The Elk Mountain pilot. [volume] (Irwin, (Ruby Camp), Gunnison County, Colo.) 1880-19??, 1919-07-03
Pithy Ness Notes
From An Parts Of
Colorado

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Wsstssn NswspaDsr union News Services.
COMING EVENTS.
The Colorado Editorial Association
meet In Denver. July IL. IL. 1913.
The Rico mining district has been
producing steadily for nearly forty
years. There has been some agricul-
tural development in the river valleys
and stock raising In carried on to q
limited extent. laundering and tie
making have also been important in
dutries at various times in the past.
One hundred and sixty-one Gradu-
ates received their diplomas at the
University Of Colorado. DR.. Livings-
ton Farrand. former president Of the
university, delivered the commence
ment address. Governor Oliver Shoup
gave q abort talk ON the work the In
stitution has done during the year.
Two motorcycle police are to be APP
pointed by W. F. r. Mills, manager OF
parks and improvements, to help pO-
lice Denver's mountain highways and
parks, II has been announced. The
authority of the city to police the
parks was given through an act Gre
ated at the last session of the Twenty
second General Assembly.
According to Colonel Bower, a pio-
neer resident of Palisade, the chief
peach growing section Of the western
slope, the Indications for bumper
peach yield was never better. He pre-
diets that not less than $50 carloads
will be shipped from vineland, load
ing point at Palisade, during the COM
ing season.
Hurled sixty feet from the side car
of a motorcycle when southbound
Union Pacific train crashed into the
machine In which she was riding five
miles east of Loveland, Mrs. william
Tracy, was instantly killed, and Mrs.
Verne Tippits, driver Of the vehicle
received injuries which 1t Is feared
may cause her death.
Wyborn I. Cunningham, attorney
and graduate Of Denver University
law school, and his school companion.
Perry Jackson, were married at Castle
Rock to Misses Floss and Eunice Got
hard. The young men have been chums
since boyhOod, graduating together in
high school and college, and serving to
gether on the battlefields of France.
Albert Bevan, Is, and Frank McCar-
thy, IA, rescued Jack Simpson, 10.
from drowning at Colorado Springs. 1t
was Bevan's fourth life-saving exploit
and McCarthy's second. The Simpson
boy, too, participated in the event for
the second time. as Bevan pulled him
out of reservoir last summer after
he had sunk for the third time.
Two million feet Of timber, valued
at 81 thousand feet, was destroyed
In the forest fire In the San Isabel
National Forest, seven miles north Of
Beulah, according to q rough estimate
made by A. G. Hamel, forest super
visor Watchers are still on duty In
the fire area for the purpose Of pco-
venting the fire spreading II 1t breaks
out in a new place.
The Pixies Peak region will become
the background of a series Of pictures
of Bible times which are to be pro-
duced at Colorado Springs. A studio
has been erected and the Garden of
the Gods, Seven Falls, Cheyenne
mountain and the slopes and summit
of Pixies Peak soon will become the
setting for a screen drama which had
Its origin in Palestine.
Representative Hardy Of Colorado
introduced u bill appropriating s7,S0O
to pay for arms and ammunition
which United States troops took away
from Colorado citizens during the Ia
Dor trouble of 1914. when all Colo
RADIO citizens in the affected area
were compelled to turn in their arms
Many of these weapons were either
lost or stolen while In the govern
ment's custody.
The acreage of land farmed without
irrigation in Colorado has increased
more than 200 per cent in the pas,
ten years, and thousands of acres Of
raw nonirrigated land Is being put In
cultivation each year.
George Bosko. convicted Of killing
Elton c. Parks and VIII T. Hunter or
the Rye road near Pueblo on the after
noon of April IL, was sentenced to b<
hanged during the week beginning
Sept. % Tom Bosko, a brother of the
doomed man, was given life imprison
ment. 1t is likely that appeal to the
Supreme Court will be made. The At
torneys have sixty days in which te
file their bill of exceptions
A diet Of two loaves Of bread day
combined with rest for fifty dayA
is preferable to working at hard labor
for thirty days with three square
meals to maintain normal weight, &C.
cording to the decision Of Donald Nc
PhersOn, local vagrant, who was
tried in Justice Franklin's court at
Aontrose on a charge of begging and
sleeping in barns. The Judge gave