The Elk Mountain pilot., 1915-02-11


The tax rate at Sterling is 25 mills
less than last year.
The Y. NJ. C. A., at Greeley has filed
articles of Incorporation.
A fire in the Schley residence at
Longmont did 5000 damage.
The German Lutherans will erect
$500 building for schol purposes at
Brighton.
Feb. 16, promises to be attended by
many agriculturists.
Mrs. C. A. Black was elected presi-
dent at the annual meeting of the Pu-
eblo Trained Nurses Association.
Five hundred and ninety-eight mo-
tor licenses have been issued by the
county clerk at Pueblo for the year
1915.
The twenty-seventh annual Y. Nj. c.
A. conference of Colorado was held at
Boulder. About 200 delegates attended
| the two-day session.
The Rt. Rev. Bishop n. C. Matz has
announced five changes among priests
of the Denver diocese and the crea-
| ton of new parish.
OF the three members of the Beulah
school board, one is dying and two are
badly injured as the result of an auto
smash which occurred at Rock Creek,
midway between Beulah and Pueblo.
Speaker Stewart of the House ap
| pointed Green Stokes and Best as the
| special committee to Investigate the
State Board of Capitol Managers,
which has been under fire for some
| time.
More than 1000 acres OF state land.
bringing an average price of so an
acre, were sold at public auction
sale held by the land board under the
direction of Register Volney T. Hog
| gait
Governor Carlson issued an execu-
| tive order appointing Judge Jesse C..
| Wiley of the Twelfth judicial district
to the position which the Judge now
holds and has been occupying for sew
| eral months.
Thomas Mullen, for fifty-five years
| resident of Colorado. builder of some
| of the states greatest public buildings
| and one of the Oldest Masons In Colo
rado. died at his home In Denver, At
the age of ninety-two.
The agency of Denver brewery. in
operation at Boulder ever since the
| town went dry in 1910, was closed on
order of District Attorney Russell w.
Fiefing. appointed to fill the unexpired
term of Governor Carlson.
Frank l.. Andre, eighty-one. WAS in
stantly killed in Denver when he was
struck by tramway car at East
rhirty-fourth avenue and Fillmore
street. His head was badly crushed
and his right foot was mangled.
Louis F. Kreiger. station agent at
Superior, who disappeared in April,
1911, just as he was about to be ar
rested for the embezzlement of ST.
500 or more Of the funds OF the Adams
Express Co., was arrested at Toledo.
Ohio.
w. T. Hickey and Eli NJ. Gross, the
officers of the Colorado Federation OF
Labor, who were arrested in Denver
on grand jury indictments returned in
| connection with the strike violences
in Huerfano county. were taken to
| Walsenburg.
| Success in farming is limited only
| by the amount of energy and brains
which tillers of the soil are willing to
| expend, according to H. w. Campbell,
father of dry farming" and noted ag-
| ricultural authority of the United
| States, in an address before members
of the Denver Real Estate Exchange:
Governor Carlson, state administra-
| tive officers and practically all men,
Ders of the Colorado Twentieth Gen
eral Assembly. accompanied by EN-
ployes of the Legislature and the First
Regiment band of the Colorado Ma
tional guard, paid their respects to the
state of Wyoming Saturday, on invi-
tation of the Wyoming Legislators.
There is talk of designating Let
ter Day to advertise Colorado, which
will probably be set by the governor
for March list, when every family in
the state will be asked to write at
least one letter to friends in other
states mentioning some one of Colo
radios many attractions, such as eli
matte. health, sunshine, mountains,
mineral springs, mountain resorts,
farming, live stock and mining
First call for the 1915 income tax
schedules, due March /, was issued by
Internal Revenue Collector Mark. A.
Skinner. About O00-showing ap-
proximately $62,OO0,OO0 in income, not
all of which is taxable-are to be re.
ceived, if last years record is sus-
tanned. Ten thousand schedules will
be filed by corporations and about 4
900 by individuals. OF this number