The Elk Mountain pilot., 1911-09-14
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring over the
state Worth While.

Mrs. A. p. Gilkison. a pioneer. died
at Fort Collins.
The Fort Lupton cannery is now
running steadily.
The safe Of James Abo. at Morrison.
was robbed Of 5000.
Ten thousand people attended Love
lands Harvest Festival.
At Victor Tom Jones shot and IA
tally wounded James O'Neill.
Ten people were injured In the
Union Pacific wreck near Kersey.
The La Junta public schools opened
with fifty teachers and 1900 pupils.
Yuma county farmers have been
made glad by An inch fall Of rain.
The United Brethren will build a
$4,000 church in Colorado Springs.
A postal savings bank will be es-
tablished at Lamar September 18th.
Colorado Springs will inaugurate a
system OF decorative street lighting.
There are on deposit in the six
banks in Colorado Springs 3ll.029.-
1926.
Between 1900 and 1900 bass have
been placed in the lakes around
| Boulder.
The thirty-fifth session OF the Uni
versity OF Colorado has opened at
Boulder.
The total appropriation made by the
Eighteenth General Assembly Is 81
576.945.o5.
The manufacture of car seals Will
be a new industry for Greeley BY Oc-
tober lst.
| The new county OF Crowley is Iow
doing business with Ordway as the
county seat.
Lyman Alonzo White. a pioneer and
old Indian fighter. died at his home
at Longmont.
| Ebert Johnson of Pueblo won the
| motor cycle race from Pueblo to Fow-
Ter and return.
The cornerstone OF the Fort Collins
| federal building was laid by the Ma
sonic grand lodge.
A shelter home for women and chill
dren is to be established by the Den
yer womans Club.
The Old Settlers Reunion and Pump
on September 2sth.
The Salida high school has made ar
rangements for a splendid lecture
| course OF five numbers.
F. A. Taylor. formerly of Denver.
has been appointed director OF agri.
culture In the Philippines.
Herman Arndt OF Montrose, who was
thrown from horse two weeks ago. Is
dead from injuries received.
Members OF the Mothers Congress
at Pueblo will turn Bessemer Park
into a Fairgrounds for children.
Preparations are well under way for
the Weld county fair. to be held at
Greeley September IS to 22.
A coroner's Jury at Wiley found VIII
lie Rowe. 10. guilty of killing his play
mate. Vernie Hildabidel. 13.
Bessie. the four-year-old daughter of
ID. l.. Arthur. Of Montrose, was kicked
in the head by horse. and may die.
At the Alamcsa opera house. Mike
Malone OF Denver and frankie White
OF Chicago fought fifteen rounds 10 a
draw.
w. s. Zell has disappeared from Colo
RADIO Springs. 1t is alleged. with sew
eral hundred dollars of other peoples
money.
Twyman Kisinger. of the Little
Beaver, near Meeker. threshed $50
acres Of fall wheat. averaging forty
bushels to the acre.
The Western Sugar and Land Com
pany of Grand Junction will make i'm
provements on their plant at that
place. costing 100000.
VIM. Anderson. a miner. living at
Stumptown. near Leadville. was gored
to death by bull. which. 1t is claimed.
he mistreated over a year ago.
The old wire tapping swindle. for
the first time in several years. has
been discovered in operation in Den
yer and several parties arrested.
An aged woman. identified as Mrs.
Helen F. Dixon. at one time promi-
nent figure in Colorado politics. was
found dead at her home in Denver.
La Junta is shipping three to four
carloads of melons per day. The
'Beryl Gems" are bringing top prices
in Chicago and are in great demand.
One of the largest land transactions
of the year was put through when 16.-
900 acres of lard owned and con-
trolled by the Teller Reservoir and Ir
rifgation Company was sold for $780,
'oS.
~ Moti0d pictures taken in the Royal
Gs<ge. Black river canon and other
points on the Denver & Rio Gr',nde
railF6ad, are now being shown in Phil
.tdelphh, Baltimore and other Eastern