The Elk Mountain pilot., 1912-07-18
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While.

| Platteville.
A recent cloudburst did severe dam
age to the town of Boulder.
Grand functions new $4,000 high
school building has been completed.
Milliken is to have $4,000 flour
mill and elevator, to be erected imme-
aiately.
Leadville leads Colorado cities in
the amount of postal savings bonds
with $13,240.
The Swift ranch in North Platte, in
| Guiding three thousand head OF cattle,
has been sold for $1S7.000.
| Professor Lorren d. Osbourn, Ph.D.,
| has been elected to the chair of soci-
ology of the University of Colorado.
The Loveland Ratchet Wrench Man
ufacturing Company, capitalized at
$4,000, has filed articles of incorpor
| alton.
The new Colorado School of Mines
metallurgical plant. at Golden, cost
ing $4,000, will be completed this
month.
| Miss Eugenia Kelly of Grand juno
ton is to be a candidate for county
clerk of Mesa county on the Demo
cratic ticket.
Harry Charles, twenty-five years
old, was struck by lightning and killed
at the j. Arnold ranch, seven miles
from Fowler.
Thurmond Collins and Fred Dopps
of Boulder won the $3.50 prize in the
mine drillers' double.hand contest at
Leadville on the 4th.
John Sederlun. twenty-one years old.
son OF farmer near Sterling, was
drowned in Dillon reservoir, about
five miles south of Tiff.
An eighty-horsepower Seagraves au-
| tomobile fire-truck has replaced the
horse drawn hook and ladder wagon OF
the Trinidad fire department,
The Denver Laramie & Northwest
ern railroad is making arrangements
TO extend its line from Greeley to Sew
erance, distance of twelve miles.
Overcome by bad air, Christian
Marks and Andrew Vogessor plunged
to instant death in the shaft OF the
Yellow Bird mine. on Gold hill. Grip
pie Creek.
November / is the date set for the
reorganization of the Denver G. North
western Railway Company. by which
| its stock will be increased from S6,00O,-
900 to s2O,o00,oOO.
An increase OF resources OF S1.S53.-
| Gl49S in 1876 state. private, savings
and trust company banks since March
| 12 is shown by report recently is
sued by State Bank Commissioner f.
w. Pfeiffer.
At meeting of the county high
/ school committee at Montrose G. A.
| Wright of the Colorado Agricultural
college was employed to inaugurate
farm department in the county high
school course.
The Weld County Fair Association
has announced that it would give any
couple who will get married in front
| Of the grandstand Potato day, Sep
tember &c, at Greeley, enough furni-
ture for a home.
In the sundry civil bill reported to
the Senate in Washington regular ap-
| preparations for Mesa Verde National
Park, Colorado, was increased from
$500 to $4,000. the increase being
for road building.
The June payroll for all state, edu-
| cational and penal institutions,
amounting to $4,000. is being held up
because Secretary A. L. Fribourg of
| the Civil Service Commission has re-
fused to o. K the bills
| Graft, fraud, corruption, malfeas-
| ance in office and other crimes.
| charged against officials of the las.
| administration in Denver, will be thor
oughly investigated by joint cominit-
tee of the City Council.
| Fruit growers and ranchers OF Pa
onia have arranged an excursion to
| Denver to secure a thousand men to
help harvest the biggest fruit crop in
| the history OF that section. They will
travel on a special train and will pa
rade Denver streets. with brass band.
Edward P. House. the Colorado
Burbank" of Greeley after long expert
menting, perfected a new variety of
wheat which he calls the "Norcross,
which he says is hardy, prolific and
will make the best of flour. 1t ls
particularly adapted for growth on
dry" farms.
Edward p. Costigan, chairman of
the provisional State Central commit
tee of the Progressive party of Colo
rado, and Philip S. Van Cise. secre,
tary, have issued the official call for
the state assembly of that party 10
meet in Denver Thursday, August 4,
1912.
The Denver & Rio Grande railroad
has established what is known as a
Safety Organization. consisting of a
central safety committee, division
committees and shop committees, for
the purpose of correcting conditions
| ihnt contribute to causaltieS and IL is