The Elk Mountain pilot., 1908-04-23
COLORADO NEWS

sition of fireman OF the Denver mint,
paying $75 month.
Building operations in Denver for
the month of March this year showed
remarkable gain of 80 per cent. ove-'
the same month last year.
The county commissioners of Pueblo
county have offered a reward of $50 for
the capture OF Castano Senatore, the
Italian who, It is charged, shot and
killed his wife on the 18th inst. and
escaped.
The work Of double tracking the
Rio Grande between Florence and
Canon City will be completerd by the
end of this month. All bridges along
the line are finished and the rails are
being laid rapidly.
The Grand junction board of edu-
cation has authorized an increase OF IS
IL month in the salary of every school
teacher in the city. The total increase
will require 81 900 year and forty-nine
teachers are affected.
Three thousand men were paid $780,
900 April 18th at the Pueblo steel
works This is 600 more men than re-
ceived money on the last pay day. and
II is expected that GOO more will be add
ed before the next one.
' Two SnlftS are now On tHt
Denver auditorium. One begins at
o'clock in the morning and works until
noon, when it is relieved by the sec
ond. which works an equal number of
hours. stopping at o'clock in the ev-
ening.
j. NJ. Van Deren. a former resident
of Boulder and also of Denver, died
at Paonia on the 18th inst. in his
seyenty-fifth year. MIR. Van Deren
came to Colorado in 1859 and made
three trips across the plains by OK
team.
One of the mcst important features
OF the religious and ethical confer
ence which is to be held at Colorado
College May llth-l4th. is the Organ
lied Charity's Day" for which spe-
cisl program has been carefully pre-
pared.
The City Council of Florence has
passed a resolution declaring the fallen
women OF the city n nuisance and or
d.ring that then places be vacated
May LIST The resolution reads that
the women will not be tolerated within
the city limits. s..,
The Rock Island has made arrange
ments TO enlarge its repair shops in
Pueblo and will employ about twenty
more men. For some time the Rock
Island has maintained small force I
and will now increase 1t so that heavy
repairs can be made when necessary.
The dates for eight farmers insti.
tutes in the Pueblo district have been
fixed by the State Agricultural College
The first Will be held at Rye. July 18th,
and the last one of the eight July 21si.
Plans are being made TO give farmers
picnics at each OF the points where
the professors will deliver lectures.
State Auditor Statler has paid to
the Pioneers Monument Association
the 10000 appropriated at the last
session OF the Legislature for the
pioneers monument designed by Fred
erick Macmonnies. The association has
now. In addition TO the states gift,
So. 900 subscribed to the fund. and Is
working to raise $1,000 more.
A final dividend OF "a. per cent was
allowed the depositors OF the defunct
Denver Savings bank by District
Judge Riddle April 18th. making Il total
dividend OF 771. per cent. The Inter
national Trust Company, AZ receiver.
was allowed u fee Of $5.o2l.52, Cloudy
4 Twitchell. attorneys for the trust
company, were allowed S2.5oo ana AZ
torney L. IA. Park was allowed $3.50.
State Auditor George ID. Statler has
announced that the 81 900 appropriated
by the last Legislature to buy 4 silver
service for the cruiser Colorado Is now
ON hand for immediate use. Former
Governor Jesse r. Mcdonald is chair
man of the committee which is to pur-
chase the service. The money has new
er been available before. II VIII be
turned over TO Goernor Mcdonald as
soon as he requests IL.
The grocers' trust has filed an ap-
neal in the Supreme Court from the de
cision of Judge Allen OF the District
Court at Denver wherein, on the ap
plication of the attorney general. an
Injunction was granted restraining the
trust from Squeezing out the small
dealers and thereby making the people
pay more for their food than they
should. Numerous errors are alleged
in both the hearing and the decision.
Mrs. Mary f.. Price. one of the old
est pioneers OF Jefferson county. died
at the home of her son-inlaw. VIII
liam c. Carroll, at Ralston Crossing
on the 18th inst, aged eighty-hve
years. Mrs. Price was born in ONO
and came to Colorado in 1883. She
leaves three children. Mrs. Alfred
Hurst. Mrs. Carroll and Mrs. E. j.
Doyler. Prior TO her death there were
five generations of her family living
on Ralston creek.
Ora Haley of Routt county. and J. /.
Rowell of Longmont, appeared in the
United States Court at Denver on the
18th inst. and pleaded guilty TO the
charge of illegal fencing. Their trial
had been set for hearing in May, but
they asked to be allowed to plead and
the court consented to accept their
plea Each was fined 800 and costs.
Haley. it is stated. had some 10000
acres under fence in Wyoming and
o.l.. III. IL, Rnunl hnL III nndet. fence