The Elk Mountain pilot., 1912-03-28
LITrLE.coLoRADo ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While.

trlcJ tnere are S,li0 persons VI SCuooi
age.
The school census of Grand juno
ton shows 1925 children of school age
within the city limits.
Mrs Lucy Jane Elizabeth Dawson
of Longmont has just celebrated her
ninety-fifth birthday.
Strawberries are being cultivated In
the mountains near Steamboat Springs
5000 feet above the sea level.
The Fort Morgan basketball team
has gone to Chicago to play Iowa, Ne
braska and Illinois basketball teams.
A fire destroyed a two-story mer-
camille building on Main street in
Fort Lupton, entailing loss of $780,
900.
During a fierce encounter in Pueblo,
in which both used knives, Frank
Shane and Jim Taylor were badly
siashed.
The annual society circus of the
Denver Y. NJ. C. A. will be given April
IL, 12 and Is in the gymnasium of the
Y. NJ. C. A.
Former United States Senator Hen
ry NJ. Teller of Denver, who has been
seriously i'll for a week, is reported to
be SLIGHTLY better.
Colorado college students at Colo
rado Springs have voted to hold an
other spring high school track and
field meet May A.
Tom Jones and Frank Meyers, min
ers, had an alteration in saloon at
Victor. during which Meyers was
stabbed in the thigh.
The supreme council of the Pro-
gressive Moose of America has issued
IA dispensation for Denver Lodge No.
1, the first lodge to be organized.
The Fort Collins branch of the
Farmers Educational and Co-opera-
tive union voted to send $25 to aid
destitute farmers in eastern Colorado.
In beer alone, Colorado and Wyom-
ing drank 37,512 barrels less in the
eight months from July 1, 1911. to
Feb 1, 1912, than in the preceding
eight months in 1910 and 1911.
Monroe Fuqua. an ex-convict TWEEN
ty-two years old, was arrested at Gree
ley charged with influencing girls to
Iead immoral lives and forcing them
to turn over their earnings to him.
John Daefiler, sixty-seven, a pioneer
resident of Welsenburg, stepped from
the door of his home into the front
yard and using an automatic revolver,
sent two bullets into HIS brain.
At the 4th anniversary smoker Civ.
en- by the Elks' lodge in Idaho Springs,
the main event was a six-round go be-
tween Mike Malone of Denver and Ed
Harris of San Francisco. which result
ed in draw.
Men as well as women are members
of an embroidery club which meets in
Evans twice week. 1t is known as
the Evans Embroidery Club and Mar
tin Briggs, a prominent business man,
is president.
The Colorado Springs Chamber of
Commerce has undertaken to raise
fund of $4,000 with which to aid
needy farmers in Ell Paso county and
other counties between that city and
the state line.
The Fort Collins Chamber of Com
merce has initiated a movement to Sc
cure better train service between that
city and Denver. An early morning
train between the two cities is particu-
larly desired.
A wage increase ranging from thir-
teen to sixteen per cent. affecting 200
employees on the Colorado divisions of
the system, has been granted by the
Rock Island lines to its telegraph op-
orators, effective April l.
A summer school will be established
at the State School of Mines at Col
den, beginning July Is and ending Au-
gust %, for benefit of matriculated
students who wish to make up defi-
ciencies. and for prospective students.
The student body of the Agricultural
college at Fort Collins is on strike
The students want weeks vacation
during the spring and presented Pc
tition to DR.. Lory yesterday, asking
for 1t. This petition was denied and
at a meeting of the student body it
was unanimously voted to go on strike
and take a weeks vacation.
A tuberculosis sanitarium which will
admit patients free of charge from ev-
cry part of the United States and will
be conducted under Christian influ'
ences is planned by group OF promf-
nent Denver men, who have filed ar
ticles of incorporation in the office Of
the secretary of state for the National
Christian Sanitarium Association.
Colorado ditch owners, who claim
priorities to the use of water from the
Arkansas river and the right to divert
the water for use in this state as
against Kansas consumers, must now
go to trial on the merits of the suit
filed by the United States Irrigating
Company. Wyoming corporation. in
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