The Elk Mountain pilot., 1916-01-08
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
'estern Newspaper Union News Service.

DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.
Jan. 17-1S.-Meeting Colorado Retail
Groeers and Butchers Association
Jan. I9.-Sixth Annual Convention OF
Colo Good Roads Assn at Denver,
Jan. -22.-Western Live stock Show
Feb. 12-Meeting Republican state
Feb. 16-1s-Sports Carnival at Steam
March 26-Aprli 2-coforado Retail
Merchants Associations Food and
Industrial Exposition at Denver.
The new Denver postoffice building
is now being occupied
The Prohibition penalty law be-
came effective jan l.
About 100000 was paid in Denver
as interest on savings accounts.
Arrests during 1915 were 12,s22 in
Denver as against 16,449 in 1914.
The railroads have made haif-fare
rate Tor the Western Stock Show at
Denver.
The Denver Tourist Bureau has
opened its campaign to raise $4,000
for advertising Colorado.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Q. Naylor, pio-
neer residents of Denver, celebrated
their golden wedding anniversary.
The State College at Fort Collins
will invest s29, 800 OF its S1SS,000 Ag-
gle endowment fund in state securi-
ties.
W. S. Tarbell, mining man of Den
yer, received a telegram reporting
near Oatman, Ariz.
The Second Church of Christ Sci
enlist, in Denver. which is being built
at cost of approximately 100000,
will he completed about March l.
J. Will Johnson of Pueblo was
seriously injured when his auto and
an Irving place car collided head on
at Tenth and Greenw ood streets in
Pueblo
John Hanson, 10, laborer, of no
where in particular. has annexed the
somewhat questionable distinction of
being the first drunk arrested in
prohibition Denver
With the largest crowd that has
ever done business in the Denver
postoffice. the holidays forming no ex-
ception. the new postoffice building
was opened Monday.
Mrs Ella Monk Mayo. n resident OF
Denver since 1861 and an acknowl.
edged belle of the early days. died at
her home. 1858 Clarkson street, fol-
lowing a lingering illness.
More than $500, 900 will be received
in the Denver United States internal
revenue office before March l in cor.
poration and emergency war taxes
which will be collected after Jan. l.
Pueblo. Colorado Springs, Boulder.
Cripple Creek and all the mountain
and other Colorado towns went dry
Mt midnight Dec 81 without cere-
mony. Most saloons closed doors be-
fore the final hour,
Mrs. Catherine Eastman, IS years
old, a pioneer resident of Denver. diel
at her daughters home in Denver.
Nineteen relatives. one sister S5
eight grand children and six great
grandchildren, survive her.
Echoes OF the European war are
reverberating in Loveland, where the
alleged pro-German utterances of the
Rev. Philip Schmidt. pastor of Ger
man Lutheran church. have led to
demand for the revoking of Schmidt's
recently-secured naturalization papers
Miss Myrtle Comstock. who went
abroad several years ago to continue
her musical studies. died Sept. "a
near Paris. The news was received by
friends at Colorado Springs. Pneu-
monia, contracted when working in
the Red Cross service, caused her
death
Liquor shall be considered any
liquid which a person can drink and
retain long enough and in sufficient
quantities to become intoxicated"
This is the general construction of
the prohibition law given by District
Attorney John A Rush of Denver.
after prolonged study of legal de-
cisions on the subject
Business men of the San Juan dis
trict in southwestern Colorado have
appealed to Congress to come to their
assistance in providing them with
better railroad facilities by author
izing a loan of $4,000, 900 from the fed
eral government with which to con-
struct a government line to the south
which will give 1t an outlet to the
Pacific coast.
A unique way of bringing an ex-
hibit to the National Western Stock
show, which will be held In Denver
the week beginning Jan. II, will be
the transferring by aeroplane of the
smallest calf to be exhibited from its
home in the Arkansas valley to the
Denver Union stockyards. A box is
TO be built back of the seat on the
aeroplane and the calf will be placed
n the box