The Elk Mountain pilot., 1910-12-29
LITTLE COLORADO lrEms.
Small happenings Occurring Over the
state Worth Tsilina.

highways.
The Master Masons of Montrose are
building $500 temple.
Colorado will have surplus of
100000 at the end Of the year.
Greeley lodge of Elks has under con-
s:deration plans for 100000 club
house.
A fire company has been organized
in Grover. under the auspices of the
Commercial club.
Captain A. c. Lee. well known Sal
ystion Army worker of Colorado
Springs is dead.
There were 2.20O irrigation enter
prises begun in Colorado In the last
seventeen months.
A concentrator for treating the ores
of Gilpin county may possibly be
erected in Golden.
A six per cent quarterly dividend
will be paid Jan. l by the Denver Gas
& Electric Company.
Daisy F. Wilde. the seventeen-year-
In the breast in Denver is dead.
After an illness OF several years OF
cancer. Mrs. Sophia Smith. a resident
Of Weld county for fifty years. died.
The death of Samuel Higgins. \
miner Of Frederick. was the second IA
tai accident at the mine within three
days.
Death claimed one OF the pioneers
OF Pueblo county when J. ID. Andrus.
who came TO Pueblo in 1865. passed
away.
The state highway commission has
expended $56.0OO in the construction
OF state roads since its creation last
summer.
Amos n. Parrish. Republican, will
represent the Twenty-fifth Senatorial
district at the coming session CT the
Legislature.
The state land board has sold 277.-
900 acres OF land in the last seven
teen months. at an average price OF
s1l.51 an acre.
Senator Guggenheim has introduced
a bill in the Senate to appropriate
10000 to establish botanical labora-
tory at Denver.
The Greenhorn Creek ranch of S.
200 acres. Pueblo. was sold to Thomas
8. Hayden Realty Company OF Denver
for about sl25.ooo.
r. +. Aylward OF I.eadville recently
purchased the Jerry Kaufman ten
acre tract east OF that town for a con-
sideration OF $500.
w. II. Mcclure. n pioneer OF Kan
sas. died in Greeley. aged 81. He was
4 member OF the First Territorial
Legislature OF Kansas.
Charles Wilseeck. sanitary Inspector
for the Colorado A. Southern railway.
dropped dead OF heart disease in the
union station at Denver.
The real estate exchange, which
was organized at Sterling recently. has
been enlarged so as to take In all real
estate men In Logan county.
An appropriation OF $4,000 for
sprinkling Denver streets during 1911
has been asked for by Thomas Phil
lips. superintendent OF the highway
department.
Because of the heavy fall of snow.
about two and one-half feet on the
Laramie side of the Greeley-Poudre
tunnel. work has been stopped for the
winter on the tunnel reservoir.
William Payne. found guilty OF muir
der IN the second degree in Colorado
Springs. for stabbing his wife to
6eath, was denied a new trial and SEN
tencved to the penitentiary for life.
Judge Garrigues set aside the yer.
dict of murder in the second degree
against Charles George and his wife
Rosena in Greeley and granted them
new trial.
Surrounded by the immediate men,
Uzzell. pastor of the Peoples Taber-
Dacle, died in Denver. Death was
caused by cancer of the liver.
The Rio Grande is planning to intro
duce on their Denver-Salt Lake
through train quick lunch car which
will be equipped with everything
usually found in a first class quick
lunch restaurant.
One man is dead and two others are
in the county Jail in Grand Junction
as the result of battle between a
posse of citizens and three men who
had robbed a general merchandise
store at Clifton.
Two young sons of Hon. Archie Nc
Lachlan of Craig broke through the
ice while skating. and sank in ice cold
water. The elder boy was resusci-
tated after nearly two hours work. but
the younger one was drowned.
The proposition to issue bonds for
construction of a municipal water
works system was voted down in De
Beque by 10 to 10 and for another two
years residents will be forced to hau,
water in barrels from the river.