The Elk Mountain pilot., 1916-10-26
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service
DATES ron COMING EVENTS.

Jan. 1-6-Poultry Show at Denver.
Jan 2O-Athletic Club boxing contests
Jan, aO-27-Annual western Stock
Show at Denver.
Feb. 2-4-Y. NJ C. A. Annual ConVeh-
ton at Colorado Springs.
Denverites are planning s1,OO0.oOo-
hotel.
Over 11,6O0 automobiles are owned
in Denver.
Grand Valley Community Fair will
be held Oct 27.
Florence is agitating the question
of a Carnegie library.
Fire destroyed the Eliopulos Gro
Gerry at Grand Junction.
Theo. Roosevelt delivered an ad-
dres at the Auditorium in Denver.
Seven acres of cabbage grown near
Tracyville netted the owner S1,7IO.
The net profits of the fair recently
held in Larimer county were $l,23S.
The postal savings department of
posits.
About $4,000 voters registered and
can vote at the coming general cleo
ton in Denver.
A $50, 900 dividend was declared by
the Portland Gold Mining Company at
Colorado Springs.
A four-year-old son of Nick Baron
of Lafayette lost three fingers in a
dynamite cap explosion.
Receipts of stock at the Denver
yards so far this year have exceeded
the totals for the year 1915.
Concrete work on the new plant of
the Nuckolls Packing Company at
Pueblo has been completed.
About dozen persons were i'll after
participating in the Methodist Church
Brotherhood dinner at Greeley.
Shipments of cattle from the Tel
luride and Placerville region this fall
will aggregate about 5000 head.
Hayden Bros. Coal Company pros
pectors discovered ten-foot vein OF
coal near the railroad track at Kra
mer
James NJ. Osborne. G7. n pioneer
Denver shoe dealer, died in Butte
Mont. after a short illness. He had
lived in Denver since 1879.
Miss Mary Butler of Atlanta, Ga.
was in Denver searching for her bro
ther, James NJ. Butler, whom she has
not seen for fifteen years.
With the noise of bursting bombs,
the shrek of whistles, the ringing OF
bells-and Colorado's big Home Prod
ucts festival began Monday.
Mrs. Harriette NJ. Mcmillan. proba
bly, the oldest resident of Denver, diec
at the home of her daughter. Mrs. o.
II. Lotus. in Denver, aged 9S.
Colorado soldiers doing duty on the
Mexican border will not be able to
vote at the November election. in the
opinion OF Attorney General Farrar.
William John Ritchie, better known
as Uncle Johnny, ST years old, and for
twenty-five years an employe of the
Tramway company, died at his home
in Denver.
The Silver Ledge at Chattanooga,
under the management of Mrs. l.. Bon
vida, under n lease. has again Joined
the list of shippers and recently sent
two carloads of ore to the Durango
smelter.
The name of Mount Massive is to re
main unchanged, according to letter
received from C. S. Sloane, secretary
of the United States geographic board
in Washington, by Frank A. Wadleigh
of Denver.
Claims and suits aggregating more
than $500, 900 have been filed against
the Colorado Springs Athletic club by
persons who were injured when sec
ton of the grandstand collapsed al
the Welsh White fight on Labor Day
The creation and maintenance of q
combined cooperative farm, hospital
and old folks and orphans home, tc
be built in Colorado. was a project dis
cussed at the reception to the nation
al officers of the Knights and Ladies
of Security in Denver.
In Ouray district the Summit Cop
per Mining and Milling Company has
commenced work on the koehler tun
mel on the property locally known as
the San Antonio group, near Rec
Mountain. and lying partly in ouray
and in San Juan counties.
From the main office OF the Port
land Gold Mining Company in Colo
RADIO Springs checks were sent out fol-
the usual quarterly dividend, 3 pei
cent on s3,000,00O in outstanding cap
ital stock This foots up 100000, max
ing $500 900 for 1916, and a grand to
tai of s1O.537.0SO in dividends since
the company was organized.
A tax of 20 cents per capita was de
cided upon this year by the Independ
ent Order of odd Fellows at its clos
ypy oacS;np in Denyar for tho main