The Elk Mountain pilot., 1903-05-05
COLORADO BRIEFS

| In the Denver Police Court recently
| twenty-three persons were fined in one
day for riding bicycles on the side
| walks.
| The first work of the grand jury at
| Colorado Springs was to bring ten In
| dictments against keepers OF houses OF
| ill-fame.
e. H. Martin, former warden of the
state penitentiary. has sold two bears,
badger and fox, to be placed in the
City park at Denver.
Charles Dowdall. superintendent of
the state fish hatchery near Denver.
has placed 5000 small trout in Boulder
creek at Eagle Rock.
Warden Cleghorn has already en-
ployed thirty-one new men in the pen
itentiary. The entire interior of the
prison has been repainted.
An automobile race will be run from
Denver May Both to some point in the
state and return. 1t is intended more
for an endurance test than for speed.
The Denver Conference of the Meth
odist Church will meet at Asbury
Church in Denver May 18th and 18th.
Bishop H. w. Warren will be among
| the speakers.
| The town of Globeville has surren-
dered it's books as well as other effects
to the officers of the City and County
of Denver thereby establishing the
record of being the first suburb to will
ingly enter the city.
The members of the Colorado
Springs High School Cadet battalion
Will go into camp June 18th at Green
Mountain Falls. 1t is the annual en-
campment of the cadets that follows
the close of the school year.
George w. Andrews & Co. have
closed deal for the purchase of the
old Hiawatha garden at Manitou. An
opera troupe has been engaged for sew
eral weeks and entertainment through
out the summer will be provided.
Information was received April 25th
by Superintendent Rea of the American
Bridge Company at Pueblo to the effect
that the bridgemens strike was settled
tied and the men were expected to go
to work May 1st under the old terms.
The annual State Fair at Pueblo will
be held September 14th to 18th. the
newly-elected officers of the associa-
tson are: Aaron Sanneborn, president;
Asbury White. vice president; i. d.
Devine, treasurer, and j. *. sullivan,
secretary.
Thirty-three medical students were
graduated by the Denver and Gross
College of Medicine. a branch of the
University of Denver, on Tuesday,
April 2Sth. They hail from eleven diff
ferent states of the Union and one is
from Canada.
The inhabitants of the new town
called GAINESVILLE, situated twelve miles
southeast of Florence, have peutloned
the government for postofiice. There
are fifteen or twenty families there
| fr,V, al rpto xshn
agricultural colony.
Following are the dates appointed
by State Engineer Carpenter to hold
examinations. for irrigation division
ems ineers: Pueblo, April 30th; Dem
yer, May 9Th; Alamosa. May 11th;
Montrose, May 10Th, and Glenwood
Springs. May 18th.
The directors of Denver's first social
settlement, the Neighborhood House in
West Denver has arranged for the
purchase of the Gross Medical College
building at cost of $4,000. This Will
give the settlement well located and
commodious headquarters.
DIR. Arthur Allin. professor of psy-
chology and education at the State uni
versity. will deliver the commence
ment Grafton at the University of New
Mexico June 9Th. President Baker will
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the University of Wyoming June 18th.
The University of Colorado feels it
self highly honored by the selection
by the council of Columbia University
of Fred C. Blake to a fellowship worth
$3.50 year. Mr.. Blake graduated from
the University of Colorado in 1901 and
is now a teacher in the high school OF
Leadville.
Captain Hamilton S. Hawkins, Unit
ed States cavalry, has been assigned to
duty at Denrer as assistant to the
chief commissary of the Department
of the Colorado. He will relieve Cap
tain Frank A. Cook, who will proceed
to Omaha for duty in the Department
of the Missouri
Manager Ridgway is said to have
given instructions to the agent of a
Denver employment bureau to have
more than 1000 men sent on the Mof-
fat road when requisitioned by the
contractors. He started for the scene
of operations with Chief Engineer
Sumner and will personally investi-
gate the cause for lack of men.
The Woods Investment Company is
building it's electric wire line from
Beaver to Pueblo a distance of twenty
eight miles. The poles and wire are
very heavy, and construction will cost
s3.5OO per mile The work of construct
ing the power house will begin very
soon, so that greater power can be
supplied to the trolley lines at Pueblo.
Contracts have been let for the be-
ginning of work on the beet sugar fac
tory to be constructed on the tract OF
land south of Denver which is irrigat-
ed from the Castlewood reservoir. A
brickyard will be established on bed
| of clay near the Clark reservoir, about
ten miles south of University Park.
and the brick will be made for the