The Elk Mountain pilot., 1902-09-09
COLORADO BRIEFS.

potato crops.
Duck hunters from Denver and other
large towns can now be found at about
| every lake in the state.
The Arapahoe county Democratic
convention is called to meet in Denver
September 9th.
Seventy-five cars of cantaloupes were
shipped from Rocky Ford on the first
two days of September.
A good deal of damage was done in
the vicinity of Fowler by severe hail
storm on the night Of August 31st.
The Denver theater on Curtis street
has been renovated and remodeled and
will hereafter be known as the Curtis
theater.
A party of Rio Grande engineers are
making "A new survey for the line of
that road between Palmer Lake and
Monument.
1t is stated in Denver that ex-Presi-
dent Edward Boyce of the Miners fed
GRAFTON will make Denver his perma-
nent home.
Professors d. j. Griffith of Ames Col
lege, Iowa, will act as coach for the Ag-
ricultural College football team at Fort
Collins this year.
The Pueblo county mandamus case
to compel a reduction in the number
of county commissioners will be ap-
pealed to the Supreme Court.
The Otero oil well near Boulder was
shot on September 1st with sixty quarts
of nitroglycerine Oil rose to within $50
feet of the surface, indicating Il valu-
able well.
The new Baptist church building at
Fowler was dedicated August 24th in
the presence of Il large congregation.
The sum of 500 was pledged to cover
all Indebtedness.
The people of Arvada, which is now
connected with Denver by n trolley
line, are taking steps for Incorporating
the town. One of the first things will
be careful census of the population.
The Denver papers are predicting
great scarcity of Colorado hay next
winter, but they expect that enough
Kansas and Nebraska hay will be
brought in to keep the price within
bounds.
The Weld County Sunday School As
sociation met at Greeley August 2Sth
and Goth with an attendance of seven
ty-five delegates. Addresses We're made
by n large number of prominent Sun
day school workers.
Frederick G. Bonfils, editor of the
Denver Post, has petitioned the City
Council of Guthrie Oklahoma, for a
franchise to establish n S150,OOO cleo
tric and gas plant, including an cleo
tric railway system.
W. w. Price of Colorado Springs and
Webb Jay of Denver drove a fifteen
horsepower automobile from Colorado
Springs to Buena Vista in nine hours
on August 31st, but were delayed be-
tween Buena Vista and Lendville by
the illness of Mr.. Jay.
Colorado College at Colorado Springs
and the University of Denver at Den
Yer both expect to open September 10th
with the largest attendance in their
history. At Colorado College more
that $1,000 has been expended in
ground improvements.
The Methodist conference at Cen
trail City declined to accept the gift of
Henry Cole which to be known ms the
Peniel trust Mr.. and Mrs. Cole are
in litigation over the property and the
church was unwilling to become in
volved in n family feud.
During the performance of the Cen
try animal show at Trinidad n big hail
storm came near breaking down the
great tent on the heads of an immense
audience. The threase sened disaster
was prevented by cutting the canvas
and letting the hail out.
The August report Of the sales of the
United States land office at Denver is
as follows: Total receipts from sales,
S4S, ,0OO.55; the fees of the office, $1,000
O5. a total of sol 10000. This is an in
crease of S1,6OO.00 compared with the
corresponding month last year.
The answer of the Rocky Mountain
News Printing Company, in the suit
filed against them by the Arapahoe
county commissioners for alleged over
charges on printing contract several
years ago. is short and sarcastic. 1t
valves all technicalit.es and courts in
vestigation.
At Ouray. August Goth. Judge. Ste
yens in chambers heard a petition for
an injunction from citizens of Grand
Junction asking that the school board
be restrained from selling bonds issued
for building new school houses. The
petition was denied. District Attorney
McMullin and Attorney Caswell reFve-
sented the board.
John Drager, an old settler in the VI
cinity of Fort Collins, was instantly
killed September 1st by an explosion
of the boiler of threshing machine en-
gine. His son, Arthur Drager, was at
the same time seriously injured. The
machine belonged to William Foy and
was at work on Parker's ranch four
miles south of Fort Collins.
Secretary Gilbert McClurg of the Col
orado Springs Chamber of Commerce,
who has recently returned from two
weeks trip through New Mexico, Iowa,
Kansas and Minnesota. reports great
interest in the coming meeting of the
National Irrigation Congress at Colo
RADIO Springs October 9th to 9th. Thorn