The Elk Mountain pilot., 1913-12-11
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Jan. -15.-colorado Poultry Fanciers
Association Show at Denver.
Jan. 1s-24.-National Western Stock
Show at Denver.
Roads Assn at Colorado Springs,
| Sept. 7.-Colorado State Fair at Pueblo.
July 13-14:-Grand Lodge Session. B. p
Jan. I5.-Annual Meeting Colorado
| Farmers Congress at Agricultural Col
Isis-Last Grand Council of North
American Indians at Denver.
The fourth annual convention of the
Colorado Good Roads Association will
be held at Colorado Springs, Jan. 15
and 16.
The Ruxton hotel at Manitou was
| sold to w. K Greene, Pueblo banker
The consideration is said to have been
$4,000
Convicts Willis and Monroe. who es-
capped from the state reformatory at
Buena Vista. were captured and taken
back to the institution.
Colorado Republicans will launch
the 1914 campaign at banquet to be
held at Ell Jebel Temple on Lincoln S
birthday. February u.
Weighed down by tons of snow, the
roofs of nine buildings in Denver col
lapsed Friday. resulting in a property
loss estimated at about $4,000.
Increased activity has been occa-
stoned at the Denver mint owing to
the increased demand for new gold
and silver coins for Christmas pres
ents.
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collapse of three one-story build
ings on South Pearl street in Denver,
caused by the heavy weight of snow
on the roofs.
The body of John Hayes. a well.
known school teacher. was found in
hin homestead cabin on Hannah Creek
near Grand Junction with a bullet in
his heart.
The Pueblo City Federation of
Women's Clubs has received a con-
signment of $4,000 Red Cross seals.
and it is expected that all will be sold
before Christmas.
Fruit growers of Colorado Jared far
better than did the fruit sections OF
the northwest, according to the re-
Junction association.
The Great Western Mail Order house
closed deal acquiring the coal prop
critics OF the American Fuel Company.
located in northern Colorado and val
ued at about s2,1o0,000.
The Denver coal operators an
nounced a cut in the price of Ignite
coal from $3.50 retail on first grade
to s4.75 per ton. and from 5000, per
ton on second grade to s4.25 per,ton.
With n plentiful supply of coal in
Denver for all uses until the railroads
can resume shipments. Denver suf-
fered Friday from coal famine be-
cause the storm made all streets inn
passable.
Suit to force the Mountain States
Telegraph and Telephone Company to
comply with the terms of the Brown
ordinance was filed in the Denver Dis
trict Court by the Interstate Business
Exchange.
A movement has been started to
have President Wilson appoint a rep
resentative of the intermountain states
sion in the place of w. A. Marble, who
recently died.
Plans under which the committee
now is operating indicate that the
Mid-winter exposition, to be held in
Pueblo. beginning Dec. %, will be one
of the biggest things of the kind ever
attempted in. that section.
Railroad traffic in Colorado was tied
up as the result of the snowstorm that
swept the state Thursday. More than
twenty trains were stranded on the
various lines about Denver. All freight
service was practically abandoned aft
er noon.
Denver and Colorado were in the
grasp of the worst snowstorm the
state has experienced for many years
last week. All records for snowfall
and precipitation were broken. Train
service. passenger and freight, in and
out of Denver was abandoned by all
railroads and many trains were stalled
in the drifts
When rescuing crews working in
the Golden Cycle mine slide at Vic
tor broke through ten feet of solid
rock into the raise where Frank NJ.
Woods. Jr., Samuel Sorenson and
Patrick Kevany, were working when
the slide started several days ago, all
hone of finding the bodies of the
three miners was abandoned.
When death claimed John Mclean,
seventy-two, lawyer, civil engineer,
trapper. scout and hermit. in a Pu-
eblo hospital, there came an end to a
feud of dozen years duration which
had existed between himself and
the members of the II. Metcalf family
over irrigation water, that resulted in
one almost fatal shooting affray and a
term in the penitentiary for Mclean.
Plans for the reopening of the Mesa