The Elk Mountain pilot., 1902-10-07
COLORADO BRIEFS S.

-Four new letter carriers and six
clerks We're added to the Denver post
office force October 1st.
The City Council of Boulder has
adopted resolution providing for the
purchase of 100 acres of ground to be
added to the Chautauqua tract.
The automobile of DR. Z. +. Gildea
of Colorado Springs blew up few
days ago and set fire to the barn in
which it was kept, destroying the barn
and its contents.
Mrs. Helen l.. Grenfell, state super
intendent of public instruction, VINO
has been seriously i'll for some time
in Denver, is reported to be on the
way to recovery.
The Loveand beet sugar factory
opened this seasons work on Septem-
Der 2Tth, and is expected TO rehns
about LOCO tons day for the next four
months or thereabouts.
The All-American and All-Nahonal
baseball teams will play series OF
exhibition games in Denver October
18th and 26th. Many of the stars OF
the two great leagues will take part.
Manager Packard of the Denver
baseball team of the Western league
Gays that he will retain the Denver
he can secure in the field next year.
William e. Sweet has been chosen by
the Christian Endeavorers of Denver
to manage the local work in connection
with the International Christian En-
deavor convention which meets IN l9oo.
Tourists arriving in sight of the Col
orado mountain ranges during the past
week have been surprised to find them
as white as If the season were midwin-
ter. An immense amount of snow has
fallen.
On October 1st another oil producer
in the Boulder field was announced,
being that owned by the Anderson Oil
Company on the Gooding ranch, half
mile east of the Arnold. A good flow
was struck at 1900 feet.
At the special election October 1st,
the people of Fort Morgan voted to
erect water works and bond the town
for 100000. Great interest was taken
in the election and the proposition car
ried by vote of over two to one.
Denver is in no further danger of
water famine. The recent rains have
filled the Platte river from the noun
tains and the Denver Union Water
Company has ordered that no more
storage water be drawn from the reser-
voirs.
In trying to shoot a rattlesnake, Will
liam Charwood of Lafayette hit his leg
near the thigh, iniicting a dangerous
wound, from which the surgeons at the
State University extracted forty shot,
two 10-cent pieces and a part of
penny.
1t seems as if the Denver divorce
mill must be run by steam or electrici-
ty In Judge Mullins division of the
District Court few days ago, seven
divorce cases were heard and DEGREES
entered in just thirty-two minutes.
Next!
DR. +. C. Nichols has purchased lots
and let the contract for the construc-
ton of a hospital in Craig. The build
ing will contain rooms and accommo-
dations for twenty patients. 1t will be
the first institution of its kind in
northwestern Colorado.
The Denver Chess, Checkers and
Whist Club has invited the whist
players of all the states adjoining Col
orado to meet in Denver January 1st
and 2nd for whist tourney. 1t is
the intention TO organize Rocky
mountain whist league.
Joseph Dalton, n hodcarried, fell
nearly eighty feet from the top of the
new Oh lUt w
Company in Elyra, suburb of Den
Yer, n few days ago, and escaped with
out any broken bones. He is expected
to get well in n short time.
w. S. Coburn of Hotchkiss, president
of the State Board of Agriculture, says
Colorado is one of the four states re-
corded this year by the United States
Department of Statistics as having Il
full apple crop of 100 per cent. The
other three states are Idaho, California
and Oregon.
President Aaron Sonnebor of the
State Fair Association thinks that the
last fair just closed at Pueblo dem
onstrates that n successful state fair
can be held in Colorado" and that
1.-The fair has shown that Colorado's
resources are more varied than most
of its citizens believed"
A flock of twenty-five mountain sheep
frequent the Shetland ranch, fifty
miles northwest of Fort Collins, man
aged by John Deaver. In bad wealth
er. during the spring, Mr.. Deaver feeds
them with hay and they have lost
much of their timidity. A large sill
ver-tip bear also makes occasional
friendly visits.
Attorney John w. Sleeper of Colo
RADIO Springs, formerly of Pueblo, has
announced his intention of going to
Manila to practice law. Attorney Sleep
er is an uncle of Captain Sleeper, who
went to Manila with the First Colo
RADIO. but for some time has been col
lector of internal revenue for the insu-
lar department.
The Colorado Springs Street Car
| Company has just inaugurated it's
transfer system, the privilege being al
lowed on all intersecting lines whose
general trend is not parallel. w. S.
Stratton was responsible for the
change. which he decided upon after