The Elk Mountain pilot., 1916-02-26
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

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March 20-Aprli 2.-coio orado Retail
Merchants Associations Food ana
Industrial Exposition at Denver
April i3.Democratic State Convention
May First Congressional District
Republican Convention at Colorado
Springs.
May 2.-Republican State and Third
and Fourth Congressional District
Convention at Pueblo.
The San Juan tungsten district is
booming.
Sugar advanced from $6.60 to $3.50
per cwt. In Denver.
The Coal Creek ranch OF 1000 acres
has been sold for $4,000.
Denver bricklayers get 81 advance
now 81 for eight hours.
Over 100000 was paid leasers on the
lbex mine at Leadville last week.
| Denver's new federal court was
dedicated in the new postoffice build
ing.
The Rocky Mountain Club of New
York held its ninth annual dinner in
Denver
M. d. Thatcher, aged Pueblo banker.
is reported sinking. and the end ex-
pected at any time.
Mrs. Max Eckstein, I5, of Denver,
attempted suicide for the second
time within six months
William Marr. Gs years old, Colo
| rado pioneer and widely known cattle
man OF North Park, died at st. Luke's
hospital.
The Littleton primary" to select a
candidate for postmaster was held.
and Lew f. Allen was high, with 159
votes. Eight persons were voted for.
Jay Denham. 5S years old, resident
of Colorado for thirty-eight years, and
we'll known stockman. died at his
home near Deer Trail, after a long
illness.
To promote beauty in public and
private grounds in Denver an organ
ization known as the Denver Society
OF Ornamental Horticulture was
formed
An order for $200.OO0 worth of tung-
sten ore for an Eastern steel concern
to be used in the manufacture of
munitions for European governments
was received in Denver.
Neither of Colorados United States
senator's. Charles S. Thomas and John
F. Shafroth. will be a candidate for
delegate to the Democratic national
convention. which meets In st. Louis
June IA.
Petitions "for a responsible and
representative mayer form of govern
ment and amending the charter OF the
city and county of Denver" by abol-
ishing the present. commission system
are being circulated.
The tax controversy between the
heirs of the late William Barth and
the city ond county of Denver was set
tied by an agreement on the part OF
the estate to pay $4,000 for the years
1911, 1912, 1913 and 1917.
The contract giving the city of Den
yer an option on the Denver Union
Water Company plant 1T figure tc
be fixed by the United States Su
preme Court was signed by the com
pany and the Utilities Commission
and ratified by the city council with
out a dissenting vote.
Joseph Cuthbertson, 27, Rock
Island locomotive fireman. suffered
broken back when both driving rods
of the engine pulling eastbound pas
senger train No. 40 broke while the
train was running mile minute
near Siebert, in eastern Colorado. He
is in Colorado Springs hospital
Word was received in Denver of the
death in San Francisco of Capt. Fred
L. Perry of the coast artillery of the
United States army, former resident
of Boulder and a lieutenant in the
First Colorado volunteers when it en-
tered Manila. the first regiment to
make its appearance in the city
Prompted by what is believed BY
friends to have been u despondency
over a shattered love affair, Gustave
Liljeberg, II, living at 2501 Harlan
street, Edgewater, ended his life by
swallowing several ounces of chloro-
form and cutting his wrists with
razor. He died at the county hospital
in Denver.
Hurled headlong against stone
curb in a crash of autos at Eighteenth
avenue and Grant streets in Denver.
Mrs. Fulton Jack, SO years old, wife
of prominent attorney of Beatrice,
Neb. received injuries which it is be
.lieved will be fatal. She was return
ing from the funeral of nephew Mrs
Jack came to Denver to attend the
funeral of Robert Wood a 7-month.
old son of C. d. Wood. Boulder
tungsten mill superintendent
One hundred and ten arrests in
volving alleged violations of the pro
hibition law were made by the Den