The Elk Mountain pilot., 1903-02-24
COLORADO BRIEFS.

1t was a cold day when st. Valentine
came to Colorado. Even Cupid must
have suffered unless he changed his
garb and wore an overcoat.
President Roosevelt has accepted the
invitation of the Denver Chamber of
Commerce to visit Denver during his
coming western trip in the spring.
The Lake Minnequa Park and
Amusement Company at Pueblo is pre-
pairing to establish pleasure resort at
Lake Minnequa and build S15.0 900 the
ater.
Several of the big department stores
of Denver have adopted the eight-hour
system for their employees, keeping
their stores open only from $50 a. N.
to $3.50 p. III.
The Fairmount Cemetery Associa-
ton in Denver proposes to build ere
matory at an expense of nearly w.
900. There are many people in Colo
RADIO who are in favor of cremation.
Col. H. N. Chittenden of Denver. a
veteran of the Civil War, who was well
known in business circles and had
many friends throughout the state,
died February 14th at the age of sixty
one.
Frank r. Stockton. a boy fourteen
years old, died in Denver on February
18th of disease pronounced by one
of his physicians to be hydrophobia.
He was bitten by a shepherd puppy
November 29th.
Rev. Marvin A. RAIDER the young,
active and popular pastor of Grace M.
E. Church. Denver, has resigned to
accept a missionary appointment in
the Philippines and will sail from San
Francisco April 4th.
The Colorado Springs City Council
has decided TO issue bonds amounting
to s459,000. ALL but $50,000 being for
the improvement of the Seven Lakes
reservoir system. The latter sum will
be expended in extra contracts for the
new city hall building.
The members of. the Pueblo Busi
ness Mems Association are consider
ing a project for establishing a college
at Pueblo and propose to enlist the
services of DR.. William Bayard Craig.
former president of the Drake Uni
versity of Iowa.
\ Two of the managers of the Over
land cotton mills in Denver have been
fined $50 each for employing children
under the age permitted by law for
such employment. John J.. Jerome,
president of the company, was acquit,
ted, as it appeared that they we're en-
gagged contrary to his orders.
The loan exhibition given in Denver
for the benefit of st. Luke's Hospital,
brought out an astonishing number of
valuable oil paintings, water colors
art objects. relics and curios of all
kinds, which seem out of place in so
young a city. Colorado people are
great travellers and collectors.
A. N. Moore, manager of the Port
land Cement Company at Florence.
has located a deposit of gypsum less
than a mile from the plant on the
other side of the river 1t is expected
that by building pontoon bridge
across the river, gypsum can be OBJ
tanned much cheaper than by bringing
it in on the cars.
DIR. N. M. Fenneman, professor of
geology at the University of Colorado,
who was the first man to make 4 thor
ough report on the Arapahoe glacier
in Boulder county, has been appointed
to professorship in the University OF
Wisconsin. He will remain with the
State University until the end of the
school year and then go to Madison.
A Rio Grande engine jumped the
track a mile west of Leadville on the
morning of February 17th. causing
the death of ]. b. Sommers. freight
conductor, and w. e. Rogers. switch
man, Engineer Benjamin Spencer
was fatally scalded, and H. e. Long,
brakeman, and William Cole. fireman.
were severely injured. the former los
ing an eye.
On the night of February 10th doc
.g o
on Champa street in the very heart
of Denver. 1t was before midnight and
several persons passed while he was
held in a stairway and searched by
two men, who threatened to kill him if
he called for help. The Little Emma
saloon, in the lower part of the city,
was robbed the same night.
The total number of deaths in Colo
RADIO during the month Of January, as
shown by the report of the State Board
of Health. was S56; total number of
still births, twenty-three; estimated
population, SCI 1876; annual. death rate
per 1,000 excluding all still births,
17.47; deaths from diphtheria during
the month, twelve; from scarlet fever,
seven; from typhoid fever, twenty
three.
According to the monthly bulletin
issued by the State Board of Health
for the month of January there was
a decrease of diphtheria cases last.
month as compared with December,
the number being forty-three less.
There was an increase of scarlet fever
cases as well as smallpox cases. The
decrease of typhoid fever cases was
107. The bulletin states that the quar-
antine period for smallpox cases has
been placed by the board at not less
than four weeks from the beginning
of the erTDtion and in any case not