The Elk Mountain pilot., 1914-01-15
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Onion News Service.
DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.

Jan. 15-16.-Meeting Colo. Good Roads
Jan. 15-i6.--Meeting Mountain Division
Colorado to the Gulf Highway Asso-
ciation at COLORADO Springs ngs,,.,or
Jan. 17.-Meeting Colorado Association
of Commercial Executives at Colo
rado Springs . co,o,,oo
Pioneer Printers Society at Denver
Jan. -24.--National Western stock
July I3-l4..Grand Lodge Session. b.
p. Q. Elks at Denver.
Sept; 7.-Colorado State Fair at Pu-
1915.-Last Grand Council of North
American Indians at Denver
Sixteen candidates for practicing
physicians licenses took the examina-
tions at the Capitol building.
Mrs. Nancy r. Fisher. II, a nurse
in Denver since 1874. died at the home
of her daughter. Mrs. Nellie Brown.
Mrs. p II. Dodson of Denver found
pearl as large as the end of her little
finger in fifteen-cent bowl of an oys-
ter stew.
Mrs. Edward Taylor of Colorado
was elected first vice president OF the
Women's National Democratic League
at Its Washington meeting.
A claim for s2,O0OOoO filed by Regi-
nald F. Vail against the David w. Mof-
fat estate was dismissed by County
Judge Rothgerber of Denver.
Everett B. Jackson of Colorado
Springs has been Professionally chosen
next Rhodes scholar to represent this
state at the University of Oxford.
There were 294 deaths in Denver in
December. according to the monthly
report issued by Miss Zelda Sherman.
clerk of the bureau of vital statistics.
Child Labor Day" is Sunday. Jan.
25. Throughout the nation churches
will consider the subject of child Ia
bor at the instance Of the national
child labor committee.
The Sons of Colorado at their tenth
annual meeting in Denver elected
Thomas P. Boutwell, president for the
coming year. Governor Ammons was
elected first vice president.
Henry E. Lutz, assistant United
States district attorney in Denver, has
been appointed special assistant to At
torney General McReynolds, to sue
ceed Frederick E. Maynard, resigned.
Senator Helen Ring Robinson. with
Rabbi Wise will speak for equal suf-
frage against Mrs. George, president OF
the anti-suffragists. The debate will
occur in New York theater Jan. 10.
Rousing competition is promised IN
the second Baby Health Contest in the
Eugenic section of the National West
ern Stock Show at Denver, Jan. 1924.
Entries in all classes are being re-
ceived by DR.. Mary Elizabeth Bates.
president OF the Baby Contest Associa-
ton.
Arguments in the suit of the city
against the Mountain States Tele.
phone and Telegraph Company. in
which it is sought to enforce the terms
of the Brown telephone rate ordinance
were finally completed before Dis
trict Judge Denison in Denver.
John West, alias H. d. Franklin, and
Frank w. Goodwin, alias Frank Goode-
ridge, and also alleged to have been
known as Diamond Harry" arrested
last September. were convicted by
jury in the West Side Court in Denver
of attempting to work a confidence
game on U. G. Davis, wealthy ranch
man of Grover.
The withdrawal from public entry
of all lands containing or suspected
of containing" radium-bearing ores, as
proposed by Secretary Lane of the De-
partment of the Interior, would mean
the withdrawal of fifty per cent of
the public lands in Colorado west of
Denver, according to c. T. Kennan, a
mining engineer of Eagle, Colo.
Reduced express rates averaging
nearly fifty per cent lower than those
now charged, will become effective
February LIST. The-new tariffs which
have been compiled by experts in the
employ of the Interstate Commerce
Commission in conjunction with ex-
pert rate-makers of the express COM
panies, have been received in Den
yer.
Masqueradlng as Adolphus Busch,
ILL.,, son of the millionaire head of the
Anheuser-Busch Company, John Ray
Dew, 20. was arrested in Denver after
he had borrowed $1OO from Frank H.
Drummer. Pullman conductor. and $50
from Miss Estella Atkinson, keeper of
a curio counter in hotel, in the dash
ing style of combined Beau Brum-
mel, Chesterfield and Lothario.
A letter received by the coroner at
Denver disclosed the fact that Mrs.
Elders mother, Mrs. Laura ]. Bone OF
Napapine, Wash, was ignorant of the
manner of the death of her daughter,
Mrs. Loula Elder, who shot and killed
Frank Gregory and then committed su-
icide In her room in the Rialto hotel
Dec 90. The coroner also has letter
from Mrs. Elders father, j. A. Langs-
don, blacksmith of Paonia, Colo, stat
ing that he has inst learned of the