The Elk Mountain pilot., 1911-07-27
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMs.
Small HappsnInss Occurring Over the
State Worth while.

been struck At Montrose.
Felix Hogberg has been arrested at
Loveland on 4 charge Of forgery.
Crops in the Uncompahgre valley
have the best prospects ever seen.
G. C. Bruce. for three years post
master at Fort Lupton. has resigned.
II Is said the crops this year will be
the largest In the history Of Lincoln
county.
More than 1l5 tons Of fruit have al.
ready been shipped from the Palisade
section.
The Modern Woodmen have inaugu.
rated a movement to hold a big picnic
at Ouray soon.
Four miles Of rails have been laid
on the Colorado 4 Southern Welling.
ton-Cheyenne line.
A thief stole big pistol from the
desk OF the night sergeant in the po-
lice station in Pueblo.
Weldon defeated the Merino ball
team by score Of 9 to 4. securing l6
hits off Herb Bandemoor.
John Corbin who married a twelve
year-old girl at Kelley has been arrest
ed and will be prosecuted.
In a fall from willow tree, Frank
Newbury. aged years. of Steamboat
Springs, bit his tongue In two.
over two hundred men and children
are engaged In gathering the straw
berry crop at Steamboat Springs.
The 22-months-oId baby of Paul
Traverse OF Montrose. died from the
effects OF eating parlor matches.
Charles Holcomb was drowned in
the Uncompangre river near Delta.
while In swimming with friend.
James NJ. Cameron and Judge
James f. Dey. two pioneers OF the
Grand valley are dead At Grand Juno.
ton.
Colorado will send = delegation of
land show In New York city next No.
vember.
Roy Jamison and Lloyd Holman.
two boys OF Boulder. were badly In
jured by the explosion Of 4 .22-caliber
cartridge.
The Pueblo Traction and Lighting
Company plans to spend nearly two
extensions.
The Tri-State Telephone Company.
operating In New Mexico and Arizona,
has been merged into the Colorado
Telephone Company.
The Santa Fe railroad authorities
n ia ..
form lighting system Installed at tn.
passenger depot in Lamar.
A Grand Junction man has invented
a machine. by the use of which one
man can operate and care for forty
acres Of smudge pots.
FL Paso county Is to have a dry
farming exhibit of its own In connec-
tion with the International Congress
show at Colorado Springs.
With a full force the Silver State
canning factory at Fort Lupton opened
for business and is canning beans. The
Barwise factory will open soon.
Peanuts are being grown success
fully in the country about Greasewood
lake. thirty-five miles east of Greeley.
The crop is planted on a sandy loan.
According to bylaws the San Juan
pioneers are to meet alternately at Al
amosa and Durango unless some other
county desires to entertain the pio-
neers.
Ralph Van Horn, q ranchman. who
lived about nineteen miles south of
Wray. died from lockjaw, the result
of being scratched on the thumb by
an old nail.
At smoker at Salida Ed Davis OF
Fort Collins. lightweight wrestler. de
feated Jack Alexander Of Salida in
two straight falls. in thirteen and five
minutes.
Harry B. Davis of Colorado Springs.
the new state golf champion, will be
one of the contestants in the annual
tournament OF the Western Golf Asso-
citation which meets soon at Detroit.
The estate OF Frederick D. Wight.
pioneer and prominent cattleman, who
was found dead in his home about two
months ago. IN Denver, is worth 81,
O41,511.03. according to the report of
the appraisers.
After probably the longest wait in
its history the rains OF the past weeks
started a flow of water in Two Buttes
creek and now the big reservoir at
Lamar has about seventeen feet OF
available water in it.
Albert johnson, an employe of the
Dillon Stone Company, which is put
ting in a sewer from the Evangelical
Lutheran sanitarium to Clear creek, al
Arvada, was caught in a cave-in and
probably fatally injured.
Charles Weatherwax withdrew his
plea of not guilty in the County Court
at Montrose and entered plea OF
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