The Elk Mountain pilot., 1903-09-01
COLORADO BRIEFS.


| at Loveland September 3D.
The Colorado state Fair will be held
| at Pueblo September 18th to 18th.
Labor Day will be generally cee-
brated throughout the state September
9TH.
The Western Slope Fair will be held
at Montrose September 22d to 25th, in
elusive.
A Jewish paper, to be called the
Western Israelite," will be started in
Denver September 5th.
The cantaloupe season is now on in
the Arkansas Valley and large ship
ments are made daily.
Two companies of the Fourteenth
cavalry started from Denver for the
Philippines. August 23d.
The annual Peach Day celebration
will be held at Grand Junction Sept
ember Sth, 9Th and 10th
The Pueblo Business Mems Associa-
tion proposes to visit the fairs at Las
Animas and Lamar in large force.
Thomas G. Underhill a prominent
business man of DE Beque, was thrown
from his horse and killed August Goth.
An agreement having been effected
with the strikers the Portland mine at
Victor resumed operations August 26.
In quarrel over a poker game Jerry
Kennedy shot and dangerously wound
er Arthur Bennett at Camp Bowerman
August 10th.
The coming charter election in Den
ser is arousing great interest and
promises to be one of the closest
iought contests ever held in the city
Professor j. Emmett Kemp. for the
last five years principal of the Park
street high school at Trinidad died of
Bright's disease at st. Anthony's hospi-
tai in Denver August Goth
AT the Silver Bell mine at Ophir on
the night of August 2lst Steve Greig
fell straight down timber chute
distance OF 106 feet and escaped with
only a broken thumb and slight scalp
wound.
Fred Wild. well known boiler-set-
ter, and inventor of Wilds patent
smokeless furnace, was found dead in
his room at Denver August 25th. He
was mechanic of great ability but
addicted to drinking
Thirty leading manufacturers and
wholesalers of Denver have joined an
association which offer free railroad
fares to merchants who come to Den
yer to purchase stocks of them to the
amount of 81 900 or over.
There have been large number of
cases of typhoid fever in Denver re-
Gently. and the health officers think 1t
due in part to the poor quality of milk
sold by many dealers ard the use of
formaldehyde as milk preservative.
The large sawmill plant of the Pa
gosa Lumber Company at Pagosa
Junction in Archuleta county was
burned on the night of August goth.
The lumLer yards. which contained a
great amou"t of lumber. were saved by
hard work.
The annual poultry show of the Col
orado Poultry Association will be held
at Coliseum hall in Denver the week
beginning January IS. 1904. The com
mittee of the association is now at
work upon the premium list, which will
be larger than at any previous show.
Oil has been struck on the Kennedy
ranch. about twenty miles east of Colo
RADIO Springs. While sinking well for
water a flow of oil was encountered at
depth of 40 feet The find has
aroused much interest in Colorado
Springs and capitalists are investigat-
ing.
sylvester T. Smith president of the
Colorado-Utah Construction Company.
81 expected to arrive in Denver from
the East by September 10th, soon after
which the contracts for the $1,000. 900
tunnel to be bored by the Moffat COM
pany through the continental divide
will be awarded.
Rev David l.. Fleming of the Epis-
copal church of Leadville, formerly
chaplain of the First Colorado volun-
teers during the Spanish war has been
rendered a commission as chaplain in
the regular army. He is appointed to
the place declined by Rev. Bruce
Brown of Chicago.
The United States Civil Service Com
mission announces that an examination
for clerks and carriers in the postoffice
will be held in Denver November 81.
1903. Persons who desire to compete
should at once apply to II. C, Hefner,
secretary, at the Denver postoffice. for
application blanks.
While going to his work at Pueblo
on the morning of August 22d Roy
Smith. steel works machinist was
attacked by seven or eight striking
machinists and nearly beaten to death.
One of the men struck him on the top
of the head with a large steel bolt.
cutting deep CASH
The coming national convention of
the brotherhood of st. Andrew, which
NETS in Denver. October I'll, will be
made notable by the presence of DR..
Randall Thomas Davidson, archbishop
of Canterbury and primate of England.
Elaborate preparations are under head
, way for the entertainment of the dis
tinguished visitor.
1t is reported that the Denver, Lake
wood & Golden Railway Company will
reopen its Ralston branch to Tindale
and extend the line to handle the pro-
duct of the Carbon Fuel Company S
mines. and also that it is probable that
the entire Lakewood system will be
operated by electricity giving Golden