The Elk Mountain pilot., 1919-10-09
Pithy News. Notes
From All PARIS Of
Colorado
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

stem mining town twenty miles west OF
Boulder, have organized a commercial
association.
The total value of all property in
Colorado for taxation is 81 ,4S7 ,931,191,
according to complete reports from all
counties in the state of the Colorado
Tax Commission.
Fritz Solomon, "a years old, promi-
nent in farming circles for more than
a quarter of a century, committed sui
eide by shooting himself at Windsor in
a bunk house near his home.
Travelling thieves, presumably the
same gang that has been terrOrizing
Colorado towns in the last two weeks,
looted the general stores Of the Rocky
Mountain Fuel Company at Lafayette.
The Colorado State Fair, which
closed a full week session at Pueblo,
was among the best ever held in this
state as regards exhibits, attractions
in the line of entertainment, and at
tendance.
Frank Thomas, a negro, 80 years old.
said to be an ex-convict, Is charged
by the CORNERS jury with the murder
of Jennie Mosby, n negress, II years
old, on the evening Of Sept. 30. at
Pueblo.
Franklin Pierce Parker, 81 years old
end the father of nine children, who
has been farming dry land near Stone
ham for several years, became discOur-
aged because of crop failures and COM
mitted suicide by taking poison.
Eleven persons were arrested, a
large stock of various kinds of liquor,
II new still and high-powered ma
chine were seized in series of spec
| tacular boOtlegging raids conducted by
local police officers at Walsenburg re-
Gently.
State Teachers College at Greeley
has completed the work of registering
students for the winter term and has
$40 women and sixty men enrolled. In
dustrial high school, which is operated
in connection with the Teachers Col
lege, has 285 enrolled.
One of the most daring freight train
robberies staged in northern Colorado
for years was discovered when
Union Pacific freight train was
brought to stop near Num-, a station
twenty miles north OF Greeley. The
| train crew discovered that three car
loads of merchandise had been broken
into between Num- and Pierce, sta
ton six miles south of Greeley, and
goods valued at several thousand dol
lars had been removed while the train
was In motion.
Besides winning the sweepstakes In
the potato display for the fourth con-
secutive year, Colorado won two other
sweeps, seventeen first prizes, eleven
seconds and ten thirds at the Four
teenth International Soil Products ex-
position at Kansas City. Judging of
agricultural exhibits has just been
completed, and though comparative
figures have not yet been compiled, 1t
is believed in the department that this
state carried off more hOnOrs than any
other, or any Canadian province.
The Colorado Cooperative Crop Re
porting Service is making an effort
this year to determine as accurately as
possible what percentage OF corn and
sorghums is grown for grain In this
state and what percentage cut green
for silage. Inquiry is also being made
to determine what proportion of the
rye and oats crops is cut for grain and
what parts are cut for hay or other
purposes. This Information has never
been available before and will be of
much value to those interested in
knowing the approximate amount of
silage produced in the state and the
amounts of these various crops grown
for grain.
Tony Marmone OF Mt. Harris mar
Oru-1x, nod nnI,
when he backed out OF the Newberry
garage into Oak creek. He was caught
underneath the automobile and held
there several minutes before he was re-
leased
A runaway box car loaded with
wheat rolled from Ault, twelve miles
north of Greeley, to Evans hill, one
mill south of Greeley. Conductor Il.
f. StOner and brakeman who rode
the car during its trip, which was
made at mile-a-minute speed, es-
capped without injury. An extrn
freight was switching at Ault when
the box car, which had been pushed
out on the main line ahead of the en-
CINE. failed to respond to the brakes
and began to roll down the grade in
the darkness. After notifying the op-
orator at Ault to clear the line, the
engine crew started in pursuit Pas
senger train No. 100, from Denver to
Cheyenne, had just arrived in Ault
ahead of the runaway. At Eaton
nOrthbOund freight train was passed
in safety. The engine did not gain on
the runaway car until the latter be-
gan to climb the steep grade south of
Greeley.
Lora Doak, 16-year-old son of Mrs.