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The Elk Mountain pilot., 1916-04-01
Forfeiture Notice
Gunnison, Colorado,
January Sth, 1916

To Sarah NJ. North, and TO
Sarah Nj. North, as sole and only
heir-at law of j. M. Harris, de-
ceased.
You are hereby notified that
we have expended, during the
year 1915 one hundred dollars in
labor and improvementsupon the
Bunker Eill Lode Mining claim,
situate in the Cement Greek Min
ing District, County of Gunnison,
and State of Colorado, the loca-
tioncertificate of which is record
ed in Book 143, at page 1856, in
the Office OF the Recorder of said
county, in order to hold said claim
under the provisions of Section
1924 of the Revised Statutes of
the United States, and the a.
mendment thereto approved jan
uary 2. 1880, concerning annual
labor upon mining claims, being
the amount required to hold said
lode for the period. ending on the
3lst day of December A. D. 1915.
And if, within ninety days after
the publication thereof, you fail
or refuse to contribute your pro-
portion Of such expenditure as
co-owner, ich amounts to
Thirty-three Dollars and Thirty
three cents, your interest in the
claim will become the property
OF the subscribers. your co-own-
ers, who have made the required
expenditure, by the terms of said
section.
L. c. ESTES.
w. A. ESTES.
First publication Jan. Is, 1916.
Last :" Apr. Is, 1916.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1916-04-01
Forfeiture Notice.

Crested Butte, Colorado, Janu-
airy Is, 1916.
To John Saunders. John Tobin,
Ray Perkins and Charles Hub
bard, your heirs or assigns:
lou are hereby notified that l
have expended during the years
from 1902 to 1916 inclusive, the
sum of $500 annually in labor
and improvements upon The Wiz
ard Oil Nos. /, 2 and 9, claims,
situate in the Spring Creek min
ing district, County OF Gunnison,
State of Colorado, the location
certificate of which is recorded
in the Office of the Clerk and Re
corder of Gunnison county, Colo
rado, in order to hold said claims
under the provisions of section
1884 of the Revised Statutes of
the United States, and the amend
ment thereto approved January
22nd, 1880, concerning annual la
Dor upon mining claims, being
the amount required to hold said
lodes for the period ending on
the 31st day of December, 1915,
and if within ninety days from
the personal service of this notice
or within ninety days after the
publication thereof, you fail or
refuse to contribute your proper
ton of said expenditure as CO.
owner, which amounts TO the
sum Of 81, 200 for the said four
teen years, your interests in said
claims will become the property
Of the subscriber, your co-owner,
who has made the required ex-
penditure by the terms of said
section.
AMASA SALISBURY,
First publication Jan. Is. 1916
Last :" April 10, 1916
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1916-04-01
Advertisement.
"Poisy Tichen"

Polly Hello, Ben, old top!
You're lust the man | want to see.
Understapd, I'm a politician, self
appointed leader and dictator aud
rs such I guaranteed our central
committeeman solid vote from
this town for the good Of the cause.
and in order 10 deliver the goods |
lave come up to arrange with the
influential men. Perhaps you can
direct me where to find them.
Ben Oldtop- "Wel!, you see,
Polly, | aint one of them infiuen-
tial men. but III ten ye. When
We get up on the street yen find
some cement sidewalks, and ye
know them there walks was put in
Mt public expense, so all We got to
do is to follow 'em up and they'll
land ye right at the doors OF the fel-
Iers you re looking for"
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1916-04-01
Child Scalded to Death

Last Saturday as Mrs. Somrall
,was preparing to scrub her floor, she
set kettle of boiling I've water on
the floor. Her two year old baby,
Rosalia, tripped and fell into it.
Z She was terribly scalded, but fingered
until Monday afternoon when death
relieved her
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1916-04-01
L. G.. ESTES.
w. A. ESTES.

First publication Jan. Is, 1916.
Last Apr. Is, 1916.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1916-04-01
Ordnance No. III.

An Ordinance to Appropriate the
Revenucs Of the Town of Crested
Butte for the ensuing Fiscal Year.
BE it ordained that the following
sums OF money be appropriated out
of the revenues Of the Town of Cres-
ted Butte for the fiscal year begin
ming April lst, 1916
Fee and salary fund Si60o,O0
Light and Water fund 10000
Road fund 10000
Aud any other funds not appro-
priated shall be known as the Gen
eral Fund for such use as the Board
Of Trustees shall from time to time
determine.
Witness, A. TAYLOR,
Mayor.
Attest, MATTE L. MILLER,
Town Clerk.
Approved and adopted March
20th, 1916.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1916-04-01

CharlesD. Lehew, OF the Rocky
Mountain Fuel Company, was here
Wednesday aud Thursday, confer
ing with Mr.. Ross and Supt. Ralston
concerning improvement of the
equipment at the Peanut Mine
in order to better care fnr the en-
larged business anticipated for this
mime during the coming seasnn.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1916-04-01
Ordinance No III will be found
(, first page fifth column.

The school census for this district
$ for the year 1916 snowsa total pop
ulation OF $40 between the ages Of
six ard twenty-one years, an increas
of fifty-one over last year.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1916-04-01

The Ladies Social club will hold
Parcel Post" sale at the photo
PLAY Fheater" Friday evening at T
and s O'Clock packages ten and fif-
teen cents. Sandwich and coffee ten
cents
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1916-04-01

Anthony omstock has been in
Sasuache on business trip.
Naccinating cattle is the order of
the day.
On account of the snow sliding
since the last rain the teamsters on
the Doctor Mine route have not been
able to haul their loads.
ltis rumored that a new store
and boarding house are to be erected
at Alnont. The boarding house will
not conflict with the tourist trade.
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| lips. $1,000.
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i8ant. $4,000.
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4H'n. Co.. $4,000.
Sobn 10. Winis an bic Mitdell
8rid Co., $500.
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5pme 8. u. q. Co., $500.
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qauline 1ran5 an Nntpnio Dome
6. II. 3. Co., $500.
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8. Co., $1250.
Grdnt aIsin on Suffice Rhine.
$7067.
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Ohio 8. Ii. z. Co., $500.
Mar Sdulb an bo., $1,000.
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mann. $1173.
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$500.
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pofit Co., $500.
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q. 80. 8. $4,000.
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u. 6. Co.. $500.
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race part 9. II. 6. Co., $500.
Glisdbstb glad an 4asulta aIins
ssIe. $1,000.
Cetilete 6ppotheten.
waarearst .. Mporbeab an Wins
ton place 3. u. g. Co., $1,000.
Mdrp o. M. SsIsr an Soutbsrn
Dbio 6. u. z. Co., $1,000.
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nabsr. $340.
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Co., $1,000.
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9. Co., $2500.
Soitph 6. Jocobs an bo., $500.
Catherine Gubrentun1p an Glmcrel
g. II. g. Co., $4,000.
Sable Drei1er an Goutbern Obio
8. u. &. gD., $500.
Soitpbins fSifher an SampIon 3.
II. 8. Co., $2500.
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gdert, 1925.
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5ugb McGbdne an alpinu 3.
Smith, $1,000.
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8. Co., $500.
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u. Co.. $500.
gIisabetb glad an Mm. q. GDIs|
fins, 9ruitee, $500.
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The Washington times., 1916-04-01
KEEPING JAPANESE FAITH

The Japanese Diet has passed a
bill which recognizes the right of
subjects of the Mikado to expatriate
themselves. Until now the Japanese
who became a naturalized citizen Of
another land was still subject in
the eyes of his ruler, likewise his
children. No other claims were
recognized.
Correspondents who have been OBJ
serving the drift of affairs in Tokyo
assert the new bill was prompted by
a study Of complications created in
the United States by those Of for
eign birth who foreswore the land of
their birth with their lips, but
showed by their deeds they had no
respect for their vows. The meas
ure was hit upon, too, as a means of
solving various difficulties on the
Pacific coast and Of showing good
faith toward US.
The Japanese have been called the
initiative race, but in this detail of
courtesy and scruple they cannot be
said to be aping a well-known brand
of Occidental kultur.
The Washington times., 1916-04-01
UNCLE SAM FACES
A BULL MARKET.
Bidders on Supplies for Next
Year Covering for Possible
Price Increase.

with practically all lines of industry
moved 20 caution in making long term
contracts. the Governments General
Supply Committee, which makes pur-
chases for all of the departments In
Washington is facing q heavy bull
market.
something over 5000 items, ranging
every household necessity.
Some items, largely drugs have In
creased a thousand per cent. Practically
every article has increased to some ex-
tent.
Bidding on the various paper contracts
Ia not very brisk. and the prices are
away up. The paper mills and manu-
facturers are afraid to tie UP to yearly
contracts for specified deliveries with
the paper market in its present state
Consequently the prices asked are rec
ord-breaking ones.
Galvanized iron ware. in the words
OF DR.. Briggs, OF the committee, rs
out of sight" Prices have trebled ana
quadrupled because American manu-
facturers cannot get spelled from
abroad.
Hardware and textiles are also jump
ing. and even such articles as pens ana
pins are up in price. All kinds OF sta
tionery seem to be following paper on
the upward climb.
The general supply committee makes
contracts by the year on the estimateo
quantities OF each article needed. THESE
contracts run for the fiscal year from
July / to June 30.
Open market prices have shown an
aggregate increase OF ~ per cent over
former prices the Government was pay
ing. and will continue to pay until
June ~. These prices are still going
up. Bidders are prepared to cover
themselves in case OF another rise. the
new contracts will become effective on
July /.
There 10 but little change in the items
OF meats and groceries. bedding, ana
wearing apparel furnished Government
Institutions.
The Washington times., 1916-04-01

some years ago received a large
order for locomotives from France.
The drawings for them were all
based on the metric system. The
Baldwin people afterward testified
that no expense or difficulty was ex-
perienced in adapting their opera
tons to these conditions; the change
was not embarrassing, and actual
results proved that fewer errors
were made under the metric meas
urements than had been averaged
under the old system.
II the opponents Of this change
have good reasons to urge, they
should come forward. They have
presented none such, thus far. Our
increasing intimacy with the out
side commercial world, the expan-
sion of foreign trade, the need o.
accommodating ourselves to world
conditions, all urge the adoption Of
the French system. Nobody has
proposed that an instant change to
it, as the sole standard, be at
tempted. The pending legislation
proposes allowing ample tire for
necessary adjustments; : and the
reasons that have been urged
against the change seem so trivial
as to suggest that nothing except
the INSTRUMENTATION that hates
any change whatever, is the real
basis for the antagonism.
The Washington times., 1916-04-01
ROOSEVELT, ROOT, LODGE

OF course, no politics was talked
at the luncheon in New York at
which Robert Bacon entertained Sen
ator Lodge, ex-senator Root, Cen
eral Wood, and Colonel Roosevelt.
There was no occasion to talk poll
tics, and the. assurances Of all the
gentlemen present on that point
were unnecessary. The fact Of this
group of men getting together was
quite enough. It signifies things
that need not be pointed out to any
body.
The Gary dinner was not political;
but it signified that some people of
large political potentiality are
taking a new interest in the views
of Colonel Roosevelt; that he is re-
garded no longer as wrecker, but
rather as a conservator of business.
Who among the great business lead
ers of the country has failed, by this
time, to realize that the Roosevelt
reforms, the Roosevelt regulative
measures, have helped rather than
hurt business?
Just as business has come to real
ize that Roosevelt is really its
friend, so national patriotism Of the
sort that would put and hold this
country in its proper place, is turn
ing to Roosevelt as the man who in
terprets and leads the best American
sentiment on the international prob
lens of the times. Mr.. Root and
Colonel Roosevelt had not met, it is
stated, for four years. But latterly
they have been inevitably drawn TO-
ward each other by the irresistible
currents that sweep the nation to.
ward the point at which it must
make a policy BETTING its confidence
in it's own destiny, 1t has not hat
such a policy of late, and its ship OF
state has drifted when it needed the
most skillful navigating.
Mr.. Gardner OF MASSACHUSETTS,
who has not always been Roosevelt
supporter, declares that the swing
toward the former President is get
ting stronger every day. If that IL
true of New England it merel!
proves that New England is in the
same frame of mind as the rest Of
the country.
There is daily increasing reason
for confidence that in good time WI
shall have a lineup in this countr!
on the question of whether Americs
is going to be nation, in the trues'
sense, worthy Of it's traditions anc
it's opportunity in the world.
The Washington times., 1916-04-01
WAR EFFECTS ON Farm PRICES

The French minister Of agricul-
ture reports that the withdrawal of
farm labor to military service has
resulted in a reduction of the culti-
waited area by S,3S6,000 acres. This
) figure is not explained with neces-
sary clarity in the cabled dispatches.
A large share Of French agricultural
territory is in German hands, and
presumably the minister means that
the reduction in titled area is deter
mined after excluding the part that
the Germans hold.
In the United States or any other
sparsely settled country it would be
possible, if necessary, to lose a con-
siderable territory and yet increase
the cultivated area; but in France,
where there is such intensive utiliza-
ton Of every piece of ground, this
could not be done.
Considering the great yields that
close cultivation produces from a
given acreage in Europe, the loss Of
such an extent of land is a serious
affair. Moreover, the minister points
out that the military authorities are
not able this year to "lend" as many
hands from the fighting ranks to the
farmers as they did last year.
From Great Britain have come
reports which indicate somewhat
similar situation. Roumania is re-
ported to have permitted sales Of
surplus grain until the reserves are
very low; while Bulgaria is reported
well-nigh stripped of supplies by the
Austro- Germans. 1t may be assumed
that Holland, Switzerland and
Scandinavia will be placed under
the most insistent pressure for sup
plies to be sold to Germany, and
that despite the blockade the eco.
nomic effects of this condition will
pretty extensively affect the de.
mands upon the outside world.
Reflection of these conditions i:
observable in a recent bulge in wheat
prices, and by advances in meats. Il
may be anticipated, then, in sounc
reasoning, that the American prod
uct of 1916 will find ready marke'
at continued high quotations. Tit
country is likely once more to breal
its producing records this year, il
anticipation of this demand; and tn,
autumn will in all probability brint
another announcement of tremend
Gus prosperity in the agriculture
community, to be diffused through
out the rest of the country.
The Washington times., 1916-04-01
The REGULARS

These things down in Mexico, you
must be told, are the story of the
regulars.
The regulars who never grow
weary Of following their captains,
never stop going behind their colors.
The regulars who march all through
the night as no other soldiers march,
and are fresh for fighting work at
sunrise.
If the American people only knew
how these regulars do their work
after wild Indians on the plains,
after run-amuck Filipinos in the
Far East, after outlaw Villas in
Mexico!
A Crook, a Miles, a Pershing on
that hunt by day and by night does
not need thousands Of troops to meet
the enemy. He uses regiments and
squadrons and platoons to stop uT
the loopholes where the quarry
might try to slip through. The de-
tachments for this purpose are flung
far and wide, just as if rathole.
were being closed until the fugitive
must go only one way because there
are no others left open. Then will
come his hour to turn and grapple.
All the while there is a small
flying column hot on the trail. i
never stops. A Crook, when the su
preme moment comes, circles be
tween two twilights hundred milei
of Western plains around the TO,
and astounds him by appearing il
his front when he was supposed t,
be in his rear. A Miles plunges hi
black cavalry through deep snow
drifts to Wounded Knee. And {
Dodd sends his squadrons-no doub
ridiculously few in numbers-gal
Looping at the heels of Villas bandit
until he strikes his fangs into tn
outlaw flank, never to let 90.
Villa cannot escape these regular