The Elk Mountain pilot., 1903-07-07
COLORADO BRIEFS.

vention will be held in Denver July
9th 10 18th.
The Pueblo Normal and Industrial
Institute met June 29th with an at
tendance OF over 100. -
The health commissioner of Denver
Will have the weeds cut on vacant lots
in the city as sanitary measure.
Forty-six births were reported in
Pueblo during the month OF June
twenty boys and twenty-one girls.
A Bible Students convention OF Be
levers in the Atonement Sacrifice OF
Christ will be held in the Gettysburg
building in Denver June 10th. 11th and
18TH.
The first carload of Georgia water
melons arrived in Denver June 26th.
This is the earliest. by twenty days
that Georgia melons have been seen in
Colorado i.r n &.
Frank Milithaler, superintendent of
the North Star Mining Company at
Woodland Park. fell down. the main
shaft 165 feet on Jupe 2Gth, and was
instantly klned.
The National Building Trades Coun-
Gil convention will, meet in Denver
August 10th for a two-weeks'- session.
They will be lavishly entertained by
the Denver Council
Harvey w. Green, well known, as
soldier, printer and newspaper man,
died ut the Old Soldiers Home at Mon
te Vista June 26th, He was employed
on the Denver News for thirteen years.
Preston H: Hotchkiss died in Mont
rose June 29th aged seventy years. Mr..
Hotchkiss was one of the Oldest resi-
dents and his son Berry was the first
l W 70 In 40 frncnJn
valley. t"i
One hundred and sixty-nine building
permits were taken out in Denver last
! mouth for the erection or buildings that
will cost in the aggregate $S61.549. Tne
average cost of eighty-nine dwellings Is
| $21O421 .... -
The Lake, County Cattle Growers
I Association was recently formed at
Leadville with the following officers:
President. John Weir: vice president.
E. J. Smith; secretary. p. Paddock;
| treasurer. Dan Colahah. ~ - ~.
The officers and employees 'of the
Denver City Trahway Company have.
Incorporated a beneficiary organization.
the object of which Is to provide life
insurance fund for the members and to
pay benefits I'M case OF sfckffess Or acci-
| dent. al.
| Mrs. Belle Murray died at the Sis
ters' hospital IN Cripple Creek july Isl
| of peritonitis. Mrs. MGrraS shatb been.
chief operator of the Cripple Creek Iel.I
ephone system sfpr. the, past fiys, years, ., rs
having previously beer. res!aen. .l.s H., o! y
The coroner's.J s.Jale siagstfe easeho of
| Henry c. Wilde. who was shot and
killed by Oscar r. Ratcliffe in ditch
| controversy at Denver. returned ver-
diet that the shooting was done with
| felonious intent. and that Mrs. Rat
cliffe was an accessory to the shooting.
At Denver June Both Price Tuttle,
I who was learning to'run an elevator In
| the Ernest & Cranmer building in Den
\ yer, lost control of it and was badly
crushed. falling three stories and re-
ceiving injuries that resulted in his
death He was only seventeen years
| old. 80 t.-ef o..
The thirty days of rifle practive re-
1uired of the state troops each year be-
gan June Goth. The troops at Denver
will practice at the rifle range near
| Golden. which is owned by the state
and rented each year to the govern
| ment for the use of the troops at Fort
Logan.
Albion W. Tourgee. author and lee
turer. who was editor of the Denver
| Times for a few months in 1880 under
| r. W. Woodbury., and who has been
| for several years consul at Bordeaux
| in France. has been promoted to the
position of Consul general at Halifax.
Nova Scotia.
| w W. Ferguson, curator of the war
relic room in the State house at Denver
has sent to W. w. Dennison. assistant
adjutant general of the Kansas G. A.
| r., 800 from Colorado comrades for
the the purpose of relieving the Grand
Army sufferers in the recent disastrous
Hoods in that state.
! Probation Officer Willard Hatch of
| the juvenile court of Denver. was in
| the northern part of the state few
| days ago and secured places for thirty
FIVE boys to work in the beet fields
Judge Lindsey expects to have places
in the country for many other boys
during the summer.
| B. Frank Hunter. prominent Grand
4 Army man and cattle grower. died at
| Denver July 1st He suffered a stroke
| OF paralysis about a year ago, which
was succeeded by others. Last Decem-
| her bis mind became deranged and he
| wandered away from home. On being
| found he was placed in the County hos
| pital. where his death occurred.
| Rooms have been engaged in the
| Chamber of Commerce building in
Denver for headquarters OF the United
| States Geological Survey, heretofore
|! main fntained in the state engineers of
! fee in the capitol. A. l.. Fellows, in
charge of the work, expects to have
| twenty or thirty men in the field in
Colorado during the summer. making
reservoir surveys.
| The Littleton and the Longmont
| creamery companies, which have vir-
| tnally been united under one big cor
| poration, of which the Beatrice Cream
| al. 70 of iucalp Neh forms q