The Elk Mountain pilot., 1916-12-21


Feb. 2-4-Y NJ c. A Annual Conven-
ton at Colorado Springs. r4
Denver men have purchased $780,
600 ranch near Cheyenne, Wyo.
C. Reeder. SO years old, of Denver.
was shot in the mouth and robbed of
S40S.50
George Allen. for forty years resi-
dent of Colorado, died at his home in
Denver. He was 80 years old.
The annual roundup preliminary to
the Denver stock show of the CONNER
cial bodies will take place Dec. 90
Mrs. Cora j. Seifried, widow of Hen
ry Seifried, owner of the Bank OF
Georgetown, and widely known min
ing man, died at her home in George
town.
Gen. George Washington COOK OF
Denver. famous Colorado 5pioneer, is
dying in the state asylum at Pueblo,
according to dispatches received in
Denver
Howard De Weese. who recently
gave himself up to the Chicago police
arrived in Denver on his way to Salt
Lake City. where he will face trial for
wife murder.
Lakeside, one of Denver's oldest and
most famous amusement parks, is to
be sold at auction. The sale will be
conducted by the sheriff of jefferson
county, in which the park is located.
The mayor and town marshal of
Nucla were cut and stabbed by Joseph
Carver and William Hurd, who went
on rampage and had produced a
reign of terror before they made their
escape.
AS result of alleged injuries that
made her an incurable cripple, Eliza
beth Fry of Denver filed suit in the
District Court against the Denver G.
Rio Grande railroad, asking $4,000
damages.
William Fuller, who drives heavy
three-ton auto truck between Brighton
and Denver, was badly bruised when
his truck was almost demolished by
the motor car that runs between
BrightonHnd Boulder.
Denver bank clearings for the eleven
months reached the enormous total of
S61i, ,2SS, ,290 60. the largest in the his
tory of Denver and greater than the
clearings for the entire year of 1915
by s1O4 ,064, ,251.49.
Seven Mexican women, federal pris-
oners at the Canon City penitentiary,
will be deported from the United
States at the expiration of their terms
in the spring, according to Henry H.
Moler, inspector in charge of the Den
yer district of the United States I'M
migration Service
record better than any since 1912
has been established by Denver in the
valuation of building permits issued,
the filing of the permit for the con-
struction of the j. X Mullen Home for
the Aged having swelled the figures
beyond the $4,O00.00O mark. The rec
ord reached in 1912 was $5,332,00O.
Judgment in favor of the Minerals
Separation, Ltd. rendered by the Unit
ed States Supreme Court sustaining
the concerns patents on the flotation
process of metal extraction, will have
the effect Of compelling every user Of
the process to pay royalties to the
British corporation.
Basing her breach of promise suit
upon hundreds Of unusual expressions
OF endearment contained in many
hectic letters which she says were
written to her by Henry P. Needham,
formerly chief clerk to the division
superintendent of the Denver & Rio
Grande railway, Mrs. Theodore De-
worse has taken action in the Denver
courts to obtain $4,000 from Need
ham.
Six thousand employees of the Noun
tain States Telephone and Telegraph
Company will receive s15O,00O as their
share of a s36,0O0,000 Christmas bonus
to be distributed to the workers OF all
of the companies in the associated Bell
systems, according to a statement
made in Denver by E. B. Field, Jr.,
vice president and treasurer of the
company controlling the telephone sys
TENS in the seven intermountain
states. .
Manufacture of radium worth more
than a million dollars; saving of
more than $2O.O00,0OO worth of natural
gas in the Blackwell field of Okla
homa; manufacture of gasoline at a
cost of 6 cents a gallon; development
of an electrical furnace which prom
ises to wipe out losses of s10,0O0,000
q year in melting brass and saving
many lives through the promotion of
scientific mining methods are among
the achievements of the Federal Bu-
reau of Mines outlined in the annual
report Of the director, Van II. Man
ring.
Due to the fact that scores of delin-
quent taxpayers of 1913 and 1914 paid
their Indebtedness to the federal gov
srnment within the last year, Denver
stands third in the United States in