The Elk Mountain pilot., 1916-09-30

Seventeen men were arrested IN
Denver in raids on two alleged boot
iegging headquarters.
Many Denver Elks attended tho
thirteenth annual state meeting of the
B. T.. o. IL. at Trinidad.
The trade-making trip of the Den
yer Civic Association members to the
San Luis Valley was started Sunday.
Officials of the coal miners union
report progress in the organization of
the men OF the southern Colorado
fields.
Denver was successful in spirited
contest in Cincinnati for the 1917 con-
vention for the American Institute Of
Banking.
Addison w. Rucker. former Demo
cratic congressman. has declined the
candidacy for governor on Liberal
Labor ticket.
Work will be started to widen the
nountain road running from Ever
green to Bergen Park. The survey
has been completed
The State Livestock Commission is
pushing its campaign against the So
called herd law" which will come be-
fore the voters this fail.
II is reported that numerous min
erL locations are being made at the
scene OF the new gold strike near
Twin Lakes in the Leadville district.
The National Association OF Life
Underwriters elected ]. Stanley Ed
wards OF Denver second vice presi.
dent at its annual convention at st,
Louis.
Don p BIackwood, Denver attor
ney. on trial for his sanity in the
county Court in Denver. was de-
ciared sane by the verdict of jury
OF ihymen.
Tungsten exists in the Leadville
district Its presence has been proved
by the discoveries of scheelite and
hutnerite recently made in the Gar
butt and hex properties on Breeze
hill
a bieached-out skeleton, beside a
.2-caiiber rifle and an Ansonia watch.
werp found about two and a half
mics south of Sal!da In n gulch by
Harry Livingston. IS. son OF +. G..
Livingston.
A budget OF sS,2S2,O 900 was decided
upon at the conference In Denver be-
tween experts representing thirty-two
Western irrigation projects and OF
iiciais OF the United States Re@lama
ton Service.
The government warrant upon
hr X
hold in Denver awaiting deportation
to Switzerland has been cancelled All
tho couple will be allowed to remain
IN the United States.
At meeting OF the Democratic
state central committee In Denver.
raymond Miller of Kiowa county was
elected chairman and Mrs. Mary
Nichols of Englewcod. vice chairman.
The chairman will name secretary.
Plans OF the Denver a Rio Grande
to develop through broad gauge
line between Denver and Pennington
NJ Nj. viii he presented by President
IL u. Nudge at the monthly meeting
OF the directors OF the company IN
New York.
The recent gold strike at Capitai
mine. on Griffith mountain. neal
Georgetown. has developed into q
four-foot vein OF ore that promises tC
be bonanza. The ore is running al
II value OF s23,S00 a ton and assaying
l.i90 ounces to the ton.
That the great Cresson ore "vug.
discovered In November, 1914. is moi
yot exhausted is indicated by a re
port from Colorado Springs, stating
that recent ton shipment from the
mine to the Golden Cycle plant al
basis of 81 per pound or $1,000 for the
lot
Romance, OF the sort fiction lovers
seek. burst into the full blossom oi
reality in Denver when Mrs. Addh
iIauk, one of the Dexter twins,
wealthy widow and well known social
ly. was married to |. Francis Rankin
said to be an educated. full b!ooded
Cherokee Indian. The wedding took
place at Colorado Springs.
High prices on potatoes are bring
ing wealth into Colorado this year
. although unofficial estimates in iicate
that the crop will be 100000 bushels
lower than for last season. The crop
for 1915 Appreciated 7,250.000 bush,
els as compared with 5.25O,o0O bush
els for this season. The prices last
year. however, ranged from i5 to SO
cents per hundredweight. while this
year they range from sl.50 to sl.6O
yer hundredweight
Left alone at home with her in
valid mother. 12-year-old Lottie Graft
daughter OF Henry Craft, of Aurora
saved her mothers life at the peril of
her own when fire started in the