The Elk Mountain pilot., 1911-08-10
LITTLE COLORADO IrEMs.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While.


Grover and Briggsdale are now con
nected by stageline.
The Park hotel at La Junta was
damaged $4,000 by fire.
Boulder will have a postal savings
bank. beginning in August.
A movement is on foot to build q
new city hall for Pueblo.
Preparations are being made fol
the apple show. to be held at Delta.
The United States smelter in Canon
City will open up again in sixty days
County tax assessors of the state, as
required by law. met at Denver August
1st.
Two canneries, employing 200 peo
pie. are running full time at Fort Lup
ton.
Chicken thieves are operating on /;
large scale in the vicinity of Platte.
vile.
The cornerstone of the new NJ. T.
Church at Trinidad has been put in
place.
For engine repair only, the Union
Pacific is spending in Denver 100000
annually.
Farmers in the Gill vicinity are TAX.
ing great interest in the good roads
movement.
Colorado Springs is celebrating the
fortieth birthday of the city with a
six-day fete.
The Western Slope Normal summer
school opened at Gunnison with about
seventy.five present.
Denver is to have a factory which
will turn out 81 100000 worth of photo
graph paper annually.
The Wood Mountain Mining and
Milling Company's $4,000 mill at
Boulder was destroyed by fire.
Rocky Ford cantaloupes are begin
ing at 81 to $3.50 n crate.
oil in paying quantities has been
found in at least fifty wells in Range
ley district. in Routt county.
Information has been filed charging
thirty Trinidad saloon men with gam
bling and violating the closing law.
Gottfried Anderson. baker from
Denver. Is In an unbalanced condition
in padded cell in jail In Fort Collins.
The new superintendent of the Colo
rado district of the Wells-Fargo sys.
TEN. \. T. Payne. has arrived in Den
yer.
5. :. Kingsbury. the new head mas
ter of the State Preparatory School,
at Boulder. has arrived from Wichita,
Kan.
Mrs. Annie Eliza Landrum OF Love
land has been declared insane and
committed TO the Work Sanitarium in
Pueblo.
Several parties are under arrest in
Routt county charged with dynamit.
ing fish In Luna lake. near Steamboa,
Springs.
J. V. Blake owns n garden spot near
Canon City. and from one acre of
ground he marketed 1900 pounds OF
early beans.
District Judge Burke. at Fort Nor.
gan. sentenced George +. Reagen to
three to five years In the penitentlary
for stealing s25.
After eight years of service as
state veterinarian, DR.. Charles G.,
Lamb has been discharged by the
state stock board.
About thirty carloads OF a grading
outfit have been unloaded at Merino
to be used on the Prewitt reservoir
three miles east OF there.
E B. withers pleaded guilty in Dis
trict Court at Telluride of passing
forged checks, and was sentenced to
one to two years in the penitentlary
The factory of the Great Western
Sugar Company at Fort Collins will be
operated in the fall. though until re
| Gently there has been some uncer
tainty about the matter.
Santa Fe racing circuit entries for
the Prowers county fair. August 22-25
closed in Lamar with forty-nine appli
cations. the largest ever recorded. A
Mathewson aeroplane will be one oi
/ the attractions.
With the greatest secrecy. without
even the knowledge of the local union
the headquarters of the Retail Clerks
/ International Protective Association
/ has been moved from Denver to Lafay
/ cite. Ind.
The Bar Association of the Seventh
/ judicial district held a meeting In
/ Telluride, followed by a banquet which
was attended by members of the bal
/ from Mesa, Montrose, Delta. Ouray
and the San Miguel counties.
| In an exciting wrestling bout before
packed house in Salida, Tony George
Bulgarian of Pueblo, weighing IS.
pounds. put Lightweight Ed Davis o.
! Fort Collins to the mat in two straight