The Elk Mountain pilot., 1912-09-12
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While.

One woman killed and two others
injured was the record for Labor Day
at Pueblo.
Kelim brothers of Loveland are
planning the erection of a flour mill
at Officer.
Mrs. Nadine Parce Davis, wife Of H
T. Davis OF Longmont. died suddenly
at Los Angeles of peritonitis.
Colorado's valuations for 1912 total
$423.555. 5.S76.17. an increase, in round
figures, of $9.740.O00 over 1911 fig
ures.
The meeting of the Colorado Good
Roads Association has been postponed
until Carnival week in Denver, Oct
1919.
The annual council of the sixth de-
partment OF the Episcopal Church will
be held in Grand Junction October
18-19-20.
The home of Mr.. and Mrs. Dan Cor.
man, of Salida was robbed of a num-
ber of valuables worth in all approx
mately 500.
The fight for the removal of the
county seat of Clear Creek county
from Georgetown to Idaho Springs Is
on in earnest.
Figures announced show that be-
tween February 20 and June IA saw
ings banks in Colorado increased their
deposits $760.215.35.
William Weymore, sixty-one, was
found dead from heart failure on the
ranch of Edward Wolfley seven miles
east of Grand Junction.
A Meeker dispatch says the new
line-the Provo and Eastern Utah rail-
way-which proposes to enter that sec
ton. is now an assured fact.
Miss Elsie II. Clarw of Boulder is
the bride OF Robert Eli Clark. deputy
national forest supervisor Of the Lead
vile National forest service.
On the pretense OF taking lust
little trip to Morrison" Miss Olive
| Sutton. nineteen, of Denver. eloped to
Golden with Leonard Wood. where
| they were married.
After having been mourned as dead
for seventeen years by his wife and
| family, Montaville Woodwork will be
the honor guest at family reunion at
| Eaton in few days.
The Colorado Auctioneers' Associa-
| ton held its annual convention at
Glenwood Springs and an elaborate
entertainment program was prepared
by the local business men.
| Glenwood Springs won the final
game in the polo series between the
Denver Country Club and Glenwood
and won the Rocky Mountain chal-
lenge cup. The score was to 5N.
Ten thousand horses, belonging to
Colorado stockmen and now running
on praires of Western Kansas. must
remain there exposed to a mysterious
epidemic now raging through that
state.
| The gamicst game banquet that was
ever served in Denver was placed be-
fore the delegates to the convntions
of tn National Association of Game
| Wardens and the American Fisheries
Society.
Mrs. Philippine Frein. blind, age eigh-
| ty- one years two months and sixteen
days. died OF senility at the home of
her daughter, Mrs. Annie Szynskie. in
| Salida. after a. lingering illness OF sew
eral years.
Four persons were killed and two Sc
| when a runaway trolley car ran
| against stone wall. completely
wrecking the car and crushing four of
| the passengers.
A legacy awaits Terscater Roberts.
| age twenty-one, whose father deserted
her at Colorado Springs. eleven years
ago, in the shape OF the insurance car
ried by her father, who died recently
at Salt Lake.
| A new state record was made at
the closing of the Arkansas Valley
fair at Rocky Ford, when Marie
Louise. owned and driven by E. A. Col
burn of Denver. went mile in 2:15H
over half-mile track.
A gasoline explosion wrecked the
rear of the Miller tailor shop at Boul-
der and C. D. Miller. the proprietor.
was probably fatally burned. His as
sistant. Richard Stoneman. also was
| severely burned.
Denver detectives are seeking Ber
nice Whitley, fifteen-year-old step
daughter Of Thomas Crouch, ranch.
man, living half a mile northeast of
Mt Olivet cemetery. who disappeared
| under strange circumstances.
Attacked by an infuriated bull elk
that was corraled at the Chdutauqua
| grounds near Boulder, Emil NJ. Ben
esch, thirty-one, barely escaped being
| gored to death as the huge animal
charged upon him again and again.
Ute Indians, returning to the Pixies
| Peak region, once the favorite hunting
and worshipping grounds of the tribe,
dedicated the old trail leading from