The Elk Mountain pilot., 1915-10-30
COLORADO
S TATE NEW S
COMING EVENTS.
Western Newspaper Union rev. serves

Sept. 27-oct s-Meeting International
Dry Farming Congress Mt Denver
A 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, 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 /. as
result of stamp sales exceeding
$4,000 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 $65O.O amounting to
A. per cent of the deposits of the
Mercantile National bank of Pueblo.
viii be paid depositors.
The number of saloon licenses in
effect in Denver was 405 on May 81
this year. as compared with 470 on
Oct. 81 of last year, a decrease of 65.
AS nurse in German military
hospital in Munich, Miss Fannie r.
Moor, plucky Denver girl. has termi-
mated IA pleasure tour begun two years
ago.
An increase of $6,2T51S 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 term of two years at the semi
annual meeting of the State Board of
Agriculture at Fort Collins.
Depositors of the Mercantile Ma
tional bank at Pueblo will receive a
dividend OF possibly 40 per cent on
their deposits July /. according to
Temporary Receiver Francis A.
Chapman.
A rumor Of three attempts, suppos-
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 a decision
by Commissioner of Finance Clair j..
Pitcher. based upon an opinion rem
dered by City Attorney l. 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, Ebert county.
David Tyler, Denvers Candy Kid"
drug store bandit, and his companion.
| Albert Angerman, waived preliminary
examination in the Justice Court in
i.ittleton. and are being held by the
Arapahoe county authorities on a
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
lum herman who was shot to death
April in his little shack near the
fort
In hand-to-hand battle with a
burglar whom she discovered in the
bedroom of her home. 304O West For
ty-fourth avenue, Denver, Mrs. Joseph
C.. Wagner fought with her assaiant
until the arrival OF her husband from
an adjoining room, and prevented the
heft OF 80 900 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. Klinkerman, a rancher of Las
Animas, several days ago in Excelsior
Springs. Mo The method used to ex-
lract the 5000 from Mr.. klinkerman' S
Yocketbcok was a 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