The Elk Mountain pilot., 1912-10-10
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring over tn
State Worth While.

Last Mdntf was tire coldest -Septem-
Der ever experiepced in Denver.
A new fo&tenles, bJildiaE costing
100000 has just been completed in
Fort Collins.
: With -iIapo&ng cftemonies ground
was broken at Cailon City for $40.-
O0ONf:: M. c. A.-bLilhmg.
The, Colorado & Southern has dis-
-4sA0; ;OAO. in dividends to the
holders of. it's preferred stock.
After being wet since it's founding,
nearly three years ago. ,Milliken will
vote. on local option at the November
election.
Ap interesting experiment is being
condtctet' by the Bank of Mesker and
a prospector who claims to be a radi-
um EXPERT. , =.
!! Eugene. H 0rubb. noted specialist,
is in Weld county investigating con-
haoas, in regard to the shortage of
the potato crop.
s. P. Wear has been appointed game
wal den for the district comprising Rio
Blanco, Routt and Moffat counties,
vice Robert Norvell.
In collision of two automobile
trucks at Pueblo; Fred Elgin, sixteen,
was thrown to the pavement and prob
ably fatally injured.
How would you like to' be- a $1,000
900 baby? That Dis, what the small son
and heir who arrived at the Lawrence
Phipps hoLae IN Denver is worth.
Mrs. William j. Cox. wife of the
rnaAager of. the famous Camp Bird
mine. near Ouray, died suddenly of
hean failure at. Excelsior Springs. Mo.
Two fine bucks were shot on Mount
Falcon, within sight of Mount Morri-
son. The lucky. hunters We're j.. p.
Mosher and Walter Matthews, both OF
Morrison.
With display of agricultural and
horticultural PRODUCTS more varied
-thap- heretofore. the Montezuma Coun-
ty, Fair at Cortez was an unqualified
SUCCESS: ~ :. - - -.
The Colorado Springs Duck Club
has been organized with member
ship limited to. twenty-five. to take
charge of a limiting lodgein the .Foupt
tain valley.
:. President John Hughes of the Agui-
lar Miners Union, who failed to- ipctte
a general strike in that district, was
arrested, and will be -arraigned on
charge ef hon-support- 3
The Burlington railroad. will not ac-
cept, thu eterms laid down by Mayor
Arnold of Denver, under which it
might be given a franchise to use Mar
Eet street for trackage purposes - s.
: William H. ,Hupp; forty-four. post
.aster during the summer for the last
Tour years at Estes Park. was found
dead, In, his cabin at Boulder. Hupp
was on, a deer hhntng expedition.
Drawn back to Colorado by his de.
: sife to sch -the girl he loved. Joe Am
alto. ahas L-'Narinot was arrested. at
,Rockvalo on the charge of killing his
rival and the iasteifs, BROTHER. 49,
Mrs. Adrianna Hungerford OF Den.
YER was unanimously reelected presi-
dent ofifhe Colorado Woman's Chris
tian Temperance Union at its twenty
third ANNUAL. convention at Canon
City. - ~ -
The new directors of the Telluride
Power Company have voted at a meet
ing here to dissolve the corporation,
/ which means that it will be, sold to
the highest bidder for not less than
E.250, 900. ~. 49, 49,. Z.
Reformed spelling. after" having
ibeen tried for two years in the State
Teachers college "Crucible," periodi'
cal of the student body at Greeley, has
been eliminated and the old style
spelling will be used.
"The shvatloh:;of. Colorado lies in
the Increased and proper cultivation OF
the ugly but sweet sugar beet" de-
clared ,W.,D. Hoover, president of the
San Luis Sugar Company, to the Den
yer Real Estate Exchange.
,TheoSore.. age eight, son of George
NJ. Montgomery OF Colorado Springs
probably Will lose the sight of his
right eye as a result of an explosion
OF a tightly cor1sed bottle of powde.
with which the boy was playing.
After separation of more than thir
ty years John Brill. sixty years old, -ci
NiWot, Colo, met his father. II. Brill
eighty years old. of jackson, Ohio. In
Denver after reading in the newspa
pers of his fathers search for him.
Thousands of gallons OF nitric. sui
phuric and mnriatic acid in store
house OF the Western Chemical works
set afire by the act. of an incendiary
resulted in one OF the most dangerous
and spectacular fires ever seen in Den
yer, and caused damage to- the com
pany's property estimated by John C.
Skinner at 100000.
Secretary of State Pearce in his ca
pacity of state labor commissioner
has made arrangements with owners
of the Hidden Treasure mine. near