The Elk Mountain pilot., 1912-01-11
LIrrlE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While.

The Windsor creamery will be in
operation in thirty days.
Albert B. Miservey, a pioneer OF
Colorado Springs, is dead.
The new high school building at
Grand Junction is now being used.
John Miller. recently convicted of
insanity at Pueblo, has been re
leased.
Max Byers, 81, has been sent to he
reformatory from Canon City for
forgery.
The old l.. Spring farm near Wind
sor. consisting of 80 acres. has been
sold for $4,000.
Twenty miners of the Alpha coal
mines at Fort Lupton went out on
strike recently.
At Williamsburg 1876 men employed
at the Ocean Wave mine have gone
out on strike.
A total of 1924 civil cases and S21
criminal cases were filed in Colorado
Springs last year.
A modern sanitarium for tubercu-
losis will be established in the near
future at Greeley.
James Gruis of Sterling is reported
dying as the result of terrific en-
counter with skunks.
George Johnstone. a pioneer and
veteran of the civil war, died at La
Sale. aged II years.
John R. Hogan, employed at the
Smuggler-Union mine at Telluride,
died suddenly recently.
Reports from Hugo state that while
stock is suffering from the cold; the
loss will not be great.
Eight thousand farmers attended
the Weld County Farmers Institute
held at Greeley recently.
Chief of Police Hutchinson of Grand
Junction has ordered that all slot ma
chimes and gambling be stopped.
Clark Holcomb, who shot and killed
w. G. Pate at Cripple Creek recently,
will be tried on charge of murder.
The value of all farming property
in Boulder county is $16,47S,541. This
is considerable increase over last
year.
been appointed coupty commissioner
pired term.
Cattle are reported to be dying by
the hundreds in southern and eastern
Colorado as result of the severe cold
and snow.
The Colorado Chautauqua Associa-
tion is making elaborate plans for the
fifteenth annual session to be held
in Boulder in 1912.
In Colorado Springs in 1911 there
were 456 marriage licenses issued and
in the same period 462 suits for di-
vorce were filed.
Special preparations are being made
for the annual Farmers Institute
which is to be held at Loveland
January % to 26.
State Board of Medical Examiners
have organized for the purpose Of
fighting medical Quacks.
Chicken fanciers from all parts of
the country attended the Poultry
Show at Pueblo. over six hundred
fancy chickens were entered
The Palisade Land Holders Protec-
tive Association has agreed to accept
the offer of the government for 'he
right-ofway of the high line canal
Dan Martinez, non-union miner at
the Parkdale mine. near Lafayette.
was mortally wounded in an acci-
dental shooting and died in Denver.
David Webster, farmer, aged "a,
of Fort Collins, was arrested on a
charge of kidnapping Miss Eva Long.
aged 15, whom he married recently.
Charles Mulford Robinson of New
York. eminent civic beauty expert, will
come to Colorado Springs early next
spring to outline general plan for
public improvements.
The body of an unidentified man
was taken to Trinidad by Sheriff Pot.
ter of Otero county. The body was
found near Ayers. 1t is believed the
man was killed by Santa Fe train.
]. p. Sweeney, justice Of the peace
at Grand Junction, has announced that
he will marry free the first leap year
bride; that is, the first bride of the
year who will admit that she pro-
posed.
The United Hydro Electric Company
has brought into service the new and
splendidly constructed power line
down Clera Creek valley from the gen.
Grating plant at Georgetown to Idaho
Springs.
Frank MUrata, the Japanese tried
and convicted at Greeley of murder in
the second degree for shooting l. Ibd
suki at Ptaltteville July Z, 1907, was
| sentenced to fourteen to twenty years
in the penitentiary.
| On account of the severe cold wealth