The Elk Mountain pilot., 1917-02-22

merchant. miner and ranchman, is
dead
Six arrests were made at Pueblo in
connection with the killing of Mich
olas venezio. taxicab driver
Robert E. Palm, 32nd degree Ma
son, died of paralysis at the home of
Andrew Misner in Castle Rock.
Potato raisers in the Fort Collins
district are holding out for $3.75 per
cwt., with 900 carloads on hand.
Farmers in the neighborhood of
Rocky Ford are signing contracts to
raise cucumbers for the Pickle Com
pany.
Chalor1er B. Schley, leader in soci-
ETY. of Denver and Colorado Springs,
died at Colorado Springs after an ex-
tended Illness
C. NJ. Sutherland. 60, of Salina. ten
miles west of Boulder, dropped dead
Just after saluting his partner. Mrs.
Mabel Ardourel, in Money Musk.
Residents OF La Plata county have
petitioned the Postoffice Department
for the creation of rural route
along the Pine river, Texas creek and
Wallace gulch districts.
Judge R. E. Lewis signed the de-
cree of foreclosure on the property of
the Colorado Midland Railroad Com
pany, which earlier in the week he
ordered sold on April 21st.
The Red Mountain district promises
to be exceptionally active during the
coming year. Extensive plans have
been prepared for the development of
the Congress and st. Paul mines.
The first OF the 81 and 81 legal
tender notes recently issued by the
Treasury Department were received
by Rowland X. Goddard, United
States secret service agent in Denver.
Aspen authorities are considering
the proposition of securing complete
title to the Wheeler Opera House
building for the city and then convert
ing it into a city hall and fire sta
ton.
Sugar took the biggest jump in
price since the European war started,
in Denver Saturday. 1t advanced Soc
per 100 pounds. making the price for
beet sugar $500 hundred and cane
sugar sS.40.
The Denver Wheat exchange re-
sumed its quotations on wheat, which
were discontinued soon after the dip
lomatic break with Germany because
of the violent fluctuations in the Chi
cago market.
The movement of eastbound freight
is daily becoming more difficult, re-
sulting in further restriction of ac-
ceptance OF freight destined to points
east by the Burlington, Rock Island
and Santa Fe railroads.
The Rico Mining Company, backed
by New York capital, owners of prob
ably the largest acreage of patented
mining land in Dolores county, did
considerable work last year and is
now preparing plans to develop its
holdings on Newman hill in thor
ough manner.
Many subjects of vital interest to
the tax assessor and the taxpayer
were discussed at the fifth annual
conference of the Colorado tax COM
mission and the sixty-three county as
SCISSORS in three-day program begin
ming Monday in the auditorium of the
state museum building.
The Vernon mine at Ironton is prov
ing somewhat of a sensation in the
district, and it is reported that there
are very favorable chances of the
smelter, which was started few
years ago on the Mono-Baltic prop
erty, being completed and in opera
tion before the year is out
Present Day Conditions Com
pared with TO- will be the subject
Of DR.. Charles Aubrey Eaton when
that nationally-known minister ad-
dresses the Republicans of Colorado
at the banquet to be given in Denver
in honor of Lincoln and Washington
on the latter patriots birthday.
The Rico-Argentine Company, which
has been driving tunnel under the
workings of the old Black Hawk mine
to tap the large copper deposits of
the latter at much greater depth,
has struck the ore deposit, which the
superintendent states is very promis-
ing, the vein being eight feet thick.
Charles Russell, 35 years old, was
shot and fatally wounded by George
("Tip'') Belcher, alias Williams, said
by the police to be a notorious crook,
during revolver duel in which the
two men engaged in front of hotel
at 111O Nineteenth street in Denver.
He died at the county hospital two
hours later.
Delegates from every town situated
on the Burlington highway will unite
iii an auto run to Burlington. Colo,
some time in May, the exact date to
be selected later. The run from the