The Elk Mountain pilot., 1917-03-01

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Potatoes brought four pounds for a
quarter in the Denver retail markets
Saturday.
John C. Long. 6S years old, black
smith. fell dead at Boulder at the
Colorado sanitarium.
Mrs. Anna Wilson. Respondent from
her slow recovery from an operation.
committed suicide in Denver.
Manager OF Revenue Clair ]. Pitcher
of Denver has taken in $1.5O0.OOO
since he inaugurated the collection of
taxes this year
At a meeting of the Montezuma
County Farm Bureau held at Cortez,
it was decided to standardize the po-'
tato crop for 1917.
A shipment of 396 boxes of frosted
oranges. consigned from California.
were seized at Trinidad by the Unit
ed States marshals office.
Jay Dee Hollingshead, 25 years old.
former resident of Denver. died in
Monte Vista. where he was extensive
ly interested in farming.
The date of Denver's fourteenth an
nual automobile show has been
changed from the week of March 13
to the week of March 90
The funeral of the Rev. George NJ.
barley. 20. pioneer preacher of the
| Western slope of Colorado, who died
at Alamosa, was held in Denver.
Governor and Mrs Julius C. Gunter.
accompanied by number of legisla-
tors, left Denver for Fort Collins to
investigate the needs of the Agricul-
tural College.
Oil derricks will soon be rising
along the horizon in Logan county
and the drills will be digging down
into the earth in search of oil close
to Sterling.
George A. Levy, head OF the divi-
sion of efficiency standards OF Pitts
burg, Pa, ia the man who will go to
Denver as chief of the newly created
municipal industrial bureau.
Mrs. Eliza T. Morrison, s4 years
old. mother-in-law of Senator John
Shafroth, died in Denver In the Shat
roth residence at 1897 York street,
where she had lived for the last tif-
teen years.
The fortieth. or ruby. anniversary OF
the Woman's American Baptist Home
Mission Society was observed in Den
YER when the society in Colorado unit
ed with those in forty other states in
the celebration.
The announcement of the passage
by Congress Of the bill forbidding the
Importation Of liquor into dry states
had the effect of starting a deluge of
orders for liquor shipments before the
act becomes a law through the sigma.
ture OF President Wilson.
Declaring that $4,000 a year was
sufficient for him to live on. DR..
Charles e. Chadsey. for more than five
years superintendent OF Denver
schools and now superintendent of
education in Detroit, declined to ac-
cept IN increase Of $4,000.
President Wilson. Secretary OF War
Baker. Maj. III. c. Alpine. head Of the
national Boy Scouts organization, and
Col. Theo. Roosevelt we're invited to
attend funeral services for Col. w. F.
Cody buffalo BilD, which will be
held on May 80 on Lookout noun
tain. according to present plans Of the
w. F. Cody buffalo Bib Memorial
Association.
After submitting a report to the
Department of Labor to the effect
that employment conditions in Colo
RADIO do not warrant the presence of
an organizer, Miss Katherine NJ. Her
ring, sent to Denver by the govern
ment to establish bureau to improve
conditions among women workers,
has given up the office and returned
to Washington.
At Leadville the Fanny Rawlings
Mining Company has received returns
from the carload of ore shipped since
the new lessees began work. This
car contained 45,643 net pounds OF
ore that run little over an ounce in
gold, little over thirty-two ounces
in silver and ass per cent in copper
and making a net value after deduct
ing treatment charges and freight oi
$55.S1 per ton.
The Wellington Mines Company is
sinking it's two shafts steadily. Wher
the main shaft reaches the proposed
new No. level. the bottom of the
shaft will be approximately 1000 feet
below the outcrop of the main vein
Fifty tons of good grade lead concen
trates were shipped from the proper
ty to the sampler at Breckenridge
The mine continues to be heavy
shipper of zinc ore concentrates.
Insurance circles in Denver were
agog when the rumor got about tina;
Arlington Fincher of Breckenridge
was to be named by Governor Guntel
to be insurance commissioner to sue
mood forIner ianf Coy Z r Harnar