The Elk Mountain pilot., 1911-04-21
LIrrLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring over the
state Worth Telling.

er be closed on Sunday.
The postoffice at Montrose will here
after be closed on Sundays.
The ministers of Grand Junction
have organized baseball nine.
Richard Sleeves, pioneer and prom
inent miner of Boulder. is dead.
The Union Pacific is to spend at
least 100000 on building at Fort Col
Inns.
Farmers throughout the state are ju-
bilant of the prospects of prolific
year.
At Montezuma William Smith shot
and instantly killed ]. E. c'Private')
Black.
The public school building at Glen
wood Springs was recently damaged
by fire.
VIM. Bird Johnson, resident OF
Colorado since 1862. died In Denver
recently.
Jerry Campbell was killed in the
Happy Year mine at Cripple Creek by
cavein.
Robert Archibald OF Trinidad, a C.
F. & |. superintendent at Sopris. died
in Pueblo.
The fortieth anniversary of the
founding of Colorado Springs will be
celebrated on July 81.
Leo Hay. aged seven. of Pueblo. was
fatally injured when a heavy coal wag-
on passed over his body.
Arrangements are practically COM
plete for the annual Chautauqua at
Greeley from July Sth to 18th.
Caught under tons Of falling rock in
the Baum mine. at Frederick. S. Nor
nanz. a Bulgarian. was instantly killed.
More than $4,000 will be given in
purses for races at the state fair.
which will he beld in Pueblo next Sep
tember.
Wednesday. April 26th. has been de-
cided upon as the date for the dedica-
ton OF the new Masonic temple at
Trinidad.
Bert Hanna is at a Leadville hospital
with a bullet through his jaw and
Frank Dutro is in Jail. charged with
the shooting.
The wagon road from Cripple Creek
to Canon City. blocked for four days
by a landslide near the Roosevelt tun-
mel. is open.
The record OF a sale OF three min
ing claims in what is known as the
Carter mining district. near Mason
vile. for $50. 900. has been filed.
More than 100000 fruit trees have
been set out in Pueblo county this
year and fully as many more will be
set out before the season is ended.
Never in the history OF the horticul-
turai industry OF the Canon City dis
trict have the prospects for big fruit
crop been 30 encouraging As At pres
ent.
Never before in the history Of Weld
county were there better prospects for
a bumper fall wheat crop. of which at
least 100. 900 acres is growing in the
county.
At game OF pitch" In Greeley re-
Gently. $4,000 in mining securities
changed hands. the winners using the
game was finished.
The negroes OF Colorado Springs
have started to raise funds for $780,
900 national tuberculosis sanitarium
for their race to be erected on a 400
acre tract near Calhan.
Harry r. Porter has been arrested
in Denver on a charge OF counterfeit
ing money. 1t is believed he has
made and circulated queer" coin in
Denver for several years.
Unless the State Supreme Court
should grant stay OF execution.
Louis wechter. the murderer of w.
Clifford Burrowes. will be hanged
some time between July 23 and 90.
Tuesday evening. April 18th. the I'm
proved Order OF Red Men will give
demonstration and street parade in
Denver, which will be characteristic
OF the aboriRines.
Mayor Speer is In receipt of let
ter from Andrew Carnegie offering to
supply four travelling library buildings
for Denver, provided Denver guar
antees a certain revenue to maintain
the libraries.
A baby show, a dressed doll show
and a moving picture show VIII be
the special features Of the flower show
at Stratton park August 20, "a and
25 by the Ell Paso County Horticul-
tural Society at Colorado Springs.
As soon as Mrs. Marcia McClurg.
daughter OF the late David II. Moffat,
arrives in Denver from New York.
where she arrived recently from Paris.
she, with Mrs. Frances Moffat and
Fred G. Moffat, will qualify as one OF
the executors OF the Moffat will.
BY defeating the Walsenburg team
at Walsenburg recently, the Eaton