The Elk Mountain pilot., 1917-03-08

March 2O.-Auto Show at Denver.
| Sept 17-22-Colorado State Fair at Pu-
| eblo.
| Trinidad will install sewer sys-
tenn.
Governor Gunter has signed the
land appraisal bill.
The new Denver Union station il
now a completed structure.
Western Colorado sheep clips are
reported selling at 361a cents.
Nearly 5000 corporations in Colo
RADIO have failed to pay the flat tax.
The new German Congregational
church at Fort Morgan has been form
ally dedicated.
Battery B, Colorado National guard.
was mustered out at Fort D. A. Rus
sell at Cheyenne. Tuesday.
| A reception for the Wyoming and
Colorado troops was held at the state
house in Cheyenne Monday.
Nearly 100000 acres have been
taken up under the new 64o-acre
homestead law since Jan. /.
A jubilee celebrating increasing
prosperity and the growth Of the city
was held by Brighton citizens.
The charge of murder against Stel-
la Newton Moore-Smith is scheduled
to be tried March IL in Denver.
Clarence Cox and w. H. Smith. pro-
prietors of the Wayside Inn at Peters
burg. were arraigned at Littleton and
pleaded not guilty.
A Mexican boy under the age of
16 was tried in the juvenile court at
Loveland and found guilty Of forging
a check for $35.
A record was established during
February for the number OF ~applica-
tions for citizenship filed in Federal
and District Courts in Colorado.
Mrs. william F. Greenwood. whose
husband formerly was a wealthy real
estate dealer of Colorado Springs.
ended her life in Chicago by Jumping
into Lake Michigan.
C. r. Hauser of Denver, national
secretary of the National Indian War
Veterans. was advised by telegraph
that the Indian war veteran pension
bill had been passed.
Representatives OF the beet growing
industry from all parts of the state
will meet in Denver to lay plans for
the proposed fight against the sugar
companies for $8 beets.
Robert Walters. Al, brakeman on
the Moffat road. was killed near Tol-
land, when he slipped between the
couplings and suffered compound
fracture of the skull. He died in
stantly.
The belief that President Wilson will
call the nation to arms within thirty
days has caused officers of the Colo
RADIO National Guard to lay plans for
increasing the numerical strength of
the state units.
The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion has given the Colorado Public
Utilities Commission and the Colora-
do Fair Rates Association an exten
sion of time until April in which to
file their briefs in the Colorado rate
case.
That Colorado during the coming
summer will see the biggest tourist
season in its history. is the opinion Of
Enos Mills, noted naturalist and lee.
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visit to New York, Washington and
other Eastern points.
Sadie Heckart and Miss Sophia
Weber, who resigned their positions at
Minnequa hospital at Pueblo in Jan.
uary last to go as Red Cross nurses
to the European war. have both re-
turned and resumed their former po
sitions, because they reached New
York too late to embark for Europe.
Where formerly the average value
of Georgetown ores was In excess Of
500 per ton. the year 1916 saw the
average drop to $62.71. but what was
lost in values was made up in an in
creased tonnage caused through mill
ing low grade ores which were for
merly thrown over the dumps as
worthless.
With the dismissal of her separate
maintenance suit and the smiultane-
GUS withdrawal of her $25.OOO aliena.
tion action against Mrs. Floy Lyons,
Mrs. Lucille Dawson virtually surren.
ders her husband, Daniel D. Dawson
of Denver, to his confessed affinity"
and paves the way for them to become
man and wife, in accordance with
their announced Intentions.
The Reed rider to the postoffice ap
preparation bill, forbidding shipment
of liquor in interstate commerce into
dry state, and the last-minute
clause delaying the effective date OF
the rider to July 1 next, both were
signed by President Wilson. accord
ing to dispatch received in Denver
This means that present prohibition
laws in Colorado will obtain until
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