The Elk Mountain pilot., 1912-09-19
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While.

bills.
Pear orchards make poor roads.
This is the report of the Grand juno
tion Motor Club.
About 500 delegates attended the
convention of Master Car and Locomo-
tive Painters in Denver.
The placing of a dozen peaches in
the wrong box near Delta resulted in
a walk-ouu of 100 Japanese fruit pick
ers.
The voters of Jackson county will
pass on proposition to issue bonds to
build court house at the November
election.
After forty-eight years. a bullet has
been discovered in the chest of Joseph
Blonger of Denver, veteran of the
Civil War.
James Thomas fell from swiftly
moving Rio Grande passenger train
north of Pueblo escaped without brok-
en- bones.
Melvin Blum, eighteen, son of ia
cob Blum and a senior at Centennial
high school. died at Pueblo from spin
al meningitis.
AS an Inheritance tax from the es-
tate of the late Thomas S. Hayden the
state of Colorado will receive the sum
of $s.323.19.
The burial of Richard John Van Val
kenburg. pioneer and one of the old
est Odd Fellows in the state, took
place in Denver.
NJ. Morris. stranger at Pueblo,
committed suicide in Jail few min
utes after he had been locked up on
charge of forgery.
Heavy rains set back cantaloupe
picking in the Rocky Ford district and
have made the fruit soft and unfit to
ship for several days.
Governor Wilson, Democratic candi-
date for president, will speak in the
Auditorium in Denver, according to ad-
vices received by S. H. Thompson.
The body of baby girl. which ap-
parently had been dead but short
time, was found in b box floating in a
creek at the west end of Colorado
CityA
Newman Erb. controlling factor in
the Moffat road, has signed contract
for 425 freight cars, most of them for
coal traffic, to be delivered at an
early date.
Northern Colorado is enjoying one
OF the most prosperous years in its
history. Thousands OF acres of wheat.
oats. barley and other grains are be-
ing threshed.
Prominent men of the bar in Colo
RADIO including two Supreme Court
justices, were honorary pallbearers at
the funeral of District Attorney JOS
eph E. Ferguson at Colorado Springs.
Two days after celebrating her fifty
eighth wedding anniversary. Mrs. An
geline Locey. wife of NJ. NJ. Locey.
died at Colorado Springs. She was
seventy-five and had lived there
twenty-one years.
The last detachment of cavalry
troops from Fort Russell. Wyoming.
to Douglas, Arizona, passed through
Denver. Four special trains, consist
ing of eighteen coaches, were required
TO transport the 900 soldiers.
Mrs. Helen NJ. Laybourn. bride of
three months. residing at Longmont,
has instituted suit in the District
Court at Boulder against her mother
in-law. asking for $4,000 damages for
alienation of her husbands affections.
Friday. the thirteenth. proved hoo
doc at Loyeland when rain interfered
with the program of fair attractions.
In spite of the inclement weather
thousands turned out and declared the
fair the best in the history of Larimer
county.
That Western Colorado is to be sep
arated into a new diocese of the Cath
olic church. of which Grand Junction
will be headquarters, and that new
ment made by members of the church
at Grand Junction.
The Great Western Sugar Company.
in a suit filed in the United States
District Court by Assistant United
States Attorney Lacey. is accused Of
fraudulently acquiring title to tract
of eighty acres in Laramie county.
lime deposits.
The Colorado Springs police have
been notified of the theft of chata-
laine bag containing meAey and jew
els to the value of $1,000 from the
lavatory of n Pullman car on a Denver
& Rio 0rande train. The owner of
.No Money. amounting to $500 and the
has not divulged her name ex-
cept to the railroad officials.
Mrs Julia Finley OF Denver. ninety
nine years of age and the oldest sur
viving relative of Milton Jerome, who
died in Chicago in 1886, leaving an es-
tate Of more than $1.000.000, is seek
ing in the District Court to have the
property divided, asserting that the