The Elk Mountain pilot., 1903-02-17
COLORADO BRIEFS.


| planning to establish a Sanitarium at
cost of from 100000 to s1,000Q00.
Judge Moses Hallett has announced
that he will give 1000 to build new
| wing to st. Luke's hospital in Denver
The Colorado Kennel Club will hold
| its annual Dog Show at Coliseum hall
| in Denver on February 10th, 20th and
21st.
| After a long siege of snowslides. all
the railroads running into Silverton
were able to run trains regularly on
the 7th inst. .,t- r .
Meyer Friedman has been elected
| president of the Denver Chamber of
| Commerce. Arthur Williams will con-
| tinue to act as secretary.
| A meeting of hardware men will be
held in Pueblo February 10th and 18th
| for the purpose of organizing State
| Hardware Dealers Association.
| State Bee Inspector James Mitchell
of jefferson county died on February
! 4th. He was widely known among the
agriculturists and bee keepers of the
| state. uU.. .t.Yr| ...
The Senate has confirmed President
Roosevelt's nomination of William
Downer, assayer in charge of the mint
at Denver. and of II. I. Hamill, post
master at Georgetown.
The Grand Junction city council has
| passed an ordinance providing for the
issue of bonds to the amount of S2S,O0O
| for the construction of an electric light
! plant to be owned by the city.
At a meeting held at Silverton,
| February 10th, the San Juan County
| Board of Trade was organized. There
| was large representation of all kinds
of business and much enthusiasm.
A company capitalized at 100000
| has been formed in Denver to con-
| struct series of twelve or more dams
| and reservoirs on the South fork OF
the Rio Grande in Rio Grande county.
The managers of the Overland Cot
| ton Mills Company at Denver have
| been nned $50 and costs in the District
| Court FOR employing boys and girls
| under age. The defendants took an ap-
| peal.
After Withholding the donors name
for about six years, President Slocum
has just announced that the donor who
gave Ticknor Hall to Colorado Col
lege is none other than Miss Elizabeth
Cady of Wellesley, Massachusetts.
The first annual convention of the
Colorado Cattle and Horse Growers
February 26th, 27th. 2Sth, being pre-
ceded by the Denver Fat Stock and
Feeder show February 23d, 2ith, 25th.
The factory of the Colorado Portland
Cement Company near Florence has
been closed, owing to consolidation
of interests with the Portland Cement
Company. which has a plant with suf-
ficient capacity to supply the demand.
The assistant secretary of the treas
ury estimates that a site can be pur-
chased for a new postoffice and gov
ernment building in Denver, com
mensurate in size to the needs of the
city, for somewhere between $2.12O,-
900 and s2,420, 900.
In the District Court at Leadville on
the 11th instant Herman Anderson
who shot John Raab few months ago
in the smelter settlement. during a
race war between Austrians and
Swedes, was sentenced to fifteen years
in the penitentiary.
In the United States Cor-t at Den
yer on the 10th inst. Peter Johnson
was sentenced to fifteen months in the
penitentiary at Canon City and to
fine of $500 on each of two indictments
for using the mails to swindle w X.
Burchinell out of valuable mining
stocks.
A meeting was held few nights
since at the Chamber of Commerce
building in Denver to discuss the ques-
ton of having the Bible taught in the
public schools DIR. Vosburgh of the
Baptist Church and Father Organ of
the Catholic Church being the princi-
pal speakers.
Mrs. Laura Il. Cranston, wife of
Bishop Earl Cranston of the Methodist
church and mother of District Attor-
ney Earl NJ. Cranston a. Denver. died
in Silao,- Mexico, February 7th, of ner-
vous prostration. Her health had been
failing since her terrible experiences in
Pekin. China, during the Boxer siege.
The first annual exhibition of the
Denver Fat Stock and Feeder Show,
which will be held the last week of
this month in connection with the an
nual convention of the Colorado Cattle
and Horse Growers Association. is ex-
pected to bring several thousands of
stockmen to Denver during that week.
AS the result of the breaking of a
chain suspending a huge ladle in which
molten metal was being conveyed from
the blast furnaces to the new Bessemer
converter at the Minnequa steel works
at Pueblo, three men were killed, two
probably fatally injured and four 9TH
ers, including the superintendent of the
converter. were badly burned. on the
morning of the 9th.
John T. Dean. weaver in the Over
land cotton mills at Denver, was taken
from his home at l o'clock on the
morning of Sunday, February Sth, by
"whitecappers," or masked men, and
taken some distance in his night
clothes. After being badly beaten he
was turned loose. 1t is supposed to be
the result of a neighborhood scandal in
which Dean was charged with talking