The Elk Mountain pilot., 1911-05-25

sane Fourth Of July celebration this
year.
The Durango Board Of Trade added
I31 members in a three-days cam
paign.
The farmers near Greeley will seed
about $4,000 acres to potatoes this
year.
Mrs. John Gregory. aged 70. and
pioneer Of Colorado. died at her home
in Cripple Greek.
Genuine flaxseed imported directly
from Holland IL to be given tryout
in the Greeley district.
The Colorado Association OF Letter
Carriers will meet In convention In
Boulder June 28th-
The thirty.second annual encamp-
ment Of the G. A. r. will be held at
Salida June 9th. 7th and Sth.
The twoyear-old son Of Jack Lewis
Of Windsor. was fatally injured by
falling into a tub OF boiling soapsuds.
Prof. Thompson Of the La Junta
high school and six OF his assistants
went on a strike and refused to teach.
Broadmoor casino. Colorado
Springs most popular summer resort.
will open for the the season June
22nd.
The Colorado Postmaster's Associa-
tion went on record In Denver In
favor OF Sunday closing OF pOstof-
fices.
Ira A:asser. aged IS. son Of Henry
Masser. a prominent ranchman. was
Instantly killed at Grote. by a passen-
ger train.
T. w. Thomas. former sheriff OF
Garfield county. died suddenly at
Glenwood Springs. Of heart failure.
aged SO.
The largest payroll at the Minnequa
steel plant at Pueblo. this year has
Just been paid. and amounted to nearly
$4,000.
Rio Grande passenger train No. 16
rao over Pat Dolon. a section man. at
Texas Creek near Canon City. killing
him Instantly.
The annual Larimer County Sunday
School convention met in Loveland
with delegates present from every part
of the county.
The big pumping plant Of James
Smith on Orchard Mesa near Grand
loss of $4,000.
Montrose will produce It's regulation
bountiful fruit crop again this year.
and the fear OF loss by frost is now
practically past.
Edward Lundberg. IL years old. was
killed at Colorado Springs when
horse threw him against culvert.
crushing his skull.
A great many of the Alamosa resi-
dents are planning to cooperate in
building a club house In the Conejos
Canon this summer.
TIE comptroller OF the currency has
received an application to convert the
Limon State bank into the First Ma
tional bank OF Limon.
About three hundred skilled beet
raisers from Globeville have reached
Alamosa to take up the culture OF
sugar beets in the valley.
Southern Ute Indians in southwest
ern Colorado are to be protected in
their water rights by the government.
SO that they may continue irrigated
farming.
The army headquarters at Denver
is the only one that will be abolished
under the new order creating the
three grand military divisions in the
United States.
The planning mill of the Colorado &
Southern railroad in Denver was de-
stroyed by fire when the building
caught fire from sparks from pass
ing locomotive.
Arrangements have been completed
by which the baseball team OF the
State Prep school at Boulder
meet Pueblo high school for the cham
pionship of the state, May 9th.
Greeley may offer inducements to
half a dozen Italian families to take
up their residence there to abolish the
dandelion pest. as the Italians value
the dandelion highly for greens and
make wine from them.
The question of establishing a ma
tional sanatorium at Colorado Springs
to cost 100000 will be decided at the
biernial national convention of the
brotherhood of Railway Trainmen.
now in session in Harrisburg, Pa.
While working on the county road
near Fort collins. and near a point
where one of the frontier highways
formerly, crossed the Poudre river.
men discovered human bones. an old
ron kettle andfa rusted barrel Of .
rifle, mute evidences of some ison-
tier tragedy.