The Elk Mountain pilot., 1917-05-24

Fred D. Stackhouse will be the next
city auditor Of Denver.
Refinery employees at Florence get
change in working hours.
Oil sprinkling is to be given another
tryout on Denver streets and boule-
wards.
Fowler high school won the inter
scholastic high school debate at
Boulder.
Orders have been issued to tele-
phone company to give government
preferred service.
In the International Fuel Company's
mine at Hayden. w. A. Bell was killed
by fall of rock.
The first carload OF brick has ar
rived at Florence for building the new
Rio Grande depot.
Sixty thousand fish fry from hatch
cry at Cedaredge were placed in
streams about Ridgway.
C. 8. Ecrest of Loveland was listed
as wounded in the casualty list of the
Canadian overseas force.
A shipment OF high-grade dairy cows
has been delivered to La Plata and
Montezuma county farmers.
Governor Gunter has appointed ex-
Secretary of State James B. Pearce as
auditor of the military board.
Secretary OF the Treasury McAdoo
told about the Liberty loan" In
speech in the Denver Auditorium.
Eighty bakers in three OF the largest
shops in Denver struck Friday. They
demand recognition of the union.
Telephone office at Montrose has
made arrangements to send out pre-
dictions of temperature to farmers
Already Colorado has contributed
her quota of the 5000 stenographers
required by the Council for National
Defense.
The Gold Foil at the foot of Carson
trail. near Lake City. is to be worked
this summer by G. D. Jordan and Rube
Johnson
With the high cost OF living reign
ing in practically every household
item, the common everyday broom is
coming in for Its share.
shipped from Bent county arrived at
Craig and were driven to the mesa
lands south OF the town.
More than $4,000 miners in the Colo.
RADIO coal fields have been granted In
crease in pay approximately 20 per
cent dating from May 1st.
Snow which began falling in the
aA~yfI IL 0ua
day morning had by o'clock a. m.
covered the ground to 4 depth Of over
two feet.
Colorado's National Guard will
easily have its full quota of 1900 men
by Aug. 5th. the date fixed at Wash
ington for the mobilization of the
states militia.
The men who enlist in the Third
squadron OF cavalry. Colorado Ma.
tional Guard. will have training In
sports and athletics, as well as in
military tactics.
From the Leadville Basin Mines
Company the Dold Mining Company
has secured u ten-year lease on the
Northern. and Is placing the property
in shape for operation.
Until the concentrating mill at West
cliff is completed the working force
in the Passiflora mine has been re-
duced to fifteen men, but the vein has
widened out to six feet.
Internal revenue agents raided
moonshine brewery at the mining
camp of Mount Harris. Routt county.
and seized the first Illicit still" dis,
covered since the &eate went dry.
Forty-six American-born Japanese
men and women of the Arkansas val
ley pledged anew their loyalty to the
United States by enrolling for service
with the American National Red
Cross.
Operators OF metal mines appeared
before the members of the State In,
dustrial Commission to protest against
the contemplated increase of indus
trial compensation, suggested to the
commission by insurance companies.
Yuma business men have organized
the Yuma Civic Association, whose
activities will be carried out by seven
committees dealing with highways.
taxation, schools. Legislation, morals
fire protection and publicity. Seventy
five citizens signed as charter mem
bers
telegram from Washington stated
Colin j. Thomas of Denver has been
named principal and Mortimer f. Sc
rat. Jr., first alternate for the nava
academy to fill the vacancy caused
by the drowning of John II. Avery,
Colorado Springs. near Annapolis, re
Gently.
From Silver Plume. Clear craa.
county, comes a report that a foreig,