The Elk Mountain pilot., 1912-04-18
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While.

State Worth While.
Western Newspaper Union News Service
Pueblo is holding Home Industries
week.
Gov. Shafroth has purchased an au-
tomobile.
A commission government charter
league has been organized at Durango.
Capt John ]. Harris, one of Boul-
der's best known pioneer mining men,
is dead.
Ground has been purchased in
Longmont for the new $4,000 pea
hulling plant.
Frank Wallace died at Evans from
peculiar disease thought to be tuner
culosis of the brain.
Tommy Ryan, wrestler, will take on
Carl Delivuk. the Australian in Colo
rado Springs, April IS.
La Sale is the only town in Weld
county without marshal, and its
citizens say none is needed.
II. l.. Pierce of Boston, Mass, is ex-
pected in Rocky Ford soon to investi-
gate an electric road project.
School district No. l, Grand juno
ton, has voted to add commercial
course to high school studies.
Meeker is to have more fire protec-
ton, which will reduce insurance rates
and give residents a feeling of secur-
ity.
Work has begun on the new $4,000
pea hulling plant at Johnstown, which
it is expected will be finished by
June 1.
Having given $50 to the high sclWol
piano fund, the Evans Improvement
Society will now buy fire alarm FOR
the city.
Members of the new town board
have decided on three saloons for
Evans, it is said, and that the licenses
of each shall be $4,000 annually.
Lee Hardesty of Fowler. president
OF the Hardesty Ditch & Irrigation
Company, was instantly killed in an
auto accident near Fowler.
Dressed meat prices in Denver rose
another 10 per cent recently, making
total advance of nearly 25 per cent
over quotations two weeks ago.
The state can invest public school
funds in irrigation bonds only as an
original purchaser. under an opinion
of Attorney-General Ben Griffith.
The two-story hotel at Buena Vista
Hot Springs, five miles west of Buena
Vista, was completely destroyed by
fire, entailing loss of about $4,000.
Preliminary steps toward the erec-
tion of a new church were taken re-
Gently at the annual meeting of the
st. Marks Episcopal Parish in Den
yer.
Jesse Snipes. aged fifty-two, a
prominent and wealthy stockman of
Collbran. shot and probably fatally
wounded Edward Henderson, aged
thirty-five.
The Commerce Investment Compa-
ny of Denver has now collected about
$4,000 for the aid of eastern Colorado
farmers, and will begin making loans
at once.
Senator Guggenheim has been ld-
vised by the War Department that
army horses will be sent for exhibi-
tion purposes to the Denver Horse
show next year.
The United Hydro-Electro Company
recently began installing the new light
ing system in Georgetown, for which
it was awarded six-year contract two
months ago.
The State Prison Association gave
assistance during the first three
months of this year to 772 men.
against 81 men during the same
period last year.
The Antlers Hotel Company at Colo
RADIO Springs will spend several thou
sand dollars improving the handsome
grounds about the hotel, work to be-
gin at once.
There are 12.775 consumptives in
Colorado, according to an estimate
prepared by S. Poulterer Morris. OK
ecutive secretary of the Rocky Noun
tain Public Health Association.
Colorado women, members of the
Daughters of the War of 1912, are
making preparations for celebrating
on September IL, the one-hundredsh
anniversary of that memorable con-
flict.
One hundred and fifty gypsies, who
have been living in three small ter
races in Denver for more than week,
will be made the subject of investi-
CATION by State Humane Officer Nor
ton David.
Aviation has been made a part of
the course of studies of the signal
corps of the Colorado national guard,
and with two Curtiss graduates as in
structors the members are preparing
to become experts.
Taxpayers of Weld county have al
ready paid half of the 100000 to pc
collected in taxes this wear. There IS