The Elk Mountain pilot., 1916-04-15


May First Congressional District
Republican Convention at Colorado
April 26-Annual Convention Western
tion.
April 2s-May s-Food show at Colo
May 2.-Republlcan State and Third
and Fourth Congressional District
ConventIon at Pueblo.
May 1S-Democratic State Convention
at Colorado Springs.
May 2o-Progressive state. Convention
Aug. 8-Democratic State Assembly ~
Denver.
Divorced persons must wait one
year before remarrying in Colorado.
Governor Carlson has appointed ].
A. Miller of Gunnison water commits
sioner for District No. SO.
George Seegar. As years old,
farmer near Brighton. has been ar
rested on charges prefnrIed by his
14-year-old stepdaughter.
In memory of z. H. Snyder, former
presiuent of the State Teachers Col
lese, who died last fall. an auditorium
costing 100000 will be built at the
college in Greeley.
Commercial and civic bodies
throughout the country are uniting
with the new centralized Denver or
ganization in urging the passage oil
the national park service bill
Denver restaurant keepers are
planning to raise their prices to meet
the advanced cost of foodstuffs which,
they claim. has been consuming all
their profits during the last two years.
Bulkeiey Wells. president of the
Colorado Metal Mining Association
mas appointed a committee to investi
gate changes in the mining laws pro
posed by the Foster bill now in Con
gress.
Harry McAndrews, charged with
stealing a $3.50 diamond stickpin from
Bradford Dubois, was acquitted In
the West Side Court in Denver after
the jury had been out only five min
utes.
The funeral services for Joel v
vaile, who died in California, were
held at the family residence in Den
yer. Prominent jurists and attorneys
railroad employees, workmen and peo
pie in all stations of life attended.
The Colorado Springs city council
has adopted resolution calling for
the appropriation in the 1917 budget
of $2.50O toward a fund OF $4,000 for
the construction Of a municipal cod
tagious disease hospital.
The highest price ever paid on the
Denver market for fat steers weigh
ing around 1925 pounds, was paid fol
twenty-five head. average 1921
pounds, marketed by J. r. Rigden o
Fort Collins. when they sold at $3.50
Little hopo is entertained for the
recovery of Miss Lucille Martensen
81 years old, of Denver. who was
burned in saving her employers
property by seizing blazing can OF
/ varnish and hurting 1t through win
dow.
r. w. Clark. who left Denver fifty
two years ago. arrived in the city
again on a Pullman and could not be
lieve 1t was the same place. He
could not find single spot that was
familiar. He came to Denver in 1SG;
and left in 1864.
More than 200 grizzled veterans Of
the Grand Army Of the Republic ir
Denver helped turn the half century
mark of the organizations existence
with patriotic exercises in Trinity
Methodist church. Five hundred peo
pie were in the audience.
E. e. Drach. state bank commission
| er, has started suit in the District
Court against holders of 27Sk shares
| al Nf hn 1nfn nj
Lafayette Bank Trust Company
suing each stockholder for 500 on
each share of stock held.
Denver's prosperity is progressive
according to the weekly statement oi
bank clearings issued by Bradstreet
which shows that last weeks clear
| ings through the five national banas
totaled $12.0G2,000, an increase of 81,
100000 over the previous week and oi
S7.5 per cent over the corresponding
week of 1915.
According to the officials of Adams
county, drunken revelry. extending
| into the small hours at the Sane
Creek roadhouse, participated in by
dozen Denver people. ended disas
trously when knives and broken bot
ties were welded in a free-for-all
fight, probably fatally injuring one oi
the women. who is now in hospital
in Denver.
Receipts accruing to the national
forests in Colorado for the last ten
years, aggregating s2,027,9S7.97, have
not only stimulated livestock and lum
Der activities, but have brought re
version to various counties OF the
state of more than 100000 for road