The Elk Mountain pilot., 1911-02-09
LIrrLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
state Worth Telling.

State Worth Telling.
The Ingleville mine at Trinidad has
suspended operations indefinitely.
The business men of Grand Junction
Lave organized q social club.
The total tax levy for 1910 in Rio
Grande county is s14o.904.1O.
Mrs. Irene Robinson. resident OF
Weld county for thirty years. is dead.
Mrs. W. H. Conklin. aged Sc. and a
resident OF Sterling for thirty years. is
dead.
The past month was the warmest
and driest January in Colorado since
1872.
Greeley has organized motor
cycle club with a charter membership
of twenty.
The residence Of William Orwig in
North Cripple Creek was burned. with
loss of $1,000.
DR.. T. ]. Estill. prominent ply
sician and pioneer Of Colorado
Springs. Is dead.
Monte Vista has raised the 100000
necessary to secure the new sugar
beet factory.
Denver has "San Francisco. 1915"
club, probably the first organized in
the country.
Senator Barelas ranch near Trini-
dad. consisting Of 2.4O0 acres. has
been sold for $4,000.
Sadie Carter of Pueblo has made
application for position on the fire
department of that city.
Gov. Shafroth says he will not sign
that portion of the short appropriation
hill which raises salaries.
The Colorado & Southern has signed
a contract for joint use of the Santa
Fe track from Pueblo to Denver.
II plans of an Eastern company are
carried out. Milliken will have a to-
mato cannnery costing $4,000.
Northern Colorado farmers have
begun prospecting for grasshopper
eggs by plowing around the edges OF
their fields.
Except Wyoming and Nevada, Colo
RADIO has a larger area OF surveyed
lands not homesteaded than any state
in the union.
In the wrestling match In Denver re-
Gently between Hackenschmidt and
Westerguard. the former won after a
hard contest.
BY shooting herself through the
head at her home In Denver Mrs.
Nellie Dellacqua. 25 years old. COM
mltted suicide.
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Fennsylvanians now resident In Den
yer was held at the Brown Palace ho-
'el January 3Oth.
Several settlements Of Oklahoma
farmers will be established in the
Crow Creek district. east OF Greeley.
next spring.
The San Luis Oil and Gas Com
pany struck oil OF excellent quality
at depth of $50 feet eight miles
northeast OF Alamosa.
Finishing touches are being put on
the lines which will complete the
great high tension loop OF the North.
ern Colorado Power Company.
With a mighty rush Of water a por-
ton OF the intake to the Empire res
eivoir at Harbin was torn out. wash.
ing away 500 feet OF embankment.
Members OF the faculty OF the State
University of Boulder believe they
should have larger salaries and have
asked the regents for an increase.
After thirty years active service in
the Union National bank of Greeley
as bookkeeper and cashier. Miss Flor
ence Gill has retired to take her first
vacation.
Telegraph messages by telephone
without extra charge for the telephone
connection is now possible from all
stations OF the Colorado Telephone
Company.
1 Joe McCray OF Longmont died at
Amarillo. Texas. as the result OF In
juries received in a wrestling match
at that place with Harry Mayes OF
Mayo. Texas.
A fine of 800 and costs each was
imposed by District Judge Hunter at
Trinidad upon thirty-nine saloonkeep-
crs arrested In October for violating
the Sunday law.
The first batch OF deeds OF trans.
fer Of real estate to the Colorado Il
Southern railroad for Its right of way
for the Wellington-Cheyenn connect.
ing link has been filed with the coun-
ty clerk for record at Fort Collins.
That by June there will be a high
way between Denver and some of the
Western cities of Nebraska is the
statement made by c. p. Allen. chair
man of the State Highway Commits
sion.
A report from the corn show at Co
lnmbus. Ohio. gives A. NJ. Shay OF
Greeley the national sweepstakes for
soft wheat. Clifford Davis OF Long
mont took third honors on sheaf
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