The Elk Mountain pilot., 1903-10-06
COLORADO BRIEFS.

ganized an athletic club which Will also
introduce various social features.
Burglars entered the office Of the
Fort Collins Courier on the night OF
September 9th and robbed the safe,
taking $40 in cash and $50 in checks.
The executors of the Stratton estata
deny the report that $3.000,000 has been
offered for the property of the Colo
rauo Springs & Interurban Railway co.
A telephone line has been established
from the top of the range on the Mohat
line to the company's offices in the Ma
jestic building at Denver. The length
of the line is sixty miles.
Allen B. Seaman. prominent attor-
ney of Denver, died of heart disease
on the night of Sept. Gath. He went
to bed apparently in his usual health
and was found dead in the morning.
Miss Alfredo Stebbins, late of Lin
coin. Nebraska. has been elected liz
brarian at Fort Collins. She is an ex-
perienced librarian, having taken
regular course in library work in Phil
adelphia.
The Postoffice Department has or
dered two additional rural free deiiv-
cry routes established out of Rocky
Ford. The length of the new routes is
lation of $50.
By the caving in of the earthen roof
of house eight miles east of Aguilar.
a short time since, Elferino Aguilar.
aged 13. was killed and six grown peo-
pie more or less injured. The boy
: died from suffocation.
I Mrs. Samuel E. Ward of Boston, died
at the home of her sister, Mrs. r. H.
'WL.1ely. in Boulder, September Both.
Mrs. Ward, formerly Miss Lillian Ty-
Ter, was the first woman graduate of
the University of Colorado.
Rocky Ford is soon to have a new
bank known as the First National
Bank of Rocky Ford. The charter has
been applied for to the Washington
authorities and the bank will probably
be in operation inside of thirty days.
1t will have capital Of $4,000.
The Live Stock Company. a corpo-
ration, has sold its ranch lands. six
miles northwest of Fort Collins, to S.
II. Clammer and John Schwartz. The
total embraces 1920 acres of pasture,
meadow and cultivated land. carrying
water rights for all the meadow and
cultivated land.
Word was received a few days ago
at the Denver Office of the Santa Fe
line that four new 143-ton engines were
on their way to Denver for service be-
tween Denver and Palmer Lake. The
new engines will pull seven coaches
up the grade there at the rate of fifty
miles an hour.
I.oveland calls attention to the fact
that the foundations are being laid for
two large business blocks, a new
church building and $1,000 residence
ali I,a Iiur of lacC hav fxur
blocks. The old town hall is being
torn down and plans are being pre-
pared for new one.
The Democratic judicial district con-
vention at Colorado Springs nominated
C. l.. McKesson for district judge by
acclamation and unanimously adopted
the report of the committee on resolu-
tions condemning Governor Peabody
for his action in sending the troops to
the Cripple Creek district.
The report of Louis Schwanbeck,
former state auditor, who has been ex-
amining the city clerks books at Grip
pie Creek, states that the books show a
shortage of $500 and further that the
city has lost at least $4,000 chiefly
from non-payment of saloon licenses.
through the carelessness of the former
city clerk.
Ray r. Jackson, employed in the
wire mill of the C. F. & l. company
: at POeblo, died September 29th, on his
nineteenth birthday. of injuries re-
ceived by contact with the machinery.
He was a graduate of the Colorado
Springs high school, his father being ].
NJ Jackson, former treasurer of Ell
Paso county.
The home of James Barton Adams,
,1x1,- Frr.
Postscript" man, at Denver, was
burned on Sunday afternoon, Septem-
ber 27tn, while the family was absent.
The loss is estimated at $4,000 on the
building and such furniture as the
neighbors were unable to save. Insur-
ance partly covers the loss.
Mrs. James NJ. Young, wife of a Pu-
eblo dentist, claims the distinction of
being the only woman in Colorado who
has killed bear this year. Several
weeks ago DR.. and Mrs. Young went
on a hunting trip to Chama, New Mex
leo, where Mrs. Young succeeded in
killing large cinnamon bear. Mrs.
Young was Miss Nora Gremba of 1850
Humboldt street, Denver.
Ground was formally broken Septem-
ber 2Sth for the beginning of the
grade on the new Pueblo & Beulah
railway Miss Lyle Burns, daughter of
Vice President j. J. Burns of the COM
pany, lifted the first shoveiful of dirt.
Contractor Beatty has charge of the
construction of the road and 1t is ex-
pected that the thirty miles of track
will be completed by June 1, 1904.
The following well-known men Of
Colorado Springs have been appointed
appraisers by Judge j. A. Elstun to
determine valuations in the Stratton
estate E. l.. Della Vergne and Ed
ward Samuel Johnson. for the mines;
for real estate Charles T. Fritz and l..