The Elk Mountain pilot., 1911-12-14
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While.

oterllns mas CLOSED.
| Yuma has been designated as a pos
tai savings depository.
William Stabelweiser pleaded guilty
to having burglarized two stores at
Olathe.
Edward Murphy was fatally injured
| in a rock slide in the Blue Bird mine
at Victor.
The town OF Fort Luptoa. forty
years old. recently acquired Its first
negro citizen.
A company has applied for fran
chise for an electric lighting and pow
er plant for Kersey.
The Swedish Baptist State Mis-
sionary Society recently held its an
nual meeting in Greeley.
Charles Kelley. aged eighteen. was
detected in the act of robbing the Oak
Creek postoffice and arrested.
Claude Smell. superintendent of the
San Juan and Dolores Telephone Com
pany, died at Durango OF brocken
back.
The Salida Commercial Club has pre-
sented petition to the authorities at
Washington asking for federal build
ing.
Frank Peduttia. coal miner. 40, was
asphyxiated in the abandoned work
ing OF the Royal coal mine near
Aguilar.
During 1911 the Grand valley has
shipped cattle. sugar beets. eggs
poultry. coal. ETC.. to the amount OF
$4,000. 400.
At a mass meeting in Trinidad re-
Gently the opposition to the commits
sion form of government was. almost
unanimous.
For the second time in three weeks
the safe in the Denver 4 Rio Grande
depot at Trinidad was wrecked by
yeggmen. They got 75 cents.
Bob Harris. the negro who was to
have been hung on Dec. . for the muir
der OF two Rocky Ford policemen. has
been granted n stay OF execution.
John p. Sullivan. grand exalted rul-
er OF the Elks. is making a tour OF
the West, during which he will visit
rs many OF the Colorado lodges as he
can.
Prosecution of suit clubs" In Den
yer will extend to solicitors. members
and all others In any way connected
with them IL necessary to eradicate
the clubs.
Policemen of Colorado Springs are
happy because the City Council has
passed the salary ordinance for next
year and there is n general Increase
In salaries.
DR.. X. f. Chandler. pastor of the
First Presbyterian church of Trinidad.
underwent a delicate and dangerous
mastoid operation recently and Is ex-
pectcd to recover.
Sir Gilbert Parker, the noted Eng.
lish author and statesman, is to visit
Colorado for the purpose OF learning
something OF woman's ability to man
age affairs OF government.
Two members OF the State Lunacy
Board are said to have mIsappropriat-
ed money belonging to the state by
paying ]. W. Finkbiner salary to
which he is not legally entitled.
Bruno Grosser. former assistant sec
retary OF the National Jewish Hospital
for Consumptives. charged with for
gerry, larceny and embezzlement, died
At his home In Denver On the eve OF
his trial.
With twenty-five of the leading
cities OF the six counties OF the Ar
kansas valley represented. the Ar
kansas Valley Association of Com
me rcial Clubs was reorganized at La
Jun,a recently.
NUarl ~, th., rnlnrodo .ta,. v,,,savvr,
at Denver is well under way. The
structure will be under roof by the
middle of next summer. The marble
used is the same as used on the new
Denver postoffice.
An information against Angelo De-
andre. night marshal at Superior,
charging him with the murder of J.
ID. Searcy at Superior on the night OF
Nov. IS. has been prepared and placed
in the District Court
1t is stated that work will be re-
sumed on the Colorado-Kansas rail-
road from the western section of the
city OF Pueblo to the quarries of the
Turkey Creek Stone and Gypsum Com
pany, located about sixteen miles west
of Pueblo.
The Rev. Warren II. Wilson, D. D.,
Presbyterian church specialist, rec
ognized as an authority on country
church life. has written an article for
a Chicago church publication in which
he declares that at Brush. Colo, ne
found the most progressive country
community he has encountered in all
the United States.
For town of 1900 people to be
without rural mail service during
the 30 years of its life is an unusual
situation. Meeker is the town, but