The Elk Mountain pilot., 1916-03-04
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.


DATES EoR COMING EVENTS.
March 9-l1.-Meeting Western Colo
rado Teachers Association at Grand
Junction
March 2U-Aprn 2-Colora Retail
Merchants Associations Food and
Industrial Exposition at Denver
April l3-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.
A rotary club has been formed at
Colorado Springs.
The Maccabees are reviving their
lodge at Frederick.
Denver Charter petitions have over
6.G00 names, enough to call an cleo
ton.
One hundred cars of lambs have al
ready been shipped from the Fort Col
Inns district.
The funeral of NJ d. Thatcher, Col
orado's richest citizen, was the larg-
est ever held in Pueblo.
Mrs. Annie Dunn, 55 years cd. who
has been postmistress of Cherrylyn
since 1894. died at her home.
A daughter was born to Mr.. and
Mrs. Lawrence Phipps, Jr., of Denver.
This is the second girl for the fam
lily.
Grand Junction is preparing for the
meeting of the Western Colorado
Teachers Association in that city.
March 1912.
Charles Hazen was made defendant
in an information charging white
slavery preferred by Miss Ora De Lee
of Denver.
The first "get-together" meeting of
motion picture theater managers, op-
orators, exchange men, actors and
scenario writer's in Colorado was held
in Denver
I. Colorado Springs will make bid
for the Democratic state convention
to elect delegates from Colorado to
the Democratic national convention at
st. Louis.
The demand of $4,000 for the
alienation of her husbands affections,
made in complaint filed in the Den
yer District Court by Mrs. Julia E.
Snow against Mrs Grace Elwell, was
settled for $3.50.
Reinzi Dickens probably will stand
trial in the District Court in Boulder
county for the alleged murder of his
aged father. w. II. Dickens, who was
shot at his home in Longmont on the
night of Nov. 80.
The work of restocking Colorado
with elk. which was begun in 1913. by
a shipment of seventy-five to the Du-
range, Sopris and Colorado National
forests, is being carried forward on a
larger scale than ever before.
The E. S. du Pont de Nemours
Company. the holding corporation con-
trolling among other plants one To-
Gated near Littleton, Colo, has de-
clared dividend of 10 per cent pay
able in Anglo-French bonds.
Bond was fixed at $4,000 for DR.
Noble o. Hamilton, charged with the
murder of Mrs. Ada Williams, who
died as the result of an alleged IL
legal operation, by Judge Wright in
the West Side Court in Denver.
& r. c. have reached an agreement
with ]. F. Enright, superintendent OF
motive power, granting all federated
craftsmen and apprentices / cent an
hour advance over the former scale.
The doors of the county Jail opened
in Denver and Clay E. Hargrave, a
former liquor dealer, walked forth n
I nnt h.,
cuted deed conveying to his wife,
Mrs. Blanche Bell Hargrave, property
valued at $4,000.
The election of Simpson ID. Butler
to the presidency of the Colorado So
ciety, Sons of the American Revolu-
ton, brought an interesting situation
in the society and its. auxiliary OF
which his daughter, Mrs. Winfield
Scott Tarbell, is regent.
William b. Slaughter, president Of
the defunct Mercantile National bank
of Pueblo, who has been in the Gus
tody of United States authorities in
that city since his arrest Jan. 81 on
charges of embezzlement, was re-
leased on $4,000 bail
According to word received by
friends in Colorado Springs, Eleanor
Painter of that city, who has been
starring in Princess Pat in New
York, is suffering from nervous
breakdown and is now in a sani-
| tarium in White Plains, N. Y.
Official recognition has been given
the San Luis Central Railroad Com
pany as the one railroad in Colorado
which may have headlightless loco
motives and switches without lights.
Recognition of this right was given