The Elk Mountain pilot., 1913-10-09
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Dates of Coming Events.

NOV. 6-s.-Thirteenth Annual Conven-
ton of Rocky Mountain Hotel Mems
Jan 1S-15.-Colorado Poultry Fanciers
Association Show at Denver,
Jan 1s-2t.-.National Western Stock
19l5.-Last Grand Council of North
American Indians at Denver.
Governor Ammons in an official
proclamation has designated october
9 as Fire Day
Joseph Smith, John Musick and
John Jackaway. inmate of the state re-
formatory at Buena Vista, have es-
capped.
The first car of honey to be shipped
out of Montrose county this year left
Montrose for Ohio, netting the bee
men $3,700.
Mrs. Charlotte Horton De Harport,
seventy-siX years old, a pioneer resi-
dent of Denver, died at her home. 2235
Humboldt street.
Colorado alfalfa, because of the
drought in other parts of the United
States. is being shipped to the four
corners of the country.
The Manitou Mineral Springs prop
erty has been purchased by a syndi-
cate from the General William J..
Palmer estate for s250.000.
With roar that was heard for miles.
500 pounds of giant blasting powder
exploded in subsidiary power house
thirty miles north of Trinidad.
George Hilver. the assistant car
foreman who was crushed beneath n
freight car in the railroad yards at
Alamosa, died at the Red Cross hos
pital.
for gold production in the Cripple
Creek district as the first thirty days
of fall show an output exceeding ST.
25O.0OO.
Frank E. Kimball, sixty-five years
old, and in point of service one of the
oldest mail carriers in the country,
died at bis home in Denver after an
illness of two days.
Colorado and Denver lead the Unit
ed States in the proportion Of deposits
of their national banks carried as re-
serves, according to the report OF the
United States treasury.
Following a volley of rifle shots.
bomb made of lead pipe loaded with
dynamite exploded at the corner of
the Bulgarian boarding house at the
Mitchell mine at Lafayette.
Married at fourteen. mother at fiji
teen and divorced at sixteen, Is the
brief history of the domestic Hfe o.
Mrs. Geraldine Kulp. whose divorce
was granted by Judge Allen In Den
yer.
A contract has been awarded by the
district forester to F. ]. Kamm of New
Castle for the removal of half a mil
lion feet OF Engelmann spruce and AL
pine fir from the White River Nation
al forest.
The board of county commissioners
of Teller county announced that the
assigning of wages by county en-
ployes must cease in the future and
that any man assigning his check
would be dismissed.
Vest pocket soup slugs, coffee cap
sules. tea and milk tablets, from the
unique commissary of n party of
Colorado Springs newspapermen who
departed on an automobile trip to the
Yellowstone park.
war of words. or battle between
BARRIERS, has been started in the
Cripple Creek district as the result OF
an announcement that the BARRIERS of
Victor would hereafter charge a half
dollar for hair cuts, raise in price
of fifteen cents.
The State Supreme Court has no
right to decide finally as to the vaiidi-
ty OF the amendment to the charter of
Denver creating commission form of
government, according to Gilbert A.
Walker, district attorney of the Elev-
enth judicial district.
A bundle of love letters, most of
them unprintable, written to Marie
Kane, eighteen, BY c. w. Kane, her
stepfather. is held by Denver postof-
flee authorities. Kane and the girl
were arrested by Postoffice Inspector
r. Il. Nelson on information furnished
by Humane Officers Ransom and
David. According to the postoffice in
spector, Kane brought his stepdauSh
ter to Denver from Flanders, Wyo.
The strike of coal miners in Colo
RADIO will cost the United Mine Work
ers OF America at the rate OF s2,000,00O
annually. The first week brought an
expenditure of sS7 900. On this basis,
for fifty-two weeks III the year, the
cost would be s1,924,O0O. The Off
GERS of the organization say the ex-
pense will increase sufficiently to
bring the rate up to s2,o00,0OO and per.
haps more than that,
The devotion of Miss Sophia Hon.
necke to her widowed mother during
thirty years following the death of her