The Elk Mountain pilot., 1918-05-09
CENTENNIAL STATE ITK1Gsi

The Denver Sunday school workers
are planning to entertain all out-of-
town delegates on the Harvard plan.
A number of special features" have
been arranged. Denver superintend-
snts will have all out of town superin-
tendents as their guests at banquet
and at the same time the ladies' of the
elementary division will have their
banquet. The executive committee Of
the State Association will entertain
county officers at breakfast"
there will be banquet of Christian
men and the Lions Club Is arranging
an automobile seeing Denver" trip.
Majority of the country schools Of
Colorado and those OF many of tho
larger towns closed during the past
week for the season. Literary and
patriotic exercises. marked the last
days in many of the schools.
Colorado's school fund is approach.
ing the e5.000.000 mark. At the rate
state land is being sold and at the
prices which the State Board of Land
Commissioners is obtaining for 1t, the
mark will probably be reached soon.
Not satisfied with going "over the
top" in the third Liberty Loan cam
paisn Romeo, with 200 inhabitants. de
cided to hold Red Cross day. when
an auction was held and $500 was
raised for the Red Cross.
A Jury in the District Court at Boul
der awarded Mrs. Elsie Oldfather .
judgment of $4,000 against w. w. Lin
niger of Denver, damages because OF
the death of her father in an auto &C.
cident in Boulder cafon.
The fuel administration has fixed
the price for coal mined by the VII.
liamsburs Slope Coal Company At
Florence. Fremont county: Mine run.
t2.25: prepared sizes. $4.25; slack OF
screenings, $1.25.
The Denver Tramway Company
filed with the Colorado Public Utii
ties Commission an application for an
Increase in rates, fares and charges
On the company's city and interurban
railway lines.
The first contingent of 141 drah
men who will be stationed at Fort
Logan arrived in Denver from Ne
braska and Kansas. There are $500
men to arrive at Fort Logan withiT
two weeks.
Tho Denver federal forest servic.
paint shop has just completed 2,66!
signs. including all types and varie
ties, which have been placed through
out the seventeen national forests O.
this state.
The petition Of Charles Songer, sen
fenced in 1914 to from 80 to 100 year.
In the penitentiary, for a writ o.
habeas corpus was denied in the Wes
Side Court of Denver by Judge Jchr
I. Mullins.
R. E. SPECIAL, 80 years old. travelling
salesman for q shoe company of st
Louis. killed himself on the levee, o.
the Arkansas river, in view OF mum
ber who were crossing the bridge, .
Pueblo.
Fred e. Britt of Pueblo, for the pas
several years clerk to the board O
county commissioners, was appointed
sheriff of Pueblo county to fill the va
cancy occasioned by the death of JOIN
N. Mckee.
The State Public Utilities Commits
sion refused the railroads operating
In Colorado rehearing OF their petit
ton for an increase in coal rates. de
MED by the commission two week.
ago.
Jose Galegos, aged 50, long a resi-
dent Of Fort Collins. expired while sit
ting in his chair According to rec
ords In the Catholic church in Alamo
da. New Mexico, he was born in 1920.
Robert Lowry Martin. 76, pionee,
and one of the Vests most noted min
ing magnates. died at his home ir
Denver.
The A. E. Headlee alfalfa and stocl
ranch, four miles southwest Of Hooper
consisting Of 400 acres. has been sold
Mrs. James Williams was reelected
president of the Colorado Board o.
Charities and Correction at meetins
at the capitol. Father William O'Ryar
succeeded himself as vice president
Nine hundred alien German women
and girls over the age Of II years are
residing in Colorado II the estimate
made by United States Marshal 8. ]
Burris is correct.
The body of an unidentified woman
about 55 years Of age, was found
floating on the surface Of City Park
lake, near the boat house. in Denver.
The Republican state convention
will be held at Colorado Springs on
Tuesday. July 16. The total number
Of delegates has been fixed at 913.
| Mrs. Jane Hughes, mother of Mrs
George Walter Brown, the first white
child born in Denver, died at hel
home, 2433 Fourteenth street.
Former Adj. Gen. John Chase, fol
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