The Elk Mountain pilot., 1903-04-21
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COLORADO BRIEFS.

pcen appointed state LABOR cOmmlS-
sioner by Secretary of State Cowie.
Prof w. j. Whiteman of Denver will
train chorus of 500 voices. for the
coming Christian Endeavor convention.
The Fifth cavalry, headquarters and
band, now en- route from the Philip
pines. has been ordered to Fort Logan.
AT special election held April 11th
the citizens of Rifle cast 1S2 votes in
favor OF incorporation and six against.
j. Clark Wells of Denver has been
elected by the board of trustees to be
registrar of the State School OF Mines
to succeed b. A. Amber, resigned.
The hospital equipment of the Colo
RADIO National Guard at Denver will be
placed at the use OF the international
Christian Endeavor convention in next
July.
An expert accountant who has been
examining the books of E. G. Coray,
building inspector at Colorado Springs,
finds that officer to be short in his ac-
counts to the extent of $l.203.4 AT.
The annual joint midsummer meet
ing of the Colorado Editorial Associa-
ton and the Arkansas Valley Press
Association will be held at Glenwood
Springs on Monday and Tuesday, June
Sth and 9Th.
The Ouray Business Mems Assccia-
ton has been organized with large
membership to protect the merchants
of the city against the danger of strikes
and boycotts. e. H. Powell is president
and William Storey, Jr., secretary.
Doc Baggs. the famous confidence
man who once ran things pretty much
his own way in Denver. and occasion
ally extended his activities to other
parts of the state, has recently been op-
Grating in Omaha. His bait there was
bogus mining stock.
Bradley ard Morrison. the men ar.
rested for dynamiting the Longmont
postoffice safe. are now in custody in
Denver. They confessed the crime to
the United States marshal and postof-
flee inspector Three other men arrest
ed on suspicion were released.
The state land board. after hearing
the protcs; of the New Century Light
and Power Company against granting
the Denver, Northwestern and Pacific
Railway Company the right of way
through Gore canon. decided the con-
troversy in favor of the Moffat road.
The University of. Colorado has
placed the Loveland high school upon
the accredited list Of high schools of
the state. This means that graduates
from the Ioveland high school can en-
ter the university without examination,
their Loyeland diploma being suffi-
cient
The will of the late William N. By
ers was admitted to probate in the
County Court at Denver April 11th.
Personal property amounting to $14,-
900 is left to his wife. son and daugh-
ter. He had decided all his real estate
to them several months before his
death.
The United Presbyterian presbytery
of Colorado met in Loveland April 14th
and 18th. Ministers and elders were
present from Greeley. Fort Morgan.
Denver. Colorado Springs. Pueblo and
Canon City. An increase in member
ship and general interest all along the
line was reported.
The Brown Palace hotel at Denver
may be sold at auction soon on a mort
gage of s660,000 which was formerly
held by w. S. Stratton. but is now
owned by the Lockhaven Trust and
Safety Deposit Company of Connecti-
cut. A decision of the Court of Appeals
is understood to have cleared away all
obstacles to, the sale.
d. NJ. Conway has been sentenced
in the District Court at Denver to a
term of from one year to eighteen
months. in the penitentiary for selling
an imaginary dairy business. He is
said to have victimiZed many purchas-
ers. who could never find what they
had paid their money to secure. His
attorneys may enter an appeal.
Richard Broad, Jr., has been elected
president of the State Normal school
trustees for the coming year. The
other officers are j. A. Park. recording
secretary, and ]. M. b. Petrekin, treas
urer. AS the governor has signed the
bill appropriating $4,000 for the new
library building at the school, it was
decided to begin construction at once.
The Rio Grande railroad is said to
have begun work on thirty miles of the
new line to run from Castle Rock to
Hustled. crossing the divide about six
miles east of Palmer Lake. 1t is under
stood that it is not the purpose of the
Rio Grande to abandon the present
line, which will be retained for the
operating of local passenger and freight
trains.
The reward of $500 offered for the
arrest of Dinwoodie, who shot and
killed George Wright in Alamosa last
October. has just been allowed by the
Conejos county board of commission
ers. Frank A. Hyatt of Alamosa and
Sheriff Stump of Creede were the Off
GERS who made the arrest and they will
receive the reward. A similar reward,
offered by the business men of Alamo
sa, was paid at the time of the arrest
Summons has been issued out of the
office of the clerk of the District Court
at Colorado Springs notifying 1. Har-
ry Stratton of a suit for $35, 900 which
will be brought by Joseph B. Donovan.
The latter was one of the chief wit
nesses relied upon by the contestant in
the will contest, and it is assumed that