The Elk Mountain pilot., 1912-05-23

| yer from scarlet fever caused by in
| fected milk.
Yeggmen entered jewelry store in
Denver recently and stole 100000
worth Of diamonds.
After sixty days of strict enforce
ment, the hydrophobia quarantine on
dogs in Windsor was lifted.
The annual convention of the Fre-
mont County Sunday School Associa-
tion was held at Canon City.
June 10 has been set as the date
on which Johnstown will vote on a
$4,000 water works bond issue.
| Postmasters of Colorado held their
annual convention in Denver. John F.
Morgan of Canon City. presiding.
The Weld County Retail Merchants
Association has been organized at
Greeley with w. c. Wilson. president
H. P. Tucker. lineman at the Sun
nysides mines. near Silverton. fell
from the tram and was instantly
killed.
District Court is in session in Trim
idad and the docket shows eighty-six
civil cases and seventy-two criminal
cases.
The "J.J." ranch. near Rocky Ford.
has recently shipped to the Kansas
City market nearly four thousand head
of cattle.
While returning home from his
place of business in Pueblo, John
Sweeney, saloon man, was robbed by
Two Japanese.
The st. Vrain river is running bank
full at Longmont and the bottom lands
will be flooded. This has not been the
case for years.
Several hundred beet tenders have
arrived in Longmont to care for the
enormous beet crop which will be
raised this year.
Fifty-one men compose the gradual.
ing class of 1912 from the Golden
School of Mines. Commencement ex-
ercises May "a.
The First National Bank of Engle-
wood has been admitted to the cur
rency association of Denver. Pueblo
and Colorado Springs.
Chris jacobson. forfy-one. a coal
miner, was instantly killed in the
Monarch mine near Louisville, when \
loaded car ran over his body.
Lewis Kolb. aged twenty-five. a un-
ion miner employed at Matchless
mine. near Louisville. was crushed to
death under a 1.500-pound rock.
The Montrose City Council has in
structed the city engineer to prepare
plans and specifications for enlargins
the water works system at an expense
of $4,000.
| Against a registration of 1882 in
1910 there were 56,I29 electors who
were registered in the precincts in
Denver, under the new law. April 25
and May ., 1912.
w. NJ. Lcgnard, for four years up to
April 6, 1912, town clerk and water
tax collector at Palisades, has been ar
rested, charged with embezzlement
| OF 5000 of town funds.
| William NJ. Graves, former Jefferson
| county commissioner, and for twenty
three consecutive years president OF
the Arvada school board. died at the
age of sixty-six years.
A tremendous waste of gas-about
five million cubic feet monthly-is re-
ported at the De Beque oil wells. and
all attempts to prevent the loss have
SO far proved fruitless.
| Kersey Is after the $3.50 silver cup
and the 500 in gold offered by tAe
Great Western Sugar Company for the
best grown beets in Colorado and
seven other Western states.
At an enthusiastic meeting of the
La Sale Commercial Club commit
tee appointed to investigate the mat
ter of an, Independent sugar factory
made a report indorsing such step.
The movement among Colorado
| Springs business men to raise $500
for the purchase of a baseball park for
Ira Bidwell's proposed Rocky Noun.
| tain league team has been abandoned.
Members of the Grand Junction Rail.
way Machinists' Union, affiliated with
cided to go out on sympatheti:
strike with Hartman line strikers.
Mrs. Cora E. Smith OF Denver was
elected president OF the Colorado and
wyoming departments, Women of the
Grand Army of the Republic, at the
convention in Boulder, which has just
closed.
Lewis Wechter. under sentence OF
death in August for the murder of w
Clifton Burrows in the White House
cafe, In Denver. has made application
to the State Board of Pardons for com
mutation of his sentence to life i'm
prisonment.
A check for the largest single
amount ever received by the State
Land Board was made out by the city
of Denver recently and sent to the