The Elk Mountain pilot., 1913-10-30
STATE NEWS
OF INTEREST TO ALL
c O O r A DO
PEOPLE
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Dates for Coming Events.

Jan. 1e-24.-Nationai Western Stock
Show at Denver.
Association at Colorado Springs.
1s15.-Last Grand Council of North
American Indians at Denver.
Cleanup day was great success in
Grand Junction.
A taxpayers league was organized at
a well attended meeting at Grand
Junction
Identified as one of the men who
held up w. ]. Fitzpatrick, butcher in
Pueblo. Donald Mcdonald has been
arrested
Herman Weiss, seventy-six years
old. living at 1920 Xavier street, Den
yer, obtained a license at Littleton to
wed Ottelea Goldminn, forty-three also
of Denver.
One dead. two dying and three
wounded men lay on upper Seventh
street at WalseEburg Friday after
noon after n battle between guards
and strikers.
The Colorado Springs commission
houses gave their employees day off
for the annual rabbit hunt east of
town. Three hundred rabbits were
bagged in the roundup.
After living twenty-four hours with
a broken neck, Hector Williams. an
employe of the Arkansas Valley Rail
way, Light & Power Company, died
at the hospital in Canon City.
The fine club house of the Denver
Fish, Feather and Fin Club. located
at Boecity, was burned. The club
house was owned by Denver sports
men who spend the weekend hunting.
The bank call for the quarter and
inspection, shows deposits in the
seven banks composing the clearing
house of Colorado Springs to be S11,-
Os4.077.99 This is the largest show
ing ever made.
Pixies peak may be chosen by
Franklin X. Lane, secretary of the in.
terror, as the location for govern
ment wireless station to be used by
The weather bureau as one of chain
Of stations across the continent.
The advisability of sending mounted
national guardsmen to the coal strike
district in southern Colorado to patrol
that territory, not as militiamen, but
as state constabulary, is being consid-
cred by Governor Ammons.
Nellie Joy. a teacher in the Weitzer
school. was tried before the court at
Rocky Ford for assault on one of her
pupils, whom she punished with
switch the size of n pencil. 1t tooks
= jury five minutes to discharge her.
The funeral of James l.. Boutwell,,
eighty-three years old, resident of Colo
rado since 1859 and veteran guide OF
the Colorado state capitol. was held
from Martins chapel. Interment was
at Riverside cemetery in Denver.
The Rev. Robert Bruce Wolf. pastor
of the Evangelical Lutheran church at
Colorado Springs. has received word
that he has been elected to the Thirty
third degree in Masonry by the su-
preme council at Washington. ID. C.
Fully n thousand people joined with
Hayden citizens in celebrating the ar
rival OF the first train into that point.
An excursion train was run from
Steamboat Springs. while clusters
came in from every point within 100
miles.
potato yield of 500 bushels to the
acre is the record established for
this years Colorado potato crop by
Lou d. Sweet, agriculturist and pota-
TO expert. The potatoes were pro-
duced from 160-acre tract on Sweets
ranch near Carbondale.
Ebert G. Ryan. convicted horse
thief, was taken to the Canon City
penitentiary by Sheriff McBroom OF
Arapahoe county to begin a five-year
term. He confessed two weeks ago
and exonerated Mrs. Mary Ryan. ac-
cused of being implicated in the thefts.
Trinidad, Injured by years of associa-
tion with mine horrors, is aghast with
the enormity of the disaster at Daw.
son. N. NJ. Not less than 100 men,
many Americans, and the others Ital-
ians, Slavs and Mexicans, recently left
Trinidad and are known to have been
working in the Phelps-Dodge camp.
Allen True, Denver artist. has been
appointed first assistant to Frank
Brangwyn. English artist employed on
the decorations of the Panama-Pa-
cific exposition in 1915, Mr.. True
plans to be in London by the middle
OF November where plans for the
San Francisco exposition decorations
will be drawn.
Mary Trujiio. seventeen, and her
sister. Carmel Trujillo. sixteen. were
detained in the matron's quarters at
the city Jail in Trinidad as complain
ing witnesses against two Greeks,
Mike Puntis and Steve Topas. The
former is being held for n statutory
offense under the provisions of the
Mann white slave act.
The churches of Denver have
caught the "get-together-spirit" and
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