The Elk Mountain pilot., 1915-05-29


Aug. 81 Sept 2.-Grand Lodge. X. of r.
at Colorado Springs.
Aug. 26-2S--Fall Festival at Fiagler.
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
Fruitdale. 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 bootlegging,
and sentenced 10 ten days in jail.
Freddie Pellegrina, two-year-old son
of John Pellegrina of Denver, choked
to death at his home on a 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. ftf
William Prhtny, 50 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 compli-
mentary banquet to be given by the
Chamber of Commerce at Colorado
Springs. June 1.
Two hundred Italian residents of
Denver have responded to the call of
the mother country and will leave
within few days to fight on the bat
tlefields OF Europe.
The entire estate of David S. Leh-
man, vice president of the National
Jewish hospital at Denver, amounting
TO about $500,000. will go to his wild
ow. Alma s., Lehman.
George Matthew Wheeler. a pioneer
stage coach driver and freighter of
Georgetown and I.eadville. died in Den
yer OF bronchial trouble which he con-
tracted while mining. Mt
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 -.salted" 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 2
Judge John A. Perry I'm 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
plot to collect $4,000 from three insur-
ance organizations.
search for Ellis b. Thrush. former
peace justice and assistant secretary
of the Clayton trust fund in Denver. IA
discrepancy of $512 in whose accounts
was recently disclosed. was dropped
when his wife made good the short
age. 49,.
Ore in the new strike in the Herald
mine shows values of sl5,273 per ton
in commercial tests. 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 226 ounces silver per ton.
To the surprise of merchants who
| had regarded with skeptcism the
PAY -Up-Week" campaign launched by
the State of Colorado's Committee on
Cnemploy and Relief. many old
debts We're paid mp 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
| a month ago in Fairplay Just discov-
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
charge of shooting her blind husband.
| Harry Wade, last November.
At Trinidad Robert Uhlich. presi-
| dent of the Trinidad local of the