The Elk Mountain pilot. [volume] (Irwin, (Ruby Camp), Gunnison County, Colo.) 1880-19??, 1919-08-14
Pithy News Notes
From An Parts Of
Colorado
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COMING EVENTS.
LArimer County Fair. Loveland. Aug.
Boulder County Fair. LonEmont. Sept
Ark.n... Valley Fair. Rocky Ford.
NeIs.n County Fair. Fort Morgan.
Routt County Fair. Hayden. Sept. s-s.
Logan County Fair. Sterling. Sept .
DeI,. County Fair. Hoschkis.. Sept =
Adams County Fair. Brighton. Sept. .
Aoffat County Fair. Maybeil. Sept IL
Plateau Valley state Fair. Cochran.
Beca County Fair. Springfield. Sept.
Trini1.d-LA. Anim.. County Fair.
Conejcs County Fair. Man.ss.. Sep.
ws:ts.n Slope Fair. Montross. Sept.
ce ,.a;s commun's, Fair Greeley Sept
Yuaa County Fair. Yuma. Sept 1920.
Philips County Fair. Holyoke. Sept.
s.En:she County Fair. s.su.ehe. Sept
coior.do.Nsw Mexico Fair. Durango.
Colorado State Fair. Pueblo. Sept. a.
Grand County Fair. Kremmling. Sept
Crowley County Fair. Sugar City. Aug.
Inter-Hopn..in Lixe stock and Fair.
Douglas County Fair. Castle Rock.
Jim Wong, u, committed suicide in
Denver by hanging himself in his laun-
dry. This is believed to be the second
suicide of Chinese in the history of
Denver
Sol Exon, flockmaster in the Echo
basin country, recently killed one OF
the largest brown cinnamon bears ever
seen in that locality. and the animal
weighes 1000 pounds.
NAone than 1900 acres Of land in the
districts north Of Greeley, centering
Ing irrigated this year with water
raised from underground BY electric
pumps.
The Western Slope Fair Association
has offered purse Of $500 to the win
ner of the three-day baseball tOurna-
ment which will be held this fall. The
Telluride, Delta, Olathe and Montrose
teams will play for the purse.
The fifth of q series Of mysterious
fires in three weeks has led to the
belief that q "firebug" may be At large
fires have occurred In the small hours
of the morning and in pearly every
case a small building has burned.
The body OF Eva Bingham, 20 years
old, OF McGraw, Neb.. was found in q
dry ditch one mile from Eaton. A
party with which the girl was last
seen is being sought by officers. Miss
Bingham had evidently been beaten to
death, her head being crushed.
Every part Of Weld county has been
drenched by heavy and repeated rains
recently Both the Platte and the Pou-
DIRE rivers have big flows of water and
all danger of damage to late crops such
as potatoes and cabbage resulting
from drouth Is believed to be past.
Alfred L. Myers, former well
known resident Of La Junta, was killed
by being thrown from a horse. His
neck was broken. Myers went to the
postoffice and remained longer than
usual his wife went in search OF him.
finding his dead body lying along the
roadside, with the horse standing near
by.
Earl +. Bennett, residing northwest
of La Junta, Is erecting what Is
thought TO be the largest silo west of
the Mississippi river. The silo will
have a capacity of 1000 tons, and is
being constructed of vitrified hollow
tile. In addition to this silo, Mr.. Ben
nett has two others, each OF 200 tons
capacity He Is engaged in sheep and
cattle feeding.
Dr. G. X. Olmsted of Denver was
chosen head physician Of the Wood
men of the World by the board Of
managers which held its yegular quar-
terly meeting in Denver. He succeeds
DIR. ]. C. Twitchell, formerly of Port
land, Ore, who came to Denver three
years ago to take up the duties Of the
position.
A sheepherder, Leon Rispoud, was
killed near Leadville when the mule
he was riding became frightened at an
approaching automobile and fell,
throwing Rispoud under him. Rispoud
was driving a pack train Of four mules
when an automobile came down hill
in back of them, throwing the train
into confusion.
The Colorado registration law was
enacted in 1918, when 1880 cars were
licensed; in 1914 the number increased
to 1926 in 1917, to 66,S5O; in 1918,
to 1924, and to date this year ap-
proximately 10000 cars have been
registered. This number will total
10000 before Dec. 81. The 1919 rev.
enues will reach about $4,000. to be
divided accordingly between the coun-
ty and state road funds, after deduct