The Elk Mountain pilot., 1908-08-06
COLORADO ITEMS

The annual convention OF the Amerl-
can Bankers Association will be held
at Denver September 2Sth to October
3rd
Number 1, volume /, OF the Rocky
Ford Daily Gazette. was published
July 2Sth, with John Frazier, editor
and publisher. and w. II. Butterfield,
assistant manager.
One thousand dollars has been appro-
priated by the city council OF Den
Yer to entertain the annual convention
of the American Federation of Labor
in September.
At the opening of the Greeley Chau-
tauqua assembly July oath, Senator La
Toilette of Wisconsin spoke for four
hours. Stranger still, the audience
stayed to listen to him.
The Colorado State Bankers Asso-
citation, at its meeting in Colorado
Springs placed itself on record as op-
POSED to government guarantee of de-
posits in national banks.
Owing to the renewed business OF
the smelters. 1t is announced that the
Eiler smelter at Pueblo will be opened
within two months. Machinery is be-
ing overhauled and new equipment In
stalled.
Lieutenant Governor Harper has ap-
pointed /. n. Janney water commits
sioner for district thirty-five. 10 fill the
vacancy caused by the resignation OF
Max Atencio Mr.. Janney resides at
Zapato in Costello county.
Street signs and house numbers are
being placed at Fort Morgan and a
large force is at work on cement cross
ings. In a few days the council hopes
10, ,LI ,I ttr.an a nj .
for free city delivery OF mail.
The first money order ever issued in
Greeley is framed and hangs in the
Greeley postoffice. 1t was sent by the
late Niagara Hall. the first merchant
of Greeley. to Jonas Harrington OF
western New York. and was for $3.50.
The success of the Greeley Chautau-
qua assembly has been such that
plan is now being devised 10 have
permanent committee appointed
among Greeley business men who will
perfect an organization insuring Gree
ley Chautauqua every year.
Grant NJ. Lucy. for two terms county
clerk OF Routt county. died at Denver
July eSth at the home of James NJ.
Marvel. Death was caused by stomach
trouble. He had been long n sufferer
and few days before his death un-
derwent an operation. MIR. Lucy was
one Of the early settlers in Routt coun-
ty. Four years ago he was elected
county clerk OF Routt and reelected
two years ago.
a large party OF negroes have made
application at the Pueblo land office
for homestead claims at Elliott, fifteen
miles southeast of Fountain. The ne
groes are headed by A. Lyle. well
known colored man of Colorado
Springs. They intend to cultivate
land under the dry farming system
and II more OF the race can be in
duced to join them, will organize
cooperative colony.
The Colorado Museum of Natural
History at the City park in Denver.
has been presented with the fine col
lection OF minerals exhibited in the
St James hotel during the Democratic
convention, by the Chamber of Com
merce OF Gilpin county. The exhibit
weighs In aggregate six or eight tons
and represents 100 or more mines in
Gilpin county. Some of the speci-
mems are exceedingly rare and valu-
able.
Articles of incorporation OF the con.
solidated roads of the Rio Grande
Railway Company. including the Den
yer & Rio Grande and the Rio Grande
Western Railway Companies, were
filed with the Secretary of State at
Denver Monday. The papers state that
the new corporation is capitalized at
$ss 100000. The papers were signed
by the president OF the company and
the board of directors. The fees for fill
Ing were over $4,000.
Three teachers have been added to
the State Normal faculty for the com
ing year. They are Theophilus Fritz,
who comes from the State University
of Oklahoma to become the head of the
musical department; w. T. Stephens of
the State Normal school Of Winona.
Minnesota. who will conduct research
work in the department of education,
and John T. Lister of Cleveland. form.
erly teacher in the school, who re-
turns to take charge of the physical
training department
The resumption of work by the many
factories of the East and South has
caused good demand for the starch
made by the Greeley factory last sea
son and at satisfactory prices. AL
ready 100000 pounds OF potato starch
has gone to the oxford and Adams
cotton mills in Massachusetts, the
UllliS AT seneca, D u, anu OLntr east
ern points Other factories have or
dered starch. Five carloads have gone
to New York city to be re-ground and
bolted for potato flour and sold to Ger
mans.
In anticipation of the heavy business
expected to result from the completion
of the Western Pacific, the Denver tS
Rio Grande is preparing to double track
a considerable portion of its line be
tween Salt Lake City and Pueblo. a
surveying corps has been put in the
field to locate a new track through the
Royal Gorge and to make up the esti-
mates of cost of the work. II is ex-
pected that tracks will be laid on both