The Elk Mountain pilot., 1912-04-04
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While.

State Worth While.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
A postal savings bank will be op-
ened at Meeker April s.
| Actual work on street paving will
begin in Colorado Springs within ten
days.
Dependency. due to i'll health.
caused Lee Skinner, aged As, to kill
| himself at Rocky Ford.
Mrs. Catherine C. Forquer. a pioneer,
died at Greeley, aged sixty. She came
to Colorado thirty years ago.
Work on the main line Of the Mis-.
souri, Pacific between Pueblo and Kan
sas City will begin at once.
May Day celebration will be given
May =. on the university campus of
the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Mrs. E. P. Fink will build the new
state armory at Fort Lupton, to be
leased to Company l at a cost of $S,-
900.
A new electric light system for Gree
ley will be installed if the franchise
asked from the City Council April 16
is gr tnted.
Two valuable elk belonging to the
Boulder city zoo at the Chautauqua
grounds escaped. jumping over the
high wire fence.
Farmers around Windsor have be-
gun series of meetings with the OBJ
Ject of promoting the dairy industry
of that district.
A. T. Stewart of Pueblo has been
chosen president of the State Insane
Asylum Board and DR. Louis Haugh Of
Denver. secretary.
Ben Lundstrom, miner. WAS shot
in Telluride as result of interceding
for friend who quarreled with e. j.
Charest, bartender.
j. w. Ewing received record price
for fat lambs shipped from Greeley
this season when he topped the Chi
cago market at $S.25.
Elijah Salmon, one of the Meeker
valleys earliest and best known pio-
neers and a cattleman of prominence,
died in Denver recently.
Transportation rates on lemons from
California points to destinations In
Colorado, Utah and Montana must NOT
exceed 81 per 100 pounds.
The growth of Oak Creek during the
last year is clearly shown by the regis
tration for town election, which is 1863,
compared with 210 year ago.
Henry CODY, who came to Colorado
in 1859, and fought in the battle OF
Sand Creek in 1864, died at his home
i'll Colorado City, aged seventy-n ne.
w. C. Winbourne of Fort -uptoi.
will pioneer corn growing and plant 100
ceres of corn on his dry farm east of
that place, il he can rid it of prairie
dogs.
The hope of a municipal election in
Lamar this spring was lost when the
Supreme Court granted the writ of SUI
persedeas prayed for by the city ad'
ministration.
A commercial invasion of southern
Colorado and portion of New Mexico
has been decided on by Pueblo jobbers
and manufacturers to start April %
and last a week.
The work of raising $4,000 in Pueb
10 to buy seed grain for the destitute
farmers of Kiowa county has been com
pleted and the grain will be shipped
to the settlers at once.
The cattlemen's banquet, which was
set for Friday, April 5. at Gunnison
has been postponed one week. The
committee believes that the roads will
then be in better condition.
One Of the largest eagles in captivi'
ty was taken to Mayor Speer's office
in Denver ]. w. Davis, a Byers,
Colo, ranches. 1t is said to be per
feet type of the American eagle.
The society "Sons of Colorado" has
presented to the cruiser Colorado"
Colorado state flag of silk, in honor OF
her splendid achievement Of becoming
Queen of the United States Navy"
Both batteries OF the Colorado Ma
tionai Guard have been invited AMI
will attend the joint camp of instruc'
ton to be held under the direction OF
Uniteu States army officers at Fort
Riley, Kan, June 10 to June "a.
The Fort Lewis Indian school, for
which the last Legislature appropriat-
ed 100000 for maintenance. may be
able, to collect the entire appropriation
Immediately on account of its relation
with the United States government.
AS he leaned from his cab window
to signal the crew of another train,
near iulesburg. Walter Hinkley, I'm
ion Pacific fireman, was struck on the
head by a coal chute which his engine
was passing at that instant, and killed.
About 400 acres have been contract
ed for growing peas for canning in the
Greeley district. Nearly as much has
been secured at Johnstown for the
Longmont cannery. Hulling plants will
be put up in Johnstown and Ault at a
cost o. $4,000 each.