The Elk Mountain pilot., 1912-05-30
LrrTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over ths
state Worth White.

| was uculCdtou T6CeuIly.
Meeker's postal savings bank ID
proving a marked success.
All the rural schools in Pueblo coun'
ty have closed for the season.
The Elks of Grand Junction have
decided to erect 100000 home.
The International Association of Auc.
tiopeers will meet in Denver June 8.
The contract for water works at
Miliken. to cost $12.9s5. has been let.
School census shows that Mesa
county has 6.242 children of school
age.
Water is running into the Milton
reservoir near Eaton. for the first
time.
Grand Junction sugar factory has
secured the largest acreage of beets
in its history.
May "a Lamar celebrated the twen-
ty-sixth anniversary of the sale OF its
first town lots.
Fire destroyed. the Big Bear stamp
mill at Telluride. The plant was val
ued at 100000.
Grand Junction is building $780,
900 mountain water system to be COM
pleted in June.
A committee of Kersey citizens is
soliciting acreage for an independent
sugar factory.
Wednesday, June 5. has been set for
the observance of Pixies Peak Day at
Colorado Springs.
The largest class in the history OF
the Colorado School of Mines was
graduated this year.
A fund has been completed to main
tain an information bureau at Estes
Park next summer.
At cost OF $4,000 Greeley has
completed a filtration basin at the
head Of its water works system.
Milliken's City Council has planted
the City park. consisting OF several
acres. with tomatoes in place OF grass.
Warm weather has caused rapid
rise of the White river. until it Is
now on the verge Of breaking Its
banks.
Business men of Colorado Springs
are considering the advisability of Or
ganizing 100000 electric light
company.
Sixty-five men have been enlisted
during the month OF May at the Den
YER United States marine recruiting
station.
The preferred creditors of the long
since defunct State Bank of Rocky
Ford will soon have their claims set
tied in full.
The Redland dam. two miles south
OF Grand Junction, is threatened with
destruction by high water in the Gum
nison river.
David II. Wilson. prominent Den
yer newspaper man. editor. of Munich
pal Facts. died suddenly In his home
in that city.
John II. Day. aged seventy-seven.
pioneer OF Montrose county and
county commissioner years ago. died
in Montrose.
From now on every rail turned out
from the Pueblo iron works will un-
dergo a thorough inspection before be-
ing accepted by railroads.
J.E Coulter. bird fancier of Meeker.
Is undertaking to raise for game pur-
poses in that section the Chinese
ringed-neck pheasants.
Before 1000 spectators. the annual
May Day frolic at the Teachers col
lege at Greeley too place, 400 students
participating In the Greek festival.
Petitions for submission Of the con-
stitutional amendment that will give
cities in the state commission govern
| ment have been circulated In Pueblo.
All freight and passenger traffic on
| the Rio Grande Southern between Du-
range and Telluride has been aban-
doned indefinitely owing to washouts.
DIR. ]. H. Spencer, acting as supply
pastor of the Capitol Hill Baptist
church of Denver. has been called to
the pastorate OF the First Baptist
| church of Colorado Springs.
Leroy Lyon, the Boulder marksman.
won the state Individual championship
with the revolver and incidentally
| broke the state record in the shoot
of the National guard at Golden.
For the purpose OF voting on the
| question OF contracting bonded debt
of $500 for the erection and furnish
ing of a new school building at Hud-
son. an election is called for June 8.
Charles Burning was fined 500 in
Rocky Ford for bootlegging. With
costs. the penalty amounted to $114.
He has begun the serving of the fifty
seven days that it will take to work
out the fine.
Renewed interest is being shown In
the Denver-Chicago automobile run.
under the auspices OF the. Chamber Of