The Elk Mountain pilot., 1911-04-27
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring over the
state Worth Telling.

citation organized.
The state reunion Of Elks will con-
vene In Ouray in September.
The home OF ]. A. Y. Alderman. liv-
ing near Castle Rock. was burned.
The second election within two
weeks was held in Colorado Springs.
Bert Snider was given six months
in jail in Pueblo for beating his wife.
Hiram Heckles. aged so. pioneer
OF the Cripple Creek district, is dead
Glenwood Springs big annual festi-
val, Strawberry Day. will be held June
18th.
Beginning about the middle of May
the streets of Holly will be sprinkled
daily.
The government has selected the
site for the Federal building in .Du-
range.
Peter Stoehr. aged rs. dropped dead
at his home In Montrose from heart
disease.
No trace OF VIM. Ward. who disap-
peared from Windsor recently. has
been found.
T. E. Nycherley, miner. was at
tackled and killed at Lafayette by four
Mexicans.
June 3rd is set for a large county
meeting in Greeley of members Of the
Farmers Union.
The county board has let the con-
tract for the new high school building
at Castle Rock.
There are now only about seventy
cars OF sheep on feed for market in
northern Colorado.
Charles T, Howard. an old soldier
and pioneer OF northern Colorado. died
suddenly at Longmont.
The annual meeting OF the White
River Stockgrowers' Association was
held in Meeker recently.
w. p. Foreman. travelling auditor of
the Burlington railroad for thirty-eight
years. died in Denver recently.
The annual spring meeting Of the
Presbytery OF Denver was held at the
First Avenue Presbyterian church.
A chapter OF Sons OF the American
Revolution has ben organized at Fort
Collins with eighteen members.
In a last and exciting game of base
ball the Lupton Blues defeated the La
Sale reds by score Of to l.
The business men OF Idaho Springs
have formed Merchants PROTECTIVE
Association with a large membership.
La Plata county. as usual. escaped
damage from the cold spell. owing to
apples and pears not being in bloom.
Mrs. Cordelia Durfee. mother Of
Representative Alfred Durfee OF Fre-
mont county. died In Michigan re-
Gently.
Roy Engle. Robert Jones and Dick
Wells will soon be tried In District
Court In Pueblo on the charge of horse
Z stealing.
Michigan has reached the position
OF third state In the beet sugar indus
try. Colorado being first and Cali
fornia second.
The Gold Belt theater in Telluride.
an immense frame building erected in
the bonanza days, was burned recent
ly. loss $4,000.
The Presbyterian Church of Trini-
dad burned the mortgage which has
been hanging over the church since Its
construction in 1901.
About ten miles Of track for the
Fort Collins branch line OF the Union
Pacific has been completed from
Dent. and track laying is progressing
at the rate Of a mile day.
The science section of the Colorado
Teachers Association and the Colo
RADIO Mathematical Society will meet
at the University Of Colorado. at
Boulder, April 2sth and 29th.
Louis wechter. under sentence OF
death for the murder of w. Clifford
Burrowes in Denver last February IL.
is in Canon City and will be hanged
during the week beginning July %.
Matt Thomas, Wilbur Webb. Clar-
ence Aiken and Clyde Coin. arrested
Feb. for driving Japanese workmen
out of Delta county, had their pre-
liminary hearing and were acquitted.
Hatpins will be banished in Greeley
and women made to wear ribbons or
strings to fasten their hats under their
chins, II the request made by twenty
men to the new City Council is needed.
The spring training campaign of the
Denver baseball club closed at Tulsa.
Okla, with an exhibition game with
the Sapulpa club of the Western as
sociation. The Denvers won the con-
test by a score of seven to two.
Estes Park has been selected as the
permanent meeting place of-the insti-
tutes and vacation conference of the
western conference Of the Young
Mems Christian Associations. This
will meet July 15 to 80 of this year.