The Elk Mountain pilot., 1913-11-27

Jan. 12-16.-Colorado Poultry Fanciers'
Jan. 1s-2l-National western Stock
Show at Denver.
Jan.-Meeting Colorado Good Roads
Sept. 7.--Colorado State Fair at Pueblo.
19l5.-Last Grand Council of North
American Indians at Denver.
The Denver commissioners would
bar free lunches in saloons.
Fifty cents ton was Topped off the
price Of Ignite coal in Denver.
The Colorado Springs city council
has decided to appoint committee to
form plan to mine Its own coal.
The city council has ordered the
marshal to take action against the
candy and cigar cards and church rat
Ties in Montrose.
George w. Belcher. Baldwin-Felts
detective. was shot and killed at Main
and Commercial streets in the center
OF the business district of Trinidad.
E. A. Newcomb. proprietor of the
Iris cafe. in Denver. pleaded guilty to
the charge of keeping wine room,
and was fined 500 and costs.
General Chase issued the official
notice for military court at Trinidad.
The military commission will consist
of seven officers of the National Guard
of Colorado.
Pueblo. as a shipping center, will
profit materially by the new freight
tariffs. applying from points east to
New Mexico, Arizona and Nevada. The
rates will go into effect on Dec. l.
The Mountain States Telephone &
Telegraph Company has absorbed the
Western Slope Telephone Company in
Clifton and the plans of the farmer Or
ganizers of the cooperative company
have been abandoned.
Alfred Darnell of Clifton disproves
the adage about lightning never strik-
ing twice in the same place. After
being in bed six weeks with a broken
leg he ventured to school again and
broke the same leg in the same place.
For the unlawful killing of an elk.
Sam Hines, owner of Marvine lodge
on Marvine lake in Rio Blanco coun-
ty. was fined 5000 and costs by Judge
John T. Shumate in the District Court
in session at Glenwood Springs.
Meeting with two strangers. one of
his own nationality and the other 4
Spaniard, Ulysses Guigerrez Mexi-
can. lost $3.50 in a daylight robbery
which the victim told the police hap
pened in the Capitol grounds In Del-
yer.
After remaining out for more than
fifty hours and failing to arrive at a
verdict the jury which heard the con-
test over the 100000 estate OF the
late Alfred H. Miles was discharged
by County Judge Rothgerber in Den
yer.
Complying with request from Gov
ernor Ammons, the mine operators
striking miners to consider the com
plants of the latter relative to the
present coal strike in the southern
fields.
Secretary William B. Wilson Of the
United States Department of Labor
took up his office of mediator in the
southern Colorado coal strike situa.
ton Friday when he conferred with
Gov. E. NJ. Ammons for three hours in
Mrs. Mary G. Campbell, seventy.
two, sister-in-law of former Senator
T. NJ. Patterson, and widow OF f. L.
Campbell, former lawyer, banker, mine
owner and politician of Colorado, died
at the home of her sisterin-law, Mrs.
Prince Campbell. at Eugene. Ore
Officials from Camp Ludlow identi.
cd To frl Inv a,-ic II ir,,r
Greek, who has been confined at st.
Josephs hospital in Denver with a
gunshot wound, as the man who shct
and killed Angus Alexander, guard, at
the Hastings mine on October 2S, the
day before the militia was sent into
the strike district.
The man recently discovered near
Embudo, Rio Arriba county, N. M,
caught in a bear trap was identified
as Henry Severson, sixty-five. former.
ly of Denver. 1t is thought he stepped
into the trap while hunting or pros
pecting and was unable to release
himself. dying from exposure and
starvation.
The last spike in the Steamboat
Springs-Craig extension of the Moffat
road was driven at Craig, marking
the completion of the branch on which
nearly 1900 men have been working
since the first of the year. All the
citizens of Craig and many others from
the surrounding towns helped to cele.
brate the event.
Union lodge No. Z, A. F. and A. NJ,
the Oldest Masonic lodge in Colorado,
celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of
it's organization at a banquet in Den.
yer at Ell Jebel temple. Three hun.
dred and seventy-four members sat at
tables. Some of the oldest members
of the lodge, including one nonagena-
rian and several octogenarians, were
present.