The Elk Mountain pilot., 1915-06-12
COLORADO
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Western N.w.p.p.r Union N.w. service.

Aug. e6-28.--Fall Festival at Flagler
Sept 2T-Ocr S-Meeting International
Dry Farming Congress at Denver
foot of snow on June sets new
record at Breckenridge.
Greeley is to have an old-fashioned
Fourth OF July celebration.
Rich ore theft is charged in the
Carnotite mine war in Mesa county.
Frost in various parts of the state
Sunday night broke all previous rec.
ords
Auditors have been employed to
check the books OF the officers of
Arapahoe county.
B. Emden, a loyal Texas of Houston,
presented Governor Carlson by mail
with tiny chain carved out of Texas
watermelon seeds.
Grand Junction postoffice will be
raised to first-class rank on July l. as
result of stamp sales exceeding
100000 the past year
Out of total enrolment of ninety
eight in the Platteville public schools
there was an average attendance the
past year of ninety-two.
A dividend of s65O,00O. amounting to
i5 per cent of the deposits of the
Mercantile National bank of Pueblo,
will be paid depositors.
The number of saloon licenses in
effect in Denver was 405 on May 81
this year as compared with 47O on
Oct. 81 of last year. a decrease of 60.
AS nurse in a German military
hospital in Munich. Miss Fannie II.
Moor. plucky Denver girl. has termi-
mated a pleasure tour begun two years
ago.
An increase of $6,2751S in postof-
flee receipts for last month over the
same month last year is shown in the
report submitted by Postmaster
Stapleton of Denver.
DR.. Charles A. Lory was reelected
president of the Agricultural College
for a term of two years at the semi
annual meeting of the State Board OF
Agriculture at Fort Collins.
Depositors of the Mercantile Ma.
dividend of possibly 40 per cent on
their deposits July l. according to
Temporary Receiver Francis A.
Chapman.
A rumor OF three attempts, suppos-
edly on the part of Indians, to kill
Capt Stephen Olop. superintendent of
construction of the new school on the
Southern Ute reservation at Navajo
Springs, has reached Cortez.
The Denver municipal excise depart
ment will issue saloon licenses until
Dece. 81. 1915, according to decision
by Commissioner of Finance Clair J.
Pitcher. based upon an opinion rem
dered by City Attorney /. n. Stevens.
The Denver Chamber of Commerce,
through its board of directors, ap-
pointed a special committee to coop
perate with committees from other
commercial bodies and work for the
creation Of national military
academy at Fort Logan.
William F. Larsen of Denver. who
sued his second wife's son, Herbert
V. Rudolph, alleging that the young
man, assisted by his mother, had de.
frauded him of property worth $11O.-
900. lost his suit, which has been on
hearing before jury in Judge Morris
court at kiowa, Elbert county.
David Tyler. Denver's Candy Kid"
drug store bandit, and his companion,
Albert Angerman. waived preliminary
examination in the Justice Court in
Littleton. and are being held by the
Arapahoe county authorities on
horse-stealing charge. Their bond was
fixed at $4,000 each.
A reward of $500 has been offered
for information leading to the arrest
and conviction of Frank Pollock, who
deserted from the United States army
at Fort Logan ten days after the mur
der of Frederick C. Matson, the young
lumberman who was shot to death
April 6 in his little shack near the
fort
In a handto-hand battle with a
burglar whom she discovered in the
bedroom of her home, 3040 West For
ty-fourth avenue, Denver, Mrs. Joseph
c. Wagner fought with her assailant
until the arrival OF her husband from
an adjoining room, and prevented the
theft of $4,000 worth of jewels which
were within the robbers grasp.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leopold Seeds and
Mrs. Cora Bethel were arrested in
Denver. The police say Seeds is one
of the men who obtained $4,000 from
]. w k,inkerman, rancher of Las
Animas, several days ago in Excelsior
Springs. Mo. The method used to ex-
tract the $4,000 from Mr.. Klinkerman's
pock etbook was bet on horse race
that never was run. Klinkerman has
identified the trio.
Robert Boyd, seventy-eight, first
pioneer of the Poudre valley and a
resident OF that community for fifty.