The Elk Mountain pilot., 1903-01-20
COLORADO BRIEFS.

Tree lHe OHiVerSity ol DeuNer lroih
debt.
A large amount of Colorado coal tn
shipped daily to Kansas, Nebraska and
Iowa.
1t took Governor Peabody exactly
thirty-eight minutes to read his inaug-
ural address.
George w. Bausman, one of the
prominent business men of Silverton,
died January 18th from appendicitis.
Robert E. Bell of Denver is at the
head of movement to establish
home for consumptive actors and &C
tresses.
The Alta Vista hotel at Colorado
Springs is installing an electrical
cooking plant, said to be the first in
use in the West
Walter H. Bailey. tried at Pueblo on
the charge of numbering James w.
Wilson at Minnequa last October, was
acquitted by the jury.
The Greeley sugar factory sliced its
last beets for the season January 10th.
Forty thousand tons were handled and
the enterprise so far is pronounced
success.
j. A. Edison, the new manager or the
Denver 4 Rio Grande system, says that
the present employees will be retained,
as he can see no occasion for removals
or changes.
A petition has been forwarded to
Washington, with a large number OF
signatures, asking for the establish
ment of a forest reserve south OF
Longs Peak.
The business men of Golden are en-
deayoring to secure cheaper and more
frequent passenger transportation be-
tween Golden and Denver. They want
to be as well accommodated as Ar
vada.
A young bob-cat was caught within
the city limits of Loveland a few days
ago The animal was not more than
half grown, and seemed to have been
driven in from the foothills by cold
and hunger.
Frank Cook, the life term convict al
the Canon City penitentiary. who es-
capped recently and was recaptured In
Mexico and brought back to the prison,
refuses to tell who aided him in get
ting away.
George w. Drake. a Colorado pio-
neer and one of the prominent citizens
of Denver. died on the 10th instant al
ter few days illness from an attack
of appendicitis. He was about sixty
HVe years OF age
The railway survey from point
on the Atlantic and Pacific system to
Durango has been completed. The
engineers stated that the survey was
made at the instance of w. S. Hope
well, representing eastern men.
The body of Robert Cohn, saloon
keeper at Como. who wandered few
miles from town during fit of i'll
hoC hnnn rpcnVpred
There was about s2,500 insurance on
his life which will now be payable.
A movement is on foot to try to have
the headquarters of the International
Typographical Union of the United
States and Canada removed from Indi-
annapolis to Colorado Springs, in which
case new buildings would be erected.
l.. E. Scott. one of the Denver News
artists, was held up by footpads In
Denver few days ago and robbed OF
$3.50 His picture of the event Will
doubtless be realistic. He was on his
way home. at 2 O'Clock in the morning.
Property owners of the Fountain
valley will institute a suit against the
city of Colorado Springs to restrain the
latter from emptying sewerage into
Fountain creek and to collect damages
for the alleged contamination of the air
and water.
Antoine Woode, the celebrated boy
criminal in the Canon City peniten-
tiary, is attempting to secure evidence
to prove he was only ten years old at
the time he was given life sentence
for murder, and that he was therefore
illegally sentenced.
The coroners jury which investigat-
ed the death of James e. Bailey at
Colorado Springs returned verdict
that death was caused by drinking
whisky, which had been poisoned with
strychnine, and sent to Bailey by
party or parties unknown to the jury.
The State Land Board has granted
A. b. Gray lease of 2,44O acres OF
coal land in Routt county. Gray is to
pay no rental for the first year. but
must pay 800 a section for the follow
ing two years, when the lease expires.
He must pay the state 10 cents a ton
for all marketable coal mined.
The Missouri State Federation of La
bor has refused to indorse the resolu-
ton of the State Federation of Colo
rado for the formation of a system of
state federations to be modelled after
the national government, making II
federation of labor supreme in state
matters The resolution was refused
because it did not have the sanction of
the American Federation of Labor.
Representative Bell has introduced
bill in Congress authorizing the city of
Montrose to buy 100 acres at S1.25 per
acre for site for a storage reservoir
on Squaw hill, seventeen miles south
east of the city. with view to the
construction of a new reservoir for
holding water supply for the city. the
water to be taken from the Cimarron
river and brought down by gravity.
A 100000 sugar factory will be
built at Longmont, work lightning inn
,oadiataly The factory will he the