The Elk Mountain pilot., 1913-12-18
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Jan. .12-15-Colorado poultry a"e'eA~
Association Show at Denver
Jan. educational Western STOCK
Show at Denver. ca
Jan. 5-16-Meeting Colorado Good
Roads Assn at. Colorado Springs
Sept 7.-Colorado State Fair at Pueoi0'
July 13-14.-Grand Lodge Session. b. +.
Jan. 15.@Annual Meeting Colorado
Farmers Congress at Agricultural COL
isii5I isi5.EIast Grand Council of North
American Indians at Denver
At least one-third of the flock of
pheasants owned by S. T. Kendrick OF
Littleton escaped or were smothered
to death during the snow storm, &C
cording to Hendricks estimate.
Appraisers of the West Colfax ave-
nue. viaduct condemnation proceedings
reported to Judge Perry of the District
Court in Denver that the total con-
demnations will amount to $9S,S76.28.
The sugar beet crop of 1913 was
worth approximately 100000 to the
growers of Morgan county, according
to estimates obtained by the officials
OF the Great Western Sugar Company.
That birds and animals are suffer
ing as a result of the big storm is be-
ing reported from all over the state to
Game and Fish Commissioner Shinn
and Humane Society Secretary White
head.
The Capital tunnel will be the third
big mining proposition in Clear Creek
county to be provided with an elec-
tric trolley system. and the first to be
so equipped in the upper Clear Creek
district.
Conservative estimates place the
cost of the coal strike at $9,940,0o0. II
the loss in business to merchants and
incidental costs are included the total
amount will undoubtedly run in excess
of $15.000.000.
The man who was found cut in sew
eral pieces on the Colorado & South
ern railroad tracks near the Griffen
Wheel works. in Valverde, was identi-
fled as Frantz Leidinger a laborer,
who lived in Valverde.
A fresh consignment OF information
al organizers is to be brought to Colo
RADIO by the United Mine Workers of
America to take the place of miners
officials now under arrest in the south
ern coal strike district.
Hundreds of wild animals of a cir
Gus menagerie stood quietly in their
cages and pens when a section OF the
roof of one of the largest exposition
buildings at Overland park in Denver
collapsed from the weight of the snow.
The billboard ordinance passed re-
Gently by the Denver City Council was
declared invalid by County Judge
Rothgerber In decision covering the
case OF the city versus State Senator
Hiram E. Hits which Hits appealed
from Police Court.
The bond-holders' committee of the
North Sterling irrigation district has
district bonds for a period of five
years. In other words. they have elm
mated the payments OF half mil
lion dollars interest.
Attorneys for the United Mine
Workers of American will commence
habeas corpus proceedings in the Dis
trict Court at Trinidad to bring about
the release OF their leaders who have
ben held prisoners under the orders
Miss Margaret Duncan. a pioneer of
Colorado. died at her home in Denver
Her death was due to heart disease
Miss Duncans parents came to Colo
RADIO in 1861, when she was eight
years old. and located at Golden Gate.
near Golden She came to Denver in
the early '7Os.
The annual report OF the comp
troller of the United States treasury
shows that Denver's national banks
stand near the top of the list of
United States national banks in the
amount of legal reserve. Only one
city in the y-Galveston-has a
larger reserve than Denver.
The United States deputy marshals
have seized the plant of the West
ern Oleomargarine Company of Dem
yer. and arrested the proprietor, A. H.
Flood and two of his employees, Rob-
ert E. Hunt and II. Musselman. Flood
was released on $1,000 bond and Hunt
and Musselman on $500 bonds each.
Sixteen gold jewels emblematic of
the rank of past consuls in the
Woodmen of the World were received
by Charles B. Ritch, clerk of Book
Cliff camp at Grand Junction. The
jewels are to be presented at a cere-
mony on Dec. % at which 4 large
number of the recipients will be pres
ent.
California may talk all it pleases
about its $1,O00-an-acre returns from
orange groves, but 1t has nothing on
Colorado and the Grand valley. F.. S.
Carman. who has an orchard on Fruit
Ridge, near Grand Junction, has Just
received returns on three-quarters of
an acre Of pear orchard which will
show returns of close Of $4,000 in ac-
tual cash.