The Elk Mountain pilot., 1918-02-14
CENTENNIAL STATE rTx1u.

The Northern Colorado Packing
Company is erecting concrete build
Ing at Loveland.
The residence of George 7. Rogers
In Englewood was burned. The loss
Is more than $4,000.
Bank deposits in Pueblo showed an
Increase of nearly $5.000.0O0 for 1917
over the preceding year.
There were approximately 30,000.-
900 feet of timber cut In Colorado last
year outside of the national forests.
Henry Harrison of Canon City re-
GENTLY marketed Poland-China hog
weighing 1876 pounds. for which he re-
ceived $3.50.
In the Castle Rock district Charles
Curtis killed coyote which had only
three legs. 1t had lost one in some
scrimmage or trap.
The Voorhies memorial gate at Den
yer civic center will be placed in the
Bates triangle at West Colfax avenue
and Cleveland place.
Mrs. D. T. Premo of Manitou claims
the state record for knitting. her time
being complete sweater in six hours
and forty-five minutes.
The operation of two passenger
trains on the Rock Island were discon-
tinued and other changes made in
schedules effective Feb. 12
Pueblo has probably furnished the
youngest soldier with the American
expeditionary forces in France. name
ly Bybee Baird, IA years old.
VIM. E. Sweet and Lieut.. Paul G.
Hurlburt Of Denver have arrived
somewhere in France" according to
messages received by Denver rela-
tives.
Adjutant General Frank D. Baldwin
received a telegram from the War De-
partment saying there we're no Colo
RADIO troops aboard the transport Tus-
cania.
Elmer Richardson, who few days
ago at La Junta killed his wife and
then shot himself near the heart, is
dead. after lingering in hospital and
apparently improving.
The date of holding Johnstown's an
cided upon. though a committee has
taken. up the matter of raising funds
and considering a program.
w. L. Cunningham Of Colorado
Springs, who enlisted In the coast ar
tillery, suffered shattered knee in
an accident and Is confined in the base
hospital at the Presidio. San Fran
cisco.
Announcement is made by the food
administration of the appointment Of
Judge John C. Bell Of Montrose to be
a member of the commission that will
investigate the cost of producing
sugar beets.
American Beet Sugar Company de-
clared dividend Of 8 per cent on COM
mon stock for the year, payable in
quarterly installments Of per cent.
the first payable April 30 to stock of
record April IA.
Mrs. J. v. (Fanchon) Rose. princi-
pal witness in the prosecution against
Frank H. Mulligan and Philip Cohen.
the two men indicted by the Adams
county grand jury. disappeared, It was
reported In Denver.
The annual winter outing of the
Colorado Mountain Club will be held
at Fern Lake. Rocky Mountain Nation
al park, from Friday. Feb. 21. to Mon
day. Feb 20. Skating. tobogganing
and snow shoeing are on the program.
The Great Western Sugar Company
paid its salaried employees q 20 per
cent bonus for the year ending Feb.
2S. There are about 1000 to partici-
pate. About 5000 men who worked
by the day received a bonus of 40
cents per day. For 1918, slightly
different plan will be followed. The
extra pay will be 10 per cent and will
be paid quarterly.
Alvah L. Carper. Il years old. must
pay his 19-year-old bride. Ruth Jones
Carper. temporary alimony to the
amount of SIS month, in addition to
attorneys fees and court costs. by
order of Judge Butler in the Denver
District Court.
C. D. Spivak, secretary of the Jew
ish Consumptives' Relief Society and
long conspicuously identified with the
so-called Peoples Council for Peace"
which has been kicked out of several
cities and has been booted about In
Denver from one secret meeting place
to another because of its alleged pro-
German sympathies and propaganda,
refused to pledge his loyalty to the
United States.
Following canvass of the hotels
and restaurants, Mr.. Lucas, chairman
of the hotel and restaurant division
in Denver, issued an order making
breakfast the meatless meal and the
evening meal wheatless Under the
order meat may not be served between
civ and alavep O'CLOCK for hrea kfaaf