The Elk Mountain pilot., 1917-06-28

navy.
Colorado exceeds quota to Red
Cross fund.
Express business in Pueblo shows
big increase.
Ordway has new fire truck and q
new fire chief
Broken pipe line cripples Canon
City water supply.
Second company of Pueblo national
guard is mustered In.
Free transportation of farm hands
is recommended by state labor COM
missioner.
Survey being made in Pine Cliff dis
trict for new road from Arvada to
Nederland
Fifty or more colored men have en-
listed in the Pueblo company of Ma
jor Campbelrs battalion.
Denvers 100000 quota of the. Ma
tional Red Cross fund of $1O0.000.000
was oversubscribed Saturday
Major Barney states that 474 men
are needed to complete Colorado's
quota in the United States army.
The San Luis Valley Masonic Asso
citation held their twenty-third annual
celebration at their park. June 25.
On July gath Boulder will have
special election to choose twenty-one
delegates to city charter convention.
mass meeting was held in the
Denver Auditorium to celebrate the
raising OF 100000 for the Red Cross
fund.
Eight farm owners of Weld county
will be the first Coloradoans to bene-
fit under the governments system of
land loans.
Pueblo Elks are making prepara-
tions to attend the annual national
convention to be held in Boston the
week of July 8.
Ed l.. Doyle, for many years secre-
tary and treasurer OF the United Mine
Workers in District Is, has gone to
work as a miner at Walsenburg.
Mining activity in Colorado is great
ly encouraged by the steady advance
in the quotations for silver, spelter,
lead. copper. tungsten and molybde-
mum.
An echo of the automatically row
at the Colorado School OF Mines came
when the board of trustees failed to re-
elect Howard C. Parmelee as presi-
dent
Pupils in the Colorado Springs
schools will have to pay for pencils.
paper, erasers, rulers. pens and PEN
holders during the coming school
year.
Louis Schwarz of Glenwood
Springs, widely known banker Of the
Western Slope, died in St. Luke's hos
pital, Denver, from the effects of an
operation.
Teller county has raised 21.750 for
the Red Cross and expects to turn In
$4,000 when all towns have been
heard from. The allotment for the
county was $4,000.
Harrison E. Page, "a years old, a
pioneer of Colorado and formerly q
prominent mine operator, died in the
home OF his daughter, Mrs. J. P.
Bridgewater. in Tacoma. Wash.
Grizzled veterans of the Colorado
gold rush in 1s5s-the real pioneers
OF Colorado-together with their
wives, sons and daughters, held their
twenty-sixth annual picnic in Denver.
BY a large and impressive gathering
of the Denver Association of Masonic
Officers the 200th anniversary of the
grand lodge of England was observed
in the Central Presbyterian Church.
That Denver will obtain an army
supply depot through which food and
other supplies may be purchased of
producers and manufacturers of the
state becomes every day more proba-
BILE.
Cripple Creek dividends for the
first half of 1917, without counting
probable dividend from the United
Gold Mines Company-and making no
allowance for leasers or close cor
porations- up $1.312.941.42.
Blacksmiths and helpers employed
on the Denver & Rio Grande system
in Colorado and Utah went on a strike
following failure to secure an adjust
ment of a demand for an increase in
wages. About 200 men Joined in the
strike.
The city council of Boulder has
granted permission to the Denver &
1nterurban Company to remove its
tracks from Pearl street and Twelfth
street, and to operate its, cars along
the Colorado & Southern right of way
into the Boulder depot.
Through the Department of Com.
merce at Washington the Pueblo
Commerce Club has received sugges.
tions for relieving the car shortage
and freight congestion.
The reports of geologists and 9th
ers regarding the oil shale lands OF