The Elk Mountain pilot., 1911-02-16
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
state Worth Telling.

| Mrs. Mary Grabmaier, pioneer, died
At Central City.
| Recent fire In Ludlow did damage
estimated at $4,000.
Plans are on foot to light marble
cave near Canon City.
The Oldest bible in the world is in
possession of a Greeley citizen.
Plans are on foot to issue 25. 900 book
let's advertising Boulder county.
The farmers of Eaton have taken a
firm stand for $6 per ton for beets.
The first death In the town of Glade
Park, two years old, occurred recently.
A cooperative store with u capital
CT $4,000 has been organized at Grow
er.
About eighty farmers attended the
Logan County Poultry Show at Ster-
ling.
Chas. Jones of Plateau raised oats
that weighed sixty-eight pounds per
bushel.
A mining company composed OF six
girls will operate the Lucky Gus mine
at Cripple Creek.
The Haines apple orchard of 12o
acres. near Grand Junction, has been
sold for 100000.
The Denver Athletic Club boxing
and wrestling tournament is a fast and
entertaining affair.
The Supreme Court of the state gave
its final decision which makes North
Longmont dry territory.
In order that the range may be KEEP.
from scabies. cattle in the Eaton Vi
cinity are being dipped.
John p. White. the new president OF
the United Mine Workers OF America.
will visit Colorado in April.
Greeley has sold more Red Cross
stamps than any town OF its size in
the state.
Two troops of cavalry from wyo-
ming to Nogales. Ariz.. passed through
Denver recently.
DIR. 7. j. Estill. a prominent ply
sician and pioneer OF Colorado
Springs. is dead.
The corner stone OF the new federal
building In Denver will be laid in the
near future.
Fourteen thousand two hundred ar
rests were made by the Denver police
department In 1910.
The Farmers Institute at Long
mont has closed and great good re-
suited from the meeting.
The two-year-old child OF J. Pierson
OF Greeley swallowed a ten-penny nail.
but has suffered no bad effect.
An ordinance has been passed at
Greeley raising the salaries of the
City Council. city engineer and street
commissioner.
Fulton Alexander. a negro known In
Denver police circles as Steamboat"
is in Jail in Castle Rock charged with
horse stealing.
The dates OF the Western Slope De-
velopment Congress. to be held at
Grand Junction. have been changed to
March % and "a.
Officers are on the trail of thieves
who have been looting chicken yards
in the Platteville country. and selling
the birds in Denver markets.
Oscar Moore. aged eighteen, an en-
ploye of the Colorado Fuel & Iron
Company at Morley, was run over by
coal cars and instantly killed.
The loss resulting from the burning
of the shaft house of the Frank Hough
mine above Animas Forks in San Juan
county is estimated at $l75.000.
John Conner. agricultural superin-
tendcnt OF the Windsor factory dis
trict. is authority for the statement
81 hot 0 ~ huv
been contracted for this season.
Jack Johnson. negro. champion pugi-
list of the heavyweight class. stoppe
over in Pueblo two hours on his way
to San Francisco. Johnson arrived un-
heralded and without notice.
panorama OF the Grand valley. six
by forty feet. is being painted at the
expense of the Grand Junction Cham
ber of Commerce and will be displayed
in the capitol at Denver next month.
At the farmers institute at Fruita It
was decided by unanimous vote of the
200 ranchers In attendance from all
over the lower part of the Grand val.
ley to make it permanent and w. F.
Weckel was made president.
Carmen Laten and George l. Burgen,
promoters of the Paradox Valley rail
road. say work will start on the fina.
survey from Montrose as soon as snow
disappears on the Uncompahgre valley
plateau.
The largest land transaction in the
history of the Grand valley was closed
when the Palisade Fruit & Land Com
pany sold to the Moncref Orchard
Company Ill acres of peach land for
Sill 900.
Mayor Speer of Denver met several
of the railroad managers in that city
in connection with the union depot