The Elk Mountain pilot., 1911-09-28
LlTTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
state Worth While.

of $500.
The last debt of the town of Ker-
sey has been wiped out.
| Nine cars of cabbage have been
shipped from Fort Lupton.
The first weeks enrolment OF the
Alamosa schools showed 500 pupils.
DIR. v. w. Porter OF Lafayette has
been fined $25 for carrying pistol.
Charles Wiley, county treasurer OF
Gilpin county, died at the age Of 43
years.
The Presbyterian church OF Wind
sor is arranging to open free read
ing room.
Idaho Springs will entertain the
Colorado Elks in their annual cOnven
tion in 1912.
The Colorado order OF the Eastern
| Star will hold its next annual meet
| ing in Pueblo.
| The machinery for the Alamosa ice
and cold storage plant has arrived and
been installed.
A meteor. gigantic in its proper
tions. was seen to fall near Fort Col
Inns, recently.
. Ida NJ. Norton has been appointed
postmistress at Brandon. Kiowa coun
ty, vice c. ID. Blanchard.
Fifteen hundred autos from out Of
town have visited Canon City during
the past summer.
The annual meeting Of the Colorado
Library Association will be held in
Denver November 81.
Larimer county will receive addition
al support from the state funds for
road improvement work.
Authorities say the report that there
will be a coal miners strike in Las
Animas county is untrue.
Special arrangements for the pro
lection OF President Taft while in
Denver. Oct. 3. are being made.
L. NJ. Rich. a laborer. was run down
by Boulder interurban near Ploom
field and instantly killed.
A general movement OF Rio Blanco
coutny cattle to Denver and Missouri
river markets has begun.
Heavy frosts are reported in the vi
cinity OF Meeker, and the deer are
leaving the hills as result.
Carl F. Hsllin, aged fifty. was struck
by a Rio Grande passenger train In
Denver and instantly killed.
The state OF Colorado will make an
exhibit at the New York Land and Ir-
risation Show In November.
The two-ycar-old daughter OF An.
ton Grampo of Pueblo. fell into a tub
OF hot water and died as a result.
Experienced burglars made an or
Ganized attempt to work the entire
town OF Trinidad one night recently.
The Union Pacific is putting out
handsome folders advertising the Dry
Farming Congress at Colorado Springs.
As a result OF lighting his pipe i'm
mediately after washing his hands In
gasoline, Jud Marks Of Milliken may
die.
Frank Cameron. carpenter. fell
fifteen feet from broken scaffold In
Trinidad and sustained probably fatal
injuries.
James Sullivan. aged sixty-two. liv-
ing at the Pueblo county poor farm,
| cistern.
Rio Blanco county farmers will not
| find IL necessary to take a vacation as
has other portions OF the state. on &C.
count of the drouth.
Over 1000 people attended the
Western Slope Fair at Montrose and
saw one OF the finest racing programs
ever given or that track.
John q. Macdonald OF Florence was
elected grand high priest by the Colo
RADIO grand chapter. Royal Arch Ma
sons, at its annual meeting in Den
| yer.
The Jury in the case OF the state VS..
Daniel Stevenson and his daughter,
Martha. at Steamboat Springs. charged
with stealing cattle. returned a yer.
dict of guilty.
Assistant Superintendent Hughes OF
the Department OF Fisheries. Washing
ton. ID. c.. planted half million fish
in Big Thompson river between Love
land and Estes Park.
Manager Noble OF the Rocky Ford
sugar factory says grinding OF beets
will start about Oct. %. The cam
paign will last about as long as last
year. or 100 days.
Rev. Guy w. Wadsworth. pastor OF
the First Presbyterian church OF Pu
eblo. has resigned and Oct. 1 will be
come western secretary Of the Pres
byterian Temperance committee.
The big coal mine of the Utah Fuel
| - xt
Grand junction is burning fiercely,
having caught fire from some IN
known cause on one OF the lower lev