The Elk Mountain pilot., 1914-12-17
COLORADO NEWS
GATHERED FROM
All Parts of the State


Longmont.
The addition OF an aviation corps
to the state militia is being planned by
officers of the guard.
An exhibit of county farm products
is to be feature of the farmers short
course, which will be held at Pueblo
during the week of Dec. IS.
An alleged plot to make wholesale
delivery of prisoners at the state pen
itentiary was revealed to Cripple
Creek authorities by officials at Canon
City.
Frank S. Weemf. a brakeman on the
Union Pacific railroad. was killed near
Watkins. His death is thought to
have been caused by fall from the
caboose.
Edward p Bohannan, 40. promi-
nent mining man and broker, commit
ted suicide at his home, 1910 Race
street in Denver, by shooting himself
in the mouth.
Oliver Cavette Collett. old-time min
ing man of the Leadville district, COM
mitted suicide in his cabin on Carbon
parent cause.
Despondent over failing health and
financial matters, Rio Grande Station
Agent G. f. Garland of Villa Grove
committed suicide by shooting himself
with shotgun.
Prof. George A. Barker, head of the
department of geography in the State
Teachers College at Greeley, has in
stituted the only course in climatology
offered in the state.
John Easter, So. one of the most
widely known pioneers of the West,
who is said to have built the first
house on the present site of Denver.
is dead in Goldfield.
1t is stated that from seventy-five to
one hundred saloons will close in Den
yer, rather than pay the $500 semi
annual license. and that as many more
will close next June.
The tax levy in Denver, for all pur-
poses. in 1915, will be 1850 mills, un-
less further changes than those now
contemplated by the city commits
sioners are made in the budget.
A record run from police headquar-
ters in the motor ambulance probably
will save the life of Norvan Eads. IA
months-old son of John Eads. who fell
from a second.story window in a Den
yer hotel. o.
Robert F. Lufbery and George w.
on the charge OF making counterfeit
money, waived examination before
Commissioner Hinsdale and were re-
leased on $1,000 bond each.
Judson r. West a son of Mrs. Sam
uel West of Boulder and a brother of
Deputy Attorney General Frank West,
has declined a proffered professorship
in the university maintained by the
Chinese government at Tientsin in or
der to continue his work as chief en-
gineer of the port of Seattle.
One thousand and sixty-five divorce
actions have been commenced in the
County and District Courts of Denver
this year Approximately 1000 per
sons have been divested of their bonds
of matrimony. and with part of the
present month remaining a new and
tions may be established.
Mrs. DeForrest d. Leach, seventy
three, daughter Of NJ. X. Smith, who
settled in Blackhawk in 1860 and,
with his brother, took the first wagon
load of goods from Denver to Black
hawk, died at the home of her sister
in Boulder after a long Illness. She
was the wife of former Judge d. ID.
Leach of Oklahoma City.
Asserting that his granddaughter,
Mrs Leo F. Curtis, wife of the super
intendent of the Aurora schools. is
attempting to defraud him of his es
tate, valued at $4,000. William Ber-
nard, eighty-five. filed suit in the Dis
trict Court at Cripple Creek, asking
that Mrs. Curtis be restrained from in
any way exercising control over his
property.
That the Colorado Fuel and Iron
Company cashed between $4,000 and
$4,000 worth of state certificates OF
Indebtedness issued to Colorado Mill
tiamen for service in the strike zone
was brought out upon the witness
stand before the federal commission
in industrial relations in Denver
through the examination of President
Jesse F. Welborn.
Termination of the four-and-one
half year strike of coal miners in Col
orado. voted unanimously by delegates
to the United Mine Workers of Ameri.
ca special convention in Denver,
which took effect Dec. 10, was the
,ignal for 5000 miners to reapply for
their positions, the undertaking of re-
lief measures by the union and the
placing in the hands of federal com
mission all existing differences be-
tween miners and operators.