The Elk Mountain pilot., 1914-12-31

Editorial Association at Denver.
Jan. 1S-1,.-Meeting State ASSN of
Jan. 2o-a1.-.coiorado GOOD Roads As
sociation Meeting. in Denver.
Colorado will receive 100000 from
the General Education boards dona-
tions.
The 1,500 inmates of the Pueblo asy-
lum had a dance and Christmas tree
celebration.
Denver's bill for Christmas candies
this year, according to an estimate by
w. II. Schaetzal will be $4,000.
Miles Lee, 20, prospector and miner
who went to the Leadville district In
1879. was found dead in his cabin.
Mrs. n Dinnebeck. 20, was badly
burned when the waterback In the
kitchen range at her home In Fort
Collins blew up.
A public reception will be held at
the Chamber of Commerce on New
Year day. Governor Ammons and
Governor-elect Carlson will be present.
The twenty-seven members OF the
road gang from the state penitentiary
We're the guests of the county com
missioners of Boulder county Christ
mas day.
Cupid, in the role of Santa Claus,
made fifty-two persons happy In Den
yer. Marriage licenses were issued
granting that number OF persons the
right to wed.
Ernest Butler, thirty, a private at
Fort Logan, was stabbed in the abdo-
men by an unidentified Mexican in
Denver following an alleged argument
over drinks.
Four hundred thousand pounds of
turkeys, worth approximately $50, 900.
were consumed on Christmas dinner
tables, in Denver, according to esti-
mates by commission men.
The state board of livestock inspec-
tion at regular meeting passed a
resolution advising against the hold
ing of the Western National Stock
show in Denver this year.
After Timothy Readon, 26 years old,
had attempted to wreck his home in
Denver his wife tied him to the bed.
where she kept him several hours be-
fore she called the police.
Mrs. Herbert SWEET of Fort Collins.
daughter-in-law of the late Leonard
SWEET of Chicago, law partner of
President Lincoln, died at the Park
Avenue hospital in Denver.
Colorado prosperity is strongly re-
Elected in the Christmas shopping oil
1914. which leading merchants OF Den
yer declare brought the heaviest vol
ume OF holiday business ever recorded.
John Senack, Frenchman who
died In Denver on Oct % at the age
of 30, left an estate worth approx
mately 100000, according to facts dis
closed in the County Court in Denver.
Several hundred Leadville miners
have returned to work as a result of
the lifting of the water famine in the
Iron Mine ditch, caused by lack of
sufficient snowfall to keep the ditch
from freezing.
A permit for 100000 for the in.
terror work in the new postoffice and
federal building in Denver was issued
by the building department to the
contractors.
All express companies report heavy
Christmas traffic. The volume OF
business last week was far greater
than n year ago. according to the 10
cal managers of the express com
panies.
Distribution of clothing and shoes
hn oh dron nf Ia, ri
ers in the Colorado coal fields was
carried on for Christmas by represen-
tatives of the United Mine Workers
of America.
Lavish gifts among Denver's
wealthy families and the distribution
of more than $4,000 in gold by Colo.
rado corporations to employees belle
the presumption that Christmas had
been hit by hard times.
John We;tongel. sixty.four, for thirty
years n resident of Colorado and Den
yer, died in Peak, Oregon. and was
buried in Denver from the home OF
his sister. Mrs. William Bergman.
Valvular heart trouble was the cause
of death.
Arthur G. McWilliams, 30 years old
died at the county hospital in Denver
from injuries sustained when taxi
cab ran over him near Seventeenth
and Welton streets. McWilliams was
married and lived at 620 Thirteenth
street.
Drs. r. j. Mason and F. w. Noble
pleaded not guilty to charges of caus-
ing the death of Miss Ruth X Merri-
weather in the West Side Court in
Denver. after Judge Morris had de-
MED motion for bill of particulars
made by their attorney. Both were
held without bail and trial was set for
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