The Elk Mountain pilot., 1917-03-15

Denver is to have a fine municipal
organ.
Ben Hurmore. 2S, formerly of Butte
Mont, killed himself in Denver
rooming house
President Wilson is reported con
sidering e. p. Costigan of Denver for
place on the Tariff Board.
A rifle shoot, to rouse interest in
better preparedness along these lines,
Day.
Pueblo police were asked to assist
in the search for an escaped convict
registered at the institution under the
name Of Bridges.
Thomas Hale Potter, one of the
early settlers of Central City and for
merly prominent banker and mining
man, died in Detroit.
Il. X. Harper. who recently resigned
as state insurance commissioner. left
for New York, from which place he
will sail for Dutch Guiana
The Wayside Inn, a roadhouse west
OF Englewood, will soon close perma-
nently, according to District Attorney
Samuel w. Johnson of Littleton.
Pueblo police have been asked to
locate man who wrote a check on
a defunct bank and then had the
nerve TO pass 1t in business trans
action.
Several Greeley men have organized
company to prospect and drill for oil
in the vicinity of Greeley, under the
name, the Platte River Oil and Gas
Company.
Edwin Gaylord. formerly OF Denver,
has secured a five-year lease on the
Forest Queen group, adjoining the Jer-
ry Johnson at Cripple Creek, and has
commenced work.
At Creede four-foot vein OF lead
ore has been encountered on the 500
foot level of the Park Regent, which
is under lease to the Creede Mines
and Milling Company.
Changes are pending in the railway
mail service in and out of Denver in
pursuance of the plan of the Post
office Department to reorganize the
service throughout the country.
Mrs. Sarah Edwards Quinn. mother
of Mrs. NJ. V. Gallaher, one of the
pioneer settlers OF the Vineland dis
trict, died at the home of her daugh-
ter. Mrs. Edward S. Warner, Rock
vale. Mont.
Operations in the Portland mine dur.
ing the last year have opened up an
ore shoot over 1000 feet in length at
depth of 1900 feet, and other large
ore bodies have been encountered in
the property.
At a meeting of the board of trus-
tees OF. the State School of Mines at
Golden it was voted to accept the gen
| eral invitation to join the federation
Of colleges in behalf of the war pre-
| paredness movement
The members of Battery b of the
Colorado National Guard are to be
given warm welcome at reception
and dance which the mothers of the
members of the battery will give at
Ell Jebel in Denver ON March Is.
At Denver hoter 200 Sons of Colo
RADIO gathered for the first of series
of historical banquets. message oi
| loyalty was dispatched to President
Wilson. Former Governor Alva Ad
ans made the principal address.
Four times around the world and
| half way around on the fifth trip is
the achievement of Bernard Swacken
berg, the Oldest mail carrier of the
Pueblo force. who celebrated his sew
enty-second birthday anniversary.
Fifty per cent net profit is the rec
ord of the work done by the BOYS ant
Girls Clubs of Colorado during the
past year The net profit on the
things they produced, according. to fig
ures issued by the department., was
$5.SO7S9.
decided to be candidate at the com
ing election by the national society o
the Daughters of the American Revo
luton for the vice presidency of the
order. The election will be held il
Washington in April. e.
Belief that the limitation of $4,000
by Congress for the Rocky Mountain
| I>dllOudi L arm VIII De ielioNeu at lllt
next regular session of Congress was
expressed by F. j. Chamberlin, heat
of the Denver Tourist Bureau, who
returned from Washington.
Half lifetime spent in prospecting
in Colorado hills has brought its re
ward, not in gold or silver. but in oil
and today Matt Callahan, 60-yearold
Debeque miner, finds himself owner OF
a 3,500-acre tract of oil shale land, the
value of which is estimated at mil
lions.
The Mountain States Lumber Deal
ers' Association has contributed S1,06I
to date to the fund organized by Her
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