The Elk Mountain pilot., 1910-06-09
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Iona is to have a newspaper.


Yuma musicians are organizing .
band.
Rico musicians have organized a
band.
Pierce will have a local telephone
exchange.
Craig will raise saloon licenses from
$500 to $3.50.
La Veta will have a creamery In
operation, soon.
Del Norte has a hook and ladder
company. Just organized.
A trades and labor assembly has
been organized At Sterling.
Eagle county papers report lots Of
grouse over there this year.
A second bank has been organized
at Haxtun. with $4,000 capital.
Pioneer Day at Craig has been post
poned from June 10th to 23rd.
Balanced Rock. in the Garden OF the
Gods. will be electrically lighted.
The ladies' of the Eastern Star have
organized a chapter at Palisade.
DeBeque people voted unanimously
to add seventy acres to their town.
Only five deaths were reported In
Fort Collins during the month OF May.
Ambrose Broughton, pioneer OF
Park county, died last week at the age
OF SO.
Red Cliff and Florence have ar
ranged for Independence Day celebra-
tions.
Seventh Day Adventists are planning
60 ara,, a bnuca ~ wprShiD af Monte
Vista.
The Normal Institute OF District No.
l will be held at Julesburg June 9Th
to 18th.
]. p. Fountain OF Hillrose lost $500
Percheron team by lightning the 9TH
er day.
The Phillips County Sunday School
convention will be held at Holyoke.
June sth.
Trinidad voted by a good majority
to issue 100000 bonds for new high
school building.
The imon Herald says this years
crop in Lincoln county will be a rec
ord breaker.
The Pitkin fish hatchery has set
ting" OF 100000 rainbow trout eggs In
the troughs.
Hartsel is looking forward to a big
tourist season. A new bath house will
be provided.
Denver commercial bodies are start
ing a campaign for new and modern
railroad station.
Fifty-five thousand young trout were
deposited In the Thompson in Larimer
county last week.
The Crested Butte town council
has ordered several blocks OF cement
sidewalks laid.
Catholics OF walsenburg contem-
plate establishing n parochial school
to cost about 100000.
Masonic ladies' OF Julesburg are or
ganizing a lodge OF the Order Of the
Eastern Star.
l.. N. Ford was killed near Tiff Tues
day by being thrown out of wagon
when his team ran away.
la veta will spend $4,000 in enlarg-
ing and improving Its water system
and the contract has been let.
The pension bureau has recommend
ed a special pension OF $50 \ month
to George w. Custer Of Yuma.
The Milliken Mail reports that work
was commenced on six new buildings
there last week.
The Enterprise says Eagles building
record for this year promises to ex-
coed that Of any previous year.
Clinton Paden OF Dillon was neither
absent nor tardy during the whole
school year Just closed. He was give
prize.
Bids have been opened for the new
Carnegie library at Manitou. and the
contract will be let soon, at around
$1,000.
The Rico Item says the streams in
Dolores county can now be rated as
among the best in the state for trout
fishing.
An organized campaign against the
festive grasshopper will be inaugu-
rated by ranchers in the vicinity OF
Plattevillle.
The Walsenburg Emergency Hospit
al Association has filed Incorporation
papers with the secretary of state.
The capitalization is $4,000.
Litigation having been settled. the
Gordon Tiger mine at Twin Lakes will
resume operations. 1t has produc-
ton record of half million.
l.. j. Neff of Berthoud bought forty
hogs for $51S; fed them $162 worth of
boiled potatoes, and sold them in Den
ver for $1.1S2. No arithmetic needed.
Two residences at Bristol were
struck by lightning one day last week.
and though the inmates were shocked
to some extent, no permanent injury |
resulted.
Harry Bird. an insane patient at
San Rafael hospital, Trinidad, es-
capped Tuesday, was recaptured. and |