The Elk Mountain pilot., 1910-02-03
STATE NEWS ITEMS

torium February 23rd to 26th.
Alex. J. Strachen. postmaster at Col
orado Springs. has been appointed
custodian of the public building.
The Colorado Bankers Association
will holds its next annual meeting at
Grand Junction some time in Septem-
Der.
Leroy Lewis, convicted at Boulder
of the murder OF Mike Clifford at
Marshall in October. 1909. has been
granted a new trial.
By majority of Just thirty votes.
the people OF Pueblo decided against
holding a charter convention. The re-
suit may be contested.
The Platteville cannery will double
its capacity the coming season, en-
large It's buildings and construct =
boarding house for its help.
The new comet in the west Is NOV.
ing northward and eastward. For sew
eral days Yeti will be a fine sight be-
tween six and seven o'clock p. m.
Services were held in St. John s
chapter house in Denver January 2lst
In commemoration Of the founding Of
the Episcopal church in Colorado fifty
years ago.
A. F. Wuensch. a prominent Colo
RADIO mining engineer Of Denver. died
suddenly of heart disease in the lobby
OF the Alvarado hotel at Albuquerque.
New Mexico. January 22nd.
At one o'clock on the morning Of
January 25th fire broke out in the
basement of the office OF the Star
Journal at Pueblo and was only ex-
tinguished after inflicting about 81. 800
damage.
After deliberating three hours. a
Grand Junction jury found Walter
johnson, charged with violation OF the
local prohibition laws. guilty. This is
the first conviction secured since the
April.
The poultry show at Denver was
highly successful and plans are al
ready on foot for a larger exhibit next
year. An appropriation Of $1,000 will
be raised to further the poultry indus
try OF the state and an attempt will
be made to secure the Auditorium for
the 1911 exhibition.
The Denver City park zoo has two
new arrivals in tSo baby brown bears.
The bears are very small and only
weigh from IL to IA ounces each. while
the mother weighs nearly 400 pounds.
For three weeks the cubs will be una
BILE to see. They will be helpless for
three months.
The Palmer estate has filed plat
in Ell Paso county for the RANDALL
reservoir. to be built at some future
time, at an estimated cost OF $4,000.
The reservoir. which will have ca
pacity OF 1.O00.OO0 gallons. will draw
its water supply. from Jimmy Camp
creek. near the Palmer home ct Glen
Eyrie.
The Otero irrigation district has let
contract for widening its ditch. Ce-
ment headgates will be constructed
and II is intended to make the capaci-
~ 500 cubic feet per second. which
will supply $4,000 acres. The farm
ers recently voted for bond issue OF
3l5O.O0O with which to enlarge the
canal and build storage reservoir.
A new irrigation system to be known
as West Nile irrigation district has
been started in the vicinity Of Hoyt.
thirty-five miles southwest Of Fort
Morgan. The reservoir will have ca
pacity of 15v.OOO.OOO cubic feet and get
its water from Routt. Bijou and Ante
lope creeks. II will bring under irri-
Cation about 5000 acres Of level land
in the extreme southwestern part Of
Morgan county.
Two trainmen were killed and three
others badly injured when extra
freight train locomotive No. 921 on the
Rio Grande exploded near La Veta at
1:1S o'clock on the morning OF Janu-
ary 25th. The dead are: William
Stiles, brakeman. Pueblo; C. e. Koch
Ter. fireman. Pueblo. Seriously injured:
]. C. Howard. engineer. Pueblo; c. w.
Barker, brakeman. Pueblo; C. Faulks.
conductor. Pueblo.
The Palmer estate won both the
state Inheritance tax appeal suits be-
fore District Judge Morris at Colorado
Springs. involving total Of 81 100 In
tax. The court upheld the executors
appeal. in which the executors claimed
that $4,000 used to maintain Glen
Eyrie for one year after the generals
death should not be taxed, and over
ruled the states appeal from the low
er tribunal. sustaining the county
courts ruling that $4,000 in personal
property in other states should not be
taxed here.
Bishop Matt and the Sisters OF st.
Francis are planning a consumptives'
hospital at Denver. to be conducted as
a branch Of st. Anthony's hospital
It is planned to purchase land in Edge
water and erect building to cost
about 100000. The patients wbp are