The Elk Mountain pilot., 1914-03-05
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.

Sept 1.-Colorado State Fair at Pu-
eblo.
Isl5.-Last Grand Council of North
American Indians at Denver.
Secretary Lane has called an irriga-
ton conference to be held at Denver
April 9.
Helen Keller, deaf and blind, spoke
at the Central Presbyterian church in
Denver.
Lee w. Mitchell of Pueblo was
stabbed when he accosted two foreign
ers on the C street viaduct.
The commissioners of Otero county
have ordered all the signs removed
from along the county roads because
they scare horses.
The Moffat tunnel commission will
open offices in the First National
Bank building and not in the Denver
city hall or courthouse.
Former United States Senator
Henry NJ. Teller left his entire estate
to his widow in a will found by Bruce
Teller. The estate is estimated to be
worth 100000.
Henry H. Moore, immigration in
spector at Philadelphia, was named by
Secretary Wilson as immigration in
spector in charge at Denver, to sue
coed the late Lon Adams.
Mrs. Harriet ]. Cobbey of Denver
is one of the heirs to a 100000 es-
tate left by her uncle. James Webb,
who died at the age of eighty-four at
his home near Farmingdale, Ill.
Efforts are being made to secure
agreements from the farmers in the
vicinity of Num- to contract the out
put of milk from 100 COWS for the Pur-
pose of starting cheese factory.
The last of the 81 100000 crop-move-
ment fund which the government last
fall deposited with the national banks
of Denver has been returned to the
Treasury Department at Washington.
Former Senator Thomas NJ. Patter-
son introduced a resolution at the
Denver Chamber of Commerce
luncheon, demanding that the board
of directors refrain from political ac-
tivity.
Lying on his back and partly COW
cred by drifting snow, Jacob Jenkins,
40. prospector. was found frozen to
death by c. L. Fisher of Twelve Mile,
within half a mile of the old miners
cabin.
A jury called by Coroner II. S. Bur-
ton OF Jefferson county, sitting at
Arvada, charges Walter Reynolds, a
coal miner of the Tucker
tent colony, with killing Benjamin F.
Hoffamier.
The women Of Denver are lining up
for a political campaign which prom
ises to be one of the biggest in the
history of woman suffrage in this
state. The aim of the campaign is to
place more women in office.
Testimony for the mine owners was
continued at Trinidad in the congress
sional investigation Of the Colorado
coal miners strike. The operators
opened their case with testimony in.
tended to refute charges OF peonage.
The large variety of mineral
springs in and near Idaho Springs,
Clear Creek county, soon will be pro
vided with additional improvements
in the form of another wing for the
new hotel building that is now in
course of construction.
Clyde C. Dawson of Denver will
take up the question in Washington
of having the administration consent
to Col. George w. Goethals' plan to
have the cruiser Denver pass through
the Panana canal on March Is. for
which the city has planned a united,
mammoth celebration.
AS the result of an attempt to shoot
his sweetheart, Miss Grace Bremen
at Colorado Springs. Ira Marshall, who
has been working as roustabout at
a hotel and who is only is years Old,
is In the city jail, charged with assault
with intent to kill, carrying concealed
weapons and forgery. The police say
he has made complete confession.
C. j. Darris and William Jones
accused of staying Noah
Beeghley. non-union employee of the
Industrial mine at Superior, by strik-
ing him on the head with an iron holt
and throwing him on the track before
the Interurban at Superior On the
night of Jan. II, pleaded not guilty
before District Judge r. G. Strong at
Boulder.
THE monster city-wide celebration
with which Denver will commemorate
Sunday, March Is. in honor of the
passing of the cruiser Denver through
the Panama canal was formally
launched when Representatives of all
civic. commercial, patriotic, social and
athletic organizations of the city met
In the Senate chamber of the capitol
and effected permanent organization
of the celebration committee.
AS the result of contract signed
by officials of the Larimer County
Fair Association and Messrs. Clifford
and McCarty of the IS ranch, located
forty miles north of Cheyenne, Love