The Elk Mountain pilot., 1912-03-21
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While.

April z.
A Roy Scout organization has been
| perfected in Grand Junction.
A 100000 fireproof warehouse is to
be erected in Grand Junction.
Colorado druggists will hold their
annual convention in Denver in Aug
ust.
The first shipment of spring lambs
from Gill, 2.4O0 head. were sent to
Chicago.
Greeley school districts $41, 500 bond
issue has been sold. The premium is
s1.713.95.
Gov. Shafroth has issued a procla-
nation designating Friday, April 10. as
Arbor Day.
The Colorado & Southern has dis
continued service between Buena Vista
and Hancock.
Water is now flowing into the Ster-
ling reservoir for the first time since
its completion.
John w. Springer of Denver has an
nounced himself as candidate for the
United States Senate.
< George Sleborn, a resident of Long
mont since 1887, is dead from Brights
disease. He was sixty-six.
The Postoffice Department desig-
mated Cedaredge as postal savings
depository, effective April II.
Denver is to have a Day-and-Night
bank. The new institution is expect
ed to open for business about April L
C. X. Berry of Laramie. Wyo.. prob
ably will install cooperative deliv-
cry system for merchants of Greeley.
John l.. Church. aged seventy-three,
one of the best known men in Boul-
der county. a Civil War veteran, is
dead.
Unless Former Judge Richard Den
his of Eaton gets a stay of execution,
he must serve a thirty-day sentence
in jail.
The Advertising Club of Denver in,
tends to make a strong bid for the
national convention of the Associated
Advertising Clubs of America in 1915.
Stockholders of the bankrupt Union
Trading Company met in Pueblo and
planned to purchase the remaining as
sets of the company for rs cents on
the dollar.
Deciding to engage in farming in
the West, Mrs. Rose r. Herkett of
Chicago bought the 320-acre Asa Ster-
ling farm, south of Kuner, paying
$4,000 for it.
The Santa Fe has cleared it's tracks
through Kansas and traffic has been
resumed. About 300 passengers had
been stalled at La Junta and were fed
at local hotels.
Mrs. Nettie Belle Combs. fifty-three.
of Longmont, believed to be the larg-
est woman in Colorado. died at her
home in that city. Mrs. Combs
weighed 450 pounds.
Mike Carr, an old time miner, dropped
dead in restaurant at Central City
from hemorrhage of the lungs. Carr
was sixty-four and had lived in Cen
trail City forty years.
James Wilson, secretary of agricul-
ture, will visit the Agricultural College
at Fort Collins soon, inspect the gov
ernment horse breeding station and
all departments of the school.
A vigilance committee of men stu
dents at the State university at Boul-
der will likely be formed to run down
Jack the Peeper who has been
prowling around on University hill.
Bert Gross. an old time miner Of
Cripple Creek, was perhaps fatally in
jured when he was struck by slab
of rock weighing about 1000 pounds
on the 40O-foot level of the Ell Paso
mine.
Among recent large deals at Meeker
is the sale of the Martin Paulson
ranch to John Bennett OF Victor for
$4,000, and the sale of the Lechmere
property to Lorin Clark of Rifle for
$4,000.
Mrs. Sarah Beilville has filed suit
against Pueblo for $500 damages for
fall on slippery sidewalk January
27th. She declares she broke an arm
and leg and received many other
injuries.
1t is reported in Meeker that the
Colorado-Pacific Development Com
pany. which quit work on its oil prop
critics at Rangely last winter. is about
to resume work on as large q scale
as before.
Caught in snowslide that was pre-
cipitated by the concussion following
the discharge of his rifle, David Da-
Wis, aged thirty-two, former Denver
man. was carried 300 feet to his death
down a mountainside near the quar-
ries of the Colorado Yule Marble Com
pany, at Marble.
The largest damage suit for per-
sonal injuries ever filed in the Colo
rado Springs court was begun in Dis
gle sued the Colorado Springs & inter
urban Railway Company to recover
$40 900 for injuries sustained Jan. 10.