The Elk Mountain pilot., 1918-05-30

COMING EVENTS.
July s-13-Meeting National Assooia-
JUN JUN II asoRepSblsah cGsersG en State m % convcn
Sept. 2s-2s-Colorado State Fair at
James Etchells. SO years old. was
electrocuted in Marshall mine No. 2
at Boulder.
Denver and Colorado went away
above the quotas fixed in the Red
Cross drive.
The Federal Food Administration
asks that the 1917 crop Of pinto beans
be marketed by June 1.
School census in Ell Paso county to-
tails 1885 persons between the ages
of and 81 years.
The dancing pavilion at Nederland.
owned by George Baker. was de-
stroyed by fire. The loss is $4,000.
Putting in casing has been the work
the past few days at the oil well at
Kiowa and drilling is to be resumed.
Lieut.. Paul Wubben of Colorado
Springs was among those reported
killed by accident in Fridays casualty
list.
Already the federal authorities are
planning to boost for increase of stor-
age facilities in western Colorado this
year.
Two hundred and thirteen seniors Of
Denver University received their diplo-
mas at the annual graduation exer-
cises.
The seventeen large hotels in the
Rocky Mountain National Park will 60
ON . wheatless basis for the summer
season.
Twenty cans Of young trout from
state fish Matching tanks at Buena
Vista have been liberated In creeks OF
Custer county.
Plateau Oh Shale Company has been
organised at Grand Junction to devel-
op $500 acres Of oil land nine miles
south Of Colbran.
The boys of Silver Cliff and West
cliffe have organized . military COM
pany and can be seen out in drill prac-
tice almost every evening.
Forty officers q the Colorado Ma
tional Guard and 12O sergeants and
corporals will go into training during
June at the rifle range near Golden.
At meeting of the Farmers Nom
partioan League at Mead. $3.50 was
subscribed to the Red Cross. the mon
sy to be sent through the Weld county
organization.
Alva L Wright of Durango was &C.
Quilted on the charge of having made
threats against President Wilson. in =
verdict read in United States District
Court in Denver.
The Fort Logan military band will
furnish the music for the Red Cross
ball to be given at El Jebel Temple
June s under the auspices Of the st.
Jossph's hospital nurses.
The convict crew II still at work on
the Poudre cahon road in Larimer.
They are nearing completion Of the
big nArrows In the most difficult Sec
tions of the entire road.
Monte Vista flour min has been do
ing It's best the past month grinding
flour for shipment overseas. A $500
barrel order for the Y. n. G. A. in
France has been finished.
Albert Combs. Denver boy who IL
with the Canadian aviation forces in
France. b reported to have been In
5ursd n . flight In midair In which
his plane was set on fire.
Chris Bisterfeldt. the Fort Collins
man who was painted and feathered
recently by q crowd of men who
charged him with disloyal utterances.
has disappeared. together with his
family.
FEDERAL or state action in suppress
ing bootlegging in mining camps In
southern Colorado fields may be taken
q the result OF . conference OF Off
cials held in the office of Governor
Gunter.
the army, Wesley b. Wentworth. has
been seriously wounded in France. ac-
cording to Gen. Pershing's casualty
list. Wentworth enlisted at the age
Of II last May.
A switch locomotive cut off the loft
foot Of Peter Maffeo. 40 years old, q
section hand on the Colorado 4 South
ern railroad. The accident occurred
on the railroads right of way at Sixth
street in Denver.
Plans for calling . special session
Of the Colorado Legislature during
July or August to pass legislation al
lowing soldiers away from tho state to
vote at local and state elections were
discussed at the capitol.
Through efforts OF the Denver Tour
list bureau cooperating with church Of
ficials In the West the 1919 meeting OF
the Northern Baptist convention will
be held in Denver. the 1918 convention
In Atlantic City decided.
The need of protective tariffs on