The Elk Mountain pilot., 1910-01-06
COLORADO NEWS

April 4th.
No money was expended for charity
by Grand county during the fiscal year
ending December LIST. according to tho
report filed by the county clerk with
the secretary of state at Denver.
The Colorado National Apple Expo
sition will be held at the great Au-
ditorium in Denver. January 3rd to
Sth. 1t will be one of the greatest
events OF the New Year in the West
The town OF Manitou is planning to
establish a miniature White Way by
the installation OF hundreds of addi-
tional electric lights. The council is
taking up the matter with the electric
company.
During the fiscal year which closed
December l. the county Of Denver ex-
pended $190.O6s.O7 for charity. The
total number of persons taken care of
was 1851. consisting of 1874 males
and 1877 females.
Colorado Springs is making extern
sive preparations to entertain the Col
orado Realty Dealers convention jan
uary 18th and Goth. More than 1000
letters of invitation are to be mailed
to real estate men all over the state.
The Colorado Springs & Interurban
Railway Company has announced that
hereafter all the regular employees will
be granted two days on each month
at full salary. which is the equivalent
OF one-fifteenth OF their wages.
The printing of The Nugget. the an
nual published by Colorado college.
has been let to Colorado Springs
firm. and the contract with 4 Denver
firm cancelled. as a result of pro-
test by Colorado Springs business
| houses
The Santa Fe and the Denver & Rio
Grande railroads have arranged to be-
gin u fast mail service. effective Jan
uary 9Th. which will be OF Importance
to many towns In the Northwest as
well as to Pueblo. Salt Lake. Ogden
and intermediate points.
The Colorado Honey Producers AS
ISOLATION met in Denver. December
29th. The secretary reported that
fifty.five carloads OF honey were sent
out OF Colorado this year. The asso-
citation is sort OF cooperative com
pany. 1t has about 100 members and
controls $4,000 colonies OF bees.
AT the beginning OF the next school
year OF the University OF Denver 1t Is
said that the Iliff School OF Theology.
which has been closed for ten years
past. will be reopened. this being made
possible by an offer of $4,000 to the
endowment fund made by a friend OF
the school known only to Bishop II. w.
Warren.
The Purgatoire Development Com
pany of which former State Treasurer
T.. A. Bent is the head. proposes to
/ construct n canal and storage system
to cover the irrigable land under the
line OF the new Mammoth canal sur
vey. on the north side of the Arkansas
river which runs from its initial point
near the town OF Las Animas easterly
to the Kansas state line.
With the incoming OF the new year
the Denver public library will be
moved into its new quarters. the big
public library building just completed.
1t will be necessary that the library
shall remain closed for six weeks in
order that the 125.000 volumes in the
regular catalogue edition. the dupli-
Gates, pamphlets, magazines and mis-
cellaneous collection of twenty three
years may be transferred to the new
building.
The First State bank OF Sulphur
Springs opened its doors December
Goth. and after being without a bank
since last October, citizens are re-
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Grand County. which It is alleged was
wrecked last fall by c. w. Bowlds.
have been taken over by the new in
stitution and depositors of the old
bank had the privilege of entering the
new bank and drawing their accounts
in full If they cared to do SO.
Seventy-two people, eight OF whom
we're women. ate Christmas dinner at
the city Jail in Denver. complete
bill of fare was provided. including
everything from turkey to plum pud
ding. This was done in compliance
with the usual custom of the city on
Christmas day. A short religious serv-
ice preceded the dinner. For the brief
space of a dinner time few people in
Denver Jared any better than the pris-
oners in the city Jail.
Various railroads OF the state are
becoming interested in learning wheth-
er or not state officials are obtaining
passes and then charging the state
mileage on expenses. Not long ago
Auditor Kenehan refused to honor a
warrant for S69.5O in favor OF John d.
Jones. state coal mine inspector. for
transportation. The refusal was made
on the ground that the amount for
mileage should not be paid when the