The Elk Mountain pilot., 1910-01-28
COLORADO NEWS

season amounted 10 SoU,VUU NJ 1 cent
= stamp. or $4,000.
The tax roll of Routt county for
1909 shows an assessed valuation OF
$4.026. .490, an increase over the pre-
ceding year Of half million.
J. W.Apstin. one of the pioneer placer
miners Of Georgetown and the first
park commissioner Of Denver. died at
the home OF his son in Denver on the
18th inst.
A Milwaukee dispatch says that
Deacon" Koehler. coach at the Uni
versity of Denver. has matriculated
at Marquette University as a medical
student
A national park 100000 acres in ex-
tent and including Estes Park is pro-
vided for in bill prepared for intro
duction by Sentor Hughes and Con-
Eressman Taylor.
Addison X. Ladue. former clerk OF
Lincoln county. having held that Of
flee for eighteen years. died at his
home in Hugo on the 17th inst. OF
Bright's disease.
The Union Pacific has begun in
junction proceedings in the United
States Court at Denver to enforce its
claim to a 400-foot right of way
through the city of Greeley.
J. e. Maloney OF Littleton has been
appointed secretary Of the state high
way commission. The salary is $4,000
q year and the law requires that the
appointee shall hold certificate OF a
qualified civil engineer.
The second regular train on the Den
yer, Laramie & Northwestern from
Milliken to Denver. which was operat-
cd on the 18th inst. carried forty peo-
pie to Denver from the various towns
en- route.
Owing to . strike of the pressmen.
Denver was without Its big daily news
papers for = day and n half. Friday
and Saturday. the 18th and 18th. The
two evening papers. the Post and
Times. missed both days and neither
the News nor Republican were print
ed Saturday morning. The strike was
adjusted in time to get out the usual
Sunday papers.
One Of three large timber wolves.
which came within fifteen feet OF Ros-
coe cottage. near the Victor mine on
Bull hill. in the Cripple Creek district.
was killed n few days since by Frank
Roscoe. president of the Roscoe Leas-
ing Company. The animal measured
five and three-Quarters feet from tip
to tip. and weighed seventy-two and a
half pounds.
The people Of Delta already have be-
gun to perfect an organization to take
charge OF exhibits for the apple show
at Denver next year. The new organ
ization which Is being formed will be
entirely independent OF all existing as.
sociations. and will work entirely in
getting exhibits and stimulating the
growers to save their best fruit for
this purpose.
Classes are to be established during
the coming year by the Colorado State
Association for the Prevention and
Control OF Tuberculosis, where patients
may meet physicians and nurses and
have their condition noted. and where
the nurses may become acquainted
with them. and thus make their way
into homes and give proper instruc-
tion and care. The association will
also establish dispeusary.
A sanatorium for the exclusive use
of negroes suffering with tuberculosis
will be established In Denver next
summer by ]. II. Harper. as employe
of the state board OF capitol managers.
This. 1t is said. will be the first estab-
lishment of its kind in the world. Its
object is to take the sick negroes out
OF the cheap lodging houses. where
they receive improper care and place
them in a home specially adapted to
the care of tuberculosis.
Several parties OF Union Pacific
engineers who have been working on
surveys for q new line from Denver
completed their labors and to have
finally selected the route. This line
will cut thirty-eight miles from the
distance from Denver to Chicago via
Union Pacific and will serve an unde
veloped country in Colorado immedi.
ately to the northwest OF Denver.
At the meeting of the Retail Mer'
chants Association OF Colorado at
Fort Collins. w. r. Cherrier of Den
yer was elected president The other
officers are: First vice president. S.
ID. Carlton. Pueblo: second vice presi.
dent, John B. Thomas, Gold Hill;
third vice president. c. w. Zepp, Fort
Collins; fourth vice president, A. f
Wadsworth. Grand Junction. Greeley
was selected as the next place OF
meeting.
In order to ascertain what Greeley
needs in the way of a new postoffice,
Senator Guggenheim has asked the
supervising architect of the treasury
to make report upon conditions and
has also written to Attorney II. f.
Churchill at Greeley for a statement
showing the need of the building and