The Elk Mountain pilot., 1911-12-07
LITTLE COLORADO lrENs.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
Ststs Worth While.

The red light district in Pueblo is
to be abolished.
The Idaho Springs Sanitarium has
been sold for 100000.
A Farmers Institute will be held In
Weld county Jan. and 4.
Plumbing thieves are at work again
in the vacant houses of Denver.
Ranchers near Meeker report see
ing numerous gray. or lobo. wolves.
Two prominent men Of Walsenburs
have been arrested for stealing sheep.
The Monte Vista High school won
from Canon City by a score OF % to o.
Money will be secured from Denver
capitalists to finish the Greeley-Poudre
irrigation project.
Ten thousand dollars have been
pledged fer the building OF q sugar
factory at Durango.
Cherokee Bill" aged ia. a resi-.
dent of Grand Junction. is the oldest
living man in America.
The Woman's Auxiliary OF Lafayette
fed about 500 people OF that city tur-
key and chicken or Thanksgiving.
Mrs. James Henry Stead. a pioneer
in Colorado and one OF the Oldest and
most respected inhabitants of Salida.
is dead.
The Arkansas Valley Commercial
Association held their annual meeting
in La Junta and elected officers for
another year.
Mrs. Mamie Mitchell. convicted at
Glenwood Springs of cattle stealing,
was denied new trial by District
Judge Shumate.
The Colorado Live Stock Associa-
tion and the American National Live
Stock Association meets in Denver
December 1874.
The canneries just closed at Fort
Lupton have had a very profitable
season. Next year more garden crops.
will be planted.
Pueblo people have appealed to the
attorney general to regulate the price
OF coal, the local dealers in which are
charged with discrimination.
Hundreds of families In Eastern
Colorado counties are destitute and
other necessities by charities.
William Demetral, the Greek wrest-
ling champion. defeated Charles Olson
of Indianapolis. after thirty-one
minutes OF brilliant work on the mat
at Pueblo.
On the new line OF the Rio Grande
between Pueblo and Walsenburg there
are the towns OF Furman. Morrell.
Brooks. Williams. Mustang. Concord.
Roof and Sandy.
The annual football game between
the University OF Colorado and the
State School of Mines at Union park
in Denver. resulted in a victory for
the university by score OF IL to o.
Farmers OF the Salida vicinity have
taken the matter in their own hands
and are promoting creamery after
several attempts haye failed to ne
gotiate the organization OF q cream
cry company.
Drugs and chemicals OF the estimat-
ed invoice value of $4,000. stored in
the basement OF the Bergerman block
at Cripple Creek by the Enfield Drug
Company were damaged, II not de-
stroyed, by fire and water.
The petition OF the Denver Con-
sumers and Shippers Association be-
fore the Interstate Commerce Com
mission, asking for reasonable freight
rates between Galveston and Denver,
has been mailed to Washington.
Charles L. Pickens, who says he
| IN RI iut 1lro
into Chief Armstrong; office in Den
yer recently and confessed to the kill
| ing OF John Walsh, I-eadville saloon
keeper, on the night OF June "a. 1898.
Judge John f. Little Of the County
Court will deliver the eulogy at the
memorial session of b. P. o. E. Lodge
| No. 309, to be held at Colorado
| Springs Sunday. The address will be
given by Sterling B. Toney of Denver.
During the year twelve members OF the
lodge have died.
The chamber of commerce OF Den
yer has appointed Gerald L. Schuyler,
William Sach and DR.. j. II. East as
| its special representatives on the
Board of Associated Charities. The
chamber plans that hereafter all char
ity OF the chamber will be handled by
| the Associated Charities.
Roy Haney Of Montrose knocked
out Danny Reed OF Denver in the
third round of a scheduled twenty
round bout at Telluride. The bout
was fast and furious while it lasted,
with honors even until Haney caught
Reed. with right hook to the jaw
| that put him down and out.
Marcus Manzanares. a Mexican re-
siding in Archuleta county, will
serve from one to eight years in the