The Elk Mountain pilot., 1919-04-03
IS YEARS AGO
Copied fress the Files ef tie Elk nj.
Pflst. Ties Pristsd II lrwis

Pilet, Thss Pristsd II irwin
Jan. 10, 1884, to March IS, 1884
Ira Brown was in town this week
Henry Pauter went ITO c. B. last
Friday.
Geo. A. Russ came.up from Crested
Butte yesterday.
Gunnison county's ore output fol
last year was 100000.
There is some talk of building a
concentrator at Pittsburg.
Judge M. ]. Stiles has gone to Den.
yer to remain until spring.
DR.. Forhan was in Irwin last Sun
day on professional business.
Miss Mary Phillips, a sister to the
editor. is visiting in Gunnison.
Mr.. and Mrs. P. F. Ropell attended
leap year ball at c. B. last Friday
evening.
Maxey Tabor, the son of Ex-senator
Tabor, will be married tonight to
Miss Lou Babcock.
Mr.. Chas. F. Abbey Of Tin Cup, was
killed in New York by falling down
an elevator in his hotel.
A double building situated in Ruby,
owned by w. A. Eckerly, was crushed
in by the snow yesterday.
sO,,;+. ,,,.,L - v-,,,:. f,II, -
tended the funeral of victims of the
explosion in C. B. last Tuesday.
Messrs. John w. Bruce and d. A.
McNeill Of Crested Butte, were reg
istered at the Hotel Belmont yester-
day.
Mr.. T. ]. Forham went east to Ann
Harbor, Mich, last Tuesday, and it is
reported he will be married before
his return.
The roof Of the Irwin Presbyteriaa
church was crushed in last Monday
by the heavy weight Of snow which
had accumulated there.
Mr.. S. C. Robinson, a prominent
mining man Of the Poverty Gulch
and also one Of the owners of the
Ruby Chief mine, was In town this
week.
Report reaches us that Mr.. Robert
Ware and Miss Fanny Hightower
daughter Of w. A. Hightower, who
now resides on the North Fork. were
united in marriage recently.
Mr.. M. E Russell has moved his
family to C. B. where he has bought
the blacksmith shop formerly owned
by Scott Murray, and will carry on
the blacksmithing business in that
place hereafter.
We are in receipt of an invitation
to attend social hop to be given at
the Elk Mountain House tonight, and
would be pleased to attend If we had
two dollars, but under the circum-
stances we will have to decline.
While eating breakfast in the Ho-
tel Belmont the other morning. Capt.
Isaac Baney whistled for the waiter.
The sausage on his plate immediately
turned over and barked. Capt. Shurt-
Left should post his regulars to be
moro careful when he has transient
guests in the house.
Within twenty-four hours from the
time the explosion occurred in the
C. F. & l. coal mine at Crested Butte,
the leading newspapers of the state
and notably our Denver contempt
raries, had resolved themselves into a
coroner's jury and decided that nc
blame be attached to either Sup't
Robinson or Mine Boss Gibson.
We see by the Montrose Messenger
that Joe Selig, the Acknowledgement
Of that town, was given grand re-
ception by his friends on New Years
day, and that Col. Phil Peters of the
Mears Hotel, gave a grand ball In the
evening. Both of these gentlemen
are pioneers of Ruby Camp. and II
always does us good to hear Of Ruby
ties enjoying health and prosperity
(Note-We regret that in some
way the file of the Pilot containing
the account of the great mine ex.
plosion, which occurred during this
period, has been removed. Likely
there was SO much. demand for this
issue that the flies were encroached
upon to furnish much needed copy
-Ed.)