The Elk Mountain pilot., 1917-02-08

| $4,000.
Colorado has total area of 66,341,'
120 acres of land, of which 16,649 ,3S1
is grazing land. 2,1So,64O irrigated
land and 324,9S3 acres coal land.
The. state of Colorado has 14,90S.-
127 acres of land open for entry,
13,094,97S acres of forest reserve and
total valuation of s1,211 .697,27S.
Mary e. Lathrop has been admitted
to practice in the United States Su-
preme Court, the first woman attorney
in Colorado to receive that privilege.
Articles of incorporation of the
Buck Aerial Craft Corporation. capi-
talized at s3.O00,000, were filed with
Secretary of State Noland in Denver
Between s2,OOO,OOO and sS.OOO,0OO
will be realized for the building of
good roads in Colorado as the result
of action taken in the United States
Senate.
Feeling is running high at Fort Col
Inns over the killing by an unidenti-
fled motorist of A. T. GillSison. 60. pio-
neer of this section and widely known
mining man.
Colorado has 1.060,697 range cattle.
worth s41.753,O53; 101,232 milch cows
worth s6,723.117; 3O7,902 horses val
ued at $21, 1,716,479, and 1,050,1O5 sheep
worth s5.0S9.S73.
The United States civil service COM
mission announces an examination for
the position OF genera mechanic" in
the custodian service, TO be held in
Denver. Feb. 2S.
Depressing effect on the Boulder
and San Juan tungsten fields is pre-
dicted at Boulder as a result of news
received that Portugal has raised her
embargo on the black metal.
The taking of evidence in the peti-
ton of the Colorado Fair Rates Asso-
citation to the interstate commerce
commission, in which the Colorado
public utilities commission Joined,
asking for readjustment of the rates
in the Denver territory. have been con.
cluded.
Suits aggregating $4,000 have been
filed in the District Court at Golden
on a change of venue from Summit
county against the Colorado & South
ern Railway Company for damages al
legged to have been caused four pas
sengers as a result of the big snow OF
Dec. 4, 1913.
Charged with the embezzlement of
$17993 of the funds of the Colorado
Tungsten Mines Company, information
was filed in the West Side court OF
Denver against DR.. w. NJ. Long, for.
mer president, and H. E. Jones, for
mer vice president of the company.
Both defendants live in Boulder.
L. NJ. Kaufman, &c, and Edward
Lee, %, arrested when they attempted
to hold up Night Marshal Virgil Ste
vens at Littleton, were identified by
NJ NJ Post and jeremiah Mccarthy,
Denver Tramway trainmen, as the pair
who held them up at the end OF the
Argo car line on the night of Jan. 20.
Contracts were signed for the deliv-
cry OF 5000 head of fall lambs at $40
per hundred, the highest price ever
paid for lambs in the history of sheep
| feeding in the Arkansas valley. The
order was placed with a Las Animas
sheep grower and as far as known ex-
]
unborn lambs.
Eli Mace, one of the two bank rob
bers who held up and robbed the
/ Stockmen's National Bank at Brush,
on Dec. IS, and obtained $4,000, at
tempted to commit suicide in the Nor
gan county jail at Fort Morgan on the
eve of his departure for Canon City to
/ serve sentence of from twenty IN
twenty-five years.
The entangled affairs of Alfred Null
| Ter, formerly secretary of the Nation
al Jewish Hospital for Consumptives,
whose death in August, 1911, revealed
that for a period of almost ten years
| he had converted to his own use nu-
merous funds which had been entrust-
ed to him, will again be probed into
bye the Denver courts.
Potatoes have become an actual
rival of the apple. The retail price
on potatoes has jumped % cents per
| hundred weight in Denver. All the
purchaser gets now for a two-bit
piece is six pounds The advance is
from 1925 to $3.50 per hundred
pounds for white and $3.50 to s3.75
for reds. Dealers say the Greeley
producers are receiving Sass per hun.
dredweight and are holding out for
more. 1t is predicted that before
prices drop potatoes will go to IS per
hundred in Denver.
The deportation of aliens from the
Denver district has been ordered sus.