The Elk Mountain pilot., 1910-10-13
LirTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth Telling.

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Beet grinding has begun At Brush.
Montrose will have q poultry show
in February.
Colorado Springs will entertain the
1911 Dry Farming Congress.
| The Commercial Club Of Ault has
elected F. ]. Mcintyre president.
The negroes of Denver are planning
. theater Of their own in that city.
The estimated valuation of the tax
able property of Colorado Springs is
&12.13o.000.
The Arkansas Commercial Associa-
tion will send an exhibit to the Chica-
90 Land Show.
Demonstration farms are to be es-
tablished In Colorado by the State Ag-
ricultural college.
A. M. Crowden has been elected
president OF the Fort Morgan Cham
Der of Commerce.
Magpies are killing off Chinese
pheasants around Greeley. The
Chinese must go.
Ten cars OF potatoes were sent out
Of Greeley by one firm Wednesday at
80 cents a hundred.
Montrose is raising a fund to have
the valley represented at the Chicago
Land Show in November.
Fort Morgan will soon nave cream
cry to use the product OF 1000 cows.
says the Chamber Of Commerce.
Clarence B. Watkin. Of the High
Iarda poetOffira hae hoeu annOinted a
postoffice inspector.
Several deer have been bagged near
Canon City although the dry. warm
weather Is detrimental to hunting.
1t is estimated that about 1000 cars
of murphys will be shipped from Gree
ley and surrounding stationA this sea
son.
The thirty-third anual convention
Of the Woman's Temperance Union CT
Colorado will be held in Denver Oct.
1914.
F. r. Rockwell Of Paonia has been
appointed general superintendent Of
the D. 4 r. G.. to succeed J. w. Dean.
resigned.
La Sale has substituted = chain
gang In place OF the proverbial latch
string for impecunious visitors Of the
hobo variety.
The body OF an unknown man was
found Wednesday on the south sidp
of Longs peak In Boulder county. No
Identification.
A 100000 scheme to water 1O0.-
900 acres near Lamar il being consid-
cred by the Bent-Prowers Irrigation
district At Lamar.
From July to Sept. 80 there werc
shipped from Steamboat Springs s5l
carloads Of cattle. 146 cars OF sheep
and cars OF horses.
DIR. W. w. Ranney. pastor OF the
First Congregational church. has been
elected president Of the Colorado
Springs Ministerial Association.
The skeleton OF = man was found
In the mountains several miles west
Of Hustled Wednesday and Coroner
David Law is investigating.
Edwin Slocumb. 4 pioneer OF the
Grand valley and one Of the wealth.
est men in Grand Junction. died sud
deny Wednesday afternoon.
SOIOThuO oRSmBs puybiSioh1 eAe
active in making arrangements for the
annual convention Of the State Medi-
cal Society In this city October Ills.
Olin Thoilson. postmaster At Glen
wood Springs, Colo, and Elmus Beltx..
postmaster at Laramie. Wyo.. have
filed applications for authority to open
postal savings banks.
More than $4,000 will be added to
the states revenues during the next
sixty days from the estates Of wealthy
property owners who have died since
the first OF the year.
The Bit and Spur Club Of Denver.
the Denver Cricket Club and other or
ganizations are to Join the new Over
land Country Club and the member
ship promises to 90 beyond the SOC
mark set as goal when the movement
to organize a new club was started.
Theodore Arthur. q hunter. wearing
a doe-colored coat. only escaped .'i,;,th
IN th.. hills near Ruedi by tho ft't
thai the two strangers who thong /.
he was a deer and shot six times at
him were not experts In marksn ,n-
ship. He was shot in the leg but viii
recover and the shooters are con.in-
uing their sanguivorous career. having
escaped apprehension.
To compel the Colorado Midland
Railway Company and other western
Interstate carriers to grant through
routes and Join rates on coal shipped
from the South Canon mine in Colora-
do to Kansas, Nebraska. Missouri. Ok.
lahoma. Texas and New Mexico.
complaint was filed against the roads
with the Interstate Commerce Com
mission by the Colorado Coal Traffic