The Elk Mountain pilot., 1910-07-21
LITTLE
COLORADO
I T E M S

ng bonds.
A Christian church is being organ
zed at Montrose.
The hotel at Copperfield was de-
,troyed by fire with a loss of $4,000.
Iowa residents of Palisade are ar
angling for an Iowa day August 3D..
Dining cars on the Moffat road have
discontinued the custom of serving liq-
iors.
La Veta Methodists have just or
tered plans for a new church to cost
$1,000.
The dog poisoner has made away
with several valuable CANNES at
Romeo.
Longmont City Council has granted
franchise for piping natural gas to
The city.
quarter section of state land at
kamah has been purchased for park
purposes.
Glenwood Springs wants the state
Republican convention. So does Grand
Junction.
Irrigation enterprises around Rife
contemplate the watering of 10000
acres of land.
Crook. Logan county. has voted to
issue bonds for the building of $780,
900 school house.
Col. Roosevelt has teIegraphed to
Denver that he will be there August
2sth. arriving at 1890 a. IN.
The new school building at Windsor
has been completed at a cost OF $40.-
900. 1t is modern in every detail
Pablo Valdez of Trinidad is dead
from blood poisoning, as the result OF
having cut corn from one OF his toes.
On the Goth Cheyenne Wells will
vote on the question OF issuing $4,000
I, improve and enlarge the city water
system.
w. f. Rhinehart, well-known bnsi-
ress man OF Grand Junction. was run
down and killed by freight train
Wednesday.
DR.. and Mrs. w. II. Allen have just
celebrated their golden wedding ami
yersary at Boulder. They came to
Colorado in 1864.
One merchant at Greeley has sold |
10000 pounds of paris green this year
10 be used as breakfast food for potato
bugs and grasshoppers.
Palisade has started off well with
its early peaches. During the week
ending July 9Th there were sent out
1926 crates-about six and half car
loads.
An ordinance has been passed by the
City Council OF La Veta submitting the
question OF issuing $4,000 additional
bonds for the betterment OF the water
system.
A movement is on foot In Denver to
revive the Festival OF Mountain and
Plain which in years agone drew such
crowds to Denver. The last festival
was held In 1901.
Benlno Fernandez was instantly
killed at the Minnequa plant at Pu
eblo by being run down by a large
crane. He evidently stepped in front
of 1t without seeing it.
Stephen F. Wilson, a Denver & Rio
Grande freight brakeman. was instant
y killed at Florence by coming in con
tact with an overhead bridge as he
was standing upon n box car. His
body was hurled fifty feet.
Jackson Cary OF De Beque was held
up. slugged. robbed of s2S and thrown
into the river. Cary. who is old, man
aged to crawl up the bank and make
his way to assistance. and two sus
poets were arrested for the deed.
A new entrance from the north to
City Park. Denver. a quarter Of a mile
in length and 100 feet wide is pro
vided for In a measure passed by the
board OF supervisors. II will be part
ar the extensive boulevard system OF
the city.
When Archie Bishop, aged II. cut
an artery in his foot while in the river
near Greeley the other day. his little
brother. aged 13. hoisted him up on
his fack and carried him home, where |
life probably saved.
A skeleton found between Hardin |
and Masters by Burlington engineers |
recently has been Identified. It is be
lieved. as that OF Mrs. C. A. White OF
Missouri. who was drowned in the Box
Elder in June, 1850. After the find had
been made known Greeley parties be
gan an investigation which resulted |
in pretty well establishing its identity |
Timothy O'Connor. United States
surveyor general for Colorado: Arthur
d. Kidder, United States supervising |
surveyor for Colorado and Utah. and
Frank johnson, holding the same posi- |
tion for Wyoming and Montana. have
been il conference at the Denver of
flee for several days making plans fol |
surveying and re-surveying public
lands in the Western states under the
lines laid down by recent enactment
of Congress.