The Elk Mountain pilot., 1903-09-08
COLORADO BRIEFS.

Clubs Will hold its ninth annual con-
Vention at Colorado Springs September
2Sth to October 1st
The aggregate assessment of the city
and county of Denver is $110, ISL. 1886.
the largest item being 202.564 city lots
valued at s51,270,33O.
The ten days conference meeting of
Seventh-Day Adventists of Colorado
and New Mexico at Salida, which closed
August 30th, was largely attended.
The fall meeting of the Canon City
Driving Association will take place
September 9th. 10th and 11th. Prizes
amounting to $4,000 will be offered
The Denver Democratic city central
committee has placed itself on record
as opposed to the proposed new city
charter by vote of 173 TOT. Twenty
three members declined to vote.
joint survey of the line between
Giipin and Boulder counties from Bea-
YER creek to the main range above Rol-
Inns pass. gives Gilpin strip about fiji
ty feet wide for nearly the entire dis
tance
The public library at Denver has
been opened at its new quarters in La
Veta Place. The new Carnegie library
building is said to be assured, but work
cannot be commenced for several
months.
Denver brick manufacturers have
raised the price of hard brick, deliv-
cred, to SIS per thousand. 1t was for
merly $3.50. The manufacturers stand
in with the bricklayers and there is no
appeal from their decision.
The Postofiice Department has adver-
tised for bids for carrying the mail
from Loveland to Moraine park and Es-
tes park six times a week, over the new
road to Estes park. Bids viii be re-
ceived until September 18th and service
will begin October 1st.
On August 3lst a runaway freight
train on the Colorado Midland railway.
starting at Ute pass. ran to Colorado
City and crushed into switch engine.
doing damage to the amount of 100000
or upwards. Fortunately none of the
train crew was injured.
The annual reunion of the early set
tiers of Trinidad. August 27th. was
largely attended. DR.. NJ. Beshoar. who
has been president since the organiza
tion of the society. was reelected.
There were twenty-one deaths among
the pioneers during the past year.
A meeting of business men was held
increased freight rates ON the railroads
between Boulder and Denver, estimated
to average about fifty per cent. 1t was
decided to take vigorous action, and If
necessary haul freight by wagon.
The Paseo, the sixty-foot boulevard
running two miles from Colorado
Springs to Palmer Lake. has just been
completed by Gen. w. j. Palmer, and
is now open to the public.<The road Is
pronounced to be one of the finest and
most picturesque in the West.
President Moffat of the Denver.
Northwestern & Pacific is said to be
considering an opportunity to purchase
terminal facilities at San Francisco.
The franchise is that of the Bay K
Coast Railway Company. which runs
from San Francisco to Monterey.
The Denver Dairymen's Association
has raised prices. the schedule now be
ing To all customers using less than
seven quarts per week, ten quarts for
81; to all customers using seven quarts
and over. fourteen quarts for 81. The
wholesale price is 90 cents gallon.
One hundred and sixty-two building
permits were issued in Denver during
the month of August. providing for the
erection of buildings to the aggregate
value of S36S.Sl0. The permits include
seventy-six dwellings. eight terraces
and six business blocks. There is one
factory and one hotel. each of which is
to cost 100000.
Locomotive Engineer James NJ.
Hotchkiss of Denver lost his life in a
collision of the Union Pacific Frontier
Day excursion train between Cheyenne
and Denver with a runaway lumber
car on the night of August 9th. He
stayed on the engine to shut off the
steam and apply the emergency air
pressure, and saved the lives of the
excursionists at the cost of his own.
C. S. Harrison. president of the State
Park and Forestry Association of Ne
braska. and noted horticulturist. has
been in Pueblo making negotiations
with the Beulah Railroad Company and
interesting the citizens in a project to
create national park west of Beulah
in the heart of the Greenhorn range.
He thinks that region surpasses the
Yellowstone National park in many re-
spects.
The Victor Fuel Company. which
owns and operates the coal mines at
Chandler. six miles south of Canon
City. and which has been employing
negro coal miners. has changed its sys-
TEN and within the past few days has
discharged all of the colored miners,
furnishing them transportation to their
former homes in Missouri and Tennes-
see. The company has secured miners
from among the people in the vicinity.
A Louisville. Kentucky. dispatch
says that Father John II. Gushing de-
MES the story emanating from Denver
that he had been ordered to Gethse-
name, there to remain practically
prisoner for life, because of his long
fight upon Bishop Matz. Father Cush-
ing says he has been sent in retreat at
the Trappist monastery for a month or
less by Archbishop Falconio, and i'm
mediately thereafter will return to his
dincosn in Denyer