The Elk Mountain pilot., 1915-03-11
COLORADO NEWS
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135, has been Instituted at Crais.
The new dam for the Fort Collins
water works is practically completed.
Contracts to raise 10000 acres OF
sugar beets have been signed in the
Rocky Ford district.
March 9 has been named Better
Seed Day" for farmers near Moffat
by Agriculturist Thomas.
The 1915 convention of the Colorado
Pharmaceutical Association will be
held in Boulder, June 22-24.
Miss Mamie Murchison, county
clerk at Fort Collins. has named Mrs.
Mary F. Bruce of Loveland as assist
ant.
A decree of divorce was granted
John II. Bartleson of Denver in secret
proceedings held in Judge Johnson's
chambers.
The Ohio Society of Colorado elect
ed A. C. Carson its president. The oc-
casion was the seventh annual re-
union dinner in Denver.
The twelfth annual convention of
the Arkansas Valley district of the
knights of Pythias of Colorado, was
held in Las Animas.
A new organization, composed OF
the younger business men of La Junta,
has been formed, and has as its OBJ
ject the boosting of the city in many
ways
The following Colorado postmasters
have been appointed: Bristol, Prov
ers county. Belle C. Haven; Carr
Crossing, Lincoln county, Eli Carr,
new office.
The mines of the Cripple Creek dis
trict for the month of February pro
duced 72,166 tons with a bullion value
of $1,345. .66l.40, an average value per
ton of $1S.65.
The Rev. ]. l.. July, rector of st.
Helen's church at Fort Morgan, re-
ceived word that his brother. Fran
co.'s, lost his left arm in the fighting
at scissors. France.
Mrs. Sophie Levinson, whose hus'
bands free love" divorce suit is pend
ing in the Denver District Court. will
file cross-complaint, according to
statements made by her attorney.
Patrons of rural routes in Colorado
from the Post Office Department to
cut expenses all along the line to aid
in reducing to a minimum the postal
deficit.
Officers of city and state and scores
of friends of the late Mrs. Lena B.
Stapleton, wife of Police Magistrate
Benjamin f. Stapleton, appointee for
the position of postmaster of Denver.
attended her funeral from her home
in Denver.
J. z. Miller. chairman of the board
of directors of the Federal Reserve
bank of the Tenth district, told the
bankers of Denver that 1t is practical
ly certain the first branch reserve
bank established in the district will
be located at Denver.
Neither fires nor threatening let
ters will deter the board of directors
of the Sands Home, according to ac-
tion taken for establishing home in
Englewood for women sufferers from
tuberculosis who lack the means to
enter private sanatoriums.
Dr. Robert ]. Mason will be tried
for conspiracy in connection with the
death of his fiance. Miss Ruth Merri-
weather. according to District Attor-
ney Rush of Denver. DIR. Floyd w
Noble was acquitted of the charge Of
causing Miss Merriweather's death.
The difficulty of obtaining jury
Immediately after the publicity given
the trial of DR.. F. w. Noble in Den
yer has caused the postponement of
the case of DR.. r. j. Mason TO March
%. Dr. Mason is charged with obtain
ing the services of DIR. Noble in the
treatment of Ruth Merriweather,
which resulted it was alleged, in her
death. and he was held on murder
charge.
More than 100 members of the Ma
tional Order of Cowboy Rangers, their
wives and sweethearts. celebrated the
first anniversary of the birth of the
order at banquet given in Denver.
Col. Leo w. Kennedy, worthy boss of
the local ranch, LIB. No. l. presided.
Supreme Boss A. U. Mayfield, one of
the founders of the new fraternal or
der. outlined the objects of the organ
ization. DR.. George Stemen was the
orator of the evening.
Fourteen thousand dollars worth Of
radium concentrates, representing the
second consignment of the Denver re-
duction works of the United States
Bureau of Mines, was shipped from
Denver to the National Radium lnsti-
tute in Baltimore. With another con
signment worth $4,000 to be shipped
to Baltimore within the next week,
the total value of radium salts tina.
has been produced in Denver in less
than two months is approximately
| $4,000.
Miss June Swenson, the nurse in
the training school of st. Joseph s
hospital. who declared to the police
of Denuer that she had heen robbed