The Elk Mountain pilot., 1916-10-12


Feb. Ely. NJ c A. Annual Conven-
tion at Colorado Springs.
Estes Park is to have a 100000
hotel
A carload of honey was shipped by
Boulder apiarists.
Arthur King of Greeley was injured
in football practice.
Railroad earnings in Colorado show
big increase for the past year.
J. Hamilton Lewis, U. S, Senator
from Illinois, delivered speech in
Denver.
Howard Ownbey. 10. of Longmont
was accidentally shot and killed while
hunting.
Colorado's crops this year are esti-
mated to be worth $50, O,l9591O by gov
ernment experts.
Over COO Weld county miners are
now affiliated with the United Mine
Workers organization.
The Wellington Mines Company of
breckenridge, on Oct. /. paid $780,
900 dividend to its stockholders.
In Park county, general activity at
the tungsten camp continues, with the
pay streak increasing with develop
ment.
Burglars entered the home of j. p.
Chapman at Pueblo during the alb
sence of the family and departed with
articles valued at $3.50
oscar Lewis. 81, for over forty years
n prominent pioneer mining man and
hay and grain dealer of Colorado.
died at st. Luke's hospital in Denver.
a banquet was held in Denver un-
der the auspices of the German-Ameri-
can alliance to celebrate the first set
tlement of Germans at Germantown,
Pa
Colorado crops this year are bring
ing the highest price they have
brought since the great war began,
and also the highest price for many
years before the war.
Leaping from a speeding automo-
bile, Harry Ebert caught a runaway
horse by the bride and saved the life
OF Miss Mildred Sammons, 19-year-old
Valmont girl, at Boulder.
Good road enthusiasts have petit
toned the county commissioners to
provide for n special election on c
bond issue of $25O,00O to improve
the roads of Boulder county.
In Montezuma district, at the st.
Johns group, there are 5000 tons of
stope-filling on the surface, ready for
treatment. This is part of $4,000 tons
rendered available by development.
Dad Flynn startled his audience in
TO rising on its hind legs" in Denver
in the Auditorium when he declared
persons past 80 needed more exercise
than they did when they were %.
The long-heralded advance in the
prices of bread and bakery products
in Denver went into effect, but with
such a variety of sizes and prices that
the public is confused as to what it
is getting for its money.
William Barr, a farmer of Littleton.
suffered fracture of the skull and
probable internal injuries when he
was run down at Twentieth and I.ari-
mer streets in Denver by an automo-
bile driven by George Collins.
Two golden weddings were cele-
brated in Denver, that of Mr.. and
Mrs. NJ. J. Post, who received their
friends at their apartments, and that
of Mr.. and Mrs. j. w. Yelton of Flor
ence, who observed their golden ami
versary at the home of their son,
Frank Yelton.
Colorado voters must now face the
hardships of four weeks of political
warfare There is no escape for them
The generals in both the Republican
and Democratic parties have prepared
an exciting and constant lombard
ment which will increase in intensity
from now until Nov. Z.
Officers investigating the myster-
ious kidnapping of Robert NJ. Perry at
Oak Creek and the peremptory de-
mand for $4,000 from his father, Sam
NJ. Perry, believe now that the abduc-
ton of the younger man was but the
first step in conspiracy which had
as its ultimate aim the capture of the
millionaire mine owner himself and
the collection of huge ransom.
Denver bank clearlngs for the week
ending Oct. 5 amounted to SIG, 6,1S5, 900,
an increase of 40 per cent over the
same week year ago. The figures
are of more than ordinary interest in
view of the fact that one year ago
bank clearings were showing big
gains and the banks were predicting
that the years record would go above
O0,000.OOO for the first time in the
history of the city.
The great mobilization camp at the
rifle range at Golden will be denuded
of troops this week and the entire con-
ungent of Colorado militiamen will bc
doing duty on the Mexican border.