The Elk Mountain pilot., 1918-08-01
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS.

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Churchill and w. X. Lockhart for
lieutenant governor; James R. Noland
for secretary of state: Chas. H. Leck-
enby for state treasurer; Thos. T.
Barnard and John w. Mcmahon for
state auditor; Leslie E. Hubbard and
Chas. E. Friend for attorney general;
Mrs. Mary C. C. Bradford for superin-
tendent of public instruction; Ernest
Morris and Arthur King for regents.
Justice S. Harrison White for Su-
preme Court judges.
Good reports come from Wet Noun
tain valley mines near Westcliffe. In
the south drift on the Herman claim
of the Passiflora company. at a depth
of 300 feet large body of ore has
been cut and run into for some dis
tance. 1t is reported about twelve feet
wide with one wall not yet encounter
ed. Dick Myers, working block of
ground on the Herman claim under a
lease, has opened up a promising
streak of ore. 1t is ten inches wide
and an average sample assayed ran
1O7 ounces silver. per ton.
Charles P. Brown, 2S, an express
messenger for the Wells Fargo Com
pany, was arrested by trio of Den
yer detectives as he was returning to
Denver from Cheyenne, where he said
he had spent the best time in his life.
He is charged with taking $4,000 from
the express company July IA. When
searched at the city hall 1928 was in
his pocket. Mamie Newcomb. 45, who
il said to have accompanied him on
the Cheyenne trip. also was arrested.
The first service star to be placed on
the sexvice flag of the Mountain States
Telephone and Telegraph Company for
q woman employ& was added when Le-
nora Anita Chance, chief service OBJ
server, left for New York City. Miss
Chance has been selected for work ~
long distance operator in France.
and expects to sail after a short course
in training at school in New York
City.
Every baby in Denver is to b
weighed and measured before Sept. I.
This will be done by means Of house
toulouse canvass. under the auspices
of the Parent-Teacher Association. and
10 because Of the governments desire
to obtain a census of all children uD
der years of age.
The White River well, west of Meek.
er, which was drilled through thirty
feet of oil-saturated sand, will be
drilled to the deeperisa and q thor
ough test made of the White River
officers of the company.
Governor Gunter delivered an ad-
dress Of welcome to a large audience
of Gideons Of America. the Christian
Commercial Traveller Association,
and their friends at the evening SEES
sion in the Central Christian Church
in Denver.
Another veteran of the hardy days
of the frontier when Colorado his.
tory was being made has left Denver
forever. for John G. Fleming died At
the age of 72 years from a sudden par
alytic stroke, at his home. 1866 Colo
RADIO boulevard, Denver.
Fifteen members of the 18th COM
pany Of engineers at Fort Logan. en-
trained for a nearby cantonment. They
were followed shortly after by forty
medical corps men from the fort,
whose destination was not made pub
lie.
The Modoc Company. operating the
mine of the same name. through the
deal closed In Chicago. will assume
the operating also of the Last Dollar.
according to Cripple Greek officers OF
the company.
Real Pullman cars with three mon
in a section was the fortune OF the
1927 Denver boys who departed from
the Union station for their military
training at Camp Travis, San Antonio.
Tex.
1t is thought the Boulder-Denver line
of the Denver Interurban railroad will
be saved from the junk pile by an in
crease in rates which the citizens of
the two cities will agree to.
Francis E. Bouck was named Judge
of the Fifth Judicial district by Gov
ernor julius c. Gunter, to succeed
Judge Charles Cavender. who died at
u Denver hospital.
Colorado will have 1,494.000 pounds
OF sugar less in August than in July.
The ration of the consumer may be cut
down to two pounds per person per
month, or less.
The several thousand soldiers at
Fort Logan were granted q lower fare
from the fort to the car line at Engle-
wood by the State Public Utilities
Commission.
A storm that assumed the proper
tions of cyclone swept the northern
part OF Morgan county. doing consid-
orahle damage