The Elk Mountain pilot., 1916-08-12
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
DATES For COMING EVENTS

AT foTt collins AGRICULTURAL College
Jan. t-s-Colorado Kennel Club Show
Jan. s-Io-Sixteenth annual show OF
Colorado Poultry Fanciers Associa-
dan. I7-1s,-Meeting Colorado Retail
Grocers' and Butchers Association
Jan. 19.-Sixth Annual Convention of
Colo; Good Roads Assn at Denver.
Feb. 12-,Meeting Republican state
- Central Committee in Denver.
Feb. l6-lS-Sports Carnival at Steam
boat Springs.
March Apr1 2.-Cofora Retail
Industrial Exposition at Denver
The Brighton road is being grav-
eed
Delta is to have a 6OO-ton sugar fac
tory
A request has been made for a de-
pot at Hot Springs.
Grand Junction is to have another
big elevator early the coming sea
son.
The good roads convention has
been called to meet in Denver, Jan.
1920.
Following the usual custom Denver
banks made cash Christmas gifts to
their employees.
The Christmas business at the Pu-
eblo postoffice this year was by far
the largest ever transacted.
a gasoline motor car express and
passenger service will be established
between Johnstown and Milliken.
Colorado has ninety-five power
laundries. The capital invested is
sl,i40,S96, against s1.27O.656 five
years ego.
Miss Nettie r. Russell, 80. for TWEEN
ty-five years n teacher in the Denver
schools, was hit by two automobiles
and killed
The s5OO,000,OOO mark in bank
eral weeks. came to the Denver banks
as Christmas gift.
Investigations are being made by
the State Public Utilities Commits
sion TO determine whether Colorado
railroads are running trains on time,
The first big snowstorm of the sea
son swept over Denver and Colorado
sunday. More snow fell in Denver
than in any other part of the state.
John Cook. aged 10, resident OF
Boulder county for a quarter of cen
tury, was found dead in bed on the
William Brown ranch near Broom
field.
Mrs. Louise p Amber. n pioneer
resident of Colorado Springs, died ut
her home, 221 East Uintah street
She was in her ninety-first year and
was the widow of the late Judge Amb-
Ter.
Mrs. Helen NJ. Buchtel. daughter of
the late p. T. Barnum, famous circus
man, left an estate valued at approxi-
mately 100000 Her will was filed
in the Denver County Court for pro
bate
Mrs. Elizabeth Bostwick, % years
old, mother of a twomonths-old child,
cut her throat with her husbands ra-
zor at her home in Denver. The hus-i
band. Laurance C. Bostwick, was at
church
Grant McFerson of Boulder is the
legitimate bank examiner of Colo
RADIO ard Il. Il. Drach is holding the
office without right or authority ac-
cording to n decision handed down in
the District Court of Denver by Judge
Allen
The grand champion baby of the
National Western Stock show at Den
yer will receive $50 for being not only
the best example of physical develop
ment shown in the contest but also
the most efficient in mental equip
ment and in temperament and type.
Several buildings at Sunshine and
in other mountain towns we're blown
down, telephone service was crippled,
merchants signs were whirled away
and some windows were blown in by
the windstorm that ragged with great
fury from o'clock Monday night un.
til early Tuesday morning in the Boul.
der section.
For the twelve months ended on
Nov so, the Denver Cities Service
Company made net earnings of sS,-
G95.301 an increase of s2GS.SSS over
the previous year, or 2.35 times the
dividend requirements for the pre-
ferred stock The twelve months
business was the greatest in the COM
pany's history.
Seven prisoners now in the state
penitentiary may be released and
brought back to Denver for trial in
the West Side Criminal Court as the
result of the recent decision of the
State Supreme Court depriving the
Juvenile Court of Denver of jurisdic-
tion over adult offenders against the
law
pocket of gold so pure that it can
be shipped to the mint without treat
ment was opened up by the Dunkin