The Elk Mountain pilot., 1903-11-17
COLORADO BRIEFS.

The Littleton Creamery Company
has taken out a permit IN Denver TO
erect $4,000 building.
The Denver postoffice has been al
lowed nine more letter carriers in ad-
dition to the present force.
The work of grading the line for the
new electric street railway at Trinidad
was begun November Sd.
The Denver Chamber of Commerce
has now membership of 900, which Is
the full number allowed by its consti-
tuition.
Ora A. Hatton, son of Daniel Hatton.
one of the pioneers Of Denver, commit
ted suicide at a lodging house in Den
yer. on the 4th inst, by taking poison
Order of the American Boy, Chap
ter No. l." is the name of an organiza-
ton formed in Pueblo in which the
High School boys are entered as mem
bers.
Arvada, Denver's Jefferson county
suburb. has again voted not to incor-
porate, the ballot standing 9S to "a.
A previous vote stood 80 to 60 against
incorporation.
A rural free delivery route has been
established, to commence December
list, at Trinidad. The proposed route
is twenty-five miles long and Will serve
population OF 800. =
The pay roll of the Colorado Fuel
and Iron Company for October amounts
to 1888, 1924. being several thousand
dollars more than has ever before
been paid in one month.
The secretary of the interior has de-
cided to allow the grazing of not TO
exceed $4,000 head of cattle and horses
in the White River reservation, Colo
RADIO, during the season of 1904.
The young men of Holyoke and vi
cinity petitioned Governor Peabody Tor
a company of infantry, and General
Bell appointed Colonel Macdonald 10
muster the company into the National
Guard.
The Colorado Springs High School
will soon have q gymnasium and reg
ular director to take charge or the
work. Work in the gymnasium. both
for young men and women. Will be
compulsory.
Forty-one girls were received into
the Florence Crittenton Home at Den
yer during the past year Five OF the
girls married, very few left without
permission, and many are now out
doing honest work.
What is known as the Garwood FAC
ton of the Republican party in Denver
held a convention November 10Th at
which a full charter ticket was placed
in nomination. headed by II. NJ. Ora
hood and Oscar Reuter-.
At Denver. few days ago, Clifford
Dunffer. sixteen -year-old son of Il. A.
Dunifer. snapped an unioaded revolver
at his two-year-old baby brother. but
there happened to be one cartridge III
the cylinder and that went on and
killed the baby.
Charles Kirkman. an employe in the
Resurrection concentrating mill at
Leadville, was instantly killed on the
10th instant by being caught in the
betting, which tore him to pieces and
completely severed his head from his
body.
The President has made the follow
ing postoffice appointments. Frank h
Songer, Crested Butte; Arthur F.
Brown. Berthoud; Robert w. Camp
bell. Brighton; George w. Miller,
Hotchkiss; ROLAND oliver. Paonia:
BENJAMIN F. Niesz, Steamboat Springs.
A Kansas City dispatch of November
11th says: Col Thomas Holland, head
of the Salvation Army colony at Amity,
Colorado, a victim of the Dean wreck
on the Santa Fe and who at first was
believed to be fatally injured. Will
leave the hospital Friday and return to
Colorado.
Mrs. Seraldia NJ Seymour colored.
who would have been JOG years old
next January. died November I'd at
the home of her son. William Seymour,
ten miles northeast of Colorado
SPRING.. Mrs. Seymour was formerly
a Kentucky slave and was the mother
of thirteen children.
The coroners jury at Denver in the
case of Charles Heyn. who was shot
and killed by Humane Society Officer
Oliver e. Tuft, returned verdict COM
pletelv generating Tuft. who was
found to have acted solely in self-de-
fense. Tuft went to arrest Heyn for
cruelty in starving a horse and Heyn
shot at him with rifle.
The following officers were elected
by the new state organization of Elks:
President Judge y. Walter Dixon of
Pueblo; first vice president, G. K. Mich
OILS, Central City; second vice presi-
dent. Phil r. Mcclure. Florence; secre-
tary, E. F. Arthur, Denver; treasurer,
Jesse ]. May, Idaho Springs. The next
meeting will be at Glenwood Springs
next June.
The Elks had possession of Colorado
Springs on Wednesday, the 1lth in
stant. 1t is estimated that 1000 Elks
from Denver. the towns of northern
Colorado, Pueblo, the Cripple Creek
district and many other state points
united with the Colorado Springs
lodge in celebrating the organization
of the state society, and the dedication
of the new club house.
President L. E. Eyman has an
nounced that the Pueblo Gas Company
in short time is to manufacture its