The Elk Mountain pilot., 1915-03-04
WEEKS EVENTS
COLORADO
Western Newspaper Union news Service.


A farmers institute will be held at
Gunnison March 1917.
A swine growers association has
been formed at Hotchkiss.
The council of the town of Gunnison
has purchased $50 feet of new fire
hose
Many Denver business men paid a
visit to the Cripple Creek mines last
week.,
Racing will be one of the main at
fractions at the Larimer County Fair
this year.
Fourteen double cars OF fat lambs
were shipped from the three towns of
Ramah, Mattison and Rosolis.
The Bartholomew Lumber Com
pany's mill on Crosho lake, near Oak
Creek, was badly damaged by fire.
Word was received in Denver of
the death of Oscar Mayo, former dean
of music of Denver university, at
Modesto, Cal.
The home of Ernest McPeak, near
the Lafayette School House, was
visited by fire and some damage was
done to the interior of the house.
AS part of an extensive campaign
against highgrading, two miners and
three assayers were arrested at Grip
pie Creek under highgrading charges.
President Wilson sent the name of
Samuel ]. Burris to the United States
Senate for confirmation as United
States marshal for the Colorado dis
trict.
A motor parade through Denver's
mountain parks will be held by the
members of the Denver Motor Club
and other owners OF automobiles on
March Z.
Fifty dollars and costs was the
price which Elmer L. Watson of Den
yer paid in Police Court for the
privilege of striking his wife on the
head.
The Social Order of the Beauceant,
an organization OF the wives of the
knights Templar, ,celebratedits twenty
fifth anniversary at the Masonic
temple. In Denver.
Mrs. Lewis Hinkle. a member OF
one of the old original families of Sag
uache county, died at her home in
Saguache after a lingering illness of
several months duration.
James AdamsOn. the three-year-old
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Quincy Adamson
of Denver, fell into tub of boiling
water while playing in the kitchen.
and was badly scalded.
The funeral of William P. Rice, who
was accidentally killed at tho plant
of the Arizona Copper Company, at
Clifton, Ariz.. was held in the lodge
room Of Ouray Lodge, No. 492, B. P.
o. E.
Recently thirty-five relatives and
friends gathered at the home of
George Clark near Midway to cele-
brate the fiftieth anniversary OF the
wedding of his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
/ Clark.
A deserted frame shack in Colorado
City, known as the first meeting place
of Golorado's territorial Legislature in
Civil war days, caught fire recently
and was badly charred before the
flames were extinguished.
Not only the Upper but also the
fine or thirty days in Jail or both.
: under the bill by Representative Har
ris of Denver, which is now on the
House calendar for final passage.
The receipt of a draft of $5O4, pay
able to the city of Leadville. from the
National Surety Company. for the de-
ficit of the late city treasurer, Mrs
Olive Cation. ends the litigation be-
tween the city and the bonding COM
pany.
A sequel to the recent international
proxy wedding in Denver which united
Miss Eugene Campbell of Colorado
Springs and Pietcr Won Scholtcn of
Holland, was completed in the elope-
ment and midnight marriage of Miss
Eleanor McFall. Miss Campbell's maid
of honor. and William Bostic, motion
picture producer of Salt Lake City.
Speaker Stewart of the House sug
gested new legislative methods in an
address to the Colorado College men
at a dinner given in Cosset hall In
Colorado Springs. He recommended
system whereby the session is split
and bills can be introduced during the
period of adjournment, in order that
members may digest them before the
body reconvenes for action.
AT Sterling a woman overheard
week ago the conversation which re-
suited in the robbery OF the Farmers
State bank at Haxtun Thursday and
the killing of Assistant Cashier John
Brunke, according to District Attorney
Van Bradt's statement She thought
it was a Joke and never reported it to
anyone, Van Bradt says. until the
tragedy had become grim reality.
yr;II;op, Cracc panhaw of tho late