The Elk Mountain pilot., 1913-01-16

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Denver ranks fifth as to bank clear
ings in 1912 in list of Western cities
prepared by r. G. Dun & Co.
John Crowley, aged fifty-four, who
was brought to Denver when baby
in 1859. died in Colorado Springs.
Three hundred and fifty thousand
dollars in building permits was the
record OF Trinidad in the year 1912.
Express service is now a reality
with the Montclair and Aurora patrons
of the Denver City Tramway Company.
Senator Arthur Cornforth of Colo
RADIO springs slipped on the ice in Den
vor and suffered fracture OF the left
arp.
A $4,000 mangle ironing machine
was completely wrecked in steam eN-
plosion occurring in the Bouldry laun-
dry plant.
Peter Forte, on trial at Pueblo for
the murder of his wife, took the stand
and proved an excellent witness in his
own defense.
A petition has been placed in circu-
lation for the reincorporation of North
Longmont, with the end in view that
saloons may again be opened.
Albert T. Patrick's daughter, Lucille.
whose romantic marriage to Dart
mouth student, Paul Martin, took place
last July, will seek divorce.
Mrs. Sibilla Marie Steinel. sixty
seven, for three years a resident OF
Denver, died at Los Angeles, where
she had been visiting a sons family.
The fourth child to be accosted by
an unknown man in the neighborhood
Of the Elmwood school in Denver. is
Rosemura Stettler, eight years old.
]. A. Gray of Wellington is in the
hospital at Fort Collins suffering with
a badly shattered leg, the result OF
the explosion OF a homemade heating
plant.
The frozen body of William Conllln.
magistrate of Lakeside, and champion
skater at the White City, was found
in his cottage, just outside the gates OF
the park.
Mrs. j. C. Arthur st. James. who
was married mt Montrose on Christ
mas Day, died at her home in Tel
iuride from pneumonia. She was forty
years old.
Annual passes have been issued for
the first time to members of the state
railroad commission by the Denver <
Rio Grande and the Colorado & South.
ern railroads.
Erich II. Asmussen, n Colorado pio-
neer and for many years prominent
in different interests at Cripple Creek,
died at his Denver home on his sixty.
third birthday.
Sister Superior Donata. for the past
twenty,one years in charge of the St
| Clara's orphanage in Denver, died FOL
lowing a two-weeks' illness and sud
den attack of pneumonia.
Over 100000 young trout, supplied
by the national and state fish hatch
cries, were placed in the lakes and
| streams OF Colorado during the year
1912 by the Colorado & Southern Rail
way Company.
| For the purpose of inducing the Leg
| islature to vote an ample appropria-
ton for a Colorado building at the Pan
anna exposition in 1915, c. S. Scott,
commissioner OF the exposition, was
| in Denver.
The Denver Knothole Club will hold
its annual convention in Denver be-
ginning January 81 and continuing
three days. Its members belong to
the Colorado Wyoming Lumber Deal
ers' Association.
The Morrisania ranch. just south OF
the town of Grand Valley. formerly
owned by Phillip r. Morris Of Denver
and more recently owned by the Nor
risania Fruit and Land Company, was
sold for s250,0Oo.
Sister Hannah Austin. cighty-four.
wel-known religious and charitable
worker of Denver and well-known
member of St. Marks parish, fell on
one OF the downtown streets and is in
st. Luke's hospital in critical con.
dition.
Bonds have been sold in Chicago to
the amount of 100000 for the con.
struction of standard-gauge railroad
from Yeckel Junction, on the Rio
, Grande railroad in Mesa county. to
Collbran, twenty-five miles through
the Plateau valley.
Mrs. C. NJ. Howard saved herself
from serious burns when her hair
caught fire in q gasoline explosion in
Denver by calmly removing the hair
from her head and throwing it out the
door She remarked after the fire had
been extinguished that she had been
saved by hair, and false hair, at
that.
All records for bank clearings in Pu-
eblo were broken last year, according
To a rennrt issued by r. C. Dun e Co.