The Elk Mountain pilot., 1916-01-15

Ocean Highway Association, at Den
Jan. ls-22-western Live Stock Show
at Denver.
Feb. 11-l2-AnnuaI convention. Colo
rrado Metal Mining Association, at
Feb. l2-Meeting Republican State
Central Committee in Denver.
Feb. 16-lS-Sports Carnival at Steam
boat Springs.
March 2V7April 2.-Co otornd" Retai,
Merchants Associations FOOD aho
Industrial Exposition at Denver
Over five hundred auto licenses Tor
1916 have been issued at Boulder,
Mrs Ida Whitford, wife of forme"
District Judge Greeley w. Whitford.
died at her home in Denver.
Fort Collins, dry for nineteen years.
and extra dry for three days, arrested
its first drunk in 1916. on the 5th.
Denver retail coal dealers an
nounced an advance of % cents ton
on the price of coal to consumers.
The Colorado Retail Hardware AMI
Implement Association will hold its
fourteenth annual convention in Deu-
yer Jan. IS, 19 and 20.
The Senate confirmed :hc following
Colorado postmasters: Charles S.
Logan. Buena Vista; William d. New
ton, Palisades. and Reita NJ. Vigil,
Trinidad
Thomas Mathews, aged 10, son of
prominent mining man Of Central
city, died on train en- route to Den
yer. where he was to have been OPP
Grated on for appendicitis.
Suit for s12,S70 was filed in the
District court at Boulder by George
". Koontz of Iowa City. Ia. and
others, against the White Cloud Min
ing & Milling Company.
Mrs. Elva Higley and son. James,
we're arrested at Grand junction,
when the police raided n room,LS
house. on charges of selling liquor in
violation of the prohibition law.
The State Supreme Court in de
rision declared that Judge Ben b.
Lindsey of the Denver Juvenile Court
erred in reopening case regarding
the dependency of Catherine Mulertz,
l2 years old. in custody of the State
Home for Dependent Children. after
the legal limit for action in such
cases had expired.
As soon as the officials of the Colo
RADIO Fuel and Iron Company receive
definite information from the United
States Steel Corporation and other
competitors in the East as to their
increase of pay for steel workers, the
Colorado firm will meet the advance
and put in effect another scale of
wages. according to Denver reports.
Ten years in the Leavenworth peni-
tentiary-the heaviest sentence pro
nounced In the Federal District Court
in the memory of the present Off
cials-was imposed in Denver b.
, Judge X. Il. Lewis on each of the four
soldiers recently convicted of attack'
ing 15-year-old North Denver girl
on the Fort Logan military reserva-
ton.
That the recent uprising of the Ute
Indians in Colorado and Utah was the
result of conditions of shameful neg
lect" at the Ute Mountain Indian
agency and of badly bungled" plot
to drive non-reservation Utes off the
public domain and seize their land, is
the charge made in a report by NJ. X.
Sniffen, special investigator of the
Indian Rights Association.
A peremptory writ of mandamus
ordering the town C: Aurora AMI its
officials to pay $4,000 to Samuel G.
Hickman, resident of Pennsylvania
was issued in Denver by Federal
| ID ,t-,it do
for partial satisfaction of a S225, 1000
judgment obtained by Hickman in the
United States court last March in a
suit to recover on Aurora water bends
which matured in 1906.
AS an aftermath of the Piute Indian
uprising in Utah last winter and the
battle that occurred in Bluff City dur
ing the attempted arrest of Tse-Ne
Cat, recently acquitted in Denver OF
the murder OF a Mexican sheepherder
Senator Shafroth introduced a bill fo'
$1,000 compensation for the widow %
Joseph c. Akin of Dolores, the deput
marshal killed by bullet fired by {
member of Old Folks band, accord
ing to Washington dispatches.
Members of the Brewery Workers
Union and other trades allied with tn,
late liquor industry marched in bod!
to the state capitol to present in per
son resolutions passed at mas
meeting in the Denver Auditorium
calling upon the governor to convene
a special session of the Legislature
to provide employment for thos'
thrown out Of work when the dry Law
sent into effect. The governor sug
gested the opportunity for employ
ment in the beet fields.
Introduction in Congress of bIl
by Representative Ben C. Hilliarl O
Denver to give that city, through