 10 the Short Line. the Mid
land taking the freight.
Five separate surveying parties for
fha Danvar &. bNVn hn
AIoffat railroad, are at work on the
east side of the main range, and anoth-
er party is making preliminary. sur
veys on the west side.
The Denver union stock yards last
month broke all records for cattle re-
celpts The total number received
during June was ~, ,49l head of cattle,
5,3U9 hogs and 5.029 sheep. This beats
any month in the history of the yards.
Madison dispatch says that Il. p.
Sandsten, a former Colorado student,
who helped to pay his way through
college by running market gardens
has been elected assistant professor
of horticulture in the University of
Wisconsin.
A recent meeting of Colorado Philip
pine veterans in Denver adopted reso-
lutions derouncing Brigadicr General
JONI I. tnbSp. y. U. -. III NlOLSDt lI1l-
guage because of his alleged character
ization of the First Colorado volun-
teers as n 'howling mob
Mrs. Hooper, the mother of Mai. S.
*. Hooper. general passenger agent of
the Denver X Rio Grande railroad,
died at New Albany. Indiana, June
3oth, Mt the age of eighty-nine years.
Major Hooper had been in attendance
on her for two weeks before her death.
few days ago mountain sheep
ran into the barbed wire fence at the
homestead of John Jones at Mary's
lake. in Estes park, and became en-
tangled that it killed itself in trying to
get loose. The animal was an old
ram, one OF its horns being thirty-six
inches long,
The Railway age credits Colorado
with forty-eight and one-half miles of
railroad track laid this year up to
the first of June. New track was laid
by four different lines. The Denver II
Northwestern promises to figure large
ly in the railroad building of TIE next
twelve months.
The Senate has passed Senator Tel
ler's bill to grant certain lands to the
South Platte Canal and Reservoir Com
pany for use for the purposes of WA
ter storage and supply of its water
works. The lands granted are all
within the South Platte forest reserve
and aggregate 12,SOO acres.
+. X. Allen, one of the pioneer saw
mill men of Lyons, was shot and in
stantly killed by Gus Plum. n ranch
man living fifteen miles west of Lyons, |
in Big Elk park, ON the night of June |
Both. The shooting resulted from a
quarrel over "A burned bridge. Plum
went TO Estes park and gave himself
up.
Gen. William ]. Palmer has written
a letter from Athens, Greece to Cap
tain Watson of Colorado Springs. ex-
pressing his aversion to becoming a
candidate for governor of Colorado. as |
it would be ito much like getting into
business harness again" General Pal
mer recently retired from active busi- |
ness.
A Walsenburg dispatch of July 1st |
tn Denver paper says: An immense
forest fire is rapidly destroying the |
timber on Blanco mountain, at the |
head of the Huerfano. About 5000 |
acres have been already burned over,
and the fire is still unchecked This is |
valuable timber land. and covers the
headwaters of the Huerfano river.
unuer new order of the PostOtfice |
Department which went into effect |
July 1st, the mail carriers on star
routes are required to deliver mail in |
10 all boxes and hang small bags or
satchels containing mail on cranes or
posts that may be erected along the |
lines of their routes. This is in addi- |
tlon to the usual service of carrying |
mails to postoffices and is in the nature |
of rural postoffice delivery
The Colorado Fuel and Iron Com |
rany has taken steps i'll the District |
Court ut Pueblo. which will test the |