The Elk Mountain pilot., 1917-06-21

A San Luis valley company is being
organized for service.
Life convict at Canon City purchases
500 Liberty bond from savings.
Governor Gunter issued proclama-
ton urging funds for Red Cross.
Denver Daughters of the Revolution
subscribed for $3.50 for Liberty
bonds.
Denver political leaders of opposite
faith working together in Red Cross
campaign.
The Steamboat school board has de-
cided to erect a new 100000 brick
school building
Denver observed Flag day with
greater enthusiasm and earnestness
than ever before.
Farmers OF Las Animas have organ
ized a cooperative company to erect
large alfalfa mill.
Seven carloads Of pressed brick are
on the ground for the new Rio Grande
depot at Florence.
Ollie Zordrager, 16-year-old boy of
Boulder. is on the way to Detroit. l.
200 miles on a bicycle
For the third time this season the
Fcrt Collins sugar factory has put into
effect general wage increase.
Saturday was a gala day at Glen
wood Springs in celebration of the
annual Strawberry Day festivities.
All miners must show their regis
tration cards at Frederick. If they
want to continue work in the mines.
Georgetown will give on the Fourth
of July an old-fashioned firemen's
tournament.
Gasoline tractor lately purchased by
Saguache county commissioners Is do
ing excellent work in improvement of
the road over Poncha pass.
A late recruit for the American
ambulance service in France is Thorn
as c. Mcconnell. the 19-year-old son
OF Bishop F. J. Mcconnell of Denver.
All parties. all religious bodies. all
organizations-all the people in Den
ver-joined together to make the big
Red Cross drive this week a success.
The first bigamy case to be ap-
pealed to the Supreme Court under a
new law making bigamy punishable
by two years in the penitentiary will
be heard this month.
With the exception OF 700 train
men, the 1900 employees of the Den
yer Tfamway Company have accepted
the bonus increase in wages an
nounced by the management of the
company.
President Livingston Farrand of the
University of Colorado left Denver
for the Atlantic coast to take steam
er for France. where he will supervise
the fight of the Rockefeller founda-
tiOn against tuberculosis.
The 400 men working on the Port
land mine at Cripple Creek have Of
fered to give one days wages to the
Red Cross fund and the company is
expected to give an amount equal
to the sum thus raised.
Eugene Buchanan, Logan county
cattleman, tried with six other men in
the United States District Court on
charge of intimidating James II. Scott.
a homesteader, was acquitted by the
verdict of jury read in court in Den
yer.
Every Masonic order In Denver,
Golden, Littleton and Arvada will
meet at the Central Presbyterian
church in Denver. June 2lst. in com
memoration of the 200th anniversary
of the founding of the grand lodge
of England.
Mrs. Laura Reynolds Hazeltine
Campbell Hazen Hughes was arrested
in the county courtroom in Denver
by Bailiff Rueve as she stepped from
the witness stand, where she had just
admitted that she had contracted a
bigamous marriage.
The first carload OF ore shipped by
the Midwest Metal Mining Oil Re
duction and Holding Company. from
their Eta NJ. property on Chief noun
tain at Frisco, Summit county. ran low
in gold. ounces silver and 40 per
cent wet lead. which netted the com
pany over $50 per ton.
Complaining that his mind comes
and goes" John Peter Whitson, SEN
fenced a few days ago to life impris-
onment for the murder of his wife,
whom he killed with a claw.hammer
in her home at Logantown, March
18th, attempted suicide by hanging
himself in his cell in the Littleton
jail.
Announcement that the Federal
Court of Appeals decided that the
United States District Court at Bos-
ton had no jurisdiction to appoint a
receiver for the Royal Arcanum. was
contained in telegram received by
Charles II. Peters. collector for Den
yer council.