The Elk Mountain pilot., 1908-05-28
COLORADO ITEMS

Steamboat Springs will celebrate
Pioneer Day on the 18th and 10th of
June.
The Fraternal Bankers of America
of Illinois has applied for admission
Into Colorado.
Nearly 1000 persons attended the
dance given by the Pixies Peak Press
club at Stratton Park pavilion, Colo
RADIO Springs. Monday night.
The Rev. j. Thomas Grove, for ten
years rector of St Luke's Episcopal
church at Fort Collins has resigned to
take effect July lst He will accept a
West Virginia pastorate.
Paddy Mullaney, former president Of
the Free Coinage union, w. F. NJ. was
taken to jail at Cripple Creek TO be
examined as to his sanity.
The damage by fire that destroyed
the four large ice houses of the Den
Yer 4 Rio Grande railroad at Palmer
Lake on the nth inst, is estimated at
upwards OF $4,000.
The financial committee OF the Flor
ence City Council has just made re-
port which shows that the municipal
debt has been reduced forty-fve per
cent. in the last five years.
Joe Cozzi. fifteen-year-old Italian
boy of Aguilar, has been sentenced to
term in the state reformatory at
Buena Vista. He was the leader OF an
organized gang of boy thieves.
The Steamboat Springs Milling Com
pany has started up its mill again after
n five years shutdown. The flour is
made from wheat raised principally in
the valley Pbout Hayden and Craig.
The ruins of an aboriginal burial
ground have been found ten miles
east of Holly. The mounds are said to
be covered With rocks forming the out
lines OF horses, deer. men and women.
Slot machines seized in raids re-
Gently made on orders OF the district
attorney at Cripple Creek were burned
by order OF Judge Owen on the 18th
inst. The machines were valued at
$500.
Nearly all the foreigners OF Euro
pean origin who come to the Greeley
district and other agricultural sections
Of northern Colorado are anxious to be-
come American citizens as soon as pos.
sible.
Tony Capanetti, convicted at Trini-
dad OF attempting TO blow up Superin.
tendent A. Alexander OF the Frederick
mine at Segundo. has been sentenced
TO n term OF ten to twelve years in the
penitentiary.
Hal Coulson. at Boulder. has made n
successful color plate negative. He
took "A photograph OF n corner of a
room In his residence and every color.
yellow. green. bright red. etc. shows
up plainly in the negative.
The school census OF Greeley. just
completed. shows 2.l75 children OF
school age. a gain OF 109 over last year.
The compilers estimate that popula.
ton OF the city at s.sls. not including
the 500 Normal School students.
Farmers in Weld county have prac-
tically finished planting their beets. It
Is estimated that there are 5000 acres
planted Tor the Greeley factory. and G..
500 each for the Windsor and Eaton
factories.
The summer season on the Moffat
road was inaugurated Friday the Is tn
inst. with the first OF the seasons
tourist trains. The regular excursion
season opens June Is. when the West
side Denver Tramway employees take
their outing.
Fire on the 18th inst. destroyed the
tipple, shaker house. powder house.
engine room and boilers of the Stan
dard mine. two miles east of Lafay-
ette, with an estimated loss of $4,000.
reported to be fully covered by in
surance.
On the Denver a. Interurban road
between Denver and Boulder cars VIII
at the start be run for some time by
steam locomotives at the Boulder and
Denver ends, and between Argo and
the outskirts of Boulder by electric
power.
Two trout cost Percy Reese and Pat
McKeown $31 apiece at Glenwood
Springs. They were arrested by Game
Warden Fred Gordon. charged with
fishing out of season, and Justice OF
the Peace Hedden imposed the fine
after they pleaded guilty.
A mob of several hundred people be-
sieged the county Jail at Pueblo on the
night OF the 18th inst. bent on lynch
ing James Lynn. the negro who killed
Sarah James and wounded her mother
the week previous. They only desisted
when it was proved to them that the
murderer was not in the jail, but at
Colorado Springs.
The civil service commission an
nounces an examination for rural let
ter carriers to take place Saturday,
June 18th, at Denver. Six carriers for
Denver suburbs are wanted. Appli-
cants should address Vernon w.
Campbell. secretary of the civil ser
vice commission at the federal build
ing for specific information in the mat
ter.
An immense crowd of people wit
messed the dedication and first public
exhibition of the new electric fountain
at the City Park in Denver Monday
night. The color effects and the water