The Elk Mountain pilot., 1913-07-18
Wsstsrn Newspaper Union news ssrvics-
DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.

Auk Zo-zd:-Meeting American Associ.
Aug. a6-27-Meeting of Philippine Ma
avg, ss.@Ksishts q Pyth!a. Grand
Lodge meeting at Trinidad.
Sept kssy Rsy I. fadss ESs' EsRtsa
At cSlorade Springs. D., ,,,.,.
;, Sept. III I2-Eighth District w. C. T.
y. Convention at Denver.
SEPT Pueblo s5isss0-;oi0rad0 State Fair At
sept.-National Association of First
oes & s@ssate o.smss'sss w. e. & Psnyer + y conven-
Oct. 7.la;@Meetins Society of Ameri-
Oct: ai.~coiorado State Baptist Asso-
ciation at Pueblo.
oct 80. Nov. Colorado Kennel Ciuo
lsi6.-Last Grand Council Of North
American Indiana. Denver.
Manzanola b.d a cherry pie festi-
val on the 10th.
Death by drowning of j. R. Cress.
until recently a resident of Rocky
Ford. was reported from Monrovia,
Cal.
The rair directors at Grand JunctioA
authorized $1,000 purse to be put
up for monster wild west exhibition
at the fair this fall
Samuel Cronice. colored. probably
was fatally shot during a fight with
his step-son, John Garrett. in the fam
lily home in Denver.
Mrs. Margaret Deering Townsend.
wife Of James B. Townsend. president
of the Chicago Stock exchange. died
at her Colorado Springs home.
The reception to be given to the
returning Denver delegation of Elks
who captured the 1914 convention for
Denver probably will be July 20.
James Middlemist. twenty miles
north Of Limon. has completed the
frat cutting of 20 acres alfalfa. His
first crop aggregates about 125 tons.
Charles Reeves of Canon City has
sold to parties from Cheyenne his
famous bucking horse. Peaceful
Henry"
A municipal water system for
Denver. independent Of the plant of
the Denver Union Water Company. is
promised in the action taken by the
public utilities commission.
Colorado Springs 10 going to make
q determined effort to secure the Ma
tional Elks' home, decision on which
will probably come before the 1914
convention in Denver
A reQuisition was issued by Cover
| nor Ammons upon the governor OF
Kansas for the custody of Eldon John
son. who is accused of burglary and
is now being held in Hays City. Kan.
Colorado will receive an inheri-
tance tax of $16.639 from the J. s.
Brown estate, according to compila-
ton made by Leslie Hubbard, state
| Inheritance tax appraiser. The es-
tate is valued at $997,937.59.
Mrs. Harry James. postmistress at
Loveland. was selected president of
the Colorado Postmasters' Associa-
tion at Colorado Springs meeting. She
is the first woman to hold that office.
Other officers elected are: w. l..
Williamson, Fowler, vice president;
r. E. Hanna, Windsor, secretary and
treasurer.
Filing of petitions to refer the pub
lie utilities bill. coupled with deluge
of kilograms, letters and personal
calls from citizens all over the state.
resenting this move, make the calling
| of a special session of the legislature
probable, according to officials at
the state house and members Of the
legislature.
| John Leo Stack, organizer Of the
National Young Mems Wilson club
| in Colorado. and chairman of tho
1 ~ hn to
| organization, has been appointed
special agent of the Department o.:
the Interior upon recommendation of
| Congressman Edward Heating. He
will work In the Colorado district.
| "The world has never seen such a
wonderful meeting as the fifieth anni-
versary of the battle of Gettysburg.
and never will" said Colonel Howard
C. Chaplin, ,~of Denver, who represented
the state of Colorado at the reunion
Of veterans. "It was the greatest rc-
union of war veterans in the history
of the world, and there will never be
anything like 1t again." continued the
| colClel.
Hot and dusty. happy and enthusi-
astic, the ninety autoists in nineteen
Indiana-made cars making up the
tour of the Indiana Automobile Manu-
facturers'- Association. chugged into
| Colorado Springs an hour ahead OF
schedule.
Victim of misfortune that swept
away 100000, shorn of her former
beauty and social position and the
object Of a love that stood the test OF
! fire, Mary Middaugh, twenty-three,
one-time leading belle of the younger
society set of Rico, died at Crane
| Junction in poverty.