The Elk Mountain pilot., 1916-02-12
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
ENe" sPHper Q hIon NeWs SerVice.
DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.

DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.
Feb. Injecting Colorado Progressive
Feb. 16-1S-Sports Carnival at Steam
boat Springs.
March g-11.-Meeting Western Colo
rado Teachers Association at Grand
March 2o-April 2.-colorado Retail
Merchants Associations Food and
April 13-Democratic State Convention
at Pueblo.
Black hand" letters have been sent
to Pueblo merchant.
general Y. M C. A convention
will be held at Greeley next year.
f. The grip epidemic has taken
heavy toll among the aged residents
of Denver
The Western i, Colorado Teachers
Association will meet a. Grand juno
tion, March Gil.
"A ranch of the National Order OF
Cowboy Rangers. with 200 members
has been instituted at Walden.
The railroads have granted the
same, low tourist rate FOR the coming
year that prevailed last summer.
Douglas A. Roller and Mrs. Mary E.
Robinson, nurse. were shot by a
burglar in the Roller houe in Denver.
Littleton's eleven candidates for
postmaster are reported opposed tc
the primary suggested by Senator
Shafroth.
What is expected to be the biggest
pure food show ever given in the West
will take place in the Denver Audi
torium from March 20 to April /.
Silverton. marooned ir the San
Juan mountains by the snow, has be,
gun to kill it's dairy animals to. OBJ,
tain fresh meat, according to an AS
sociated Press dispatch.
Motion for new trial in the New
man will case, made at Littleton, was
denied by Judge Glass, and thirty
days was given in which to appeal to
the Supreme Court.
Led by DR.. Henry A. Buchtel, chan
cellor of Denver University, Colo
rado branch of the League to Enforce
Peace, of which former President
Taft is the head, is being organized
In Denver.
The superintendents of public in.
struction of the western land-holding
states will meet in Denver Feb. II and
Is to form an organization of their
own, separate from the national or
ganization of superintendents.
David b. Moore. former evangelist,
convicted of having fired a shot 1t
his wife in a lawyers office in Den
yer. was sentenced from the West
Side Court to term OF one year
the- county Jail and to pay fine Of
$500.
Arthur Montague, itinerant mer-
chant who jumped his bond of $500
ten days ago, while awaiting trial on
a charge of attacking 17-year-old
orphan girl. was returned to Jail in
Denver from Kansas City, where he
was caught
DR.. Bennett, Graft, held responsible
by Denver coroner's jury for the
death of Mrs. Ruth Kamp, who died
at Mercy hospital, and against WHOM
charge of murder has been lodged
In the Criminal Court, must furnish
$25.00O bail
Eight thousand acres of state land
were sold for approximately $118,000
at public auction at the offices of the
land board in Denver. The average
price per acre was $14.75. The high
est figure of the sale was $40 per
acre paid for land in Larimer county.
Mrs. Emerson ]. Short of Denver.
former president OF the South Side
Woman's Club. has been appointed
Denver chairman of the enrolment
committee of the woman's section of
the Navy League of the United States
by Elizabeth Ellicott Poe. general sec
retary of the organization. The aim
of the organization is to enroll 1,OOO,.
900 members by March /, who will
stand for national preparedness.
Three scraps .of paper, yellow from
age, covered with dust and with their
edges fringed with an irregular black
border, the marks OF the famous Chi
cage fire, have, after sixty-one years.
brought fortune of S16,000,000 to
Fred ID. Foss, former Chicago newspa-
per- writer and now New Mexico
mining man. who was in Denver in.
vestigating electro-chemical ore re-
duction processes, concentration and
the newer forms of flotation.
Reports that Lena Schwartz, CHIEF
witness for the state in the trial Of
George Reichert, Fort Collins rancn-
er. and Eddie Lewis, chauffeur,
charged with responsibility for the
death of Louise Mansfield, beaten AMI
kicked at a Petersburg road house
several weeks ago, has been offered
bribe to leave Denver and fail to ap-
pear at the trial. are being invesu-
gated by Samuel w. Johnson. district
attorney for the First Judicial dis