The Elk Mountain pilot., 1903-02-10
COLORADO BRIEFS.

greatly improved ana large Datn
house added.
Recent heavy SHOWS on the Front
range give promise of at least a fair
supply of water for irrigation next
summer.
The new reservoir and site in Colo
rado Springs will cost about 100000.
The capacity of the reservoir will be
17,500000 gallons.
Colorado Springs book binders are
making efforts to secure the location
OF the proposed home of the Interna-
tional Union of Bookbinders for Colo
RADIO Springs.
The many friends of Gen. H. c. Mer-
riaE, in Colorado will be pleased to
know that the United States Senate
has passed bill advancing him to the
grade OF major general on the retired
list
f. M. Prior committed suicide by
hanging himself at the Rocky Noun
tain hotel in Denver, on the End inst,
after losing his last $45 at gambling.
He was a machinist and had worked
in Denver and Cheyenne.
The Boulder Chautauqua board will
engage Capt. Richmond p. Hobson, the
hero of Santiago harbor, for lecture
on the afternoon of July s. A strong
effort will be made to eclipse the at
fractions of all previous years.
]. F. Maloney, assistant chief dis
patcher for the Denver & Rio Grande,
has resigned his position in Pueblo,
and will leave soon for Laurel, Miss,
where he will take charge as superin-
tendent of the Laurel & Northwestern
Railroad
The County Assessors Association,
which closed its meeting in Denver on
the 4th instant. elected the following
officers: President, S. II. Alexander of
Denver; vice president, Hugh Taylor
of Garfield county; secretary, Martin
A. Carey of Pueblo.
The factory and business of the Col
orado Condensed Milk Company at
Fort Lupton have been purchased by
the Mohawk Condensed Milk Company
OF Rochester, New York. The business
will be continued under the corporate
name of the Colorado company.
Senator Teller has offered an amend
ment to the Indian appropriation bill.
appropriating $4,000 for the purpose
of constructing mess hall and en-
ployes' quarters at the Grand Junction
Indian school. This raises the appro-
priation for this school for the next
fiscal year to S77, ,125.
The Denver Chapter of the Daugh-
ters of the Revolution have raised and
forwarded 500 for the Thomas Jeffer-
son monument fund. The money has
been raised in response to an appeal
sent out to the American public by the
Memorial Association, of which Ad-
miral Dewey is president.
Seven persons. five of whom are
girls, were severely injured on the 2nd
inst by the falling of an elevator used
by the Troy laundry in the Creswell
building on Blake street, in Denver.
The rope sustaining the elevator broke
at the third floor and the elevator and
its human burden came down with
crash.
Governor Peabody has appointed the
following named gentlemen to serve on
the State Board of Medical Examiners:
DIR. David A. Strickler. to succeed him
self: Drs. John lnglis of Pueblo and
George E. Steman of Denver to succeed
DIR. w. w. Rowan of Ouray and DR..
Frank s. Dulin of Denver.
New members of the State Board of
Health have been appointed by Govern
or Peabody as follows: Drs. William
Henry Davis of Denver, Frank NJ Car
toon of Trinidad. to succeed Drs. NJ.
Beshoar of Trinidad. Leonard Freeman
of Denver and II. r. Bull of Grand
Junction.
Holiness workers all over the state are
interested in the meetings to be held
at St James Church in Denver, Feb
ruary 18th to 23rd. and there will be
a state gathering on the 10Th. The SER
vices will be conducted by Rev. Charles
j. Fowler of Boston. Mass, assisted
by Prominent evangelists and evange-
listic singers,
The business transacted in the
United States land Office in Denver dur
ing January amounted to S11 .lS2.07,
which, while it did not break any rec
ords. is above that of many recent
months. The land business amounted
to 81, 200 for timber lands alone. One
item was 81 800 for coal lands, bought
in three tracts.
In the District Court at Pueblo on
the 2nd, Alfred Chavez. a Mexican. was
found guilty of an attempt to murder
his wife Last December in rooming
house. where Mrs. Chaves was lying
i'll, Chaves shot her once in the arm
and once in the side. He denied the
shooting at the time of his arrest,
claiming that the woman shot herself.
The twelfth annual meeting of the
Colorado State Equal Suffrage Associa-
ton was held in Denver January 30th.
Professor Theodosia Emmons of Fort
Collins was reelected president. Dur
ing the last year there has been nota-
BILE gain in membership. so much so
that the membership of the association
is now larger than at any time since
1896
All the camps along the Good & Co.
contract line on the new Moffat road
will soon be lighted by electricity and
telephones will be put into all the
camps. Night shifts will be put in as
coap nc tho uaathar parnits Mon