The Elk Mountain pilot., 1911-06-22
LITTLE COLORADO lrEMs.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth Telling.

Rocky Ford Is planning for Chau-
tauqua.
The State Sunday School conven
tion was held in Pueblo.
July 4th is to be safe and sane"
celebration in Denver.
A postal savings bank will be
opened at Fort Morgan July IA.
The highway between Estes Park
and Boulder via Lyons is assured.
An anti-prohibition campaign has
been launched in Grand Junction.
The Gunnison baseball champions
were defeated by the Pitkin team. ~
to I.
Mayor James g. Kyle of Montrose
broke an arm while cranking his au-
tomobile.
The Greeley Elks have let the con-
tract for their new club building to
cost 100000
Denver is to have steel castings
plant, the first OF the kind west of
the Mississippi river.
The state convention of Christian
Endeavor at Grand Junction was at
tended by 200 delegates.
Most of the trust companies will
have to reorganize in order TO comply
with the new banking law.
Two little children were swept to
death in the swift running waters of
irrigating canals near Golden.
Within one week in Denver there
were five suicides, four killings and
three deaths from violent accidents.
A sixty per cent crop of apples will
be harvested in Mesa county. accord
ing to County Horticulturist Taylor.
The mining pay roll of Cripple
Creek for May. was the heaviest in
fourteen months. approximating $685.
$50.
Colorado Springs will make an ef-
fort to have the Foresters OF Amer
lea establish their sanatorium in that
city.
The Colorado National Life Assur-
anc Company has consolidated with
the Columbian National Life OF Bos-
ton.
The strawberry crop around Long
mont is fair and between $50 and 200
daily.
Henry Ruple. aged twenty. OF Du-
range, has been arrested on the
charge OF attempted assassination OF
Isaac Cox.
la Sale and Evans will cooperate
for a monster Fourth OF July cele-
bration In the Dunn grove. one mile
east Of La Sale.
The fourteenth annual convention OF
the National Retail Grocers' Associa.
tion, held In Denver, was attended by
300 members.
Hunting antelope from automobiles
is the latest sport devised by certain
ingenious sportsmen from Colorado
Springs and Denver.
1t is now thought the Gunnison riv-
er, which has been threatening to
leave its banks at Delta, has reached
the high water mark.
A five.mile motorcycle race for
purse Of $3.50 will be one Of the fea-
utres OF the Fourth Of July celebra-
ton at Grand Junction.
Residents of Clifton have formed
park association and will purchase for
81 900 a five-acre orchard tract which
will be made into park.
Millions OF dollars worth OF new
railroad improvements and construc-
ton work will be inaugurated by the
railroads in Colorado soon after July
1st.
Richie Budelier, a former Grand
Junction school boy, has been appoint
ed superintendent of the Big Bonanza
mine, the largest gilsonite deposit in
Utah.
Representative Taylor has intro
duced a bill authorizing postmasters to
take subscriptions to the Congress
sianol Record at 81 per year. begin
ming December I.
A fine and costs amounting to $3.50
was imposed in the Federal Court in
Denver by Judge R. E. Lewis on Noah
s. Smernoff after the prisoner had
pleaded guilty to sending obscene let
ters through the mails.
A picnic party which started from
Georgetown for Loveland Pass met
with an accident which resulted in
1Our people DelHs serlousiy hJureu
when the team became frightened and
overturned the vehicle.
Prosepcting for oil in the land of
the ancient cliff dwellers near Cor.
tez, Montezuma county, will be done
by the Mesa Verde Oil & Gas Compa-
ny, which leased 5000 acres Of school
land from the state.
ha Cnl
the Colorado Midland railroad and the
Denver & Rio Grande road have
agreed to furnish half rate transporta-
tion to all prospectors going out under
the public grubstake fund.