The Elk Mountain pilot., 1909-09-09
COLORADO ITEMS

urday, according to a statement issued
by the Grand junction Fruit Growers
Association.
Five families have been quaran-
tined in Louisville owing to an cpl
demic of smallpox. which has had
pronounced run in the mining town
for the last two weeks.
The noted 3-R ranch. embracing
1855 acres and twenty-six cubic feet
of water right, located near Beulah.
was sold by r. F. Weitbrec to former
Senator Hume Lewis for $125,00O.
The opinion OF farmers of Logan
county and others fully competent to
Judge OF agricultural conditions. 10
that that section of the state VIII
yield the greatest crops ever known
Thirty thousand acres of land were
disposed of at public auction IN Den
yer. by the State Land oBard, for
$4,000 This is the largest sale ever
held by the board, but another TO De
held next month will equal II.
Jim Flynn. the Pueblo fighting IRE
man who is to meet Bill Pettus at Pu-
eblo on September 22nd in a ten
.blo baseball club. has arrived from
California and will open up training
quarters soon. Pettus is expected TO
arrive soon and start training.
An exhibit OF pottery. drawings and
other art objects made by students oil
the State Normal School is being
shown at the teachers institute at
Cheyenne The work OF both the
training school and mature students
is included. Prof. Richard Ernesti.
head of the art department, is giving
A course OF lectures.
There is $4,000 worth OF buildings
being erected in Eaton at the present
time. including a $4,000 high school
building. a new building for the Eaton
National Bank. the Sandberg * Pier
son implement house and a new laun'
dry which is being put up by j. A.
Warren. Six miles OF sidewalk have
been laid
Joe Shea. II years old. the son of
w II. Shea, clerk of the District
Court. while working on the reservoir
Of the Denver Union Water Company,
near Morrison. fell twelve feet onto
the concrete cement pavement, light
ing on his head. II is believed that
the young man sustained concussion
OF the brain. His condition is critical.
At the new town OF Gill the con
struction gang OF the Union Pacific
arrived and broke ground for the new
station of the road at that point in
conjunction with a gang OF working
h. lt
scales for a commission house. The
switch tracks OF the branch line have
been completed and work on the
depot will be rushed.
Henry Horst of Loveland. in com
pany with Weld county officer. has
been securing the country between
Loveland and Grover in an effort to
catch the man who is alleged 10 have
stolen a horse from Horst's pasture
last Thursday. party of Loyeland
people stated that they met the man
near Grover.
Ed lillian, notorious horsethief and
ex-convict. who escaped from the Del.
ta Jail July 2Sth. has been recaptured
in Monticello. Utah. When he escaped
lillian had a handto-hand encounter
with Sheriff Williams. whom he near.
ly murdered. Extraordinary efforts
we're made by officers in all OF this
inter-mountain country to find the
man. lillian was recognized by a for.
mer pal. who gave the officers hint
OF his whereabouts. his rearrest result
ing. Sheriff Williams will leave TO.
night to bring him back.
The Santa Fe railroad will have to
pay its annual license to the state OF
Colorado or quit running its trains
across the state line. This. in effect.
was the decision of Federal Judge
Lewis in Denver. when he sustained
the demurrer filed by the attorneys
for Timothy O'Connor. former Secre-
.ary OF State. holding that the tax of
81 fer every 81 900 of capitalization of
corporations doing business in Colo
RADIO was a valid one and that the plea
of the railroad that the imposition of
| the tax was an Interference with inter
state commerce was not based on
legal grounds.
Lsandro Martinez. charged with be.
ing the leader of the gang which at.
tempted to steal the payroll of the
Victor American Fuel Company. Aug
ust IA. was held to the next term of
the District Court at Trinidad under
five separate charges. Two of the
charges are for the larceny of live
stock. one growing out of the fact that
he took the horse of Senator Casamira
Barela on the day of the hold-up. and
another that he took the horse OF Leo
Lente, herd boy. who was at work
not far from the scene of the attempt.
ed robbery. A third charge is that of
conspiracy to rob and the fourth OF
assault to kill Deputy Raphael Martin
| who was shot from hic bona, h,,