The Elk Mountain pilot., 1912-10-31
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
state Worth While.

the founders Of Greeley was held last
week.
John w. Valentine was married at
Boulder to his sister-in-law, Miss Ly-
da Burr.
The twenty-fourth annual convention
of the Baptists at Loveland was large
ly attended.
The eighth annual dog show of the
Colorado Kennel Club was held at the
Denver Auditorium.
More than one million acres of land
in northwestern Colorado is still open
for the homesteader.
| A party of 100 Denver Elks partici-
pated in the dedication of the new
| Elks' building at Greeley.
| Harry Cartee, SO, was crushed to
death in the Vindicator No. shaft at
independence by slab of rock which
fell twenty feet.
| That prosperity has returned to
eastern Colorado was evidenced on the
tour of the Rock Islands dry farming
educational train.
John Gibbons, Democratic candidate
for representative from Lake county,
dropped dead from hemorrhage of the
lungs at Leadville.
Joe Tossoni, aged thirty-three, en-
poyed at the Standard mine, Lafay-
cite, was fatally injured by a fall of
coal at Boulder and died.
Mrs. Henrietta Selby Sale, ninety
one years old. and resident of Den
yer for fifteen years, died at the home
Of her daughter, Mrs. Luella s. Stocks.
/ A plan to reclaim 5000 acres of fine
land on the lower end of the Dolores
river near Westwater is being pushed
TO the front by number of Eastern
capitalists.
After a chase through several states,
which lasted three) months, E. F. kel-
ley, twenty, wanted in Denver for al
legged forgery. was captured at Eureka
Springs, Ark.
Thomas X. Irwin, wanted in Duran
go on a charge of embezzling $4,000
to $4,000 of the La Plata County
bank funds while he was its president,
was arrested in Omaha.
That civilization will ultimately re-
ly upon solar energy rather than on
| that of coal was one of the opinions
delivered by State Chemist John b.
| Ekeley at Boulder in a lecture before
the University of Colorado Scientific
| Society.
Pueblo county is s547,111 richer than
year ago, according to the report of
County Assessor Samuel McCoun de-
livered to the county commissioners.
The assessed valuation of Pueblo coun-
ty is $27.962.72O. A year ago it was
s27. ,6O9.
Five eastern and European insur-
ance men and capitalists. with their
families. were guests at luncheon at
the Country Club at Denver while on
a tour over the western states, and
outside capital is expected to b. in
vested in Denver and Colorado as a
result of their visit.
That a worlds fair should be held
in Denver to commemorate the conf
| pletion of the transcontinental tunnel
| under James Peak and the establish
ment of a new transcontinental rail-
way line through Colorado, was the
| suggestion made at the weekly
meeting of the Denver Chamber of
Commerce.
The dedication of the Dudley c..
Shoenberg farm at Westminster, do
mated to the National Jewish hospital
for consumptives, by the man whose
name it bears, took place at 10 o'clock
Sunday morning. The dedication of
the Joseph e. Shoenberg memorial at
the hospital, the gift of the man whose
name it bears, took place Sunday af-
ternoon.
Recognizing the fact that one of the
greatest needs to this state is good
roads, the county commissioners of
Colorado have gone on record as IA
voring the proposition to vote bonds
to the extent of $10,000.000 for such
improvements in the next ten years.
II this issue carries it means an en-
penditure of s1,OOO.oOO each year for
road construction.
B. F. Kapp. pathologist from the
State Agricultural College, who has
been investigating the mysterious dis
ease which has infected horses near
Holly, has reported to the commission
ers of Prowers. Otero, Bent and
Crowley and Pueblo counties. He says
that of 1900 horses exposed, 157 be-
came diseased, 1875 died and 81 recov-
cred. serum has been prepared and
horses on twenty ranches have been
vaccinated.
The largest vote in the history of
the state will be cast Tuesday, No
vember 5th, according to the prognos-
tications of leaders of the Democratic.
Republican and Progressive parties.
Reports from all parts of the state in
dicate a registration of approximately
100000, they say, and it is expected