The Elk Mountain pilot., 1915-12-18
COLORADO ITEMS


ton. the oldest one in the Western
slope. is to have a 10000 addition.
D.. George II. Slower has been
chosen dean of the faculty of the Med
ical college of the University of Den
yer
Herman Lueders of Manitou, former
secretary of the State Board of Capitol
Commissioners. died at Pueblo on the
9TH inst.
Snowslides interrupted telephone
communication between Durango and
Telluride from January 22d to Febru-
ary 4th.
Mrs. Russell Sage of New York has
given $500 toward building fund for
the Young Women's Christian Associa-
tion of Colorado Springs.
For the three best individual ex-
hibits from Colorado at the Dry Farm
ing Congress in Cheyenne, February
23rd to 25th. the Denver Chamber OF
Commerce offers three trophy cups.
At the close of business February
5th, the six national banks of Denver
had on deposit s5S,149, 1871. This is
a gain of s313,S15.SO over the amount
on deposit at the close of business
November %, 1908.
Tourist business to Colorado will be
greater next summer than ever. in the
history of the state. is the belief of C.
II. Speers. general passenger agent of
the Colorado Midland. who returned
from Chicago a few days since.
A total of s11, 1896, ,9S6.19 is on de
post in the six banks of Colorado
Springs, according to the responses to
the call of the comptroller of the cur
rency. This makes better showing
than for many years, for correspond.
ing period.
DR.. A. Anderson OF Ault was fined
a total of $500 in the County Court at
Greeley, together with costs, for boot
Logging He paid the fine. He was
arrested and charged on three counts
with selling liquor without license
and was fined 5000 on each count.
The State Commercial Association
has taken up the burden of procuring
suitable exhibits from Colorado for the
third Trans Missouri Dry Farming Con
gress at Cheyenne February 23rd. Gath
and 25th. The various commercial or
ganizations of the state are urged to
take part in the work
' In a set of resolutions unanimously
adopted the members of the AFRO
American Ministerial Union of Denver
have extended their thanks to Presi-
dent Roosevelt for his views concern
ing the status of the African race. its
of this country to Africa and Africans,
and particularly to the Republic of Lii
IBERIA.
Twenty-one members of the Denver
University football team were enter
tanned on the night of the 4th inst. at
banquet at the residence of w. &.
Johnston in Colorado Springs. The
young men were accompanied each by
a lady friend and the party travelled
in a special car Mr.. Johnston, who
formerly lived near the University in
Denver, is a football enthusiast.
Peter Gondry. convicted in the Dis
trict Court at Buena Vista OF arson,
was sentenced to six to eight years in
the penitentiary. Gondry had burned
practically all of the buildings and i'm
provements on the Mary Murphy mine
and last August was caught burning
the shaft house. Benjamin o. Cook.
convicted of having murdered Charles
E. Cope in Salida last June, was sen
fenced to twenty to twenty-four years
at hard labor.
According to plans outlined by the
committee on public health and SAM
tation of the Colorado Springs Char
ter convention. at public meeting,
not only will every physician be re-
uuired to include tuberculosis among
the list of contagious diseases in his
report to be filed with the Health de-
partment, but every householder must
register all cases of tuberculosis in his
household. together with the other pre-
scribed diseases.
President Frank G. Peck, Secretary
w. r. Waterton and Treasurer F. F.
CASTILLO of the Cripple Creek Drainage
X Tunnel Company were all reelected
at a meeting of the directors at Colo
RADIO Springs February 9th. A. l.. Bur
ris of the FL Paso was elected vice
president in place of John 7. Milliken
of the Golden Cycle. whose frequent
absence prevents him from attending
the official conferences. Mr.. Burris
also succeeds S. S Bernard as mem
her of the executive committee.
The students of the college of medi-
cine of the State University were so
elated over the passage of the medical
bull by the Legislature that they held
a banquet at the Boulderado hotel and
declared vacation for tn rest of the
week. The bill is a constitutional
amendment to permit the State Uni
Nersity to conduct the last two years
of its medical department in Denver.