The Elk Mountain pilot., 1911-10-05
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring over thu
state Worth While.


The Emma Gold Mining Company
in Dolores county has been sold for
taxes.
Fire destroyed the wall paper store
OF E. w. Hoyt at Montrose. with loss
Of $4,000.
Olga Martinez. 6 years old, of Eaton,
died from the effects of falling into a
tub of boiling water.
The Conejos- Costello fair at Alamo
sa was the largest and best ever held
in the San Luis valley.
More than $4,000 in prizes were
awarded at the second annual Trin!'
dad-Las Animas county fair.
1t is estimated the Harp ranch. near
Meeker, will produce over seventy
bushels of wheat per acre.
George Bloom was perhaps fatally in
jured at Longmont when a team ran
away and threw him from wagon.
Francisco Roemro was sentenced to
the penitentiary for thirty-five years
for the murder OF James Baer. at Trim
idad.
New Jersey, where he attended the
conference OF governors of twenty-six
states.
The contract for paving the busi-
ness section OF Colorado Springs has
been let TO a Chicago company for
$l41.2S1.
Two persons are held in Colorado
c.
ton with the recent Burnham-wayne
murder.
Developments in the Burnham.
Wayne murder case In Colorado
Springs have taken the detectives out
OF town.
Knights Templar are in Denver
making arrangements for the triennisl
conclave of the order. to be held there
in 1913.
The Missouri Pacific road has TAX
en- steps to improve its passenger and
freight service between Pueblo and
Kansas City.
Dissension among the Italians and
not the Black Hand is said to be re-
sponsible for the recent dynamiting OF
a house In Pueblo.
Mrs. ID. w. Garrett, OF Canon City.
recently shot and killed her two
young children and then shot herself
through the heart.
The Denver City Tramway Compa-
ny has filed protest against the tax
assessment of $i,7o0,000 made against
them by the county assessor.
In the opening football game OF tie
season at Fort Collins the Agricll-
tural College defeated the high school
team by a score Of &c to o.
Eighty delegates representing the
Congregational churches of the state
attended the forty-third annual Con-
gregational conference at Montrose.
Dudley Hiles. a 1G-year-old boy. dis
appeared from a dairy ranch con-
Quoted by ID. w. Mickle near Brush.
early in August and has not been seen
since.
Denver will probably be chosen as
the vantage point for organizing a ma
tional body OF the chambers OF com
merce OF all the large cities OF the
country.
The Primero first aid team, skilled
Company's mine, won first prize In
the first annual First Aid to Injured
contest. in Trinidad.
Alfred Muller, until his death sec
retary OF the Jewish Hospital Asso-
citation, Denver. is charged with
shortage of $4,000 in report on IN
audit of the associations books.
Government experts at washington
are busy analyzing diseased potato
vines, seeking to discover the cause
of blight, which it is now believed
will ruin between So and 80 per cent
of the crop.
Among other things charged against
her husband. Mrs. Carnelius Brimson.
of Berthoud in asking for a divorce,
claims she and her infant were com
PEELED to sleep for months in coop
with the chickens.
p. w. O'Brien, 70, one of the most
prominent men of Douglas county Tor
over quarter of a century, and at
one time member of the Colorado
General Assembly. died at his ranch
home, Castle Rock.
Quite an important transaction In
coal lands near Louisville has been
consummated. The American Fuel
Company bought the Centennial coal
mine. 1t consists of $50 acres. and 's
entirely underlaid with a six-foot vein
of fine Ignite coal.
Judge ]. NJ. Teter, after the prelm-
mary hearing of the Gunozitch-gypsy
case. at La Junta, placed the father Of
the girl involved under $500 bonds to
await trial in District Court in Octo-