The Elk Mountain pilot., 1911-11-30

Si Of Dan r TducisCo, dCSiuchtniis ~
q cigarette with a $1,000 bill.
Eight jurors have been finally accept
ed in the Mcnamara dynamiting case
in Los Angeles. The case was called
over six weeks ago.
The Colorado Springs. Colo, Chan
ber-o Commerce will distribute thou
sands OF postcards showing scenic at
fractions in Pixies Peak region.
The first Sunday in December is
Elk Memorial Day. and on that date
every lodge OF the order in the coun-
try will hold memorial services.
Several armed men dynamited the
safe OF the bank of Clarita, fourteen
miles west OF Colgate. Okla. and got
about $500 in currency. and es-
capped.
Col. Clifford Ham of Dubuque has
been appointed collector general OF
customs for the republic OF Nicaragua.
Col. Ham. for the last eight years has
been connected with the customs ser.
vice OF the Philippines. For Two years
he has been surveyor OF customs at
Manila
Vice President and General Manager
Whittenton OF the Chicago. Rock Is
land & Texas railroad says that n
strike OF l.500 shopmen under his jur-
isdiction in Texas. Oklahoma. Louisi-
ana and Arkansas is expected nj any
minute. The dispute is over wages
and hours.
The flood waters In western Wash.
ington are subsidng nearly as rapid
ly as they rose. Seattle's municipal
lighting plant has been restored and
the broken water pipe mended. The
Inhabitants have suffered great incon-
venience. their dwelling places being
without drinking water.
Given the choice bewteen hanging
and shooting by District Judge Chris
tensen at Price. Utah. two convicted
murderers chose the bullet and were
sentenced to be shot Mt the state pen
itcntiary Jan. 10. Frank Romeo and
Robert Zaffy. the men who are TO die.
murdered Albert V. Jenkins at Sunny
side Utah. for the purpose OF robbery.
Wholesale grocers OF Duluth. MINI.
are circulating blank petitions seek
ing to obtain support for a movement
to influence Congress to reduce the
duty on raw and refined sugars. The
petitions are being spread boardcast
through the country. The tax amounts
to cents per pound on refined SUI
gar. equivalent to an eighty per cent
advalorem duty.
Greeley-Finding cordial and
ready response to the call for a fund
of 10000. to continue farming at thu
State Agricultural college. w. II. Nc
Clellan. r. Il. Haythorn and +. r.
Bliss. the committee OF the Weld Coun
ty Farmers Club. have returned from
their trip. Following the pledge o'
| 5000 by the Great Western Sugar
| Company. come pledges from Ric
| Grande and Eagle counties. of s2ot
each. Other Western slope counties
say they are ready to give. The Colo
rado Telephone Company and milling
and creamery companies say they are
ready to help.
Two OF the defendants in the "ta
party" case, at Lincoln Center, Kan.
John Schmidt and Sherriill Clark
were found guilty of assault and bat
terry by a jury in Judge Grover
court. Sentence on the two men wa
deferred. Sentences of one year eacl
in the county jail. the extreme penalt.
in Kansas for the offense charged
were passed on Everett G. Clark, ia,
Fitzwater, Watson Scranton and Ed
ward Ricord, confessed assailants
Mary Chamberlain. These defendant
were accused of the same crime as tn
other men. In addition to the ser
tences, the court ruled that the mel
must pay the costs of the prosecution