The Elk Mountain pilot., 1911-11-30
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While.

Inc totdl annual tdx levy LOT Tdli-
sade is 40 mills.
Roads In the vicinity Of Ramah are
being improved.
The Cripple Creek tax levy has been
fixed at 35.1 mills.
A saloon in Victor was robbed re-
Gently Of about s2s In money.
The old Trade building In La lara
was recently destroyed by fire.
Martin Casey. for twenty years In
the Denver police service. is dead.
Convict labor is to be employed ~
building a new road up the Poudre
canon.
Mrs. Bridget Hefferman Of Evans. =
resident OF Colorado twenty-five years.
| Is dead.
A.. G. Sherwin. president OF the
Farmers National Bank of Sterling.
Is dead.
Arrangements have been made for
the manufacture OF nickels at the Den
yer mint.
More winter wheat is being planted
in the district west OF Platteville than
ever before.
| Along the Crested Butte branch of
the ID. a. X. G. railroad there Is ten
feet OF snow.
| The Pixies Peak cog road is planning
an expenditure OF $4,000 to remodel
its equipment.
| Cattlemen on the Pilon mesa. in
Mesa county. have placed a bounty of
800 on each wolf killed.
Allen Ramsey. an original Union
colonist, for forty-one years n resident
OF Greeley. died. aged eighty-five.
The mayor and city clerk Of Denver
probably will move their offices from
the city hall to the court house at
once.
A. J. Schamp. a plasterer. fell from
the dome OF the new Methodist
church in Trinidad and was fatally in
jured.
All the lodging houses In Denver are
due for thorough housecleaning un-
der the supervision of the City Health
Department
Eleven names have been added to
the list OF pupils suspended from the
Denver high schools for violation of
the fraternity rules.
Mrs. NJ. ]. Goldman. wife OF tho late
Rev. Robert Goldman. pastor OF the
First Presbyterian church Of La Junta,
died from heart failure.
With the football year /. closing
Thanksgiving the next sport the col
s'gc will take up Is basket ball. The
season viii start Monday, Dec. A.
Frank w. Smylie of Masters. Colo.
has sold 1000 acres OF land at Mac
ters, known as the Smylie ranch. to
w. ]. Corneau OF Chicago for $4,000.
The cornerstone OF the new Evan
gelicai Lutheran Congregational
church, West Thirty.first avenue ana
Irving street. Denver. was laid with
impressive ceremonies.
The explosion OF an electric light
globe, which he attempted to push
into a narrow space behind glass
sign, may cost John Callison of Gree
ley the sight Of his right eye.
Over a ton OF flour was stolen from
the Longmont Milling & Elevator
Company recently. and no trace OF the
thieves has been obtained, Several
sacks of flour were dropped near the
mill.
Charles Olson. champion light heavy
weight wrestler. defeated Carl Decker
in two falls out OF three in Pueblo.
Decker securing the second fall. Oh
son secured both falls with head and
scissors holds.
Members OF football teams are in
terested in the movement started by
S. II. Hall, superintendent of the Fort
Morgan schools to organize state atn-
letic association which will control
interscholastic sports.
Fort Collins has been made a com
mon point with Denver. Colorado
Springs and Pueblo and after Dec.
tickets may be bought at any point in
the country to Fort Collins for the
same rate as to Denver.
Denver is one of the six American
metropolitan cities selected by the In
ternational Congress on Art Education
to send an exhibit of public school
children's art work to the convention
of that body in Dresden, Saxony, in
August, 1912.
Attorney Halsted Ritter for the Col-
sumers' and Shippers Association of
Denver has filed the second petition
asking for a reduction in freight rates
between Galveston, Texas, and Denver.
The first petition is now before the
commission.
Harry Lub of Denver lasted but \
few seconds more than half Of the first
round in his scheduled twenty-round
fight with Benny Chavez of Trinidad,
in Walsenburg. The men spared for
nearly a minute when Chavez succeed
| cd in reachfng I.ub's stomach A few