The Elk Mountain pilot., 1914-02-26

American Indians At Denver.
The new depot at Fruita is nearing
completion.
Mae Gates has been appointed post
master at Seibert-
Forty mayors attended the state con-
ference at Boulder.
Henry H. Hess, a Grand Army vet
eran of Colorado Springs, is dead. He
was seventy-seven years old.
The body of a man about thirty
years old was found in a packing box
in an old grave in the Fruita ceme-
tery by A. B. Zimmerman.
Funeral services were held Sunday
in Denver for Mrs. Amelia Gilchrist.
a negress. who was in all probability
the Oldest resident of Denver
The committee of mines and mining
of the Denver Chamber of Commerce
entertained the subcommittee on
mines from the United States Con-
gress at luncheon.
Many ranchmen along the interur-
ban will increase their acreages in
tomatoes this year, according to o. l.
Farley. the field superintendent of
the Currie Canning Company at Grand
Junction
An addition that will practically
double the capacity of that depart
ment has just been completed in the
open hearth department OF the Colo
rado Fuel and Iron Company steel
mills at Pueblo.
Judge r. F. Lewis, in the United
States District Court in Denver, sem
fenced Francis E. Searway of Denver
TO three years in the federal prison at
Leavenworth upon his plea of guilty
to counterfeiting.
Fifty representative business men
OF Denver pledged the necessary II
nancial support to collect agricultural
and other exhibits which Colorado will
show at the Panama-Pacific exposi-
ton at San Francisco in 1915.
With 3,33s COWS pledged and still
more available in the event they are
needed. the agriculturists of HasweIl.
kiows county. east of Pueblo. are con
fident that they Will secure large
milk condensery within the next few
weeks.
While District Attorney John A
Rush was filing a complaint of lunacy
against Don p. Blackwood. alleged
paranoiac. in the District Court in
Denver. Mrs. Bernice Blackwood. who
assisted her husband in threatening
Rush's life at the point of pistol.
sat in the matron's quarters of the city
jail and insisted that her husband is
sane.
BY the payment of s5s3. .31esi. the
largest amount of money ever paid in
TO the county treasurer's office of
Weld county in one day. the tangled
financial affairs OF the Denver &
Greeley and Denver & St Vrain irri-
CATION districts that have been in liti-
CATION for several years have been
Strengthened out ard no more interest
viii be payable until 1918.
Walter Urquhart OF Boulder was
elected editor OF the next years
"Coloradoan.- the annual OF the Uni
wevsity of Colorado, and Carl Cline of
Rocky Ford was chosen as manager,
at recent meeting of the sophomore
class of the university. The editor of
this years annual. now in press, is
Carl Billings of Boulder: the manager
is Herbert A. Miller of Fort Morgan
Mrs. Ella Mathews Peery is made a
correspondent in a divorce action
brought against her husband. John d.
Peery. by Mrs Nora Peery of Denver.
Mrs. Nora Peery asserts that she Is
the common-law wife of Peery and de-
mands that the marriage TO Mrs Ella
Mathews PeeTy be declared Illegal
She asserts that her husband has been
guilty OF infidelity by reason of his
relations with his legal wife. Mrs Ella
Mathews Peery-
In q double decision covering two
suits arising over the expiration of the
Mountain States Telephone Company's
franchise in 1903. District Judge John
H Denison of Denver held that the
company is entirely without legal
right to the use OF streets and alleys
in Denver and declared the Brown or
dinance which sought to extend such
rates and extensive Improvements in
service to be unconstitutional.
The gray-haired widow of q Denver
hero was made happy when she heard
read telegram from CONGRESSMAN
Edward keating announcing that the
House had passed 4 bill granting q
pension to members of the Forsythe
scouts She is Mrs John Donovan.
whose husband rescued the scouts by
his daring and brought to close the
famous Arickaree river battle. where
Loco Indians failed after n:ns-day et-
fort TO snnihilate the hand OF forty
men
From Granite comes the report OF
steady progress being made in the
Granite tunnel situated near tia.
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