The Elk Mountain pilot., 1903-07-14
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Wrkas en commsed on the
ne~Ytdfm al sanieay 1sswer in Pu-
eblo. Tile cost will Be about 100000.
TIE second annual pasnk of the
Fremont County Horticultural Society
was held at Cottonwood. Springs. near
| Canon City. July 4th.
The Colorado Bar Association. at its
meeting in Colorado. Springs, resolved
\ in favor of non-partisan nominations
tor ,Supreme4apd- district Court Judges.
Mrs. f. w: Leonard Of Loveland,
who was injured in street car acci-
dent At Las Vegas, New Mexico. Few
weeks since. died Jnlv I'd Las Vegas,
At Delta July I'd y. l. Carlow
;chAgkeM With the murder of NJ. G. Da-
y1S II Pt0ia, wnss held for trial at
the ,Septemher term Of the District
GQ1lf7 Y 81 81 s. sssf 4t.a lsS
SsfAe colorado Springs And Denver
tedyds Of the Western Baseball League.
have been getting beaten QUITE too Of
| ten on their eastern trip. Denver lost
four straight games toSOmaha.
The colorudo Chautauqua opened at
Boulder July; 18th with a large attend
ance. Hon ]. w. Springer of Dem
yer was the orator of the day. A grand
patriotic, concert was. given at night.
The Colorado Press Bureau of Infor-
nation, under the management OF
Thomas p, Parker at Denver. is pro-
ducing many. handsome booklets adver-
tislng the state. { One of the latest is
entitled Where TO Go and How to Get
There In Denver VI & ..
Colorado capitalists have launched
one of4the. largest immigration projects
OF the Louisiana delta. They have ac-
Quired nearly 100000 acres of choice
timber and cotton lands in 'Concordia
parish and have organized the Con
cordia Land Company.
The women of Bessemer are making
determined effort to drive the sa-
looms out OF the Bessemer saloon dis
trict, which was created about a year
ago. 1t is said that Colorado Fuel and
Iron Company officials are heartily in
sympathy With the movement.
AT the Canon City penitentiary. July
4th. In addition to the pardon of Glib
son, q pardon was given TO c. A. Yer
non, No 4,697. sent up from Ell Paso
county for fourteen years on the
charge of assault This pardon was
: brought to the prison by Vernon's
sister. , .e% -1 a..
BY vote OF 76 for to Is against, the
taxpayers of Walsenbnrg decided to
bond the municipality for $4,000, the
amount to be used in the construction
of a gravity water works system. The
plan includes the purchase of the old,
Walsenburg ranch and water right for.
5000. ...
Judge j. H. VOORHEES, OF division A
of the. District Court at Pueblo has
ruled that Eads shall still remain the
county seat of Kiowa county For a
number of months the residents of
Sheridan Lake have been. attempting
to have the county capital removed to
Sheridan Lake. - -i.. r'i.i ta Il
Hull Brothers. proprietors. of the
famous Seven Falls in South Cheyenne
Canon. near Colorado Springs. are con-
templating the e'construction of an cleo
tric car fine from the terminus Of the
street car to the center, of the canon.
and the addition of 100 electric lights
within the canon. ~ NHi t....-
Ferdinand VIZ VOORHEES,. a steno-
grapher in the Denver National Bank. 4
committed suicide near Sloan's Lake in
Denver. July 9Th. by shooting himself
through the heart. Voorhees, came to
Denver from Chicago and had been
With the bank for four years. Only a
weel; before his suicide he was married. ]
to. Miss Bessie H. Eyre of Pennsylva-
MIA. a -
An elaborate program was slrendered
at the Colorado state penitentiary
July 4th, consisting of minstrel per-
formance. songs. sdances and. general
music AT the Opening of the pro-
gram Warden Cleshorn took the plat
form and read the pardon of William
Gibson No. 1891. life-timer, SEN
fenced in 1889, for murder from Ell
Paso County. .,a,' .:s's,ss-f74
Thirty boys from the juvenile branch
of Judge Lindsey's court OF Denver
went out with Fort Collins farmers on
July 9Th to weed beets. They all go
into good homes and Will receive 81
per day and board. The boys will be
subject to orders from Judge Lind
seys court and their department will
be reported sthe same as if they re-
mained in Denver.
John A.. Burnett. president of the
Denver Driving Club has just lost a
magnificent team of matched horses,
valued at over $1,000. Mr.. and Mrs
Burnett had been out driving and on
their return sent the team to the stable
by the driver. On the way to the stable
the horses ran away. threw the driver
out of the carriage and ran down
,Thirty-eighth street until they struck
a train of cars and were both killed..
= w. j. Murray, a prominent saloon
keeper of Cripple Creek, has gone
into informal bankruptcy. On July
9Th he telegraphed from Ell Paso.
Texas, as follows: Deliver goods to
creditors. Leave tonight for South
America 1t was a surprise to his
'acquaintances. as 1t was supposed he
was in. Denver. Mr. Murray had been
in business as a saloonkeeper on South
Second street for the past eight years |