The Elk Mountain pilot., 1914-02-12
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.

Feb. 16-17-First annual Municipal
Feb. Estate Mining Convention at
Feb. 22-washington Day banquet at
| March 1O-1I-Eleventh annual con-
FERENCE. Colorado Daughters of Amer
| lean Revolution at Colorado Springs.
| July 13-14.-Grand Lodge Session. b.
p: Q Elks at Denver. -
sept; colorado State Fair at Pu-
1s15.-Last Grand Council of North
American Indians at Denver
| A cutting affray west of La Junta
took place at a Mexican camp and re-
suited In the death Of Gabino Isibera.
Lord and Lady Decies arrived In
Denver from Pueblo to be the house
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Crawford Hill.
Walter T. Brown, one of the lead
ing Republicans of Boulder, died sud
denly, following stroke of paralysis.
Mrs. Ruby L. McQuate received the
appointment as postmistress Of the
Aurora postoffice. She succeeds George
Means.
A convictbuilt highway from Colo
rado to the Gulf Of Mexico is advocat-
ed by Warden Thomas lyman of the
Colorado state penitentiary.
Joe Ryan, motion picture actor,
was injured, probably fatally, at Can
on City while staging" scene in a
new wild West" photoplay.
The annual banquet in honor of
Susan b. Anthony will be held Feb.
10 in Denver. the members of the
Equal Suffrage Association acting as
| hostesses.
William Ottus Stillwell, county treas
urer OF Adams county, died at his
home at Brighton of a complication
| of diseases. The widow, two sons and
a baby daughter survive.
The mercury reached 20 below at
| Steamboat Springs Friday night. 1t
showed all day. stopping in the even
| ing. and the ground was covered to
"a depth of thirty-five inches.
The park board OF Denver declined
to go into the proposal of John Brts-
ben Walker for the purchase of thirty
acres of land north OF Inspiration
| Point to erect an open air Greek the
ater.
The annual fellowship of the Amer
lean Archaeological Society. amount
ing to $500. has been awarded to Earl
H. Morris, a senior in the College of
Liberal Arts of the University OF
Colorado at Boulder
Tho county commissioners have filed
suit against 7. NJ. Hudson, clerk Of
| the District Court at Walsenburg, for
| failing to turn over to Huerfano
county treasurer $3.$54.36, fines and
fees collected by him.
An entire train of Colorado flour
~ A.
Lcngmont to Birmingham. Ala. The
shipment is regarded by Governor
Ammons as indicating the growth Of
markets for Colorado products.
| In all Colorado's history there has
| never been a year which haa, started
so auspiciously, which has been SO
pregnant with the promise of big
construction, big crops and big re-
turns upon investments. as 1914.
w. H. Paul and John Gross. School
of Mines engineers and metallurgists.
left for Guatemala to take charge OF
the mines and mills OF the United
Fruit Company. which has offices in
Galveston, New Orleans and New
York.
Not a depositor OF the First Ma
tional Bank Of Clifton. closed three
| months ago when the Mesa County
National Bank was ordered closed.
withdrew his account when the First
State Bank of Clifton opened to pay
| depositors.
With sharp shoes and teeth the two
standard bred horses of ]. X. Kinsin-
ger, valued at $3.50. fought a duel to
,,,y,.x x,aI In,
the barn. Both horses were exhausted
when forced to quit fighting. and both
had broken legs because of which it
became necessary to kill them.
| The Western Sugar and Land Com
pany OF Colorado Springs and the
| Southwestern Sugar and Land Compa-
ny of Glendale. Ariz., both owned by
j. r. McKinnie r. r. Davie and E. c.
| Sharrer and associates have been con,
solidated under the name of the West
ern Sugar and Land Company, with a
capitalization of s6,O0o,o0o.
Word was received in Longmont Of
the death of Robert Knight of that
place, who went to Indianapolis to at
| tend the miners convention as dele
| gate from the miners union OF Weld
| county Pneumonia was the cause or
his death. His widow and parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Thomas Knight, left for In
| dianapolis to take charge of the body.
The right of the military authori-
ties to arrest and detain individuals
| in connection with strike disorders
was upheld by Judge A. W. McHen-
drie of the Third judicial district in
a ruling handed down at Trinidad in
which a writ of habeas corpus in the
case of James Davis, marshal of Agui-
lar, was discharged and he was re-
manded to the custody OF General