The Elk Mountain pilot., 1917-11-29
COLORADO
/, STATE NEWS
Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING EVENTS.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING EvENrs.
Jan. 1s-2s-Livs stock show at Denver.
Longmont is starting n flag pole
fund.
Farmers are urged not to dispose Of
calves
Thirty-five German citizens regis
tered in Pueblo.
Changes to be made in bread prices
to benefit consumer
ing over sites for recuperation camp.
Amzi E. Moyn. 7s years old and a
pioneer of Denver, died in Los An
seles.
The Pueblo city council has appro-
priated $346.o7o for city maintenance
in 1918.
Protests against prices charged for
Colorado Ignite sent to Washington
and increase granted.
Controversy breaks out between fac
ulty and students at Agricultural Col
lege at Fort Collins.
Ten factories of the Great Western
Sugar Company paid the growers $6.-
s52.sos for beets during October.
Former Governor James Hamilton
Peabody died in Denver Friday, sur
rounded by his family and friends.
The Oak Creek reservoir. near
will cost In the neighborhood Of $780,
There has been a remarkable num-
Der Of fatalities this year In the ranks
of old-time settlers OF southern Colo
RADIO.
Denver residents Sunday visited the
capitol to pay their last respects to
former Governor James Hamilton
Peabody.
Coal at Alamosa is now $S25 per
ton for lump and $775 for nut coal.
The price is 75 cents a ton higher
than last winter.
The Denver. Boulder & Western
railway, which has no Denver connec-
tion. except through other lines. is to
attempt to go out of business.
Two carloads of the new municipal
organ for the Denver auditorium have
been shipped from the Wurlitzer fac
tory In North Tonawanda, N. Y.
Over 40.sOO packages of tobacco
have been sent to American soldiers
and sailors abroad by contributors to
the Denver Sammy Smokes fund.
A threshing outfit consisting of a
separator and its equipment. owned by
Walter Saunders. was destroyed by
ffFe. while threshins wheat south Of
Norwood.
Fifty-six comfort kits Of the design
approved by the government has been
sent to a. many boys from Alamosa
county who arc In the service, and
fifteen more.
State authorities have been notified
that the numbers of cattle found lying
dead on the forest ranges above South
park IL far too large for customary
natural causes.
Considerable excitement was caused
in Pueblo by = rumor that the Colum-
bine OIL Company had struck oil At
Wildhorse park. fifteen miles north
west of Pueblo.
Coincident with the announcement
that the building of canning factory
on Beaver Park ID An assured fact
came the further news that Penrose
10 to have electric lights.
A dog with rabies attacked children
playing in the grounds of the Fair.
mount school in Denver. bit two OF
the children and the principal, and
was killed by school boys.
The knights Of Pythias of Colorado
of the official visit to Colorado of
John ]. Brown of vandalia, ILL.,. su'
preme chancellor of the order.
The Five Fields Oil Company OF
Denver. purchased a drilling outfit at
Florence and shipped 1t to Seibert,
where the company will upon the ad-
vice OF biologists do extensive drill.
ing for oil.
Littleton and Englewood were literal
ly rocked by an explosion that was
d. heard for several miles when an en-
ploy6 of the Hercules Powder Com.
pany touched off about 300 pounds OF
giant powder that had been con.
demned.
One of the largest oil shale projects
of Colorado got under way when pa
pers for 10000. 900 corporation were
filed in the name of the Columbia OIL
Shale and Refining Company. The
concern represents capital from Colo.
RADIO, Tennessee and Chicago.
An exhaustive survey of Colorado's
oil possibilities is to be undertaken
by the state Dec. 1, when geologists
and field men hegin the collection of