The Elk Mountain pilot., 1911-10-12
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring over the
State Worth While.

State Worth While.
Western Newspaper Union News Service
The d. r. G. freight depot at
Canon City is completed.
The Georgetown Library Associa.
ton has been incorporated.
The d. & II. G. depot at Olathe was
entered by thieves and 500 stolen.
From October l to inclusive. 140
deer were killed in Chaffee county.
District Court is in session in Boul-
der. with Judge Neil Graham presid
ing.
Thomas II. Johnston has been ap-
pointed postmaster at saltwater.
Grand county.
Seventeen thousand people celebrat-
ed the eleventh annual Pumpkin Pie
Day at Longmont.
Mrs. Mary A. Kretchmer. for forty
years resident of Colorado. died in
her home In Pueblo.
The State Board OF Equalization cut
the original assessment OF the rail
roads OF the state $4,000.
A. S. Barns. rancher. residing near
Grand Junction. has an apple tree
which is now in full bloom.
A bitter cold rain. with snow in
some sections. has given southern
Colorado its first touch OF winter
James Truett. Is years old. OF Grip
pie Creek was accidentally shot and
killed while out with hunting party.
.,
OF Crowley county was opened at Ord
way Monday. with Judge Essex ON the
bench.
G. G. Phillip OF Fort Lupton. has
hen which has adopted a family of
eight young kittens and is taking good
care of them
The charred body OF a man identi-
fled as that of Stark Zimmerman. was
found after the fire at the Columbia
mine. near Ouray.
A big feature OF the Crowley County
Fair on Sugar Day. at Sugar City, Oct.
18th. will he the drawing for the
horses and saddles.
Mr.. and Mrs. William +. Miller. pip-
neer residents of Grand Junction, eel
ebrated their fifty-ninth wedding an
niyersary recently.
6. W. McGovern OF Salida has on
exhibition turnip weighing ten
pounds and measuring rs inches in
circumference.
Paul Frank. an cmploye of the
Pueblo Electric Company. is in a pre-
carious condition as the result of Il
rattlesnake bite.
Frank Il. Castlemnn. director of
athletics az the University OF Colo
RADIO. is advocating an intercollegiate
cross-country run.
The Northwest Colorado Masonic
Association was recently organized at
Fort Morgan. when several hundred
Masons from that section met
Governor Shafroth has named Colo
radios twenty-seven delegates to the
Farmers National Congress. to be held
at Columbus. Ohio, October II TO l6.
Washouts on every side practically
isolated the Grand valley from the
rest OF the world and 200 through pas
sengers were tied up for at least twen-
ty-four hours.
The Burlington railroad has formed
an alliance with the Santa Fe and
hereafter tourists from the Northwest
will come to Denver via Omaha in
Santa Fe cars.
District Attorney Willis V. Elliott.
of Denver. has filed direct information
| against Mrs. Gertrude Gibson Patter-
son, charging her with numbering her
husband, Charles Patterson.
Because he sat on a bench in the
park with a woman not his wife, Alex
Taws, chief of police oil Colorado City.
has lost his job. Mayor p. J. Hamble
dismissed him from service.
The Chamber of Commerce banquet
at Ell Jebel temple in Denver, in honor
of President Taft cost s2,711 and 49,
| 72l was realized from the sale of tick
cts, leaving a balance OF $40.
J.B. Baldwin, for the last six years
one of the officials of the United
States mint in Denver. died suddenly
at his old home in Williamsport, Pa.
| Heart disease was the cause of death.
Steps are being taken by the people
| of Canon City to secure the proposed
Colorado Odd Fellows home. to be To-
Gated by the grand lodge of that or
ganization at the 1911 session in Den
yer.
United States Senator Cummins of
Iowa. one of the leaders of the Pro
gressive Republicans in Congress as
well as among the people. will visit
Denver and address a mass meeting
October 18th.
The Meeker-Rifle stage. with large
load of prominent Meeker people on
| hoard went through the DrywaSh