The Elk Mountain pilot., 1917-04-19

Potatoes sold in Denver at $3.50 per
cwt. and flour at 35.65@5.75.
Colorado Federation of women's
Clubs urges governor to veto dry law.
Mexican miners moving from Boul-
der toward Mexican border Is report.
Farm lands in the vicinity of Limon
have been selling in large blocks re-
Gently
New independent telephone COM
pany being organized in Morgan
county.
Footballs in the town of Yuma were
wiped out by majority vote Of the
people.
Grand Junction has published call
for payment of bonds of that city to-
falling $19.95O.
Governor Gunter recommends plant
ing seeds as well as trees on Arbor
| day, April goth.
New school house to be built to re-
place the one burned in January at
Grand Junction.
A free aviation school in Denver
would make Colorado one Of the great
centers of usefulness in the matter of
war preparation.
The city Of Ouray has issued a call
| for bonds numbered 1 to 10 of the
refunding bonds of the city of Ouray,
totaling $4,000.
The Denver Jewish Congress has
passed a resolution pledging the 10y
atty and service of its members to
President Wilson and the nation.
Convention called at Boulder to
take preliminary action toward a COM
mission form of government which
was adopted at the city election.
Commemorating the 142nd anniver-
sary Of the firing Of the first shots
in the American revolution. the Sons
of the Revolution in Denver will as
semble.
United Mine Workers of America
will hold a mass meeting at Ludlow
on Sunday, April %. when several
prominent labor leaders will be on
the program.
That portion Of Colorado City
known ~ the South Side" seems dis
posed still to resist annexation and re-
sort to legal aid to exist a. an indie
pendent town.
The governors ways and means
committee continues to receive scores
Of letters from over the state asking
help to get seed and tractors to aid
the big crop drive.
The Investment of Denver estates,
aggregating many million dollars. for
the purchase OF part OF the $1,000. .OO0.-
900 American war loan. is proposed by
County Judge Ira C. Rothgerber of
Denver.
Current dividend Of the vindicator
Consolidated il 8 per cent. the usual
amount, which means $4,000 for the
quarter. $4,000 thus far In 1917. .
grand total of S3.622.5O0 or 412 per
| cent on face value.
The first car Of ore shipped from
the Eta M, on Chief mountain, Fris'
CO, under its operations by the Mid
west Company. brought $55 a ton.
running 40 per cent lead. a few
ounces Of silver and little gold
A telegram, pledging the support OF
10000 members representing the
fourth degree Of the Knights of Colum-
bus, to which mona but American citi-
| zens may be admitted, has been sent
to President Wilson by John H. Red
din. supreme master Mr. Reddin is
the governing head of the fourth de-
gree and member Of the national
board of directors of the order.
Gaily-garmented ladies slid through
windows and Acknowledged gentle
men scrambled through transoms
when a squad of police raided the al
legged "bootlegging" establishment at
1919 Grant street, in Denver. Four
patrons, and a girl, said by the police
| to be the barmaid, who failed to use
the windows or transoms, were
nabbed and taken to police headquar-
ters.
! Lawrence C. Phipps. former chair
man of the Denver chapter of the
| American Red Cross and one of the
most active workers in the Denver or
ganization. has been invited by Presi-
dent Wilson to meet with a group of.
other leading citizens of the United
States for a conference at Washing
ton on April 21 to consider ways and
means of financing the Red Cross for
its responsibility toward soldiers and
non-combatants.
Another offer in the cause of aerial
preparedness for Colorado was made
when Edward L. Bloom and Charles o.
Rixford. owners of a flying machine
at Sable, said they would turn over
the aeroplane for use in the proposed
free aviation school to be tablished
in Denver.
| Charged with engaging in violent
anti-war talk, with knocking" the