The Elk Mountain pilot., 1919-12-11
Pithy News Notes
From All Parts of
Colorado
westorr -wspapsr [ n.on News Service.
MoMiNd~ EVENTS.
Tho Re oss ChristmAs Seal sale will
take Dce all over the United States
from December / to 10, 1919. NJ

| take &c all over the United states
from December to 10. 1919. ~
There are about 10000 lamb ,sbeing
fed in the Mesita-San Acasia territory.
The proposed auditorium Mt Mesitl
seems certainty. Over $1,000 has
been raised already.
Proposals for $5OO,OOO bond Issue
to erect IN auditorium, gymnasium
and additional classroOms Mt the local
high school We're overwhelmingly de-
feated at Colorado Springs.
william Edwards OF Trinidad. q
brakeman on the Santa F'e coal run
between Trinidad and Starkville, was
jolted from the top of car and was
ground to death under the wheels of
the next car.
Increases of from Is to % per cent
in all city salaries are provided In an
ordinance adopted by the city council
at Colorado Springs. PatrOlmen, fire
men and city clerks Jared best with
Increases of from $50 to $S5 monthly.
Officials OF the local district office
Of the United States forest service
have begun cooperative work with the
San Isabel Public Recreation Associa-
tion for the development of a new
Colorado national playground on the
San Isabel forest.
Expert yeggmen opened the safe at
the Portland (Colo.) postoffice and es-
capped with $1,000 in stamps. thrift
stamps and liberty bonds. and robbing
the drug store in which the postOffice
is located of another 1900 worth Of
iewelry and stock.
More than 1O.O0O,O0O acres Of the
patented land Of Colorado. or about 10
per cent of the area of the state, Is
classed as non-irrigated farm land
This class of land has increased more
rapidly on the tax rolls in the past five
years than any other.
George Golden, negro, serving q
life sentence, made a sensational dash
for freedom at the state penitentiary at
Canon City, but was captured after he
had scaled the twenty-five-foOt wall.
swan the Arkansas river and reached
the foothills In South cafion.
Two million bushels of wheat are
tied up in the wheat growing districts
of eastern and northeastern Colorado
on account Of the impossible condition
Of the roads following the recent storm,
according to william @. Reid. inspector
for the State Utilities Commission.
The body Of the unidentified man,
murdered several months ago, which
was found by three women strolling
across the prairles near Pueblo, 10 be-
lieved to be that of Tony Lapresto, 85
years old, a former saloonkeeper Of
Aguilar, Colo, who disappeared last
January after threats Of blackmail had
been made to him. t5-
r. L. Stringer. s. years old, pioneer
fruit grower, who was placed on trial
at Canon City on q charge Of murder
Ing his stepson, A. b. Sutphen. 80
years old, was acquitted in the Fre-
mont count District Court. Sutphen
was killed on the evening Of July 4th.
Stringer shot Sutphen with shotgun
pleading self-defense. Joseph n Aau-
pin, former attorney general Of Colo
RADIO, handled the case for the defense.
Discovery of an artesian water basin
In the Larsen dry farming district
northwest OF Grover has caused great
rejoicing among cattlemen and farm
ers. The flow was struck on the Wick
ert ranch, which Is fifteen miles north
west of Grover. There is volume
sufficient to keep a two-inch pipe
filled, and the water IL free from sui
phur and other dlstasteful contents.
An engineer who investigated the well
believes that the artesian basin liea
under a large acreage OF land
Approximately $4,000 will be
turned into the state treasury this year
by the state insurance department. rep
resenting the net earnings of the de-
partment In the most successful year
in its history, according to Claude W.
Fairchild. state insurance commits
sioner.
Stickers, human and otherwise. come
In all varieties! The gayest OF 1874
stickers is the Christmas seal which
has been issued BY the Colorado Pub.
l.