The Elk Mountain pilot., 1915-10-23

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June s,ll-G. A. X. eneampment at La
June 1s-1s.-strawberry Days. Glen
June 19-July 2.-CoIorado Fair and
| Racing Association at Denver.
Aug 3i-Sept. 2,-Grand Lodge. X. of p
| at Colorado Springs.
Aug. 26-2S.-Fall Festival at Flagler.
Sept, 27.oct. S.-Meetins international
| Dry Farming Congress at Denver
The trout season opened May %.
A farm house on the Hodges farm,
near Fort Collins, was destroyed by
fire
A. r. Barbour. sixty-two, was found
dead in his bed at his home near
| F'ruitdale, west of Denver.
The Salvation Army will conduct
ten-day campaign to raise $4,000 TO
erect home in Greeley.
| Mrs. Banta of Grand Junction was
convicted on a charge of bootleeging'
and sentenced to ten days in jail.
Freddie Pellegrina, two-year-old son
of John Pellegrina of Denver, choked
to death at his home on prune seed
The Public Utility Commission has
| issued an order directing general
reduction OF passenger fares all over
| the state.
| One hundred candidates were ini-
tiated into the Denver lodge of the
Modern Brotherhood of America at
the l.. o. T. NJ. temple.
The failure of L. B. Sylvester and
brothers to meet their obligations on
| outstanding cattle and sheep loans
| created considerable stir in Monte
| Vista.
William Prhtny, 30 years old, a farm
| er living near Lakewood. was serious
| ly injured when he was thrown from
a load of hay. following the runaway
| OF his team.
Secretary of Agriculture David F.
| Houston will be the guest at a compli-
mentary banquet to be given by the
| Chamber of Commerce at Colorado
| Springs. June /.
Two hundred Italian residents of
Denver have responded to the call OF
the mother country and will leave
within a few days to fight on the bat
| tlefields of Europe.
The entire estate of David S. I.eh-
| man. vice president of the National
Jewish hospital at Denver, amounting
TO about 100000. will go to his wild
ow, Alma S. Lehman.
George Matthew Wheeler, a pioneer
| stage coach driver and freighter of
| Georgetown and Leadville. died in Den
yer OF bronchial trouble which he con
tracted while mining.
Smart society received little jolt
at Colorado Springs when news was
learned Of the divorce of Mrs. Ruth
Taught from George NJ. Taught on the
grounds OF extreme cruelty.
David Starr Jordon. celebrated edu-
Gator and noted economist, will give
the opening address of the Colorado
Sociological Conference, which will
begin at the University of Colorado
at Boulder July 4.
Conspiracy to defraud through an
alleged sailed mine scheme is
charged against the Gold Nugget Pla
Ger Mining Company of Denver in
four suppressed damage suits filed In
the District Court
The famous Doctor mine on Spring
creek is expected to come to the front
this summer by the Aspen lessees who
have opened what they describe as a
tremendous body OF zinc-carbonate ore
in the old workings.
Judge John A. Perry in the West
Side Court at Denver sentenced Vival-
ley Turley to term of from two to
three years in the penitentiary for
playing the part of dead" man in
| Q a
ance organizations.
A search for Ellis b. Thrush. former
| peace justice and assistant secretary
of the Clayton trust fund in Denver.
discrepancy of s5l2 in whose accounts
was recently disclosed. was dropped
when his wife made good the short
| age.
Ore in the new strike in the Herald
mine shows values of sl5,273 per ton
In commercial tests. A careful sam
pie taken from the two-foot vein of ore
opened in the Herald mine by pool of
Boulder business men, operating under
lease. shows values of 75S ounces gold
and 22G ounces silver per ton.
To the surprise of merchants who
had regarded with skepticism the
"Pay-Up-Week' campaign launched by
the State of Colorado's Committee on
Unemployment and Relief many old
debts were paid up in Boulder the
first day of "Pay-up-Week, accord
ing to reports at the office of the
Commercial Association.
The death of Mrs. Maude Schultheis
month ago in Fairpay, Just dscov-
cred by the district attorneys office
in Denver. will give back freedom to
Mrs. Loretta Wade. who has been
lying in the county Jail for the last
two months waiting trial on the