The Elk Mountain pilot., 1903-08-11
COLORADO BRIEFS.

The election at Denver for the adop7
tion of the new city charter will be-
held September 18th. e
The contract for the erection of the
new school building at Brush has been
let to George Cudworth for $4,000,
work to be commenced at once.
The Denver District Conference of
Methodist ministers will be held Aug
ust 24th preparatory 70 the annual
State Conference. which will begin
August 24th.- and at which Bishop
Cranston viii preside.
Mrs. Alice D. Hart, formerly of
Texas. who has been arrested in Den
yer on the charge of stealing from the
department stores, lays her downfall
to the climate The Colorado light air
seems to have made her light-Iingered.
The short dove shooting season
opened August list and an astonishing
ly large number of permits were taken
out in many parts of the state. In
Denver 800 permits were issued in one
day and l54 we issued in Pueblo up
to August End.
The Colorado State Fair Association
is preparing to give the State Fair at
Pueblo this year during the week OF
September 14th to 18th. and the man
lists and other information regarding
the big exposition OF 1903.
The Rev. Bruce Brown, now of Chi
cago but formerly the popular pastor
of the Central Christian Church in
Denver. has been ordered before the
War Department for examination as to
his fitness for an appointment as chap
lain in the regular army,
Tho CTipnIa ('reak Short Line re-
ports that the tourist business to the
camp this summer has broken all pre-
vious records. Last months total ag-
gregated $500 more passengers than
during July of last year. with August's
business so far in proportion.
The coroner's jury IN the case of
William Armstrong. who was killed by
Edward Hickey at Denver July 18th
for an alleged insult to Hickey's wife.
returned a verdict that the deed was
done without justifable provocation."
Hickey will be tried for murder.
II. H. Tompkins. member of the
lower house in the Thirteenth and
Fourteenth Colorado General Assem-
blies, who lives near Buena Vista, on
the 4th inst. took a swallow of car
bolic acid in mistake for cough medi-
cine and came near losing his life.
County Assessor Webber has com
puted the total of the assessment roll
of Boulder county and finds the valua-
tion to be S9,960,445. a decrease of
s36,35S from last year This decrease
is due to a cut of the former assess
ment of the Colorado and Northwest
ern railroad.
The cattle exhibit at the State Fair
at Pueblo this fall promises to exceed
anything OF the kind ever before seen
in the state. Cattle growers from
Missouri, Illinois and other states. re-
alizing the importance of reaching the
Colorado stock raisers. will be there
with their herds of fine stock.
Adjutant General Bell has returned
to Denver after visit to Washington and
He went for the purpose of trying to
make arrangements by which the fall
military maneuvers may be held as at
first proposed and hopes that his mis-
sion may prove to have been success
full.
A Washington dispatch says that the
Secretary of the Interior has approved
the bond of William Nj. Peterson. the
newly appointed superintendent of FIT.
Lewis Indian school. AS soon as he.
receipts to Superintendent Breen. who
is still in charge, for all supplies and
property at the school, Peterson will
assume charge.
The Miners Magazine the official
organ of the Western Federation of
Miners, has absorbed the Colorado
Chronicle and the Socialist, and will
be issued weekly in magazine form un-'
der the editorship of j. M. O'Neill.
Messrs Thum and Coates, having sold
the Chronicle. will retire from the
newspaper Held.
Permits were granted for lie dwell
ings by the Denver building inspector
during July. This is considered the
most phenomenal record for this class
of houses in the history of the city,
Nine-tcnths of these dwellings are be-
ing erected by the owners for personal
occupancy. The dwellings averaged
81, 900 each in cash.
The pay roll as announced by the
chief clerk of the Minnequa works at
Pueblo will be $305, ,67S.7S for the
month of July. This amount included
$1,000 paid out to the employees of the
Colorado & Wyoming road. This pay
roll is unusually low on account of the
Fourth of July being observed at the
plant. and on account of the ma
chinists' strike, which lasted two
weeks. 4
Circumstantial evidence points to at
tempts being made at an early day by
the American Smelling and Refining
Company to reopen the Globe plant at
Denver which was closed a month ago
when members of the Smeltermen's
Union walked out. A force of carpen-
ters and laborcrs is at work cleaning
up the place and making improve
ments. while gradually men are being
recruited for service at the furnaces
when needed.
The Western Negro Press Associa-
ton. at its meeting in Colorado