The Elk Mountain pilot., 1903-12-01
COLORADO BRIEFS.

1ty OF Kansas.
The alumni association of the State
Normal School will have a banquet in
| Denver during the holidays.
movement has been started among
| the labor organizations of Denver for
the establishment of a large co-operat-
I've department store.
At a jubilee meeting Sunday. Novem-
her 22d, Trinity NJ. E. Church, Denver,
raised more than enough money to pay
off its entire Indebtedness of $4,000.
Considerable natural gas is being used
for heating purposes in Boulder since the
strike began, and it may finally be pos
! sible to heat the entire town in that
| way.
General Irving Hale declines to run
| ON the Denver charter convention tick
ct on account of the pressure of busi-
ness that accumulated while he was
| on vacation.
| William Dodsworth of Victor Miners
| Union No 80, was accidentally killed
| by fall in the Delmonico mine on
| Bull hill near Altman, on the morningof
November Goth.
The body of Julian A. Kebler. ex-
president of the Colorado Fuel and
Iron Company, who died at Denver
November 20tn, was cremated at Chi
cago November 23d.
F.. E. Robinson, for twenty eight
years druggist in Colorado Springs,
and one OF the leading business men,
died at San Antonio. Texas, November
2ith, of heart disease.
Grant C. Synder, well known to the
printers of Colorado from his long con-
nection with the type foundry business,
| died at his home in Craig, November
| 10Th, of typhoid fever.
| In the District Court at Glenwood
Springs, Judge Shumate sentenced Har-
| dy X. Fuller, who was convicted OF
horse stealing, to a term of not less
than two nor more than three years
III the penitentiary.
Reyes Samara, a Mexican, was shot
and killed by constable Raman Espin-
usa. also a Mexican, at dance in Rio
| Grande precinct, Costilla county, across
the river from Alamosa, on the night
of November 23d.
Bishop Matz announces that the
building of the new Catholic cathedral
at Denver will be commenced next
spring. 1t is proposed to make it one
| OF the finest church buildings west of
Chicago and St Louis.
| Father Lepore. the Italian Catholic
priest who was wounded in quarrel
with Giuseppe Sorice at the Church of
| Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Den
yer. died of his injuries and Sorice
only survived him a few hours.
The United Oil Company. of its own
motion, has again increased the price
of Boulder crude oil and is now paying
Sl.1O barrel. This schedule is retro
active and takes effect November 1st.
About 10 barrels of oil are shipped
daily.
The Clear Creek Valley Teachers
Association has been organized by the
teachers of Gilpin, Clear Creek and
Jefferson counties, with NJ. c. Potter of
Idaho Springs as president. The next
meeting will be held at Idaho Springs
in April.
Fewer cattle have been marketed
from Grand county this fall than usual,
! owing to the low prices prevailing. Per-
haps not over 5000 head have been
driven to market thus far though
( there are many thousands fat enough
for market.
The coroners jury at Victor. in the
| inquest over the body of William Dods-
worth who was killed in the Demon-
leo mine, brought in verdict censur-
| ing the management of the mine for
alleged neglect in not having the shaft
properly timbered
| Colorado Springs has been taking
stringent precautions in regard to the
purity of its water supply and the dis
posal of sewage, and it is now claimed
that the health of the city is unusually
good at season when typhoid fever
has been wont to prevail.
The funeral of Tom Horn, who was
executed at Cheyenne. took place at
Boulder, Sunday, November odd 1t was
not altogether private one, as his
brother had desired. two or three hun
dred people being permitted to view the
old-time scout, detective and outlaw.
The representatives of the Colorado
| Terminal Lines Association met in
| Denver November goth and decided to
make a rate OF one fare and a third
for the round "trip for the holiday sea-
son. The tickets will be placed on sale
| December oath, 25th and 31st and Jan
| uary lst
Thirty members of the Pentecostal
| Union, otherwise known as Jumpers,
were arrested in Denver last Sunday
night and taken to Jail for making a
noisy religious demonstration on the
street, occasioning a street blockade
They were released on promising to be
| more quiet.
County Commissioner James u Har-
ris OF Mesa county. stated while in
Denver that when the season closes
Mesa will have shipped $500,000 worth
of agricultural and horticultural pro-
ducts He added that if the similar
products of Delta and Montrose coun-
ties are included. the product of the
( western slope this year will reach over
81 900, 900.
Concerning reports lately current in
various newspapers that the Union Pa
cific Railroad Company is about to
change its policy in the disposition of
its granted lands by offering to set
tiers only, on some homestead scheme.