The Elk Mountain pilot., 1902-11-18
COLORADO BRIEFS.

The Guggenheim Brothers are plan
ming extensive improvements in their
Pueblo smelling plants.
DR.. Randolph Baird of Boulder has
been bound over on the charge of hav-
ing murdered his wife.
The crown prince of Siam is spending
few days in the state while crossing
the continent to San Francisco.
Judge Bailey. at Canon City, has re-
fused to grant change of venue in the
Denver electric light case.
The shops of the Pullman company
at Denver are now employing 400 men
in building and repairing cars.
The Rocky Mountain News claims
that Alva Adams is elected congress-
man-at-large by a plurality of sixty
three votes.
Not a straight Populist vote was
cast in Mesa county at the last cleo
tion. This was formerly banner
Populist county.
Mrs. Kate Parker, wife of Kid
Parker, the Denver pugilist, swallowed
an overdose of morphine the other day,
but will recover.
The University of Colorado has been
presented with a valuable collection of
native minerals, fossils and skulls, by
James p. Maxwell.
Thomas r. Mann, a formerly well
known capitalist of Boulder, commit
ted suicide at Lock Haven, Pennsylva-
mia. last Thursday.
Hugo Todenwarth, Denver taxi
dermist. has procured the arrest of
James S. Bush. game warden, for dis
turbance of the peace.
Indications are favorable for the dis
posal of the Denver, Northwestern &
Pacific roads s20,00COOO of bonds by
the 18th of this month.
James Williams, a former sporting
man of Pueblo. strayed from his party
while hunting near Ell Paso, Texas,
and died from exposure.
Miss Ethel Moses, daughter of H.
Moses, leading merchant of Trinidad,
was married to Joseph BIachman of
New York City Wednesday.
Considerable damage has been done
to property in Eagle River canon by
the bursting of the Denver & Rio
Grande dam at Pando. near Red Cliff.
The big corporations of Denver owe
the county about 100000 in taxes,
which they refuse to pay on the ground
that the assessment was exorbitant.
A. d. Scarf, Leadville pioneer who
died recently, left a funeral address
with the request that it be read at his
funeral without other services of any
religious nature.
Colorado's valuation, as shown by
State Auditor Crouter's certification to
the various county treasurers, is $751;
002 Sol. Based on the four-mill levy,
the state tax is $1.416010.
The State Land Board has acted IA
l1 H. fN.- lS ..f
forty acres of land near Littleton, Col
orado, to be used as site for the Geo.
Leyner Air Compressor and Drill Com
pany.
1t is stated that John w. Gates has
scheduled George Refs to be head of
the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company
should the control of the company pass
into the hands of Mr.. Gates and his
friends.
The Schlitz Brewing Company has
instructed it's draughtsmen to prepare
plans for a big bottling house at Den
yer. The structure will cost about
$4,000 exclusive of the cost of the ma
chinery. The company, by erecting this
structure, hopes to save the cost of
freightage on the bottled beer wSich
1t formerly shipped direct from Mil
waukee to Colorado. The works Will
be completed about July 1st.
City Auditor Latshaw has received
the total assessed valuation of the city
of Pueblo for 1902 from the county as
SCISSOR. The valuations are as follows:
Former city of Pueblo SS1S6, ,421; for
mer city of South Pueblo, S3,976395;
former town of Bessemer 50, ,4SO ,235,
making a total of the consolidated city
of Pueblo of s14,652, ,951, an increase of
sS00.106. In this valuation Bessemer
shows the largest increase, it being
s434 ,315 more than in 1901.
At the annual meeting of the Y. NJ.
G. A. of Colorado at Colorado Springs
last week the following officers were
elected: President Prof. E. S. Parsons
of Colorado College; first vice presi-
dent, G. j. Frederickson, Canon City;
second vice president, j. r. Schermer-
horn, Denver; secretary, G. S. Bilheim-
er, Canon City; press secretary, H. A.
Terrill. Golden; assistant secretary, w.
f. Gebhart, Denver. The most import
ant subject brought up was the health
farm, to be instituted near Denver.
State Secretary w. NJ. Danner stated
that the land had been bought and pSid
for, and that approximately $4,000 was
held in reserve for the purpose of put
ting the farm in order.
1t is stated at Denver that d. H Mof-
fat has gone to New York for the pur-
pose of meeting a syndicate of New
York men who have subscribed for all
the S20,000.000 bonds of the Denver,
Northwestern & Pacific railway not
taken in. tbe course of the popular sub
scription plan, as offered by Mr.. Mof-
fat in the principal cities of the coun-
try. The subscriptions on the popular
basis, as understood by persons not on
o.; 10 how nI ~
millions of dollars. Previous to the
advertising for funds, Mr. Moffat was
assured that the syndicate stood reauy
to accept all the bonds. The price is
not named, but is said to be few cents
lower than the nrice named in the adj