The Elk Mountain pilot., 1917-04-26

Canon City citizens plan means OF
increasing potato crop.
Residents of Pueblo outline plan for
home gardens at meeting.
Voluntary poll tax for women is
Denver woman's war scheme.
Arkansas valley farmers pay fancy
prices for thoroughbred stock.
Farmers of Arkansas valley will
break farming records this year.
Denver Cigarmakers ask 81 more
per thousand for making smokes.
Warden lyman imports Peruvian
corn seed for experiment in high alti-
tudes
Millers announced another jump in
the price of flour. raising the retail
figure to $5.95 and $605 hundred.
1t is estimated that more than 20.-
900 acres of virgin sod near Num- will
be turned over by tractor plows this
year.
The Cripple Creek district operators
have launched campaign for explora-
ton of the deeper mineral zone" in
the SlipPiC SlSeh uISllISk thIS cBi MS
The camping ground of the Young
Mems Christian Association in Estes
park has been offered to the women
OF Denver for the woman's training
camp.
Homeopathic physicians of Denver
met to arrange the program for the
annual meeting of the Colorado Home
opathic Society, which convenes
June II.
The Jane Jefferson Club at its reg
uiar meeting in Denver, indorsed ma
tion-wide prohibition as war meas
country.
Guadaloupe Fernandez. Mexican
miner employed at the Argo tunnel OF
the Moffat Coal Company in OaE
Creek, was found dead in one of the
rooms in the mine.
A dispatch from West Point says a
Denver boy. Daniel Noce. %, is one of
the first ten men selected for general
merit in the class which will be gradu-
ated from the military academy.
The find made in the Ontario in
Iowa gulch, Leadville district, is hold
ing up well. Three carloads of rich
ore have been sent out in as many
weeks since the big shoot was
entered.
Two strong sets of resolutions, call
ing upon Colorado's congressman to
swing into line and give up their op-
position to the President in his eff
forts toward preparedness We're
passed in Denver.
Denver national banks, members OF
the Clearing House Association. SUBJ
scribed to approximately $1,000. 900 OF
the 5000, 100000 short-term notes to be
issued by the government to meet its
temporary financial needs.
Persons who have recently filed on
homestead land or who have not yet
obtained a patent to it, may be free
to Join some branch of military serv-
ice without fear of losing ownership
through absence therefrom.
Members of the Sigma Upsilon Sor-
Greeley voted to abandon all social ac-
tivities until after the war was fin
ished and devote their energies
toward assisting in Red Cross work
An eugenic baby show, exhibits of
infants clothing, homemade toys and
baby furnishings, lectures on baby
health and welfare and exhibitions
and demonstrations dealing with ev-
cry phase of the baby's existence, will
be features of Baby Week." which
will be observed in Denver beginning
Adit Gen. Frank D. Baldwin and his
military staff have accepted an invi-
tation to be present at the ball to be
given by the Jane Jefferson Club at
El Jebel temple in Denver May 1 for
the benefit of the women's volunteer
fund for the assistance of Colorado
National Guard recruits.
George Britton's place in Denver,
where James Z. Tressel was killed a
month ago, received its second visit
from the police when detectives of
the bootlegging squad descended on
the house and removed Britton, four
Barrels of beer and trunk of whis-
key. Britton was released under bond.
Death in environments of abject
poverty came to Mrs. Isabella Patter-
son Springer one-time noted beauty
of Denver, for a number of years an
international social favorite, the di-
vorced wife of John W. Springer. mil
lionaire. The end came in an open
ward of Blackwell's Island hospital,
New York.
April pay checks for the yard men
and other men who are paid on an
hourly basis by the Denver & Rio
Grande railroad hereafter will contain
extra compensation due under the
agreement reached recently between
nfficials of the cnmnanY and the en-