The Elk Mountain pilot., 1903-12-15
COLORADO BRIEFS.

rado Springs.
The Senate confirmed the nomina
tlon OF John p. Dickinson to be receiv-
er or public moneys at Hugo.
| The secretary of the treasury in his
annual report recommends an appro-
priation OF $33,750 for the public build
Ing at Colorado springs.
The new Palmer hall at Colorado
college in Colorado Springs is now
in actual use but the formal opening
| VIII not take place until January.
The State University football team
beat the State School of Mines team in
a post-season game at Denver Dscem-
| Der 9th, by score of % to 5.
The pulp silo at the Loveland sugar
factory Is already filled to oyerflowing.
The demand Tor the product of the fac
tory is not, so far, SO great as in for
mer years.
1t is stated that the Colorado rail-
roads have adopted the western pass
agreement and will, after January list,
cut off all passes to shippers OF freight
and to politicians
Two immense sheet iron tanks are
being erected at the Fort Collins sugar
factory for the storage of molasses.
which will be converted into sugar by
the Steffens process.
Colorado took seven prizes for car
load lots of cattle at the International
Live Stock Exhibition in Chicago on
the 9th inst, the prizes going TO Den
yer, Montrose and Trinidad.
II is said to be practically decided by
the directors that no state fair will be
held in Pueblo in 1904 on account of
the Worlds Fair at st. Louis, which
will largely take up the attention of
those interested in the state fair.
The Denver Union Water Company
has purchased the Du Bois ranch of
800 acres in the Platte valley, twenty
two miles above Denver. for the sake of
Its valuable water rights. which are
said to amount to 10000 900 gallons a
day
William w. Pickett has been ap-
pointed postmaster, at Deep Creek,
Routt county, vice G. w. May. resigned.
Percy l.. Woodgate has been appointed
regular and Melville b. Woodgate sub
stitute rural free delivery carriers at
Delta.
Trellis Ward, or Nellie Cummins, the
young woman who has gained consid-
cradle notoriety by her unfortunate
habit of falling off street cars. was
declared sane by the County Court at
Pueblo. and at once left for Texas,
where she has relations.
Governor Ferguson of Oklahoma has
Lonored the requisition from Governor
Peabody of Colorado for the return to
Prowers county of Jesse Tanner, ac-
cused of larceny of live stock commit
ted in June, 1903. Tanner was under
arrest at Kenton. Oklahoma.
Miss Elizabeth Ryan of Michigan.
graduate of Pratt Institute, New
York. has been selected to fill the po-
sition OF first assistant in the Depart
ment of Domestic Science in the State
Agricultural College at Fort Collins
Miss Ryan comes highly recommended.
An organization was formed at
Glenwood Springs on the 9th inst. to
work for the development of the natu-
raj resources OF the valleys of the
Grand. White. Eagle and Roaring Fork
rivers. w. S. Parkinson of Glenwood
Springs was elected president.
Five dollars a ton for beets delivered
at the Greeley sugar factory and $475
ton for all beets delivered on the
cars, are the prices that are announced
by the company for the next years
crop. Unrestricted delivery of beets
lndt are up 10 tHe SldnudTu may De-
gin October 30th.
Marguerite the daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Herndon of Pueblo. was twelve
days old on the Sth inst. and weighed
but twenty-nine ounces. Pueblo doc
tors claim that she is the smallest
child that ever lived twelve days and
the medical corps of the Colorado Fuel
ana Iron Company hospital decided
that the child could only be cared for
properly in an incubator.
Ex-Governor Eaton has started con-
struction work on another big reser-
voir. located few miles northeast OF
Fort Collins, which will add materially
to the wealth of the Poudre valley.
This reservoir will be finished and
ready for use in the spring. 1t will
have a capacity of 500 100000 cubic
feet and will be filed with water
the North Fork and the Poudre
valley systems.
The number of typhoid fever cases in
Denver during October last was 127.
a heavy increase over the same month
in 1902, when there were but forty-two
cases. The deaths in October from
typhoid were fourteen this year only
two more than those of last year.
Thirty two cases of scarlet fever were
without a single death, but
four deaths resulted out OF forty-one
rases of diphtheria.
Twenty-Five members of the Pente-
costal Union, otherwise known as the
Jumpers" voluntarily surrendered
themselves at the city Jail in Denver
4 few days ago to be imprisoned fifteen
days in lieu of paying total of $64S
fines and costs imposed for holding
street meetings at points denied them
by the police. They went as martyrs.
carrying their bibles, there being eight
women in the party.
\The sale under foreclosure of the
masonic temple at Boulder was Or