The Elk Mountain pilot., 1911-01-05
LITTLE coLonAoo ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth Telling.

Walter Lucha, shot by Thomas
Tompkins near Calhan December 10th,
is dead.
The University OF Colorado basket
ball team won over Gunnison Christ
mas, 33 to IA.
SaHda is now connected with Gun
nison by new copper quarter-inch
telephone line.
William Crothers. aged ~. one OF
the oldest pioneers Of Clear Creek
county and lumberman. is dead.
Nick Wearne, miner of Nevada
vile. fell forty feet down the shaft OF
the California mine on Quartz hill.
The cowboys of southeastern Colo
RADIO gave a grand ball in La Sale.
December 2Sth. followed by supper.
Makis Kakis, aged 23. was fatally
crushed betwene the cage and the
sump at the Puritan mine at Freder-
lex.
Company E. n. G. c.. contemplates
erection of an $4,000 armory in Wind
sor. The company is in good condi-
ton.
After being in quarantine at hei
home in Aiken, S. c.. for more than
two years. Miss Mary V. Kirk, leper,
died.
William ]. Coulter died at the Rio
Grande hospital in Salida. of which he
had been an inmate for the past
twelve years.
Isaac Pope, an Erie saloon keeper.
was fined 800 and costs in the Dis
trict Court at Greeley for keeping
open on Sunday.
A new depot is being constructed
by the Denver, Laramie & Northwest
ern railway at the town OF Patron. ten
miles north of Denver.
Mike Quintana paid 1880 fine in
Millikin for the pleasure OF shooting
his wide brimmed felt hat full OF
holes Christmas night.
After remaining in Jail two weeks in
Pueblo. Walter Perry, wanted In Salt
Lake fora diamond robbery. has been
taken there by Sheriff Mcmillan.
AT a special meeting OF members
of the Christian church OF Windsor.
IL was voted to employ Elder Robert
Pegrum of Golden as minister.
Four women OF Gill. twelve miles
east OF Greeley. had n narrow escape
from drowning. while skating re-
Gently. The thin ice broke under
them.
Fewer marriage licenses have been
issued in jefferson county during the
present holiday season than at any
corresponding period for fifteen
years.
The recommendation from the army
engineer board to Congress for ST.
500 900 for completion OF the Gunnison
tunnel project has caused rejoicing
ut Montrosc.
The University OF Denver football
team is planning a trip East the latter
part of next October. They will play
Marquette and some other team, eth
er going or on the return.
L. ]. Smith. cashier in the Rocky
Ford State Bank. who was sentenced
10 the penitentiary for receiving de-
posits in an insolvent bank, has been
denied n pardon by the state board of
pardons.
Because he failed to purchase drinks
promptly after being defeated at
game OF dice in n saloon at Lynn. Juan
Pioe. n ranchman living near Aguilar.
was shot in the thigh and seriously
wounded.
\ marriage celebration of great in
terest to the German-Russian popula-
ton of Montrose and vicinity ended
after n three-day feast and dancing.
participated in by about fifty members
of these nationalities.
Mrs. Rosa Rubenstein, who last
August shot and killed her husband,
william Rubenstein in Denver. and
later was pronounced insane and sent
to the state asylum at Pueblo. com
mitted suicide.
State Game Commissioner T. J. Hol-
land has dispatched several game
wardens to eastern Colorado, where
II is reported hunters are shooting
antelope. Four animals are said to
have been killed at Aroya.
Headquarters of the national Irriga-
ton Congress, recently held at Pueblo,
have been removed to Chicago, pre-
paratory to conducting a campaign
for the nineteenth irrigation congress,
TO be neld in Chicago in 1911.
A large section of territory hereto
fore without telephone connection
with the outside world has been con-
nected by the completion of the toll
line of the Colorado Telephone Com
pany from Telluride to Norwood.
To provide Montrose county with
an excellent country road at prac-
tically no cost is the object of the
Road Drag Club, which has been or
ganized there by c. Il. Nickel. assist
ami cashier of the Eo1ne State hank