The Elk Mountain pilot., 1916-09-23

Feb. Injecting Republican state
Central Committee in Denver.
Feb. Injecting Colorado Progressive
State Central Committee at Denver.
Feb. 16-ls-Sports Carnival at Steam
boat Springs.
Merchants Associations Food ana
Industrial Exposition at Denver
April 13-Democratic State Convention
at Pueblo.
Denver's estimated fire losses OF all
kinds in 1915 total only s244,354.33.
President Wilson nominated James
A. Rutledge postmaster at Woodman
Con" Cunningham, 75. pioneer
miner, died at Leadville from
paralysis
Funeral services for Judge c. A.
Wilkin, who died in Canon City, were
held in Denver
Mr. and Mrs. VIM. E. Edom of Den
yer celebrated their golden wedding
anniversary last week.
| Orders have been issued by the war
Department for extensive improve
ments to be made at Fort Logan.
Mrs. Emily Lyman, 60 years old
died at the home of her daughter, Mrs.
f. b. Clark in Denver, of heart dls-
| ease.
John |. Mullen was elected presi-
dent and l.. W. Bray secretary of the
Metal Miners Association at the
meeting held in Naturita.
Pueblo has the lowest death rate o:
any city in Colorado, according to
Census Bureau report. The death
rate was 105 thousand.
John J. White, former state public
examiner and active Democratic poll
tician. who was found nearly frozen
to death et Castle Rock. may recover.
William Scott Lee, head of the
Colorado state free employment Of
flee and former mayor of Denver, IS
critically i'll in St Luke's hospital.
The nineteenth annual convention
of the Colorado Osteopathic Associa-
ton. in Denver elected DR.. F. A. Lue-
dickie president for the coming year.
Just four weeks before the date set
for her wedding, Miss Tillie Sachter,
81. died at st. Anthony's hospital in
Denver following an operation for ap-
pendicitis.
Keen interest is manifest among
residents of the park region and thou
sands of travellers in the program for
the Improvement of the Rocky Noun
tain National park.
Fifty-four arrests, for drunkenness
! in January were made against 223 ar
rests for the same offense for n cor
| to the Denver police.
Removal OF the district headqua-
ters of the United States bureau OF
mines from Denver to the Colorado
School of Mines, Golden, was author
lied by Secretary OF the Interior Lane
Robert Gabriel Richville, 80 years
old, a native of France. and for twelve
years a resident of Colorado. died al
st. Anthony's hospital from injuries
sustained several weeks ago, from q
fall
John Hebdon, rs years old. died al
st. Lukes hospital in Denver from
blood poisoning caused by an ulcer
ated tooth. He is survived by thir
teen children and a number of grand
children.
Fermented malt liquors which havI
been masquerading under the name o.
malt tonics" have been placed under
the ban of the state prohibition laM
by, John Lynch, state pure food in
spector.
The Colorado Springs Chamber o
Commerce has sent a letter to Con
gressman C. B. Timberlake askin:
him to support the campaign to Sc
cure a government war munitions
plant for Pueblo.
Dynamite crews were sent out Mon
day from Durango by the railroads il
southwestern Colorado to open thei
lines. The wet snow of the past weel
turned into ice and in many place.
solid walls of ice block transporta
ton.
January set several new minin,
records in the Cripple Creek distric
and during the month total of $165
900 in dividends was paid out by tn
three largest companies. The Golde
Cycle paid out 100000, the Vindicato
$45,OOO and the Portland 100000
There were 1874 tons of ore takel
out with bullion valued at $1,207
54366.
While Charles Levinus Thompson
81 years old, veteran of the Mex
can and Civil wars, is approaching
death in the Littleton hospital his al
torneys are battling for possession o
a $1,Ooo.o00 island in the Hudso
river, nine miles from the city of A
bany, N. Y.-a legal fight which ha
been in progress in the courts cor
tinuously for sixty-six years.
The Radium Association held
meeting at Naturita and elected tn
following officers: F. F. Currar