The Elk Mountain pilot., 1916-05-27
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper unior. News Service.
DATES FOR COMING EVENTS


June l4-1S-Semi Annual Epworth
League Convention at Colo. Springs
June If-Nineteenth annual Strawber-
ry Festival and Carnival at Glen
wood Springs.
June 22-25-Colo. Christian Endeavor
Convention at Greeley.
Aug. l-Celebration Colorado's Forti-
eth Anniversary of Statehood. at
resentatives OF Negro Race at Den
Aug. S-Democratic State Assembly at
Aug. 1s-19-Piclkle Day and Fair at
Hlatteville.
Aug. e2-25-Annual Convention, Grand
Lodge Il. of p. at Greeley.
Sept. 5-S-Frontier Days celebration
at Fort Morgan.
La Junta citizens will celebrate
July 4th.
Greeley bank deposits are close to
s3,00O.O0O
Mrs. Ansel watrous. SO. died at
Fort Collins.
The Mesa Verde National park is
now open for the summer season.
DIR. Geo. L. Hoel. 81, died at Fort
Collins as the result of an auto acci-
dent.
The Holy Name Society of Denver
will hold an outing at Dome Rock on
Decoration day.
Denver has been asked to join in
celebration of national preparedness
day on June 3.
Fred Watson, II, fell 26O feet down
No. shaft of the Madonna mine at
Monarch and was killed.
meeting of the stockmen was held
at Rifle, and a vigorous protest made
against the proposed herd law.
Taxes amounting to $9,448.93 were
collected last week by Leslie Il. Hub
bard. state Inheritance tax appraiser
John Baker, fireman, was arrest
ed on a statutory charge at Carduff.
and at hearing at Leadville was
held under $500 bonds.
The body of Fred II. Mcleod, %
years old, tungsten miner. was
found in the bottom of shaft on
Alton hill at Nederland.
The Cascade Tungsten Company.
with a capital stock of $1,25O.000. was
incorporated to operate in the new
tungsten uistrict III San Juan Souh'y'
One hundred and fifty fathers and
sons attended the banquet at the Y.
NJ. c. A.. given under the auspices OF
the Boys Club of that institution at
Pueblo.
W. II. Howland. chief deputy IN the
Denver treasurer's office. reports that
s74l,O1S in taxes have been received
by the office during the first sixteen
days of collection.
Charles A. hammers will be dep
uty city clerk and recorder under the
administration of Mayor Speer of
Denver. The appointment was made
to become effective June l.
Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst. militant
English suffragist. told Of remark.
able conditions existing in England as
result of the European war to q
large audience in Denver.
A chapter of the Kappa Sigma ma
tional social fraternity has been
granted to Gamma Chi, local organ
ization of the University of Colorado
and will be installed June 2.
Denver bank clearings for the
week ending May IS were almost so
per cent more than for the same week
"A year ago, according to figures com
piled by the Bradstreet agency.
The Mesa Verde National park in
southwestern Colorado was opened to
the public for the 1916 tourist season,
thirty days earlier than the opening
date for the Yellowstone and Glacier
National parks.
The government. which controls
the Rittman process of extracting
gasoline, has given the Midwest Re
lining Company permission to expert
ment with the process upon its pro
duction of oil.
a majority of bondholders of the
Denver Il Salt Lake railroad have
dgreed to a tentative plan for financ.
ing a reorganization of the company,
according to information received in
Denver from the East
While he was at the top of a pole
at Dry Lake. near Boulder, adjusting
n transformer, John Bisland a gradu
ate of the School of Mines at Golden
was instantly killed when $4,000 volts
passed through his body.
June II has been set as the date on
which Denver, assisted by the other
cities and towns of the state, is plan.
ming to hold big preparedness parades
following the lines and purpose of the
one recently held in New York.
The hearing on charges preferred
by the governor against NJ p. Capp,
warden of the State Reformatory at
Buena Vista, which was postponed un-
til Monday. June 3, at 10 a. M, be
cause of the Illness of the governor.
An issue of Castle Rock bonds
amounting to $4,000 was sold in
Castle Rock at premium of 5b per