The Elk Mountain pilot., 1911-05-04
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small happenings Occurring over the
State Worth Telling.


Denver will have a new Union de-
pot two years hence.
War Is to be waged by Denver
against fake eyeglass dealers.
The farmers of Powers county are
jubilant over the recent heavy rain.
A recent census of the Windsor dis
trict shows 1852 persons OF school age.
s. j. Alexander, a member OF the
Colorado Veterans Association. died
in Denver.
The four-year old son OF E. E. Pres
nall OF near Rocky Ford was drowned
recently.
The business men OF Idaho Springs
have formed a Merchants Protective
Association.
The School OF Mines graduating
class has been doing mill work at Ida
no Springs.
deadlock in the new City Council
at Wellington since its organization
has been broken.
Yeggmen made an unsuccessful at
tempt to blow the safe of the Johns
to"h postolllCt.
Salida has raised $1,000 for the G.
A. r. encampment to be held there
June G. and s.
AS result of quarrel over n fake
horse race near Durango. VIM. TRULY
was shot to death.
Great preparations are being made
in Ouray for the Elk's Fair to be held
May IL. ~ and 13.
Jack Reynolds of Omaha fell un-
der train at Grand Junction and
had one foot cut off.
Judge n. w. Dixon of Denver was
badly cut and bruised when an auto
struck him in Pueblo.
Colorado will have a new flag II SEN
ator Sharpley's bill to create a new
emblem is passed by the House.
special train carrying 100 work
ers to the sugar beet fields Of Mont
rose and Delta has gone from Denver.
Rev. r. J. Hunter. pastor of the
Presbyterian church at Greeley for
fourteen years. has asked to be re-
leased.
All railroads in the state will grant
a rate OF one fare for the round trip
to the Colorado State Fair in Pueblo
this year.
Sheepmen OF northern Colorado
will this year lose $l50.000 or an aver
age OF 81 per head on sheep fed for
market.
The following rural delivery postal
routes have been ordered Established
June /: Delta. Delta county; Vernon.
Yuma county.
The Fort Logan baseball team de.
feated the Industrial School team at
Golden In a loosely played game. by a
score OF 13 to 6.
Senator GugsenheIm has requested
the Indian office to investigate the
condition OF the Jicarilla Indians in
southern Colorado.
The War Department has directed
three Colorado militia officers to at
tend the maneuvers at San Diego. Cal.
beginning May IL.
The State Board OF Charities and
Corrections will oppose the bringing
OF a carload OF babies to Colorado by
4 society Of New York.
John Devara was found guilty O.
the illegal sale Of liquor. fined 5000
and costs and sentenced to twenty
days In jail in Montrose.
Mrs. David Griffith. aged seventy,
mother OF Attorney General Benjamin
Griffith. died at her home in Rockvale,
after several months illness.
A workers banquet" at which 275
Woodcraft sat down. was given recent
ly at the Shirley hotel in Denver.
After firing a bullet into his wife's
breast Henry Brown. Missouri Pa
cific fireman, committed suicide in the
Mineral Palace park in Pueblo.
Grand Junction Odd Fellows cele
brated the ninety-second anniversary
of the founding Of the order. The Re.
bekahs participated in the program.
Tony Ross. an Italian. aged forty
one, was instantly killed by being
dragged under the wheels of a train
about four miles from Crested Butte.
The annual convention of the Wo-
mems Christian Temperance Union
for the Tv elfth district of Colorado
held a two-days session In Canon City.
II the present plans of the United
States surveyor general, Timothy
O'Connor, are carried out, four new
federal surveying parties will shortly
be added to the force already in the
field.
Robert Strahorn, one time printer
on the Denver Tribune, the present
Denver Republican. is now vice pres
ident and general manager of the Ore
gon-Washington Railroad and Naviga-
tion Company.