The Elk Mountain pilot., 1917-03-22

election April to decide whether the
\ town Of Estes Park shall be incorpor-
1xted.
Loveland churches and Sunday.
schools have started campaign to
have 500 men in the Sunday schools
by Easter
Announcement was received in Den
yer that E. L. Brown has resigned as
president Of the Minneapolis & st.
Louis railroad
Thorndike Deland will vacate tho
position of secretary of the Denver
Civic Association April to engage in
private business.
Loyal Irishmen throughout Denver
and the state will Join In feasting and
celebration in honor of st. Patrick. pa
tron saint Of Ireland.
A convention of the United Mine
Workers Of America for District Is,
which John R. Lawson had called for
Pueblo, has been abandoned.
Seventy-five men are now enrolled
in the citizens training class and are
drilling twice a week regularly at the
military headquarters in Denver.
April 7th has been decided upon
for the annual state meeting and elec-
ton Of officers for the Colorado divi-
sion. Travellers Protective Associa-
tion.
A coroner's Jury in Littleton re-
turned verdict ordering John Peter
Whitson of Logantown to be held for
the murder of his wife. Mrs. Allie
Whitson.
Last month was the banner month
for the Rico mining industry as there
has not been such q large amount of
ore shipped from that city in one
month for twenty-four years.
James E. Tressel OF Denver died
in the county hospital of injuries in
flicted six hours earlier, when he was
mistaken by alleged bootleggers for a
police stool pigeon" and beaten and
strangled.
Mrs. James B. Grant. society and
club woman of Denver, has been
named by the state chapter Of the
Daughters of the American Revolu-
ton, to succeed Mrs. Charles Thomas,
as national vice president. resigned.
The women of Ouray, dissatisfied
with ticket placed in nomination for
city officers by men at a caucus, have
made up ticket of their own. Most
OF the candidates are men, but the
women call 1t their own ticket.
The Indians Of Colorado, remark
ably abstemious, have a clean record
for the past yedr as law-abiding resi-
dents, according to the annual report
of the commissioner of Indian affairs.
copy OF which has been received by
Henry Larson, special inspector in
charge of the Denver Indian Bureau.
Despite the fact that the second
contingent of Colorado troops we're
four hours late in arriving in Denver,
the reception accorded them was such
as to put real zest into the cheers
given by the troopers for the recep
ton committee at the conclusion of
the dinner served at the state house.
Corporal James F. Logsdon. a men,
ber of the signal corps of the Colo
RADIO National Guard. has been highly
praised for his bravery in saving the
life of woman entrapped in a blaz-
ing hotel and probably will be recon-
mended for medal by Gen C. G. Nor
ton of the United States border forces.
The mill record of the United States
Gold Corporation, Boulder county
shows that in 1916, 16,459 tons of ore
were treated. The average recovery
Of values was S5 per cent. with the
product in the form of bullion on
which there were no further deduc-
tions, as 1t was turned directly into
the mint.
III people In Denver generally
knew how to grow potatoes they could
save themselves, in the aggregate,
100000 this summer" said P. L.
Clarke, principal OF the Berkeley
school. suburban agriculturist and
garden expert and enthusiast, who is
at present engineering number of
horticultural schemes for lowering
the high cost OF living-summer liv-
ing at least-in Denver.
Leadville, the leading ore district
of Colorado in both tonnage and val
ues, opens the season of 1917 with a
strike of rich ore, described as the
largest in the district during the last
ten years, not forgetting the wonder
full body of gold-copper ore revealed in
the Ibex-Garbutt groups, by the Cat
tellini lease, in the spring of 1915
The scene of the new strike is the
Ontario tunnel, near the head of Iowa
gulch.
A number OF. senators expressed
thein INDIGNATION in Denver upOn
learning that the prov of the cruiser
Colorado given to Colorado by the fed
eral government as relic has re-