The Elk Mountain pilot., 1916-07-29
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
stern New.paper Union News Service.

rado Division Pixies Peak Ocean-to-
Ocean Highway Association. at Den
at Denver.
Feb. 11-12-Annual convention Colo.
rado Metal Mining Association. at
Feb. l2-Meeting Republican state
Fob. l6-Is-Sports Carnival at Steam
March 20 April 2-Cotorad Retail
| Merchants Associations Food ana
Industrial Exposition at Denver.
Over five hundred auto licenses for
1916 have been issued at Boulder.
Mrs. Ida Whitford. wife of former
District Judge Greeley w. Whitford,
! died at her home in Denver.
Fort Collins, dry for nineteen years,
and extra dry for three days. arrested
its first drunk in 1916, on the 5th.
Denver retail coal dealers an
nounced an advance of 25 cents ton
On the price of coal to consumers.
The Colorado Retail Hardware an |
Implement Association will hold its
fourteenth annual convention in Den
yer Jan. is. 10 and 20.
The Senate confirmed :he following
! Colorado postmasters; Charles S.
Logan. Buena Vista; William ID. New
ton, Palisades. and Reita NJ. Vigil,
Trinidad.
Thomas Mathews, aged Is. son of a
prominent mining man of Central
City. died on train en- route to Den
yer. where he was to have been op-
pn for anpapdiritis
Suit for s12,S7O was filed in the
District court at Boulder by George
W. Koontz of Iowa City. la, and
others, against the White Cloud Min
ing & Milling Company.
Mrs. Elva Higley ,and son, James,
were arrested at Grand Junction,
when the police raided a roomil.L
house. on charges of selling liquor i'll
violation of the prohibition law.
The State Supreme Court in de.
cision declared that Judge Ben b.
Lindsey of the Denver Juvenile Court
erred In reopening case regarding
the dependency of Catherine Mulertz,
IL years old. in custody of the State
Home for Dependent Children, after
the legal limit for action in such
cases had expired
AS soon as the officials of the Colo
RADIO Fuel and Iron Company receive
definite information from the United
States Steel Corporation and other
competitors in the East as to their
increase of pay for steel workers, the
Colorado firm will meet the advance
and put in effect another scale of
wages, according to Denver reports.
Ten years In the Leavenworth peni.
tentiary-the heaviest sentence pro-
nounced In the Federal District Court
in the memory of the present Off
cials-was imposed in Denver b.
Judge r. E. Lewis on each of the four
soldiers recently convicted of attack
ing l5-year-old North Denver girl
on the Fort Logan military reserva.
ton.
That the recent uprising of the Ute
Indians in Colorado and Utah was the
result OF conditions of shameful neg
lect" at the Ute Mountain Indian
agency and of badly bungled" plo,
to drive non-reservation Utes off the
public domain and seize their land Is
the charge made in n report by NJ. X
Sniffen. special Investigator of the
Indian Rights Association.
A peremptory writ of mandamus
ordering the town c. Aurora and Its
officials to pay $4,000 to Samuel G
Hickman, resident of Pennsylvania
was issued in Denver by Fedora
Judge h. Il. Lewis. The writ provides
for partial satisfaction of a s225,00(
judgment obtained by Hickman in tn.
United States court last March in {
suit to recover on Aurora water bends
which matured in 1906.
As an aftermath of the Piute 1ndiar
uprising in Utah last winter and the
battle that occurred in Bluff City dur
ing the attempted arrest of Tse-Ne
Cat, recently acquitted in Denver o
the murder of Mexican sheepherder
Senator Shafroth introduced a bill fo
$4,000 compensation for the widow o
Joseph C. Akin of Dolores, the deput!
marshal killed by bullet fired by
member of Old Folks band, accord
ing to Washington dispatches.
Members of the Brewery Workers
Union and other trades allied with th
late liquor industry marched in bod.
to the state capitol to present in per
son resolutions passed at a mas
meeting in the Denver Auditorium
calling upon the governor to conven
special session of the Legislatur
to provide employment for thos
thrown out of work when the dry Ia,
sent into effect. The governor sus
gested the opportunity for employ
ment in the beet fields.
Introduction in Congress of bIl
by Representative Ben C. Hilliar1 q
| Denver to give that City throucl