The Elk Mountain pilot., 1910-12-08
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth Telling.

SIippie creek IL ouIferln8 Win an
epedemic of typhoid fever.
Major Miles Jain. a pioneer OF
Boulder county is dead.
Fire from an unknown origin con-
sumed the Bracewell school house.
The cost Of the Republican cam
paign in Ell Paso county was 32.69S.49.
The $4,000 Electric building has
been formally opened In Grand juno
ton.
Rio Grande No. struck an unknown
Austrian near Palisade and instantly
killed him. -ssa
With $4,000 worth of stock sub
scribed. the green alfalfa meal mill 70:
Gilcrest seems assured.
Eastern Weld county promises to
be the scene OF extensive irrigation
activity the coming spring.
Charles F. Perkins was instantly
killed in an accident which occurred
at the Perkins saw mill at Meeker.
John Montgomery. farmer near
Gilcrest has raised 225 tons OF beets
on ten acres which brought him 81.
237.50
Jack Markham, one OF the first set
tiers of Windsor. who had lived in
that yinicity 45 years, died Of paraly-
sis. aged 80.
One OF the new weed pests that Is
coming onto the plains of eastern Col
orado is the Jim Hill mustard from
the northwest.
Farmers organized in Greeley unde-
the name Of the Farmers Educational
and Cooperative Union. with II. n.
Bickling. president.
Because he declined to give up
cigarettes. an employe of the Santa Fe.
running between Denver and La Junta
has been discharged.
The Rev. w. F. Highly has resigned
as pastor of the st. Thomas chapel.
Palisade. and accepted call to St
Marks parish in Durango.
That cattle on the Weld county
ranges are now absolutely free OF
scabies is the statement of Govern
ment Cattle Inspector Merrill.
1t is now an accepted fact that
Meeker and the White River vale ;
will be connected by rail with the out
side world during the coming year.
Just two weeks after the death of
Ross Tisdel. his cousin and chum. Er-
nest King. son OF Mrs. Mary King OF
Greeley. died from grief over the loss
Of his comrade.
Fire believed to have been of in
cendiary origin destroyed n stack OF
~ StA~ . n,
farm OF John Oster seven miles south
east OF La Sale.
The Hotchkiss school district il the
banner one OF the state, We believe.
There is now attending school five
pair Of twins. four pair who do not
attend. making nine pair In the dis
trict.
The Western Slope Fruit Growers
Association. capitalized at 100000.
has been Incorporated as the first
step toward combining all the fruit
growing associations in western Colo
RADIO.
FL Paso county tax levy for 1911 has
81 mills over last year. The assessed
valuation OF property this year is s2l.-
92S.l3O AS against 322.000.000 last
year.
George b. Lang. president of the
Farmers Educational and Cooperative
Union OF Colorado. addressed seventy
five farmers OF Fort Collins and vicin-
ity on the work OF the association in
other states.
That the Chicago. Burlington &
Quincy railroad will begin work on its
Greeley-Hudson line early in January
possibly the second day OF the
months the general belief in rail.
road circles.
Plans for the new federal buildiny 2
at Fort Collins have been received by
Postmaster Moore. They call for a
two-story building, 69x95 feet. to pro
vide quarters also for the Forestry
Department and Civil Service exam.-
nations.
New beet contracts for the growers
OF the Fort Collins district have been
issued. They provide the same slid
ing scale in force last season but with
an increase of 12hc per ton for each
additional No of sugar content over
1870, instead of for each 10 increase
under the present contract.
One hundred thousand dollars in
round yellow gold pieces represent
the great bulk OF the fortune which
was taken out Of LaTimeT county into
the domains Of the Russian czar Dy
100 of his faithful subjects. who were
lured from the beet fields to their ma
tive homes by the promise of small
tracts OF land free.
That the Colorado Fuel and Iron
Company has been guilty OF negli
gence and open violation of the coal