The Elk Mountain pilot., 1911-04-06
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happsninss Occurring Over the
state Worth Telling.

Denver has at present about 800
boy scouts.
The net worth of the city of Den
yer is $l9.677.336.3O.
Thos. j. Burns. a resident of La
Junta since 1880, is dead.
Pueblo may have an aviation meet
of three days during April.
A branch of the Boy Scouts has
been organized at Fort Collins.
A postal savings bank will be es;ab-
lished at Colorado Springs July LIST
The Boulder and Weld reservoir is
tc be enlarged in the near future.
One day was recently devoted to
cleaning up the city of Grand juno
ton.
The La Junta Elks have voted to
buy property in that city valued at
$4,000.
Pueblo has sold $35O,OOO worth OF
water bonds to a Chicago firm at Az
per cent.
II. p. Smith of Estabrook has shot
a mountain lion measuring seven feet
from tip to tip.
An examination Of fruit buds in the
Palisade country shows the crop has
not been damaged.
Word has begun on the $4,000
Elks club at Greeley and will be fin
ished by June 18th.
Ed East. proprietor of Trinidad
store. met with a serious injury In
runaway near Aguilar.
A two-hour service from Fort Col
Inns to Denver has been promised
over the Union Pacific.
\ David Fander is dead in Cripple
Creek from injuries received in L
mine explosion recently.
The Rocky Mountain Limited on
the Rock Island will be resumed out
of Pueblo April End.
Miss Martha Stevenson of Yampa is
on trial at Steamboat Springs, on a
charge of stealing cattle.
Archie Marston of Cedar Ridge has
been appointed assistant inspector in
the bureau OF animal industry.
Burglars entered the l.. ]. Hardware
Companys store at La Junta and stole
quantity of knives and guns.
The first annual meeting Of the
Western Colorado Teachers Associa-
ton was held in Grand Junction.
The War Department will permit
three Colorado National Guard Off
GERS to attend the war maneuvers In
Texas.
An artificial ice plant to cost $4,000
/ ,,,ylI hn h,It lv,, ~, ,odi NV "a fnm-
pany composed OF local men at ker-
sey.
The postoffice department has is
sued an order establishing an addi-
tional postoffice station at Colorado
Springs.
The Santa Fe railroad Is surveying
for a circle road for hauling freight
around Pueblo, instead OF through the
business section.
Segundo, a mining camp about
twenty miles from Trinidad. is stirred
up by recent BLACK Hand" attempt
to eItort money.
James NJ. Wright & Co.. OF Denver.
have purchased the Grand Junction
high school bonds for 324.500 and the
school refunding bonds for $31.500.
Extensive plans are being made for
the. entertainment OF the Colorado
State Sunday School Association dur
| ing the convention in Pueblo in June.
There will be $50 women delegates
in Greeley to the convention OF the
womens General Missionary Society
OF the United Presbyterian Church.
| which conyanes Nav 18th
Work will be commenced immeH-
ately by Superintendent Deacon on
construction Of two additional stories
to the library of the Union Printers
home, in Colorado Springs.
A sailing station will be established
at Milliken where cucumbers from
| $50 acres will be picked. Arrange
ments have been made for the build
| ing and the acreage contracted.
James Mitchell and Charles VIII
| liams, two OF the most notorious
yeggmen in the country. who belonged
\ to a gang that terrorized Colorado
from 1905 to 1907. have been ar
rested in Denver.
The Rocky Mountain Limited train
of the Rock Island railrosd will run
through solid from Chicago to Pueblo
via Limon, Colo. hereafter, instead of
stopping at Colorado Springs as at
present.
The Leyden Coal Company has
authorized an isue OF 100000 worth
Of bonds to carry on the reconstruc
tion of the companys shaft No. ut
Leyden, which was damaged by fire
last December.
Fred Moffat Strong of Pueblo. ne
phew Of the late David>H. Moffat, will
send representative to Denver for the