The Elk Mountain pilot., 1910-06-30
COLORADO
STATE NEWS


at Sterling.
A. half-mile racetrack has been fin
ished at Atwood.
Alma has move on foot to have the
town lighted by electricity.
A government weather observer has
been installed in office at Canon City.
Latest estimates anent Greeley's
population place the figures at about
5000.
Rocky Ford Elks expect to take
steps soon toward providing a lodge
home
The town of Hayden has granted an
electric light franchise, to run twenty
five years.
Caonn City has been selected as the
meeting place of the State Epworth
League next year
The Hayden Building Company. with
a capitalization of 500, 900 has been in
corporated at Hayden.
The town of Collbran is trying to
figure out a plan for the acquisition
of waterworks plant.
The Denver Fire and Police Board
has issued orders that no fireworks
are to be sold prior to July I'd.
Lemuel T. Talmage. a veteran Of the
Civil War. was found dead at George
town. where he had lived forty-two
years.
The water proposition which was
submitted to a vote of the citizens OF
Alamosa Tuesday was defeated by a
vote OF 96 to 46.
The Boulder City Council will sub
nit to the voters at the next election
the proposition OF calling convention
to frame charter.
| Sterling is In line for an $4,000 ho-
tel. and already a considerable amount
of the stock Of the building company
has been subscribed
Telluride Efks presented Past Ex-
halted Ruler F. E. Curry with life
membership card. Of solid gold and
weighing nearly four ounces.
Mike Bupka was asphyxiated In the
steel works at Puebla Tuesday by In
haling gas from supply pipe. He had
had employment only few hours.
The Alma Bulletin reports that "the
Hilltop mine shipped eighty cars OF
high. grade zinc and lead ore last
month. and will do better this month" :"
Misses Mayme and Eda Blumck
were cloroformed and robbed at thek
home In Fort Collins Thursday night.
looked $50.
Crakmor sanitarium. built by the
late Gen. william j. Palmer At Colo
RADIO Springs. has been sold to DIR. A.
NJ Forster OF Baltimore for = consid.
Grafton around $4,000.
A semI-official statement from
Washington gives the population Of
Colorado as s26.741. an increase of
fifty-three per cent. over the figures
OF 1900. which were 539.700.
Iinley Sample. a ranchman living
near Calhan, received serious and
possibly fatal wound when gun he
was carrying in his hip pocket
dropped and was discharged into his
thigh.
Professor Claude Hinman Of the
Kansas Agricultural College has noti-
fled DR.. Lory that he will accept his
offer to become director OF farmers
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| Colorado.
. F. Mark of Pueblo was fined 800
and costs at Pueblo Thursday for sell
ing liquor on Sunday. This is the
third conviction from the batch OF in
dictments returned by the last grand
jury.
Lightning killed four mules and a
horse belonging to w. A. Sample. who
lives near Eaton. Thursday. Sample
and another man standing near were
knocked down but not seriously In
jured.
Burlington officials have recently
made the statement that Greeley is to
be an important junction point in that
system, and that grading on the Hud-
son-G Greeley line would begin as soon
as certain contracts had been signed.
While John 8. Cusack Of Wellington
was cranking his automobile the thing
started up and hiked right across the
street and poked its nose through the
front window OF Patterson's drug
store. Cusack ought TO put hopples
or the old fool. '.,;,--;
1t is proposed ito. have body guard
comprising every sheriff In Colorado
to meet Col. Roosevelt at the state
line and escort him upon his trip
throughout the state upon the occa-
sion OF the visit of the ex-president
| here this fall.
]. A. Bernard, Midland agent at
Granite, wrote to the chief dispatcher:
You will find my account at Granite
little short. but I am gone.-J. A.
Bernard" And SO he was. Besides
the 800 reported to be missing. cit
izen OF the town also mourns the loss