The Elk Mountain pilot., 1914-11-05
WEEKS EVENTS
COLORADO

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the army of workers for the Red Gross
fund.
Uncle Sam has positions for litho-
graphic transferrers for which he will
hold examinations in principal cities
Nov. II.
John Smack, 90 years old and for
more than 5S years a resident of Colo
rado, was buried in Fairmount ceme'
terry in Denver.
| The Automobile Trades Association
OF Denver was organized at dinner
which was attended by leading Denver
automobile dealers.
The state militia is being equipped
and prepared for duty in case the
President withdraws the federal
troops November 10.
Fox & Smith. contracting firm OF
Florence, have forfeited their bond to
build the new Bijou street viaduct at
Colorado Springs for s14.500.
Counsel for William L. Ryan. con
victed OF the murder of Attorney N.
w. Crosse, has filed a motion in the
District Court at Fort Collins for a
new trial.
The body of an unidentified man. ap-
parently about fifty years old, was
found floating on the surface of the
water in the larger lake at City Park
in Denver.
w. l.. Ryan was sentenced to be
hanged during the week of Feb. 7th
| for the murder of Newton w. Crose.
by Judge Graham of the District Court
at Fort Collins.
A meeting of the Association of
| Western Agricultural Colleges. COM
prising the institutions in eleven
states, was held at the State Agricul-
tural College in Fort Collins.
AS result of more than 500 letters
sent to representative business and
club men of Denver requesting contri-
buttons for the Red Cross fund, 1000
already has been turned in.
Miss Georgia S. Richards, the first
and only woman who ever filled the
| position of clerk of the District Court
in Denver, died at her home, 1852
Franklin street, Of pneumonia.
An estate of 100000 left by George
Gillespie. retired merchant, who died
in Denver from pneumonia, will be
shared by nieces and nephews in
Canada. He was SO years old and
came to this state twenty-seven years
ago from Ontario.
While three persons. all unable to
swim. stood on the bank and watched
him, Guy II. Granger, twenty-six.
salesman for Denver mercantile
company, was drowned in Division
lake on the old Governor Grant ranch,
near Littleton. The body was recov-
cred by DR.. o. S. Fowler and DR.. Will
liam F. Settler.
Samuel Untermeyer of New York,
the attorney who directed the Pujo
money trust investigation, said in
Denver that he believed the next
twelve months will witness the great.
est expansion of business the coun,
try has ever known.
William Wade, aged about twenty
five years, farm hand, was beaten
into inconsistencies, tied in bundle
and thrown into refrigerator car on
| the Colorado & Southern tracks at
Fort Collins. The two men who at
tackled him, he said. were one tall and
| one short. smooth shaven and they
robbed him of s35.
Eastern capital has been interested
and line of evaporating and canning
factories through the fruit and vege
table sections Of Colorado is practical
ly assured, according to A. S. Dag
gett, United States pure food inspec
tor, who was one of the speakers at
the monthly meeting of the House
| wives league in Denver.
Z. Officials of the Wells-Fargo and the
Adams Express Companies have been
notified by the State Public Utilities
Commission to appear before that
| body Nov. to show cause for the
rates into and from Cripple Creek.
The commission finds that tariffs in
that section are proportionately high
er than for other similar hauls in Colo
rado.
Judge Class of Brighton, sitting in
the District Court in Denver for Judge
Teller, denied the application of Mable
Alexander, sixteen-year-old bride of
Charles M. Alexander. for an annul-
ment of their marriage on the ground
that she married him "on dare"
The court ruled that the ground on
which the annulment was requested
was not sufficient
Protests against the order which
will keep the saloons in the strike
district closed for another thirty days
was made to Governor Ammons by ].
p. r. Pells and two other liquor
dealers from Trinided. The men
claimed that there was no reason for
extending the closing order, insisting
that everything was peaceful in and
about Trinidad. The governor, how
ever refused to revoke his proclama-
tion.