The Elk Mountain pilot., 1911-09-21
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
small Happenings Occurring over the
state Worth While.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
The Platteville cannery is putting
out 10000 cans daily.
For bootlegging. Chris. Miller of
Eril. was fined $135.65.
Heavy rains have fallen over the
western portion OF Colorado.
William Clark of Pierce. aged SO,
died from the effects OF hiccoughs.
J. B. Bailey has been appointed
postmaster at Pawnee, Morgan coun-
".
The fall term OF the United States
District Court is in session In Mont
rose.
Viola N Rogers has been appointed
postmaster at Swallows. Pueblo
county.
Men and teams are at work on the
Denver-Laramie grade southeast OF
Severance.
Chicago capitalists are seeking sites
for the erection of ice plants In north
ern Colorado.
A fire in Ouray caused damage to
property amounting to several thou
sand dollars.
Miss Cipriana Subejona. q Filipino
girl. has entered the Colorado Medical
College at Boulder.
The farmers in the vicinity Of
Greeley are planning to start q
creamery in that city.
The Colorado Springs police have
been asked to locate Frank Russell.
90. who has disappeared.
Farmers near Meeker report large
bands of lobo wolves. which are max
ing depredations on stock.
Mine operators of the Rocky Noun
ain district will hold First Aid con
est In Trinidad. September 2S.
II is rumored from New York that
President f. T. Jeffery of the Denver
Rio Grande will soon resign.
Farmers have taken up potato rails
.ng as never before. and the revenues
rom that product will be surprising.
The coal mines at Somerset. near
GunnIson. are on fire. and the com-
pany is threatened with heavy loss.
The four-year-old daughter OF Bert
Reynolds of Kcrsey. fell into a tub OF
boiling water and her injuries are
fatal.
The members of st. Mary's Catho.
lie Church In Montrose are TO have n
handsome new home In the Immediate
future.
Thirteen thousand dollars OF the
forty thousand dollars needed for
he Boulder cutlery factory has been
subscribed.
The largest sugar beet reported this
season was grown by G. u. Foster
near Greeley and weighed sixteen
pounds.
The state highway between Long
mont and Lafayette viii be finished at
once by the Boulder County Com
inissioners.
After twenty-four years OF service ms
City Tramway Company. Samuel c.
Dorsey has resigned.
Apples are more plentiful than ever
bofore-at least for many years-and
the Western slope is shipping whole
carloads Of cantaloupes.
Visitors from all sections o. the
county attended the annual reunion OF
he Routt County Pioneers Associa-
lion at Steamboat Springs.
Denver has been selected as the
permanent headquarters OF the West
| Central division of the National Young
Women's Christian Association.
The second jury in the Doney
Brown-Gilbo cattlerustling case. al
Meeker. after having been out all
night, returned verdict OF guilty.
To complete the Prewitt reservoir
lam at Keota according TO contract
within ninety days, 800 teams are Al
work and 200 more Will be put ON.
A fist fight between Claude f
Street, state oil inspector, and Prank
Long. clerk in the secretary OF
stae's office. enlivened the corridors ol
the capitol recently.
The government will maintain q
fire lookout station on Cheyenne
mountain. overlooking the eastern
slope OF the Front range. near Colora
do Springs, this fall.
Up to the present time some five
carloads OF early potatoes have beer
shipped from Greeley to Texas points
Farmers have received for these from
s1.10 to 31.25 per cwt.
Mrs. Mary Manson. who has livet
In Monte Vista since 1876, died yer,
suddenly in Landskroua, Sweden. &C
cording to a recent cablegram. Mrs
Manson was one OF the Oldest settler.
of Monte Vista and Colorado.
Mike Band. a prominent farmer n
Ault. was badly wounded in the fac,
and his right eyelid cut off with 1