The Elk Mountain pilot., 1911-06-15
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth Telling.

The Gunnison river is at high.water
mark for the season.
Mrs. A. Franklin. aged rs. pioneer
OF Eaton. died from paralysis.
The first water system ever operat.
ed In Olathe has been put in commits
sion.
Patrick Doran was killed in Denver
by running his motorcycle into
street car.
A. v. Hunter of Leadville is the new
president of the First National Bank
OF Denver.
Fire did damage to the First Ma
tiOnal Bank of Greeley to the amount
of $4,000.
A big frontier celebration is being
arranged for Steamboat Springs July
4th and 5th.
The thirty-five mile railroad from
Hotchkiss into Red canon now seems
to be assured.
The Weld County Farmers Union.
formally organized.
Arthur Rounds. well known in Wray
and vicinity. WAS instantly killed by
lightning during a storm.
President Taft has been invited to
attend Colorado Springs anniversary
celebration July 81.
The heavy rainfall throughout north
western Colorado gives plenty OF mois-
ture for the ranchers.
For the seventh time. John Conlou
has been elected president OF the Den
yer Board OF Aldermen.
The Gunnlson Stock Growers Asso-
citation has decided to orgfnize u
county fair association.
From the effects of an overdose Of
laudanum. Charles Murray fell dead in
4 saloon in Cripple Creek.
Gunnison' lodge. No. 49,. I. o. o. F..
is rapidly increasing in membership.
now numbering above 100.
Gov. Shafroth will be the principal
neer monument In Denver. June "a.
Mystery surrounds the killing Of
James Baer. who was shot to death
in Trinidad by an unknown party.
Resistance Of highwaymen In
Pueblo will cost Frank Friestaff his
life. He was shot and relieved Of $27.
The President. has nominated as
postmaster Dan c. Moore. Fort Lup.
ton: Jessie d. Field. Hotchkiss.
Lee w. Kelso OF Denver has been
appointed stenographer in the Navy
Department with station at Cavite.
Five Mexlcans whe were arrested in
Fort Collins on charges OF bootleEg!ng
were convicted and fined from 500 to
$500.
Fire early destroyed the surface
plant Of the Williamsville coal mine.
north OF Colorado Springs. LOSS.
$4,000.
The ranch house and farm buildings
OF William Stewart. at Prairie Divide.
in northern. Larimer county. wero
burned.
The Steamboat Springs Townsite
Company expects to spend several
thousand dollars In Improvements Of
the springs.
Within the next six weeks twenty
mile link will be added to the Colora-
do-New Mexico highway between Trim
idad and Ration.
In the District Court OF Pueblo. on
a charge Of holding up a C. & S. pas
senger train on January 18th. AL Bane
pleaded guilty.
Eortv rrsyovru MAN and woman
graduates of the State Agricultural
College at Fort Collins have received
their diplomas.
Since the LIST OF January VIM. Car
lyle Of Cortez has marketed over $3.50
worth of eggs. and from flock OF
less than 200 hens.
The City Council Of La Sale &C.
cepted the offer Of ]. B. McCutcheon
to give the city tract OF ground to
be made into park.
The big Primos mill at Lake. Wood
and the Boulder county mill and mine,
all properties of the Primos Company.
have shut down for thirty days.
The two-year-old baby girl OF ]. F.
Bell Of Delta is dead and the mother
and father are in q critical condi-
ton from some poison thought to have
been eaten in strawberries.
Representatives Rucker and Taylor
have introduced bills similar In terms
proposing to grant an additional mil
lion acres Of land to the state OF Col
orado under the provisions Of the
Carey desert land act.
tuberculosis again led the list in
the death rate OF Denver for May,
sixty-one out Of the 2S2 being victims
Of white plague. The death rate for
contagious diseases and mortality
among infants was unusually light
Senator Guggenheim has requested
the commiasionsr Of the general land