The Elk Mountain pilot., 1912-06-06
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While.

The Rocky Ford Chautauqua starts
June 23rd. 49,
The estate OF Robert A. Austin will
pay $4,000 inheritance tax to the
state.
The highway from Boulder to Estes
Park has been opened and is in per
feet condition.
The Idaho Springs baseball team de-
feated the Gilpin Mines team of Cen
trail City. 6 to 8.
The movement OF cattle from the
winter to the summer ranges has be-
gun near Meeker.
Strontia Springs has a newspaper.
the Platte Canon Fly. w. G. Thomp-
son is the publisher.
The acreage pledged for the pro-
posed La Sale independent sugar fac
tory has reached 5000.
The 1000 laborers at work In the
Weld county beet fields are in
sufficient to handle the crop.
1t took Canon City Just ten innings
to win the second contest in the Rocky
Mountain League from Pueblo.
Directors OF the Larimer County
Fair Association have decided to erect
an art building on the fairgrounds.
June rs to July 12 are the days when
the great Denver-Chicago run will be
the main automobile event in the
West.
mass meeting of citizens almost
unanimously voted down the proposed
commission form of government for
Trinidad.
The White and Big Beaver rivers
continue to rise, having already
reached a height unusual for this time
of the year.
Frank Ferraro and Frank Mario.
charged with the murder Of Felix Mar
tinez on January 9th. were acquitted
at Trinidad.
J. H. J. Ramsey of Cripple Creek has
been arrested, charged with embez-
zling money from the Cripple Creek
National bank.
| William Menagh, a ranchman living
near Greeley. lost his house by fire
| twenty-four hours after his insurance
policy had expired.
A. B. Whitmore, curio hunter. un-
earthed the remains of prehistoric
from Cripple Creek.
Breckenridge, for the first time in
her history, observed Memorial Day
without a parade-there were no veter-
ans left to march in it.
J. S. Westfall, rancher living near
| Rocky Ford, was probably fatally IN
| jured when a load of hay upon which
he was riding upset.
| Jim Bailey and Jack Murphy. self
confessed horse thieves, escaped from
the pest house, Grand Junction. both
suffering with smallpox.
Former Senator A. T. Stewart OF
Pueblo has been appointed to succeed
Felix O'Neill as warden of the state
reformatory at Buena Vista.
Thomas C. Bunyan. organizer of the
Bank of Berthoud, now the First Ma
tional bank, and well known man
throughout the state. is dead.
The Postoffice Department has or
| dered- rural delivery service estab-
| lished August 1, from Boone. Pueblo
county. to supply one hundred and
eight families.
The Pueblo North Side School
Board, District No. 20, has Just an
nounced the purchase OF a site for a
new school building to be located on
the East Side.
Farmers OF Weld county are rejoic-
| ing over ten hours of rain which fell
recently. 1t came at a time when it
was most needed by the newly-planted
beet crop.
Charged with the misappropriation
of $1,10O from ther funds of the First
National Bank of Wellington. John S.
| Cusack, former cashier of the bank,
has been arrested at Saratoga, Wyo.
| Moving pictures will be used by the
| Colorado Congress of Mothers in
campaign to educate the women of the
state in housewifely duties if the pres
ent plans of the organization are car
ried out.
A steel bridge at Una, Garfield
county, which cost the state $4,000
and was completed last November,
was washed out recently with the
flood in the North Fork of the Guun-
son river.
A heavy rain has fallen throughout
northwestern Colorado, following
heavy windstorm, blowing down tele-
phone poles, uprooting threes and un-
roofing the recently completed hotel
at Oak Creek.
Water in the Nederland reservoir OF
the Central Colorado Power Company
has reached the 10O-foot mark for the
first time, making approximately three
hundred million cubic feet of water
now impounded.
In the first game on the home