The Elk Mountain pilot., 1903-10-13
COLORADO BRIEFS.


closed October Bird after highly sue
ocssful exhibition. Races and base
ball games added to the interest.
The Pueblo drug stores have all put
In nickel-in-the7sIot telephones and
the Instruments are now devoted more
to business and less to gossip.
The official count shows that the ma
jority against the Denver charter was
7197. There were 35,711 votes cast. A
new charter election is now in order.
Tho Denver & Rio Grande railroad is
building large plant at Alamosa to
treat railroad ties and bridge timbers
with a preservative solution or pickle
to keep them from Iotting.
d. H. Moffat emphatically denies the
rumor that his line is in some way to
be connected with the Western Pacific
railway project. He has no thought
of any extension beyond Salt Lake.
Edwin j. Eaton of Colorado Springs
has been appointed by Governor Pea
body as trustee of the State Home
for the Deaf and Blind. He takes the
! place of w. G. Rice. recently deceased.
John Crump. a negro who claimed to
be 104 years old, died at the Denver
/ county poor farm and was buried un-
/ der the auspices of the G. A. r., Octo-
ber 1st. He was in the service at Mo-
bile.
| The American Refrigerator Transit
| Company, an adjunct of the Gould sys-
TEN, operating cars on the Rio Grande
and Missouri Pacific. has established
an Office in Denver and will extend its
service -
A commission appointed by Mayor
| Wright is at work in Denver investi-
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creek. 1t is proposed to wall the banks
and construct boulevard along at
/ least one of the walls.
| The great factory of the American
, Beet Sugar Company at Rocky Ford
was started up October 5th Important
additions and improvements have been
made in the plant, which has a capacity
of ], 200 tons of beets daily.
c. M. Bader, formerly an oil pro-
fnoter and real estate man. was dc
cared insane by a jury in the County
Court at Boulder. October I'd. At times
Bader has been so irrational as TO
threaten to shoot people.
The Idaho Springs Board of Alder
! men has voted to set aside sufficient
ground owned by the city for the new
Carnegie Library building. The site
will be directly across the street from
the Colorado & Southern Depot.
William F. Wallace and Lawrence
y. Korr have been appointed
rural letter carriers at Rocky Ford.
Colorado, to begin service November
u. and Mabel Wallace and Jennie
Korr arc named as substitutes.
After much tribulation the Denver G.
Northwestern Suburban Line, which
will be part of the Denver Tramway
l. 4 II. ,,f, Int.
Golden. 1t will be an extension of the
present electric line between Denver
and Arvada.
The handsome new SIT 1000 Standard
Club house. being built by the United
States Reduction and Refining Compa-
ny at Colorado City for the benefit
of its employees. is rapidly nearing
completion and will be ready for oc-
capancy December 1st.
A. b. FrenZel of Denver has offered,
through the Colorado Scientific Socie-
ty, cash prize of $3.50 to the student
of the State School of Mines who shall
write the best paper on Tungsten in
Colorado" the prize to be known as
the Frenzel prize.
During the month of August twenty
three men were enlisted for the regu-
lar army in Denver and seventy-siX
rejected. At Pueblo eight were en-
listed and forty-two rejected, and at
Trinidad three were enlisted and
twenty-three rejected.
James Hugo, foreman of the Mar
tells & Mcdonald gang of graders on
the Moffat road, while at work about
six miles northwest OF Marshall, Sep
tember 30th, was killed by falling
rock from a blast, having failed to go
far enough away for safety.
Dr. w. II. Spicer prominent Pueb-
10 dentist. was found dead in his Of
fee at 9 p m. October 5th Death re-
suited from an overdose of chloro-
form taken to ease intense pain caused
by neuralgia. The coroner decided
that no inquest was necessary.
The Colorado Springs lodge of Elks
opened their new s65,O00 club house
October 3rd. A supper was given at
night. The formal dedicatory exercises
will take place November IL at IL o.
cloc kin the evening, when gathering
of all the lodges in the state will be
held.
The special election held at Delta
for the purpose of deciding whether to
Issue bonds for $4,000 for a water
works system resulted in vote of 90
to 6 in favor of the issue. The bonds
will be placed at once and work start
ed whereby Delta will be supplied with
mountain water, 4
The recent quarterly meeting of the
Saguache Stock Growers Association
was well attended. State Veterinari-
an Lamb and Secretary Fred p john
son of the state association were pres
ent Saguache stockmen are in po-
stion to winter their stock in good
condition and can hold them over un-
less the market is satisfactory.
One of the wealthiest parties of tour
isis that ever came to the state will be