The Elk Mountain pilot., 1915-04-08
COLORADO
STATE NEW S
COMING EVENTS.

John A. Cross has been named post
master at Loveland.
chautauqua will he held at Love
land beginning June 20.
Hotchkiss park at Hotchkiss is to
be purchased by the city.
Hotchkiss expects to have cream
cry in operation by May 1.
The Elks may conduct the county
iafr at Fort Morgan next fall.
B. f. Stapleton succeeded J. II. Har-
rison as postmaster at Denver. April /.
The Investment Bankers Associa-
tion of America will hold its fourth
annual convention in Denver Sept 20,
Il and %.
the directors and farmers of the
Northern Delta Irrigation district
signed petition asking for receiver
Tor the district
The Pueblo Real Estate Exchange
put itself on record as In favor of the
repeal of the single rax system now
an use in Pueblo.
More than 3Si acres OF choice irri-
gated land near Denver were sold to
John l.. Brock. Decatur. Ala. capital
ist for $3S.0O0.
Members of the grand jury ex-
amined witnesses concerning viola
tons of the law in rooming houses
aad cafes of Denver.
Steve johnson. charged with the
murder of Cecilio Gurule. was ac-
quilted by jury in Judge McHen-
dries division of the District Court
at Trinidad
Sidney de Montmorency, young
ink chemist, who is manager of the
Denver branch OF an ink COMPANY is
awaiting news from Paris to learn
whether he is duke.
The Cripple Creek district is rapidly
nearing the $4,000. .000-a- month mark.
The March production totaled 1858
tons. with bullion value of s1.9S6,-
1873. ga new high mark.
A proposition by the present
owners OF the sugar beet factory at
Monte Vista to move the factory to
Durango is being considered by the
Durango exchange directors.
William Howard Patton of Gold Hill,
member of the board of county com
missioners of Boulder from 1897 to
1900. and for forty years n resident OF
Colorado. died at his home of a com
plication OF diseases.
Three bills appropriating total OF
S1l7.OO0 for the relief OF coal compa.
nies whose properties were destroyed
during the recent coal strike were
passed on second reading by the State
Senate.
inspectors on duty along the east.
ern boundary line OF Colorado are
keeping a vigilant outlook for any
attempt to bring live stock into this
state from territories where stock is
Infected with the foot and mouth dis
ease.
Following his failure to identify the
defendants on the witness stand, Dell
Wheeler. Erie teamster and principal
witness for the state against the de-
PENDANTS in the present Hecla strike
riot trial. was arrested for alleged
perjury at Boulder.
THE Grand Junction woodmen of
the World lodge. Book Cliff Camp No.
81. will send a delegation of twenty
members to the great woodmen meet
ing in San Francisco in connection
with the Panama. Pacific International
exposition next August.
Charging that Pueblo county Off
cials exercised undue haste in arrest
ing w. b. Slaughter of Dallas, Tex,
president of the Mercantile National
Bank of Pueblo, the minority stock
holders have gone on record as ready
to stand by him. Slaughter is being
held for trial in default of 100000
bond on the charge of embezzling $780,
600 of county funds from the bank.
Grief because her husband, whom
she had nursed for two years, had
passed away in Denver, accompanied
by the results of n physical break
down from the strain. caused the
death of Mrs. Alice Hall, wife of b.
r. Hall. well known undertaken. less
than twenty-four hours after the death
of the man with whom she had spent
twenty years of happy married life.
Methods of distributing John d.
Rockefeller. Jr.'s 100000 donation
from the Rockefeller foundation for
alienation of unemployment condi-
tions in Colorado were outlined in
Denver alta conference between a
committee appointed by Governor
Carlson and w. l., Mckenzie King.
representing the foundation. 1t was
i decided best results will be obtained
from the fund il 1t is given in payment
for actual labor and not as charity.
One of the strongest addresses yet
made pleading for cooperation among
the citizens OF the state in taking ad-
vantage OF the wonderful resources at