The Elk Mountain pilot., 1911-06-01
LIrrLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
state Worth Telling.

Electric arc lights have been
turned ON In Milliken.
Cutworms are doing great damage
In northern Colorado.
The town of simla IL to have =
state bank. capital 100000.
The Elks fair. which has just closed
at Ouray. was grand success.
1t Is now proposed to connect Evans
and Greeley by electric railway.
Water has been turned into the
Eaton ditch for the first time this
season.
Mrs. Sarah Markley. wife Of Mat
thew Markley. who came to Platteville
In 1870. is dead.
Another forger has been at work In
SaliGa. passing three worthless checks
for $25 each.
With forty-eight members. 4 new
company of militiamen has been or
ganized at Fort Lupton.
Work ON the grade OF the Denver
Laramie between Greeley and Sever
ance has been resumed.
The total appropriations made by
the Eighteenth General Assembly
amounts to &4.455.369.
Mrs. Margaret B. Wicks. aged II. .
pioneer of Pueblo and widow Of the
late Platt Wicks. 10 dead.
Frederick Dearborn Wight, one Of
Colorados wealthiest citizens. died
suddenly at his home In Denver.
Mayor Hassenplug of Cripple Creek
Is supervising gardens titled by pupils
of the different schools Of that city.
In q collision with an automobile
during q dust storm in Grand juno
ton. Theodore Clark had his nose cut
off.
Joseph l. Lamb and Mrs. Sophia
Hayden. each Of whom are over IS
years OF age, were married at Canon
City
Greeley has cat which has adopted
q brood OF chickens and on more than
one occasion has fought for their pro-
lection.
June 7th Is the day planned for the
big parade at Salida on account OF
the coming of the Grand Army Of the
Republic.
The Masonic order conducted the
laying OF the cornerstone of the new
$4,000 high school building in Grand
Junction.
In response to numerous requests a
short summer school course will be
conducted at Colorado Springs college
this summer.
In honor OF the laying of the corner.
stone OF the new school building at
Grand Junction. May "a was observed
as holiday.
Trinidad scored its first shutout Of
the season by defeating the Los An
geies team OF Japs. with q score Of
8 to 0.
o E. Collins OF Colorado Springs
has been appointed one OF the states
Inheritance tax appraisers by Attor-
ney General Ben Griffith.
United States Senator William E.
Borah of Idaho has been invited to
speak at the dedication OF the Pioneer
monument June "a. in Denver.
Andrew I.assey Of Georgetown. one
Clear Creek county. committed sui
eide by throwing himself into Whites
lake
State Superintendent OF public in
struction. Mrs. Helen NJ. Wixon. made
one leap into popularity when she de-
clared there were too many formal
examinations in schools.
rS.oa no,,,,.oro ~ Tort ,nfou Dpo
OF the best horsemen OF northern
Colorado. was thrown from a broncho
which he was trying to break and
probably fatally injured.
The school census just completed
shows decrease Of 3.097 In the school
population Of Denver this year against
last years. In every section OF the
city there was falling off.
When helping guide pile which
was being driven in the bed OF the
creek at the bridge being built across
the Uncompahgre. near Ouray. Will
lam McCready was painfully injured.
Minneapolis men have invested
100000 in the Colorado Pressed Brick
Company. which recently bought out
the Colorado Brick & Tile Company
plant north of Colorado Springs.
Ar estate of 100000 was left by
Horace Granfield. the mining man
who was killed in the auto wreck at
Louisville Junction. in which Attorney
f. F. Richardson OF Denver also met
his death recently.
J. d. Searcey. a non-union miner at
the Industrial mine at Superior. has
been arrested, charged with having
fired several shots at the house of
o--orar rrocidonf ~ tha On.