The Elk Mountain pilot., 1914-02-05
STATE NEWS
OF INTEREST TO ALL
G o L o r A DO
PEOPLE
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.

Feb. 16-17.First annual Municipal
tsb GonfereSse fss;e, at R;n,ns Boulder; con,. :,
Feb. aaGwashington Day banquet at
July I3-l4.-Grand Lodge Session. y
=, o. Elks at Denver.
Sept; 7.-Colorado State Fair at Pa
1s15.-Last Grand Council of North
American Indians Mt Denver
President Wilson has nominated o.
w. Ward to be postmaster at Colorado
Springs.
Suit for divorce was begun by Mrs.
Harry ]. O'Bryan. II well-known Den
yer newspaper writer
Practically every large milk con-
densing firm in the United States is
looking for location for factory in
Colorado.
Thomas B. Stearns was elected pres
merce at the initial meeting of the
newly organized board OF directors.
M. P. Capp, newly appointed warden
of the State Reformatory, left Denver
for Buena Vista. where he will take
over the affairs of the institution, Feb
8.
A government. plant for the treat
ment of radium ores is likely to be
erected at Denver, and another con-
structed at Grand Junction by pri-
vate parties.
Hail stones as large as small mar
bles fell at Pueblo Wednesday. ac-
companied by decided drop in
temperature, in the van guard of a
storm that swept that section of Col
orado.
A coroner's jury at Victor decided
that the death OF w. S. Littlefield. who
was killed accidentally in the Cope
land sampler. was due to his own
carelessness widow and four chill
dren survive.
Military and social circles we're sur
prised when it became known that
Capt. B. B. Long. adjutant of the First
Regiment of the National guard, and
Miss Alice Flynn of Walsenburg, had
been married at Trinidad.
Keen interest has been aroused in
Denver social circles by the announce
ment of a divorce action begun by
Mrs. Ella T. Weckbaugh. daughter OF
J. X. Mullen. millionaire mill owner.
against Eugene Weckbaugh.
The board of directors of the Long
mont National bank. at their regular
melting, signified their acceptance of
the new currency bill. This is the
first Longmont institution to enter in
to the new banking system.
John Lynch OF Pueblo was ap-
pointed state food and drug Inspector
to succeed George T. Bradley. recent
ly made n member OF the State Rail-
road Commission. at n meeting of the
State Board of Health in Denver.
Orson Adams. former president OF
the Mera County National bank, gave
bond in the sum of 5000 at Delta
for appearance before the federal
grand jury on charge of misappro-
priation OF funds of the bank.
Gertrude Hillen. seventeen-year-old
sister of Harry f. Hillen. condemned
to die on the gallows for the murder
of Thomas j. Chase. who came to Den
yer from Salt Lake City to plead with
Governor Ammons for her brothers
life, will go home, her mission having
proved n failure. =
Patrick G. Kennedy, seventy-two
years old. for over fifty years a resi-
dent of Denver and vicinity. died at
the Mercy hospital after several
months Illness of pneumonia. Pat
rick was n we'll known pioneer stock
and ranchman. Most OF his property
ls near TOl,gate
A meeting of the oil men of the
state to consider the oil and gas in
dustries OF Colorado will be held at
the University of Colorado. at Boulder.
on Feb. 5. according to call issued
by James Duce, state oil Inspector
Many public officials. including Gov.
e. NJ. Ammons, will attend.
Ultimately Uncle Sam must inter
vene in Mexico and take n hand in
the turbulent republics affairs. That
is the opinion of Frank r. Robertson.
expressed In n private conversation
at the conclusion of his travelogue on
The Grand Canon OF Arizona" at the
First Baptist church in Denver.
Mike Ehnott. twenty-six, n Slav
driver at the Pinnacle mine of the
Routt County Fuel Company, was
killed when he was caught between
two pit cars. Ehnott was nonunion
man and went to Oak Creek about two
months ago from his home in Dunmore,
Pa, where the body will be sent.
A romance that began at the Uni
versity of Colorado three years ago re-
suited in the biggest society wedding
in the history of Boulder. when Miss
Catherine Farrell Fonda. society
belle, became the bride of James Mont
gomery East, who is engaged in the
stock raising business at Tonasket.
Wash.