The Elk Mountain pilot., 1910-09-01
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Sunday School Baseball League.
A petition Is being circulated at
Hayden for the submission Of the wet
and dry proposition again this fall.
About 1000 men are at work on the
railroad between Pueblo and Walsen-
burg. where the line Is being double
tracked.
Colorado produces one-fourth Of the
beet sugar Of the United States. Last
year the state turned out 280. .00O. 900
pounds.
Over 100000 trout fry have been
supplied by the fish hatchery At
Creede for stocking streams In New
Mexico.
Elaborate plans are making for the
opening Of the Roosevelt tunnel at
Cripple Creek. though the Colonel will
not be present.
C. ]. Kavalec of Brainard. Nebraska,
was crushed by an elevator at the Ala
mo hotel. Denver. 10 seriously that he
died at the hospital.
bic yards of dirt on the main canal Of
tho Pueblo L Rocky Ford Irrigation
Company has been let
The Union Printers home At Colo
RADIO Springs was awarded first honor1
for landscape gardening at the 81
Paso Horticultural show.
Miss Irene Howbsrt. = resident OF
the Pixies Peak region since 1860 and
= member Of one Of Colorados most
prominent families. died At Colorado
Springs at the age Of 60.
Rocky Ford sent out $4,000 crates Of
cantaloupes. sixty-one carloads Thurs
day. The quality this year II said to
be the best In the history Of the In
dustry in the ArkAnsas Valley.
General Superintendent G. w.
Kouns Of the Santa Fe has given out
the opinion that unless that road
builds . second line between Pueblo
and Denver traffic will be blocked.
Garfield county commissioners have
decided to appropriate $500 to pay the
expenses OF gathering an exhibit to
send to the Interstate Fair At Denver
and the Colorado State Fair at Pu.
eblo.
20 early and suddenly this year that
b. order Of the mayor all the stores
closed one day last week. 30 that pro-
prietors and clerks could 20 out and
help with the crop.
A report from the northern Colora-
do coal fields Friday Is to the effec:
that the miners are willing to con-
fer with the operators and even con-
cede some points In controversy. bu:
that the demand for . wage increase
will be insisted upon.
Greeley.-Raymond King shot and
killed = monster prairie wolf II the
eastern part of this county while au-
tomobiling with his father. It meas
ured nearly five feet in length and is
the first animal of this kind killed in
the county In nine years.
While being returned to the Pueblo
Jail after being fined 500 in court on
a vagrancy charge. Peter Kerr. an al
legged kleptomaniac. made an attempt
bers. who assessed the fine. He had
almost reached the Jail to work out
the fine when the deputy discovered
the headpiece under the prisoners
coat. The police say petty thieving
is = mania with Kerr.
The Colorado Editorial Association
held Its midsummer meeting at Buena
Vista Friday and Saturday and were
given a look-in at the new Kuenzel
smelter where ores were being re-
duced to q matte which will be refined
in a departs ent not yet completed.
The editors were also entertained at a
banquet rendered by Warden and Mrs
Felix O'Neill Of the State Reforma-
tory, where urgent needs Of the insti-
tuition were pointed out. and the news
paper men will work to create a more
generous sentiment among their state
legislators in the way OF appropria-
tions, that this institution may do ef-
ficiently and speedily the work laid
out for 1t.
The amount apportioned to the fund
OF the Colorado state militia bv the
government Is $15.392.
A big irrigation project which will
mean much to the northwestern par.
OF the state seems in q fair way to
come to a successful elimination. II
IL proposed to take the water from
the Williams Fork q few miles above
the Egry ranch. carry It across the
divide onto the Bear river slope and
irrigate about 10000 acres OF land
south Of Hayden and Craig. The plan
10 believed to be feasible and will NO
ADMIT h. carried through