The Elk Mountain pilot., 1911-03-09
LITTLe,coLoRAoo ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring over the
state Worth Telling.

John Stokes, one of Pueblo's Oldest
citizens, is dead.
George Fry has been appointed
mayor OF Windsor
A strike of the painters in Colorado
Springs is probable.
Fruita will have local option cleo
tion on April 4th.
Antonio Presto, a pioneer Of Colo
rado. is dead at Trinidad
Mrs. p. Tague of Red Cliff has been
appointed county Judge OF Eagle coun-
ty.
Mrs. Alden Cantonwine, a pioneer of
Longmont, is dead. She was AZ years
old.
A baseball team is being organized
in Grand Junction to play the Boston
Red Sox.
A petition to dissolve the municipal
corporation of North Longmont has
been filed.
Work on the new elevator at Wat
tenburg. capacity 10000 bushels. will
be commenced.
A movement has been started to
Crystola.
Fire destroyed the plant of the Colo
rado City Ice & Coal Company. with
a loss OF $4,000.
The last work on the Orchard Mesa
irrigation system. Grand Junction. has
been completed.
For every $1,000 tons of coal mined
last year in Colorado the life OF min
er was sacrificed.
Dan Patch. the famous PAGER. will
give exhibition heats during the next
state fair at Pueblo.
The Boulder postoffice will here
after be closed ON Sunday by order OF
the postmaster general.
Mrs. Mary ]. Highly. aged 10. and
one of the pioneers of the Greeley dis
trict, died of pneumonia.
1t is probable that Weld county will
get its photographic survey from the
government next summer.
The Senate has confirmed the nom-
nation OF Dewey C. Barley as United
States marshal for Colorado.
Awards fixed by the appraisers upon
property involved In Denver's Civic
Center project total $2.523. .463.10.
The students of the Grand Junction
high school have set March 18th as
the date for the first cross-country
run.
The Gunnison County Stock Grow
ers' Association will give its annual
ball and banquet in Gunnison March
3lth.
The biggest snowslide in that Sec
tion for some time has occurred eight
miles north OF Silverton. blocking the
railroad.
Gross earnings of the Denver City
Tramway Company for ITS fiscal year
ending December 30. 1910. were 49,
595.l57.
w. l.. Sutton OF Parkdale. section
foreman for the Rio Grande, was seri-
ously injured by landslide In the
Royal Gorge.
An election providing a bond issue
OF $4,000 for the erection Of new
high school building was held in Grand
Junction recently.
a. Hughes, farmer residing near
Boone. has been awarded damages of
SIS against the Twin Lakes Land and
Water Company.
An attempt will be made by ten
boosters for the Y. NJ. c. A. to raise
$1,000 to be used in organizing an as
sociation at Montrose.
Thos. jenkins and Eugene Hawkey,
two boys who were lost in the Royal
Gorge during 4 recent snowstorm
have been found.
Beginning about March 10th. the
Union Pacific railroad will operate all
southbound freight trains over the
new Denver-Northern line from Sand
Creek to La Sale.
Beet growers in the Loveland dis
trict have signed contracts for 1000
acres for the coming season. Only
5000 acres was grown last year. The
total acreage desired this year is 10.-
900 to 11,000.
Every man his own lawyer" proved
costly to DR.. w. C. Lucas. who pleaded
| guilty to the illegal sale of liquor in
District Court in Colorado Springs
and was fined $25 and costs, totaling
s92.
The grand jury that held sessions in
Denver a couple of months ago made
n sad mess of things. Practically
every Indictment of significance re-
turned by that body has been quashed
in the District Court.
BY the death of Col. w. w. Fergu-
son. commander of the Department of
Colorado and Wyoming G. A. r., Sem
ior Vice Commander w. Fl. MacDon-
aid of Colorado Springs. becomes head
| of that organization