The Elk Mountain pilot., 1903-08-25
= ACOLORADO BRIEFS.

Many of the citizens of Greeley
strongly object to baseball games on
Sunday and are taking steps to have
them suppressed
Thomas Gordon of Cheyenne has
been appointed engineer at the Grand
Junction Indian School at salary of
$S40 per annum.
The order of United Moderns is ar
ranging for minstrel jubilee and car
nival at Denver October 7th with Billy
Williams in charge.
A company has been formed at Boul-
der for the manufacture of white brick
from a deposit of white clay between
Boulder and Sunshine.
On the afternoon of August 18th a
cloudburst in the foothills between
Morrison and Golden did considerable
damage to roads and bitches.
The State Land Board has ordered
the sale of forty acres of land to the
town of Monte Vista for public park.
The price is fixed at s25 per acre.
Leo w. Kennedy. clerk in the sur
yeyor generals office at Denver, has
been promoted to $1,000 per annum,
and ordered to duty at Montrose.
rhe annual corn roast at Loveland
which has been omitted for several
years, will be revived again this year
and celebrated September 3rd. Every
- body is invited.
Il The Arkansas Valley Fair will be
held at Rocky Ford September End,
-3rd and 4th. Watermelon Day will be
celebrated on the second day OF the
fair. September 3rd.
Rev. Abel X Packard. for many
of
church at Greeley, died August 10th in
San Diego. California, at the advanced
age of eighty years.
The Colorado Springs laundry at
Colorado Springs was burned on the
morning of August 18th, the loss on
the building, and contents being esti-
mated at UPWARDS of $4,000.
According to President J. C. Sullivan
of the State Federation of Labor, the
striking miners of the Cripple Greek
district will be fed and clothed by the
Western Federation of Miners.
Juan Chavez, who had been in the
county Jail at Trinidad for several
weeks charged with the murder of Ad-
elaide Valdez. committed suicide by
taking poison on the 18th instant.
The Colorado Fuel and Iron Compa-
ny's barn at the Maitland coal camp
was totally destroyed by fire on the
morning of August 18th and nineteen
mules and two carloads OF hay were
burned.
An order issued by General Nelson
A Miles before his retirement COM
mands the presence in Manila of Major
Daniel NJ. Appel, U. S. A. who has
been stationed in Denver on special
duty since June 4th.
The Pueblo Trades Assembly has
completed arrangements for the Labor
Day festival. September 7th. The cele-
bration will be held at the fair grounds
where an extensive program of racing
and athletic events will be given.
William H, and James, .E: Mcclure,
Arothers and prominent pioneer resi-
clents of Canon City, field reunion OF
their families and friends few days
ago to celebrate the thirty-ninth ami
versary of their arrival in the city
George l.. HORNE. prominent resi-
dent of Fairplay and member of the
Colorado bar having served Park coun-
ty as county Judge, and clerk of the
District Court. died August 18th, leav-
ing a widow and two little children.
Mrs. Storer. wife of Bellamy Storer,'
United States ambassador to Austria;
together with General Palmer and 9TH
ers, is considering a project to estab-
lish fine art works at Colorado Springs
to utilize the valuable clays and native
gems of Colorado.
The proposed new city charter of
Denver, on which the people Will vote
September 22nd, occupies more than
twenty-one columns of solid nonpareil
type in the eght-column daily papers
of Denver. or 524R inches column
9th rin riftzpnS
take a week off and read it.
The Colorado Medical Society will
meet in Denver October 9Th, 7th and
.,n talk on "Radium,' with dem
onstration, by DR.. Slower. will be a part
of the program. 1t will be the first
demonstration and lecture on the new
discovery to be made before any state
medical society in this country.
Prof George H. Rowe. dean of the de-
partment of electrical engineeringinth in the
University of Colorado, has rendered
his resignation to the board of regents,
to be effective at once. Professor
Rowes resignation is due to call
Afrom Leland Stanford j. University in
YCalifornia, to occupy similar position
~ the faculty there
DR.. George H. Slower of Denver has
received small quantity. about fif-
teen grains, in the form of chloride,
of the new metal. radium. He will
test it in the cure of cancer and other
diseases. The value of the specimen
is $175, and an ounce would be worth
IS 900 Pure radium would cost about
ten times as much.
More than seventy persons were af-
fected by ptomaine poisoning in Colo
RADIO Springs and Manitou as the re-
suit of eating ice cream Sunday, Aug
ust 18th but none Of them suffered Sc
riously. The health officers attribute
tbo ,o;copipo tn tho ,ce of fOrmp1de