The Elk Mountain pilot., 1914-10-08

range.
Oct, so-Nov.1-Tenth annual DOG Show
1sl5.-Last Grand Council of North
American Indians at Denver.
Governor Ammons has designated
October as fire prevention day.
The Denver Congregation Knese
Israel has raised $3.50 for the relief Of
suffering lsraelites in Europe.
Red Cross funds in Denver amount
to $2,07o. The total collected in the
United States is 100000. OF which
$2S6,0O0 has been spent.
Records of business done in the
Denver postoffice for September show
an increase Of sixteen per cent over
that of the corresponding month last
year. .
Denver's low record for serious
crimes impressed former Gov. Her
bert S. Hadley of Missouri, who
passed four months in Denver this
summer.
William R. Eaton was awarded the
Republican nomination for one of the
four senatorships from Denver by a
majority of six votes by Judge Denison
in the District Court.
Elinor Reece, ten, son of Harvey
Reece, a ranchman five miles west of
Arvada, killed himself by accident
when a bullet from a 20 caliber rifle
entered his forehead.
!. G. " Morris of Denver, Santa Fe
freight conductor, is in a critical con-
dition at ST. Mary's hospital, as re-
suit of being bitten ON the hand by q
rattlesnake at Pueblo.
Lightning struck and shattered the
top Of the sixty y-five-foot steeple of the
Berkeley Methodist Episcopal church,
West Forty-third avenue and Sheridan
boulevard. in jefferson county.
{ James N. Ashmore, former athletic
director at Millikin University of De-
catur, ILL.,, has been secured for the po-
sition Of physical director at the Uni
versity Of Colorado at Boulder.
! w. ]. Mahoney. "a. fell on the side
walk at Fourteenth and California
streets in Denver and broke his jaw.
He was removed to St. Joseph's hos
pital by Police Surgeon Preston.
Wireless communication between
the State University plant at Boulder
and other stations has been prohibited
by order of the United States govern
ment on account of the European war.
= Eight state rifle matches will take
place at the rifle range near Golden
from Oct. IA to Is. Twenty-nine com
panies of the National guard will en-
ter, each team to be composed of
. from six to eight men.
r Morris Alash, a Denver shoemaker,
has received an appeal for help from
his wife. Molly. who is in the town Of
Ostrara, Russian Poland. She says
that In the beleaguered village every
one is starving, and bread sells for
! twenty-five cents a pound. The town
, is completely surrounded and no one
, can get out.
One million dollars is cash will be
used by w. l.. Petrikin of the Great
Western Sugar Company in an effort
to get supply of sugar beet seed
: from Germany. Petrikin Will sail
from New York Oct. for Rotterdam
{ and. because of financial conditions
due to the war, will be forced to carry
the cash with him.
e The sale of 5000 head of horses on
one order to the British government
through Denver commission firms and
the completion of the movement
through the Denver Union stoekyards
was reported. The horses are said to
have been gathered from all parts OF
Colorado and Wyoming and to have
been shipped to Canada.
q The total value of building permits
for the month of September. 1914. in
Denver exceed those of the same
month in 1918 by $701 GAO. an increase
of 300 per cent. according to the
monthly report of the building inspec-
tors office. For September, 1914,
they aggregated $1.007,130, as against
$295,490 In the same month last year
One of the most recent of Denvers
welfare institutions is the Health
Seekers Free Bureau OF the Denver
Visiting Nurses Association, located
at 535-536 Temple Court building. The
aim of the bureau is to serve as CEN
trail clearing house of information for
new-coming health seekers. and to as
sist them in getting properly started
on the road to recovery.
The interstate commerce commits
sion has suspended the tariffs promul-
gated by the Union Pacific Railroad
company, which closed the Ogden
Gateway to the Denver & Rio Grande
for all business to and from points
on the Oregon Short Line. including
Yellowstone National park. This ac-
ton was taken as a result of numer-
ous petitions filed with commission
by commercial bodies on the Western
slope and Utah. protesting that the
closing of the gateway would deprive
their comunities of a great amount OF