The Elk Mountain pilot., 1911-08-17
LIrrLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring over the
state Worth While.

ia, is dead.
September has been set aside as
Pickle Day at Platteville.
Several parties have recently been
held up by highwaymen in Delta.
The Cheyenne Indians defeated the
Greeley Spuds by a score of to 6.
Mrs. Nancy Melvin, a resident OF
Kersey for twenty-five years. is dead.
One day recently the Ramah cream
cry shipped twenty-six cans of cream.
Lafayette Hughes has resigned as a
member of the State Board of Char
tiles.
Olathe will erect a water works sys-
tenn to cost not over $4,000. immedi-
ately.
Company D.. N. G. c.. won the
sharp-shooters' cup at the rifle shoot
N Golden.
After October / a rural mail route
will be established out of the Pierce
postoffice.
The Mason Oil Company of Mancos
have made arrangements to complete
heir new oil well.
Secretary of the Interior Fisher
has given his approval of the Denver
Foothills Park project.
Pat Ryan is in the Victor jail
charged with breaking into saloon
and taking SIS in cash.
The 5-year-old daughter of Mrs.
Minnie Baker fell from a moving cab
in Pueblo and was killed.
Work will be resumed on the Gun
nison tunnel project in Montrose coun-
ty and pushed to completion.
1t is rumored there will be an extra
session of the Eighteenth General AS
sembly before the year ends.
From the sale OF S125.000 in bonds
FOR the completion OF the Silver Lake
lam, Boulder. will be ahead $S12.5O.
Fourteen horses were cremated
when fire destroyed the Stacey 4
Mathis livery stables at Pueblo.
While chopping wood near ouray.
John Smell had the misfortune to cut
one OF his hands In fearful manner.
New York capitalists have for $3.50.
700 bought the Colorado Railway,
Light and Power Company at Trini'
lad.
Fire destroyed the farmhouse and
contents of Albert Becker. one mile
southeast of Johnstown. The loss is
$4,000.
The new Court of Appeals judges
appointed by Gov. Shafroth will not
assume the duties OF thei: office until
Oct. /.
c. Rugh shipped the first carload OF
cabbage from Greeley this season TO
Texas. the growers receiving 75 cents
q hundred.
John Hardin, eiEhty-five years old. n
pioneer. died at his home on Lone
Pine creek. twenty miles northwest
Of Livermore.
The Trinidad Transmission Railway
Gas Company. with capitalization
of 100000 has filed articles OF In
corporation.
As the result of n premature explo
sion of a giant powder cap the son OF
James McClaren of Cripple Creek vii,
lose one eye.
More than dozen cities are out
after the next great council OF the l.
10. X. NJ. with Denver and Colorado
Springs in the lead.
The twelfth annual convention OF
the w. c. T. U. chapters in Morgan,
Washington and Yuma counties was
recently held at Brush.
John Mauk, convicted of bootleg
ging. was sentenced at Grand June
tion to thirty days in the county jail
and also given fine OF 5000.
]. NJ. Berry. sixty-three years old. n
wealthy farmer of La Sale. took out
a marriage license TO wed Miss Amer
lea Callahan. fifty-three years old.
Washington James Buchanan. one
Of the Oldest men. one OF the earliest
settlers and one OF the best known
citizens OF Ouray county. is dead.
Mrs. Seraphine Pisko has been ap-
pointed secretary of the National Jew.
sh Hospital for Consumptiyes. at Den
yer, to succeed the late Alfred Muller.
Starkville, one of the Oldest au'i
largest Colorado Fuel & Iron Compa
ny camps in Las Animas county. was
the scene OF a disastrous fire, all
damage OF $4,000 was done.
The case filed by George J. Kindcl
before the state railroad commission
against the express companies doing
business in the state was dismissed
by the commission for lack Of jurisdic-
ton.
The new drinking cup law, which
compels the disuse of drinking cups
in public Places or at public foun.
tains," is construed by Deputy Dis
trict Attorney Jesse Laton Of Denver
not to apply to clubs.