The Elk Mountain pilot., 1916-05-20
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
DATES r'OR COMING EVENTS

Lodge X. of p. at Greeley.
Sept. 5-S-Frontier Days celebration
at Fort Morgan.
May "a will be Clean-Up day for
Ouray.
Ralph Ackerman. 80, was arrested
IN Denver on white slave charge.
Denver Progressives at their
;ounty convention declared for Roose-
velt
The Boulder County Producers AS
sociation has been organized at Ned
erland.
Summer excursion fares are now in
force to Colorado. New Mexico and
Utah points.
Geo. w Schell was arrested in
Denver on bigamy charge. He gave
$1,000 bond.
The Colorado State Christian En-
deavor convention will be held in
Greeley June 1925.
The youngest couple ever married
in Pueblo county it is believed, were
Charley Blanda, 1G. and Virginia Cos
tanda, IA.
The postoffice department is ask
ing for further bids for mail carrier
on a proposed route from Rocky Ford
to Ordway.
Policeman ]. A. Schumacher shot
latter was attempting to escape with
a stolen auto.
Robt. T. McGrew. well-known Den
yer and Sedgwick banker. died at
Sedgwick. The funeral was in charge
of Denver Masons.
The Denver conscience fund has
been enriched $25. that amount hav-
ing been sent in on account OF taxes
evaded by woman.
p. NJ. Flanagan, % years old, fell
1000 feet down the shaft at the Idaho
Springs mill. His body was crushed
so as to be almost unrecognizable.
Deposits in the banks of Loveland
are 100000 larger than one year ago.
This represents an increase OF ap-
proximately IS per cent. within
twelve months.
The city OF Ouray, acting with the
Ouray Woman's Club and the Ouray
Commercial Club. has designated
Wednesday, May "a. as the Cleanup
day for Ouray.
Mrs. NJ. Patterson OF Fort Collins
was elected president of the Fifth
District of the Woman's Christian
Temperance Union at the convention
held in Boulder
,f hnI TO ha
Thomas Sawyer of Golden. was found
at seldom visited spot on the farm
of Lafe L. Briggs. eleven miles north
east OF Castle Rock.
A 3 per cent gain in building op-
erations for April of this year over
April, 1915. in Denver. is shown in
tatistics compiled by the American
Contractor at Chicago
James Dolphin, Jr., 4-year-old son
of James Dolphin. WIS killed by q
cake of ice falling upon him from an
ce wagon on which he was riding
near his home in Denver.
+. o. Nelson, the miner who was
caught in slide of concentrates in
the Golden Cycle mine at Victor,
and released apparently unhurt. after
| nearly twelve hours, died at the Dis.
trict hospital.
Fred Chase. Denver mining en-.
| gineer, suffered a broken wrist and n
jcalp wound and his 12.year-old son
Hamilton. suffered severe bruises OF
he leg and scalp wound, in an ar-
ton. obile accident on the road from
| Boulder to Nederland.
| Baseball fans and promoters have
been literally driven from pillar to
post in the rush of Netherlands real
estate activity. No sooner is site
chosen for diamond than a specu
lator or investor appears and buys
the ground for building sites.
A patriotic celebration. featured
| by contest between picked teams OF
school children, will be given in the
| Aud .torium liz Denver, the evening
of Memorial day. May so. under direc
ton of the Colorado Society of Sons
of the Revolution.
Marion Oakes, As, is In the co"ut !
ia at Trinidad, charged with assault
with intent to kill and a statutory
crime against Mrs Maud Long, 35
who lives on Mustang creek, in the
northeastern part of Las Animas
county. Oakes denies he is guilty and
declares he Will tell the true story d,
his preliminary hearing. which is SET
for May %.
Thrown from work car of tn
Trinidad Electric Transmission, Rail,
way and Gas Company, near the com
pany power house, Charles Brunner
A brakeman. formerly Santa Fe en-
g.neer. was instantly killed. his body
horribly crushed and mangled be
| tho oil l.