The Elk Mountain pilot., 1910-02-10
COLORADO NEWS

Leroy Lewis. convicted at Boulder
OF the murder of Mike Clifford at
Marshall in October. 1909. has been
granted q new trial.
Kansas City capitalists are planning
IN amusement park in Pueblo. similar
to the White City in Denver and Elec-
trio Park in Kansas City.
DIR. G. H. Slower and DR.. Edward
Dclehsnty. two prominent physicians
OF Denver. who were recently operated
Upon for appendicitis. are rapidly re-
covering and will soon be well.
The Missouri Pacific. January 31st,
took over the Pueblo & State Line
railroad for $500 and other consider
ations." This line runs from Pueblo
to the Kansas state line.
Denver people are planning to es-
tablish during the coming summer an
attractive summer resort to be called
Larkland. on the Denver G. Rio
Grande. forty-three miles south OF
Denver.
General Manager Clark assured the
Aontrose Chamber of Commerce that
the city is to have = new passenger
and freight depot. and that the Den
yer L Rio Grande will soon be broad
gauged to Salida-
Tho Denver Chamber OF Commerce
has now 70S active members and five
honorary ones. Its present total as
sets amount to S45.5s5. The new
building which It is preparing to erect
will cost about $4,000.
In . suit before the Colorado Su-
preme Court the Denver 4 Rio Grande
and Colorado Midland railways will At
tack the coustitutionality Of the fenc-
ing law passed by the special session
OF the Legislature In 1902.
Options on land have been secured
in the Bijou basin. twenty miles east
of Monument. and former County
Commissioner Rouse. J. b. Orris and
others OF Colorado Springs intend to
incorporate . company to bore for oil.
The foundation II completed and
the work Of laying the steel OF the
new Denver Chamber OF Commerce
building at 1710 Champa street. has
begun. The building will cost about
$4,000. will be six stories In height
and will probably be completed in
time for occupancy by the various
commercial bodies OF the city July 1st.
Senator Charles J. Hughes has in
troduced . bill for An appropriation Of
5000 for the worlds congress Of the
deaf, to be held In Colorado Springs
this summer. The bill was referred to
the committee ON Industrial exposi-
lions and ~ Senator Hughes is giving
his personal attention to the bill he
feels that the appropriation will be
granted.
N. Elliott Houston. United States
weather observers at Steamboat
Springs. has forwarded to Moffat road
headquarters in Denver \ report OF
climatic conditions in Routt county in
1903. The record shows that 25.17
inches OF moisture were precipitAted
during the year. and that the rainfall
was very evenly distributed among
the several months. There were NO
floods or washouts.
''If had the adoption of one law.
which thought would be better than
any other law or any other two or
three laws. I would sav that the law
which gives to the people the right to
initiate and refer measures was para.
mount" said Governor John F. Shaf-
roth At the annual banquet Of the
Christian Citizenship Union in the Au-
ditorium hotel at Denver. And II.
when close my term Of office. there
II = law on the statute books giving
the people the right to pass laws re-
gArdless Of the legislature. I shall re-
gard my term az having been worth
while"
At the suggestion OF Mrs. Catherine
N. Cook, state superintendent Of pub
Lie instruction. the State Land Board
IL considering a scheme to donate
from two to five acres Of land for
playground purposes to each public
school in Colorado which il occupying
public land at the present time. The
plan is to donate the land to the
schools on condition that each school
board which accepts gift Of the sort
does SO with the understanding that it
must supply the equipment necessary
to furnish the playground in the prop
er manner.
In order to ascertain II the cost OF
living has increased in Greeley in the
; last year materially over that of pre-
vious years. merchant in business at
Greeley for twenty-five years has gone
carefully over his books. compiling the
rost OF groceries and dairy products in
the years 1890, 1900 and 1910. The re-
suit shows that all dairy and farm pro-
ducts, butter. bacon. eggs. cheese. ETC.,
have increased from ten to fifty per
cent in cost since 1890. but the cost
of the bulk Of all other groceries. with
the evcept'on of lard, has not in
creased and in many cases is much
less. Sugar is cheaper. coffee 10 cents
. pound less. spices are much lower