The Elk Mountain pilot., 1916-02-05

Denver.
Feb. Injecting Republican state
Central Committee in Denver.
Feb. 14-Meeting Colorado Progressive
State Central Committee at Denver.
FEB. 16-lS-Sports Carnival at Steam
boat Springs.
March 20-April &c olorado Retail
Merchants Associations Food ana
Industrial Exposition at Denver
April 13-Democratic State Convention
at Pueblo.
Denver's estimated fire losses of all
kinds in 1915 total only $244,354.33.
President Wilson nominated James
A. Rutledge postmaster at Woodman.
Con" Cunningham, 10, pioneer
miner. died at Leadville from
paralysis.
Funeral services for Judge c. A.
Willtin, who died in Canon City, were
held in Denver.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. E. Edom of Den
yer celebrated their golden wedding
anniversary last week.
Orders have been issued by the War
Department for extensive improve
ments to be made at Fort Logan.
Mrs. Emily Lyman, 60 years old,
died at the home of her daughter, Mrs.
F. B. Clark, in Denver, of heart dis
ease.
John |. Mullen was elected presi-
dent and Z. w. Bray secretary of the
Metal Miners Association at the
meeting held in Naturita.
Pueblo has the lowest death rate os
any city in Colorado, according to II
hn a
rate was 10.5 n thousand
John J. White. former state public
examiner and active democratic poll
tcian, who was found nearly frozen
to death at Castle Rock. may recover.
William Scott Lee. head of the
Colorado state free employment Of
flee and former mayor of Denver, IS
critically i'll in St Luke's hospital.
The nineteenth annual convention
of the Colorado Osteopathic Associa-
ton, in Denver, elected DIR. F. A. Lue-
dickie president for the coming year.
Just four weeks before the date set
for her wedding, Miss Tillie Sachter,
81. died at st. Anthony's hospital in
Denver following an operation for ap-
pendicitis.
residents of the park region and thou
sands of travellers in the program for
the Improvement of the Rocky Noun
tain National park.
Fifty-four arrests for drunkenness
in January were made against 223 ar
rests for the same offense for cor
responding period in 1915. according
to the Denver police.
Removal of the district headqua--
ters of the United States bureau of
mines from Denver to the Colorado
School of Mines, Golden, was author
lied by Secretary of the Interior Lane.
Robert Gabriel Richville. 92 years
old, a native of France. and for twelve
years resident of Colorado, died at
st. Anthony's hospital from injuries
sustained several weeks ago, from a
fall
John Hebdon, rs years old, died at
st. Luke's hospital in Denver from
blood poisoning caused by an ulcer
ated tooth. He is survived by thir-
teen children and a number of grand
children.
Fermented malt liquors which have
been masquerading under the name of
malt tonics" have been placed under
the ban of the state prohibition law
by John Lynch, state pure food in
spector.
The Colorado Springs Chamber of
Commerce has sent a letter to Con
gressman C. b. Timberlake asking
him to support the campaign to Sc
cure government war munitions
plant for Pueblo.
Dynamite crews were sent out Mon
day from Durango by the railroads in
southwestern Colorado to open their
lines. The wet snow of the past week
turned into ice and in many places
solid walls of ice block Transports
ton.
January set several new mining
records in the Cripple Creek distric,
and during the month a total of $165,
900 in dividends was paid out by the
three largest companies. The Golde ]
Cycle paid out $4,000, the Vindicatoi
$45,OOO and the Portland 100000
There were 1874 tons of ore taken
out with bullion valued at $1,207,
543.66.
While Charles Levinus Thompson
81 years old, veteran of the Mexi
can and Civil wars, is approaching
death in the Littleton hospital his at
torneys are battling for possession oi
a $1,00O,000 island in the Hudso-
river, nine miles from the city of AL
bany. N. "a legal fight which has
been in progress in the courts con
tinuously for siXty-six years.
The Radium Association held s
meeting at Naturita and elected the
following officers: F. F. Curran