The Elk Mountain pilot., 1911-07-20
lITILE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While.


place July 81 to August 5. inclusive.
The contract for the new county
jail at Greeley has been let for $4,000
The Fort Collins branch o. the I'm
ion Pacific will begin business on July
18th.
A postal savings bank OF the first
class will be established at Pueblo
soon.
Erie is preparing to make splendid
exhibit at the Weld county fair in Sep
tember.
Greeley has q cat that likes bee-.
takes its drink each night and whines
for more.
Horses are beginning to arrive for
the racing matinee at Grand Junction
July 27th.
Work on the Hanemeyer ditch be-
twees Rifle and De Beque will be start
ed at once.
Steps have been taken to petition
the county judge to incorporate the
town OF Clifton.
Clyde Shropshire has beNn arrested
at Grand Junction on charge OF
cattle stealing.
Representative Martin says he will
not return to Washington during the
present session of Congress.
The trial OF Bob Harris for killing
Chief of Police Craig OF Rocky Ford.
has been set for August Z.
About $50 crates of red raspberries
and 400 crates OF cherries are beng
shipped daily from Loveland.
Governor Shafroth has issued call
for "a public lands convention to meet
in Denver September 29-30. 1911.
Pueblo is making preparations for
the entertainment OF the State Asso-
citation of Insurance Men July &c.
The Methodist church OF Grand
Junction has raised $685. to educate
the poor white trash of the South.
The public playground at Montrose
has been opened and 300 children are
using the swings and teeter boards
Alb Murdock. a half-breed. charged
with horse stealing. while resisting
arrest, was shot and killed near Yer
nal.
Ace Loper, q miner. aged about 30.
who WAS accidentally shot by John
| PreIovitch In a drunken riot at Mon
arch. died.
| While coming to Pueblo from Okla
homa in a touring automobile. Mrs.
Henry Williams WAS presented with
lO-pound boy.
While enjoying a plunge party with
friends at the natatorium In Canon
City, Edward w. Leavitt Of Florence
was drowned.
Spontaneous combustion caused
fire which threatened the Hillrose al
falfa mill, but the blaze was cStin'
guished with damage OF $500.
Lloyd l.. Evans of Denver and Ed D..
Borden Of Boulder have been ap-
pointed assistant examiners In the pat
ent office At a salary OF $1,000 each.
In the arrest Of three Chinese In
Pueblo the police believe they have
put a stop to the wholesale manufac-
ture OF opium which they say has been
going on there for some time.
In a shooting scrape In the grocery
of Marcus Pretovitch. at Monarch. \
mining camp twenty miles from Sa
Ida, an Austrian bystander. Ace Lop.
er. was twice shot and will probably
die.
For the purpose OF developing the
large deposits Of marble and onyx In
SaGuache county, which are said to
equal those being developed on the
Western Slope. a company has been
organized.
The Palisades orchardists who are
| A. sk4 rav,f
over the construction OF low line
canal in connection with the Gunnison
project have been given more time In
the negotiations going on.
After every arrangement had been
completed for the funeral OF Thomas
Carr. Jr., who died in Chicago. July
3. the remains OF another man sent
to Trinidad from Chicago. reached the
home OF Mrs. Thomas Carr. Sr.
The bank law passed by the Eight
eenth General Assembly Of the state
of Colorado last spring will be re-
ferred to a vote OF the people If the
Colorado State Bankers Association
and the State Bank section Of that in
stitution have their way.
Dexter T. Sapp, of Gunniscn. the
newly elected commander of the De-
partment OF Colorado and Wyoming,
of the G. A. r., has been appointed a
member of the board OF trustees of
the Soldiers and Sailors Home at
Monte Vista.
Seventy-five citizens of Palisade.
armed with rifles and masked. sur
rounded the restaurants owned by j..
NJ. and Charles Ferguson. at Palisade,
and at the point of guns forced two
boys to deliver a message to the Fer
guson brothers, ordering them to close