The Elk Mountain pilot., 1915-01-21


son, H. b. Mulnix. chief examiner TO
succeed w. II. Porter.
The Colorado and Wyoming Lumber
Dealers Association will hold con-
vention in Denver Jan. 10 to 81.
Saul Epsteen, state insurance COM
missioner rendered his resignation TO
Governor Carlson to take effect March
Is.
Denver, Washington and Newport,
Isle of Wight, felt the shocks of the
earthquake which shook parts of Italy
last week.
Hiram Pierce of Fort Collins died
,f pneumonia at the residence OF his
,on, Robert Pierce, in Denver, whom
.e was visiting.
A jury in West Side Court in Den
er brought in a verdict of not guilty
the case of C. w. Scott, charged
nth white slavery.
A. S. Angel. eighty-three years old,
,ied at his home in Denver. He was
orn in Newport and came to Colo
ado twentythree years ago.
High-grade ore valued at $1,000 was
.tolen from the Patrick Connors lease
n No. shaft of the Little Jonny mine
1T Leadville at the 7O0-foot level.
Mrs. Julia A. Bishop, S4 years old,
died at the home of her son, William
c. Bishop. in Denver, from an attack
of pneumonia She came to Colorado
IN 1868.
The Cudahy ranch has added 1,2SO
acres OF land to it's holdings north OF
Rocky Ford, the ranch containing at
he present time between 1000 and s.
900 acres.
A balance of s1,246,211.46 in cash
vas turned over to State Treasurer
Allison Stocker by former Treasurer
Leddy, when Stocker assumed control
of that office.
Dairy products sold in Colorado dur
ing 1914 returned approximately w.
100000 to their manufacturers, ac-
cording to the annual report OF state
Dairy Inspector G. Il. Morton.
The school children of Colorado
Springs have entered into the spirit
of the Chamber of Commerce in ad-
vertising the Pixies peak region with
an enthusiasm that promises big re-
suits.
Five damage suits. filed as result
OF the giant powder explosion in Boul-
der in 1907, against the Colorado 4
Southern and the receiver of the
Northwestern Railway Company, have
been settled out Of court.
The Louisville bank of Louisville
was turned over to the state banking
department by the ownership of the
institution for the reason that they
believed 1t to be the best way to safe
guard the patrons OF the bank.
Immigration is going to be slogan
OF the Carlson administration-imm
grafton of good, honest, desirable for
eigners to Colorado by systematic
methods. provided the Assembly sets
aside money for the State Department
handling this subject.
Colorado Legislators are planning to
rid this state of habitual users OF in
furious drugs by providing an irri-
gated farm on which Will be built
hospital and industrial school. to
which drug fiends will be sentenced
and cures attempted.
The Montrose city commissioners
expressed willingness at their meet
ing to make the necessary appropria-
tion for the purchase of the Mountain
park which Congress has granted the
city up in the Sawtooth range, $50
acres at a cost of $3.50.
r. C. Cowan. Y. NJ. C. A. man and
superintendent OF Craig colony, lost
his sixteen-year battle against tuber'
culosis in Denver and died. Cowan
was known among patients of the
colony to have feeling for their wei
fare similar to that of Frank Craig,
founder of the colony, who died sew
eral weeks ago.
The city and county OF Denver is
saved approximately 100000 that it
might have been obliged to pay out
in back salaries, and is under no obli-
cation to reinstate about 300 former
employees who were discharged at
various times following the extension
of the classified service on June l,
1918. through decision handed down
in Denver by Judge Butler of the Dis
trict Court.
Two weeks have satisfied Hugh
Waller and Viola Smith that they are
not soul mates. after all. Walker
wants to return to his wife and eleven
months-old baby girl. whom he left
without penny, Dee. 2S. last to run
away with Mrs. Viola Smith. wife OF
Herbert Smith. Mrs. Smith wants her
husband to come to her with the three
pretty boys she left behind her in her
hurried flight from her home near
Denver.
"A little of the real enthusiasm and
mining spirit is all that is needed
right now to make Colorado the center