The Elk Mountain pilot., 1903-06-02
COLORADO BRIEFS S

an organization to establish and main
tain uniform prices.
me annual convention of the state
Realty Association will be held IN fu-
eblo June 9th, 10th and 11th.
There is great demand for boys
from fourteen to seventeen years Oh
age to work in the beet fields at ROCKY
Ford and Sugar City.
On May 25th the high school cadets
of the Denver high schools were dis
banded by a sudden and peremptory
order of the school board.
| - The free mail delivery system at
Florence has been extended to take
in l25 more houses. The limits now in
clude every house i'm Florence.
The great International Christian
Endeavor Convention will be held in
i Denver July 9th to 18th. 1t Is ex-
pected that ten thousand delegates Will
be present. W.
The census of the school district
which includes Greeley and the coun-
try districts within. a radius of two and
a half miles, shows a school popula-
tion of 1j420. wv
Miss Elsie Ward of Denver has just
been awarded. the prize for the best
model of a drinking fountain to be pre-
sented to the st Louis Worlds Fair
by the w. C.. 7. U.
At an election held May 26th the
citizens OF Arvada. the near suburb OF
Denver at the intersection of the Moffat
line and the Colorado & Southern.
voted 80 to 60 against Incorporation
An anonymous donor has made of
gift of $4,000 to the Denver Real Es-
tate Exchange for the erection of an
| t,I . tha iepht tan
! avenue entrance to City park in Den
yer.
Joseph O. Smith. former Indian
agent has been appointed bonded su-
perintendent for the Indian training
school for the Southern Utes at Ig-
nacio, with a salary OF Sf,i06 per an
| mum.
| Cherry Creek the dry steam which is
one of the most unsightly features of
! Denver may be walled and improve
ments made along its banks If the
plans of the board of public works do
4 not miscarry.
A new building is being erected in
| Denver for the Working Boys Home.
which was founded in 1891 by Mrs. w.
| N. Byers. The home will occupy ten
lots at the corner of Broadway and
Alameda avenue.
| Frederick Vanderford formerly of
| Pueblo, where he belonged to the
| Plumbers Union, committed suicide in
! the stockyards of the Union Pacific at
| Henderson. east of Denver, on May 10.
He took morphine and died in convul-
sions.
The United States Reduction and Re-
fiping Company has begun work on the
erection of an $4,000 club building for
the use of its employees in Colorado
Springs. A similar club building Will
be erected by the company at Flor
ence.
l.. G. Lands of Colorado Springs is
getting up a lighthouse tower, three
feet in diameter at the base and nine
feet high, to exhibit, at the Worlds
Fair. He expects to have photographs
Of all the governors OF states exhibited
in the windows. r. -.n.
The silver bell for the cruiser Den
yer was shipped to Philadelphia May
10th. and in less than two weeks it will
3 be hung in place on the vessel The
silver service Will not be sent until
the ship is in commission and ready
TO receive the gift ....4r..
The track and field meet of the Uni7
versity of Colorado and the University
OF Utah took place on "the university
campus at Salt Lake, Utah, May 26th,
and resulted in a tie. each team scor-
ing total of fifty and one-half points
for the thirteen events.
James, Carroll. one of the striking
walters in the recent troubles in Den
YER was run over and killed by a Mid
4 land train at Colorado Springs May
! 27th. Carroll was about twenty-five
/ years of age and had been living in
Denver for about year, being resi-
dent of Houston, Texas. sob
Louis F. Block, the Denver business
man who killed r. H.. Jones in a
fight in the formers Office at 1925
| Champa street on September s, 1902.
has been sentenced to one year in
the county Jail by Judge Johnson of
| the West Side criminal court. This
was the limit of the law.
| A. B. Seaman chairman of the Den
yer public library committee on en-
ployes and salaries, has announced
| that an examination for apprentices In
the public library of Denver will be
held on Wednesday. July 18TH, at 8
I o'clock a. M. in the high school build
ing, Nineteenth and Stout streets. &
The board of the Colorado Chautau-
| qua at Boulder has received furniture
sufficient to accommodate all guests
of the great summer school. The as
sociation has purchased outright 81. 500
worth of beds, cots and commodes.
| Guarantors of the Chautauqua fund
have advanced to the association the
money required to meet this bill.
Secretary of Agriculture James Will
son and son visited the State Agricul-
tural College at Fort Collins May 25th
and inspected every department. The
secretary declared himself highly
pleased with the college and farm work
and promised to deliver the graduating
| address to The class of 1904 unless