The Elk Mountain pilot., 1914-03-12

p. O. Gllls at Denver
April 9.-General Irrigation Conference
Sept: 7.-Colorado State Fair at Pu
lsI5.LIast Grand Council of North
American Indians at Denver.
Capt R. A. Kincaid was elected ex-
alted ruler of the Denver lodge of
Elks at the annual election.
Governor Ammons attended the
farmers institute at Hugo. The use
of silos was one of the principal mat
ters considered.
The date for the spring meeting of
the State Association of County Super
intendents of schools will probably be
fixed for April Is by President ]. II.
Schreiber
Stanley D. Burno. for the past three
years chief of police of Colorado
Springs, has resigned to take the
management of large ranch at
Kremmling.
The new quarters of the Denver
Press club, consisting of a suite of ten
rooms in the Denham Theater build
ing. Formally were opened with
house warming.
Within twelve hours after P. ].
| Reiner, twenty-one years old, had en-
tered and robbed a general merchan-
disc store at Brighton, he was arrested,
tried and convicted and sentenced.
The Oldest man in the West and one
of the oldest men in the world is dead
in Denver William Taylor. 19S years
old, veteran of both the Mexican and
Civil wars, died at his home, 1165
Downing street.
| William Fl. Harris, newspaper cor
respondent and police magistrate of
| Cripple Creek, was elected chairman
of the Democratic county central COM
mittee, to succeed Postmaster Huse
Taylor, resigned.
Charges that union men tried to an
noy the miEe guards in the coal fields
were made at the congressional hear
ing at the capitol by Arthur Langow-
ski, young miner who was in the
Ludlow tent colony
Burglars who used a truck to haul
away $1,000 worth of loot at Pueblo.
& Co., at Stone City. eighteen miles
from Pueblo. At least two big truck
loads of plunder was secured.
The release of q. ]. Darris and VIII
liam Jones who are accused of the
murder of Noah Beeghley at Superior.
was ordered by District Judge Robert
G. Strong of Boulder upon the furnish
ing of bonds. $4,000 for Darris and $5,-
900 for Jones.
The annual report OF the California
| Wine Growers Association shows
earnings of over 100000 last year.
| Colorado has great tracts suitable for
vineyards, and the report should en-
courage farmers to start the industry
in this state.
A Denver-Greeley passenger train
left the Union depot in Denver over
the Colorado & Southern railroad.
drawn by the first standard guage oil
burning engine ever sent out of the
| Denver yards. The engine formerly
burned coal and was converted into an
oil burner at the Denver shops.
Daniel d. Ferguson. one of the best
known and wealthiest pioneer cattle
men of the White River valley. died in
Los Angeles. Cal. of heart trouble.
Ferguson came to Meeker about twen-
| ty-eight years ago and located at what
is now known as Thornburg. The
body will be brought to Craig for in
terment.
The right of the State Tax Commits
sion to order an increase in the assess
ment of the different counties of Colo
/ bn
| Court of the United States. The case
brought by the Bi-Metallic Investment
| Company against the State Board of
| Equalization will be appealed to the
highest court of the land.
That Morris Williams. well-to-do
ranchman of Watervale, was murdered
on his ranch, sixty miles east of Trini-
dad, on or about Feb. IS and his body
was dragged on sled over the snow
drifts to a canon three miles east of
| there, where it was thrown over n
cliff. and then taken to a cave and
burned, are the developments OF the
investigation made by Coroner b. b.
Sipe.
Is Montrose to become the center
of mining excitement? is the ques-
tion asked by many. Recently there
has been a constant stream of people
going to and from the new gold dis
covery in Happy canon, seven miles
west of Montrose. For three months
l. W. Hotel has been working on a
gold claim that he discovered there
and from time to time has had assays
showing rich in the precious metal
One of these assays ran $4,000. De-
velopment has reached a depth of 25
feet on blanket vein and mill run
test of 100 pounds of the ore was
sent out that returned $50 in gold to