The Elk Mountain pilot., 1916-04-08


and Mrs. John McGinnis. committed
suicide at Cripple Creek.
For the first three months of 1916
more than S1.000.000 was invested in
Denver'c building activity.
Mrs. John Wilson. 35 years old.
wife of a laborer, died at Estes Park
from wood alcohol poisoning.
The annual meeting for the election
of officers of the Denver Dumb
Friends League will be held April %.
The fourth annual dance of the
Denver Policemens Protective Asso-
citation will be held In the auditorium
April 26.
The value of the physical property
of the Mountain States Telephone
Company in Colorado has been fixed
at $15,220, ,G33.66.
Mrs. Margaret Rees, who was 95
years old, died of pneumonia at the
home of her son-in-law, William
Schmidt in Denver.
Because of the high price of lead
the American Smelling and Refin-
ing Company has increased the pay
of all its employees.
Motor car service has been installed
on the Great Western Railway Com
pany's lines between Longmont and
Loveland and Eaton.
Donald McGregor, shot to death by
Villa In Minaca, Mex. is believed to
be Don p. McGregor. formerly en-
ployed On a Denver newspaper.
DR.. Robert J. Mason. charged with
conspiracy in connection with the
death OF Miss Ruth Merriweather,
Dec s, 1914, was put ON trial in Den
yer.
Victor Pollard, 26 years old, son OF
Mrs. Mary E. Pollard OF Denver, was
crushed by = rock while working in
the Roosevelt drainage tunnel near
| Victor.
The State Supreme Court upheld
the act of the State Board OF Equali-
zaticn in ordering an increase OF $685.
| 40s, ,952 made In the total assessed
valuation of Denver.
Receipts from the sale OF stamps
and money orders at the Denver
postoffice for March were $l2S.497.17.
an increase of $6.264.08 over those for
the corresponding month OF 1915.
More than 100000 acres Of gov
| eminent land in Colorado was take;.
up by settlers during last year, ac-
cording to figures compiled in the
general land office a Washington.
Tired of eluding federal officials,
from whom he has been fugitive
| for two years, II. e. Estes. who robbed
the Hilltop. Kan. postoffice In 1913.
| and escaped from jail before trial.
gave himself up to government Off
GERS at Pueblo where he had been ar
rested on another offense.
A search to find John West and
Frank Goodrich, convicted confidence
men, probably will result from the re-
fusal of the State Supreme Court to
grant them a new trial on the charge
of attempting to defraud u. G. Davis,
a Weld county farmer and deputy
sheriff out of $4,000 on a fake wire
tapping" scheme.
James B. Whalen, for many years
| district manager, with headquarters
at Leadville, of the Mountain States
Telephone & Telegraph Company,
died suddenly while in a physicians
office, which he had entered a few
minutes before to receive treatment.
clot of blood iE the heart is said
to have caused his death.
Workmen employed in building a
protective dyke along the Grand river
in Crawford's addition at Grand juno
ton, plowed into what Is believed to
be the stock of a bootlegger. The
plowshare turned up a bunch of
buried bottles which were found to
contain beer and whisky. There were
lS9 bottles of beer aid forty-two
tasks of whisky.
Prof. Cecil F. Lavell, found in Colo
RADIO Springs after being lost to him
self and the world for three years
started back to meet, in Toronto.
Canada. the wife he cannot remem-
ber. His cousin. Prof Roy McFay
len of the University of Colorado.
Identified him as the man for whom
wife relatives and friends have been
searching the world over since Nov.
A, 1913.
Tree planters in the West havs
| Jeen warned by the United States
Department OF Agriculture officers
against buying white pines. currants or
ooseberry bushes from nurseries III
he East. The white pine rust has
,een found to be plentiful in the for
SITS of the East.
Pending an examination of the
brain of William B. Denton, whose
oody was pulled out of the bed of the
Arkansas river fifteen miles below
pueblo. the coroner's jury will with
lold its verdict until . report has
oeen made by DR.. G. w. Maynard.