The Elk Mountain pilot., 1903-12-22
COLORADO BRIEFS.


1st.
Hugh A. Elwood, pioneer of Gilpin,
Weld and Summit counties died at
Boulder December 18th at the age of
seventy-three years.
The Boulder Chautauqua manage
ment has fixed upon July Esd as ITEM
perance Day" and will engage John G..
Woolley as orator for the occasion.
The returns show that ex-Gov.
Charles S. Thomas received the great
est number of votes of any of the can
didates at the recent Denver charter
election.
According to the report of Secretary
Hitchcock there are 37.926,616 acres of
unappropriated government land in
Colorado, being considerably more than
one-half the area OF the state.
William Miller. youth of seventeen,
sat on 4 keg OF powder to smoke his
pipe in the Tynon coal mine, near Erie
he was blown up, but came down
again. and it is thought that he will
recover.
Brigadier General Merriam, retired,
who Is well known in Colorado from
having been stationed several years
at Denver. is again in the state on q
Visit TO his daughter. who lives in
Denver
Percy Brillhand had a part of his
leit foot and leg torn off by the chain
OF a coal-cutting machine in the Simp
son mine Mt Lafayette and was taken to
The university hospital at Boulder on
the 11th inst.
The walls OF large apartment
house in Denver are being constructed
OF cement blocks, which. it is claimed
by the builders, are a cheaper build
ing material than stone or brick and in
every way as good
The detention home in Denver for
juvenile deiinquents is now in oper-
alton, the first installment Of five boys
having been sent to the home by Judge
Lindsey on the 18th inst. 1t preserves
the boys from Jail associations.
The first collection OF the Denver
Saturday and Sunday Hospital Asso-
citation, organized to take up a collec-
ton in all parts of the city two days
in each year in aid of the city hospi-
tails, netted the sum of s524.76.
Tho caucuses of the Democratic and
Republican delegates to the second
Denver charter convention met on the
18th Inst. and agreed upon the Rev.
Charles II. Marshall. pastor of st.
Barnabas Episcopal church, for presi-
dent of the convention.
E. X. Whitehead, secretary of the
Humane Society, has invited the Den
yer Wholesale Produce Association to
cooperate with the society to prevent
the shipment of poultry by express in
crates that do not permit the fowls to
stand erect while in transit.
Paul Richter, proprietor of the Rich
ter Iron Works in Denver, while on a
excursion near Brush, was ac-
yeshot and killed on the 18th
inst. by the discharge of a gun in the
hands of a companion while both were
engaged in examining their weapons.
The Board of Hoad Managers of the
Woodmen of the World have invested
$50. 900 of their surplus funds in Fort
Collins water works bonds and s32,-
600 in Montrose county refunding
bonds, making a total bond investment
on account of equalization funds Of
100000.
The Fort Collins Sugar Company
has finished paying for the November
delivery of beets. the total disburse-
ment being S235 900. This sum, added
10 s135.o00 paid out for October de-
livery. makes total of $4,000 dis
bursed this year to beet-growers by the
In the District Court at Leadville
Howard Fisher and John Knapp were
sentenced to nine and a half years
in the penitentiary for the burglary
of the Blacihawk stables, and to life
Impeachment for the murder of Oscar
Boegel, the hot tamale man. The life
Imprisonment will take effect imme-
diately after the burglary sentence is
Robert f. Bell of Denver. who is
raising funds for a home for consump-
tive actors, has received communica-
tions from Colorado Springs and from
places in Arizona and New Mexico
asking that the institution be located
there. Colorado Springs has offered TO
donate a site for the building and in
Inmates that it might add a gift of
money. Letters from the other towns
mention many inducements.
In Durango on the 18th inst Louis |
was sentenced in the District
Court to from five to six years in the |
his wife was sentenced |
to from three to four years. and John |
Stone was given from four to five |
years. their crime being the robbery !
of the Gilbert saloon a few weeks ago,
timidated those present while the /,
money was being taken.
The body of man that was found |
at the foot of the Greenhorn range |
last month. and which was supposed |
to be that of E. Johnson. has been |
positively identified by Mrs. Adelaide |
Worries of La Veta as that of her hus- |
band, George w. Worries. Worries es-
capped from Doctor Works sanitarium |
in Pueblo, where he was being treated |
for a mental disorder, about May 22nd, |
and nothing had been heard of him. |
Either give me a drink of whisky |
or shoot me-" said Sol Albardo, Mex |
lean to Martinez. a Trinidad bar
tender, on Tuesday the 18th inst |