The Elk Mountain pilot., 1912-07-04
LIrTLe COLORADO ITEMS.
smaII Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While.

deposits IN the banks or Granu juno
ton amount to $1.50o.000.
Charles Turner was shot and killed
by Frank Ensign near Telluride.
A new school building is to be con-
The Summer Normal school at Gun
nison has been opened for the season.
Thirty-eight thousand dollars in life
insurance was paid in Grand Junction
during 1911.
The ninth annual convention of the
Colorado State Optical Society was
held in Pueblo.
| Greeley dog owners contribute about
| $3.50 a year towards maintaining the
city government.
Forest rangers report the mountains
In many sections of the state still
piled high with snow.
An irrigation district covering ten
thousand acres Is being organized in
the Grand valley, near Silt.
Carl Fitch, a prominent German
American citizen of Golden. commit
ted suicide recently.
The summer school of the Universi-
ty of Colorado at Boulder has opened
for a six weeks term.
Every thirty-third person of the $780,
600 that go to make up Denver's popu-
lation owns an automobile.
Morgan county will produce more
small grain this year than any pre-
| vious year in its history.
Ground has been broken for $4,000
city hall at Sterling. The building is
to be completed by October 1.
The Union Pacific is figuring on fifty
special trains for Knights Templar to
| the conclave in Denver next year.
An average of 500 day has been
paid into the office of the clerk OF the
Denver District Court, for alimony for
June.
Clinton Farrar, pioneer. who lived
at Fort Collins forty-three years. died
recently at Boulder. aged seventy
three.
A special election will be held with
in sixty days to decide whether or not
Trinidad Is to have commission gov
| ernment.
The Greeley Chautauqua opened
June % for its fifth annual session
and is well attended. 1t will continue
ten days.
Education of the people in packing
apples will be taken up this year by
the Grand Junction Fruit Growers
Association.
Fifty-seven car loads of young
steers were recently unloaded at
Steamboat Springs for stockmen in
that vicinity.
keota has a Coursing association.
The membership is large and there are
number of good dogs in the bunch
owned by the club.
The State Land BOARD has declined
to invest school money in irrigation
bonds or securities. until further leg
islation on the subject is enacted.
The people of Petrolite have
| changed the name OF that town to Val
| ley View 1t has ceased to be an oil
camp and its people are now all farm
ers.
c. H. Rhodes, his wife and daughter,
comprising the entire family, were
| found guilty of disturbance in Justice
Court at Num-. and Rhodes was fined
| $25 and costs.
District Judge Essex Of Pueblo re-
| Gently held that 1t is not lawful for one
| corporation to vote stock In another
en- bloc. Two mining companies were
| interested.
state convention of Socialists will
| be held in Denver July 4 for selection
of two or more candidates for the elec-
tive offices to go on the referendum
ballot for nomination.
Mesa county has taken the lead in
pre- reparing for a complete exhibit of
fruits and other products to be ex-
hibited in Denver in June. 1913. dur
| ing the great Blondes Turnfest.
According to an official of the Vic
| tor American Fuel Company. the care
lessness of John Thomas, fire boss,
caused the Hastings mine explosion.
when twelve men. including Thomas,
were killed.
| William Hall, twenty years OF age,
| an employe of the Great Western
Sugar Company. was fatally burned at
Brush, Colo, while painting the inside
of tank at the factory. 1t is thought
that he attempted to light cigarette
and the paint he was using caught
fire, literally roasting him to a crisp.
Every railroad company running in.
to Colorado may be compelled to adopt
more sanitary methods of handling ice
| which is placed in the drinking wate4
| coolers aboard the Pullman coaches.
| State Pure Food Commissioner George
| T. Bradley has inaugurated cam.
paign against the alleged filthy man.
| ,ar in which loo 10 hand1ed