The Elk Mountain pilot., 1917-10-11

y Nov. 13-1s-Automobile Show at Dem
Noy. 22-24-RuraI School Conference in
Denver.
Pueblo young women are now run
ming elevators.
Railroad depot at La Veta is being
built thirty feet larger.
Campaign to conserve food in Colo
rado to be undertaken soon.
Oct II is the date set for final en-
trainment OF Pueblo drafted men.
Farmers in two dry farm districts
raise money to pay school teachers.
The shaft house Of the Nushaft coal
mine at Coal Creek was destroyed by
fire.
Pueblo county exemption board re-
fuses to call leper for examination for
draft.
Nearly thousand carloads of pota-
toes have already been shipped out of
the San Luis valley.
Ed. D. Foster of Greeley has been
named commissioner of the State
Board of immigration.
Franklin X. Lane, secretary of the
interior, visited Denver and the Rocky
Mountain National Park.
1t Is said the permanent war price
of beet sugar will be $S.05 and of cane
sugar $8.45 a hundred in Denver.
The first annual fair held at Otis
under the auspices Of the merchants
and farmers OF that section was a big
success.
C. French. inventor of the sagebrush
plow. announces that a contract has
been let for the building of a factory
at Craig.
Joseph Seygal, 27. Austrian. died at
MinneQua hospital in Pueblo from in
1uries received while at work at the
steel works.
Attaches Of the new bureau Of voca-
tional education for the mountain dis
trict are expected to arrive in Denver
within the next six weeks.
The Akron Oil Company. with prop
critics in the vicinity of Akron, reports
1t has discovered oil sand on its place
at depth of 1.670 feet.
Twenty-three of the forty aliens who
filed application for final citizenship
papers were admitted by Judge Robert
Court in Denver.
John Rudolph was sentenced to
serve from twenty-three to forty
years in the state penitentiary by
Judge ]. E. Rizer at Pueblo after be-
ing found guilty Of seduction.
Miss Anne Shuler. dean Of women in
the University of Denver, was in Chi
cago attending q conference or war
council of Y. w. c. A. workers and
college professors and presidents.
Mrs. Catherine scarpino. a Denver
bride of less than q year. who became
a wife while she was IT. has filed suit
for divorce in the District Court, al
leging that her marriage was against
her will.
A convention of delegates from sew
enteen local unions of the United Mine
Workers of America, mostly unions In
the southern part of the state, has
been called to be held in Pueblo
Oct. Is.
Plans for mine buildings and plants
to replace those destroyed by the re-
cent fire are being prepared for the
Catherine Gold Mining Company. OF
general manager.
The Flagler Oil and Gas Company
has been organised for the purpose of
developing oil lands in eastern Colo
RADIO. The company is incorporated
for 100000 and its principal hold
ings are near Flagler.
Judgments totaling S4.100 and vary
ing from 355 to $500 were entered by
District Judge Dennison in Denver
against twenty-six stockholders Of the
defunct Austin Consolidated Candy
Company.
AS the elimination Of fifteen years.
quiet charitable work in his home
town. A. e. Humphreys. oil millionaire
and philanthropist OF Denver. is soon
to establish a home for aged women.
costing about $4,000, 900. in Charleston,
w. Va.
One more town-F1orence-is now
on the list Of cities In which the
unique trio headed by the burglar Ber-
ger alias Mcdonald. operated with the
active assistance of twin boys aged IL
wears. It was at Florence they we're
finally captured.
Edward Hunter, formerly supertn-
tendent of the Square Deal mine at
Frisco, Summit county. has taken
charge of the famous Matchless prop
esty on Fryer hill. Leadville. and has
started the work of getting the shaft
INTO shape for operation.
7 Meyer Friedkin. leader of I. w. W..
agitators in the Denver district. and
Charles r. Jacobs. former secretary OF
1. W. w. headquarters, 203 Railroad
building, were given hearing before
Judge Wilbur F. Stone. United States
commissioner, in Denver. They were