The Elk Mountain pilot., 1903-05-12
COLORADO BRIEFS

county hospital at Greeley has been let
for $9,746.
Leadville has rock-picking bees ev-
cry Sunday afternoon to clear the
ground for the new race track.
Congressman H. M. Hogg of the Sec
ond district is arranging to change his
place of residence from Telluride to
Pueblo.
At the school election in Boulder,
May 4th. it was voted to issue 100000
in bonds for the erection of two new
school buildings.
Mrs. Helen Grenfel. state superin-
tendent of instruction. addressed the
Teachers Association of eastern coun-
ties at Holyoke. May End.
l.. R. Ingersoll of the class of 1902 in
| Colorado College, has secured fellow
ship in physics for the coming year at
the Northwestern University.
The Chrysolite saw mill and lumber
yard on Fryer hill, at Leadville, was
burned on the night of May 1st, the
loss being estimated at $4,000.
President Roosevelts fifteen-minute
| stop at Hugo and cowboy breakfast
with tin plate and cup, was the most
| picturesque feature of his tour through
Colorado.
The total number of pieces of bag
gage handled in the Union depot at
Denver during the month of April was
71,941. as compared with 66.955 in
April. 1902.
All the cables of the Colorado Tele-
phone Company in Pueblo which have
been erected on poles, have now been
transferred to an underground system
of conduits.
or1x oil ba ,t,-h a o,atc of rolN
do Springs, Colorado City and Mani
tou greeted President Roosevelt at
Colorado Springs and the city was pro-
fusely decorated.
At a recent meeting in Denver the
Colorado Osteopathic Association
passed resolutions commencing Gov
ernor Peabody for vetoing the Sanford
medical bill.
From the fact that l. Harry Stratton
has sent for some of his furniture to
be shipped to Pasadena, Calf, it is
though that he will not return to make
his home at Colorado Springs.
Citizens of Orchard Place and Cher
relyn, adjoining Denver on the south,
have petitioned the County Court of
Arapahoe for incorporation as town
to be called Englewood
Secretary Martha Shute of the State
Horticultural Board has received from
Senator Patterson $500 small packages
of vegetable seed for gratuitous distri-
button from her Office at Denver.
Miss Dora Moore. principal of the
Corona school, in Denver, has been
presented by the mothers of some of
her pupils with a sufficient sum to de-
fray her entire expenses on trip to
Europe the coming summer.
The comptroller of the currency has
issued a certificate authorizing the
First National Bank of Fountain. Colo
RADIO, to commence business. The bank
has a capital stock of $4,000. Gordon
Jones will be president and Clifton
George cashier.
Rural free delivery service will be es-
tablished July LIST from Longmont on
routes and 8. The length of the
routes is forty-seven miles, the area
covered sixty-nine square miles, the
population served S35, and the num-
Der of houses on the routes 167.
A handsome photograph of William
N. Byers has been presented to the
State Historical and Natural History
Society of Colorado by Mrs. Byers,
Mary Byers Robinson and Frank Sum-
ner Byers. Mr.. Byers at the time of
his death was president of the society
Fully 800 delegates will be in attend
ance at the sessions of the convention
of the Brotherhood of Railway Train
men. which will meet in Denver, be-
ginning May 18th. They will repre-
sent locals from every state and terri
tory in the Union, also the Canadian
provinces.
Mr. Brooks, an-at-large
for Colorado has written to Hot Sui
hot hn
sent in for the establishment of mail
route between Kremmling and To-
ponas is being considered at Washing
ton and that it will receive his most
earnest support.
Attention of the federal arborculture
experts has been called by the custo-
dians of the South Platte forest reserve
to scourge that is destroying the pine
trees. 1t is supposed that some insect
is destroying the trees. of which hun
dreds are turning yellow. The blight
appears to be spreading
A Topeka, Kansas. dispatch of May
4th says: Jesse M. Stone. a merchant
of Silverton, Colorado who was visit
ing his brother, George M. Stone, an
artist of this city, committed suicide
this evening by shooting himself in
the right temple. He left note CIV
ing the intense pain he had suffered
from rheumatism as the cause.
John Mackey, a pioneer of Colorado
and Ell Paso county, died at Colorado
Springs May 4th at the age of sixty
eight Mr.. Mackey came to Colorado
in 1859 and conducted a stage and
freighting business in the early days.
He also erected the first house, log
cabin, in Colorado City. which after
ward was used as the state capitol.
Work is to be resumed soon on the
Stollsteimer ditch of fourteen miles, in
ArchulaIa county. cQYeriQP 10 oQn