The Elk Mountain pilot., 1917-05-03

June 21-22-Christian Endeavor Con-
vention at Salida.
Aug. National Convention of Afri-
can Race at Denver.
Sept; 17-22-Colorado State Fair at Pu-
eblo.
Buena vista's Chautauqua will be
held this year on June Is to %.
Another Y. M. C. A. building cost
ing $225,0OO assured for Pueblo
Over 100000 insurance to be paid
relatives of Hastings mine victims.
One hundred and forty students at
School of Mines at Golden go on
strike.
United States soldiers arrive at
Trinidad to guard city and company
property.
Pueblo Relief Corps No. presented
large flag to the Cedarview school
at Grimaldi.
M. ]. Wicklem of Allison in Durango
district sold eighty-six sheep to ]. C.
Roberts for $3.50.
The appropriation for the Mesa
Verde National Park for this year was
increased to 100000.
bers of the French commission have
been invited to visit Denver.
Pueblo's fire department will do
their bit the coming summer by
planting truck gardens and growing
flowers.
Canon City's contribution to relief
work among the inhabitants of Asiatic
Turkey during the past year has been
$164.
Pueblo expects to send 200 men to
the mems banquet at the annual state
Sunday School convention at Colorado
Springs May 1920.
The farmers of Montezuma county
have completed the organization Of
three pest districts for the systematic
eradication of prairie dogs.
There are now eighty Huerfano
county men signed up awaiting the
official call from Washington to enlist
in the United States cavalry.
Flour advanced so cents in Denver
Saturday. bringing the sale price of
popular Colofado-made brands to
$6.45 and $685. a hundred pounds.
The open season in running
streams for trout and grayling. not
less than seven inches in length, will
begin May 25th and end Oct. 31st.
After long negotiations between its
various towns and villages, Huerfano
county has engaged county agricul-
tural agent. His name is Kidder.
An immense lime deposit, contain
ing from thirty-five to forty million
tons of lime rock, has been uncovered
at ,Wellsville in Fremont county.
The canning factory at Crowley has
been wired and electric lights placed
throughout the building preparatory
to the handling OF the seasons crop.
The death of the men who were
killed in the explosion at the Hastings
mine of the Victor-American Fuel
Company, are the first losses since
1915.
Mrs. Emma Tolman East, Denver
writer and manager of the Greater
Colorado Bureau of the Civic Associa-
tion, instituted suit for divorce from
j. ii. East
The crop-extension committee of the
Canon City Chamber of Commerce
has hit upon the novel idea of organ
izing potato clubs among the resi-
dents of that city.
Attorney General Leslie E. Hubbard
with his deputy, Bertram Beshoar, de-
parted for Trinidad to start an investi-
CATION of the causes surrounding the
min icp tnr at IInc tine
Silverton and the surrounding
camps are living up to the predictions
made earlier in the year regarding in
creased shipments and brilliant fu-
ture for the mining industry.
Colorados National guard may be
among the first United States troops
to enter the trenches in Europe and
to carry the flag of the republic into
the great battlefields of the war.
Women of Colorado are to organize
a regiment of infantry differed and
commanded by. women, which they
will offer to the nation in any capac-
ity desired, even to going into the
field and fighting.
The Montrose land office has an
nounced that there are now close to
5000 acres of land in the high land
project section now subject to entry
A large number of entries have not
been approved and the land must be
filed on again.
That Ouray still ranks high as a
county of mining opportunities is evil
denced by the fact that as spring ap-
Drcaphes now MINING prpiacts ORC no
ing launched that presages a coming
season of mining activity such as
| Ouray has not witnessed of late years.
The Gold Rock Cor Springdale)'
mine in Russell gulch has been leased