The Elk Mountain pilot., 1908-04-02
COLORADO NEWS

A thriving commercial club has been
organized at Golden.
Golden is to have an up-to-date sewer
system at a cost of about $4,000.
Fraternities and sororities will here
after be barred by the South Side
school board of Pueblo.
Out Of forty-five applicants to take
the Weld county teachers spring ex-
animation, only five were men.
Some of the young men Of Greeley
are organizing a golf club and will lay
out links on the Country club grounds.
The automobile show at Denver will
be held April 9th, 7th and Sth in the
Mammoth skating rink on Clarkson
street.
The contract for the construction OF
the public building at Colorado Springs
has been awarder to ]. ii. Wiesse Of
Omaha. at $1S0.944.
A $4,000 apartment house is to be
built at Greeley within the next three
months and fifty new residences are in
process of construction.
Salvatro Camille, the nineteen-year-
old boy injured in the mine at Catcino,
near Trinidad, Saturday, died Monday.
His father was one of the twenty-five
victims of the Tercio disaster OF two
years ago.
County Treasurer C. ]. Fredrickson
of Fremont county. who has large land
interests between Canon City and
Beaver Park. has ordered two gasoline
pumps which he will install at artesian
wells and irrigate two large sections
OF ground.
Lewis Shaw, Herman Crutz and ].
Lee Fleming. all under age, have been
sentenced to the reformatory by Judge
w. S. Morris at Colorado Springs.
They were convicted of setting fire
TO several buildings in Colorado City
lust for fun"
The interstate debate between the
universities of Colorado and Missouri
will be held in Boulder April 2ith. The
question Is: Resolved, That All Elec-
tive. State. District. County and City
Officers Should Be Nominated BY the
Direct Primary"
Patrick McEwcn. 4 miner. !orty-are
years OF age. was caught in rock
slide in the Stratton Independence
mine at Victor Sunday morning and
had his right leg so badly crushed that
computation was necessary. He Is mar
ried and lives at Victor.
On April 7th the town OF Prospect
Heights. near Canon City. will hold an
election to choose mayor and three
trustees. The question. shall this
town become anti-saloon tcrritory?"
will also be voted upon. There are
six saloons and less than 200 popula-
ton.
Denver capitalists are starting fish
hatcheries In Craig park. Jefferson
county. They will have three lakes and
build u. fine driveway to the park on
ridge OF mountains between BrOokBide
and Grousemont. Their first deposit
Of brook trout fry. 10000. has been
made.
A Sunday closing crusade has been
inaugurated at Leadville by the arrest
OF six saloonkeepers for alleged viola
tons of the Sunday law. The evidence
was secured by Mrs. Eunice Ovens.
who. accompanied by another woman
and an escort, visited several saloons
Sunday.
BY the addition to its library Of five
volumes Of the Rocky Mountain Herald
and other Colorado newspapers, which
were donated by Mrs. o. j. Holiister
OF Salt Lake City. the State Historical
and Natural History society now pos
sesses the newspaper history of the
city OF Denver since 1859.
A new book. telling about, hunting.
fishing and camping In Colorado, is to
be issued by the MofYat railway. The
publication will contain pictures Of live
wild game and camping scenes taken
in Routt county. The railway contrac-
tors are having no trouble at the pres
ent time in securing labor to push the
road to Steamboat Springs.
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been appointed to positions in the for
est service: V. d. Bryan, Frazer. guard
on White River reserve: David c.
Montgomery. assistant ranger Pixies
Peak reserve; James l.. Tagert, Meek
er. assistant ranger White River re-
serve: Tobias Torres. forest guard San
Juan reserve; Martin X. Slane. forest
guard Cochctopa reserve.
The Inheritance tax against the es-
tate OF the late Colonel II. II. Hol-
brook at Pueblo has been assessed by
County Judge Mirick. The tax is So
1916, and the total net valuation of
the estate SAGE, 5,SG3.03. The executor
was authorized to distribute 100000
of the estate at once to six heirs and
$1,000 goes to the Sacred Heart and
the McClelland Orphanages.
While playing with dynamite cap
in his home near Rhone Ralph Kinney.
the fifteen-year-old son of ]. II. Kinney.
one OF the most prominent ranchers
of the Grand valley. had his hand COM
pletely blown OF. The boy was digging
the powder out with a match. I'll
show that 1t won't go on" he said TO
his two sisters. Then he lit a match
and stuck 1t into the powder. The ex-
plosion followed.
youth. has been sentenced to the re-
formatory by Judge Morris in the Dis
trict Court at Colorado Springs. He
was convicted of larceny, the complain.
ing WifnesR being a DRUGGIST whose till