The Elk Mountain pilot., 1918-03-14
Pithy News Notes
From All Parts of
Colorado

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
orders to mobilize and proceed to
Camp Cody.
Farmers of Peach valley, near Delta.
are planning the planting OF sugar
beets this season.
At farm sale north of Manzanola
the auctioneer sold six COWS, one at
time, in four minutes, for 1910.
Successful registrations of nurses
have been reported by the Lake and
Archuleta county women's councils of
defense.
Romeo in San Luis valley during
one week sent out train of thirteen
cars loaded with potatoes. hogs. hay
and wheat.
Farmers or bean growers of Weld
county have contracted the sale of
over 100000 pounds Of pinto beans
on the government order.
Stuart l.. Sweet received an appoint
ment as field agent in marketing for
the state of Colorado for the bureau
of markets of Washington.
Members of the Second company of
constabulary began intensive training
at Golden. They will be instructed by
Lieut.. Randolph M. Hagerman.
Word was received In Denver of the
death in San Diego, Cal, of Henry A.
Jackson. 79, a member of Lincoln post.
G. A. R., and q resident of Denver
since 1886.
The Pueblo steel workers. by a vote
of about 300 to l. turned down the
proposition for advancing clocks at the
plant an hour and starting the day an
hour earlier.
granted a supersedeas by the Supreme
Court In the land sales involving min
eral rights claimed by N. 8. Walpols
of Pueblo and Frank Kirchhof.
The United States government will
be asked to approve bond election
in Denver for the purchase Of the Dem
yer Union Water Company's plant. II
present plans of the city are followed
The Round Crest Companies have
purchased about 10000 worth Of addi-
tional equipment for their canning
factory at Canon City 30 that the out
put on tomatoes for 1918 can be In
creased.
Members of the state constabulary
stopped an auto near Grover and found
264 pints of whisky aboard. according
to q report received by Superintend-
ent Frank Adams. The driver gave
the name OF Ralph Henry Of Denver.
One hundred and thirty-five men.
the last of Colorado's first draft quota.
left Denver for, Camp Funston. AS
the train pulled out. the men struck
up a chorus which rolled back to the
goodbye.
Poker winnings need not be in
cluded in the income tax returns,
Mark A. Skinner. collector of internal
revenue for Denver. announced after
reading q dispatch stating that New
York collector had ruled that poker
earnings should be subject to the tax.
Don A. Mudd. ~, an electrician and
secondhand dealer, committed suicide
at Boulder by shooting himself
through the heart with sawed-off
shotgun. Dependency over finances
IL said to be the reason for the deed.
Mudd il survived by . widow and four
children.
Demanding 10000 damages for the
nervous shock sustained when Sheriff
George e. Ruoker of Brighton and his
brother. Harry Rucker, deputy sheriff.
fired upon an automobile in which she
was riding. Mrs. Elizabeth Gumbert
filed suit against the two men In the
District Court at Denver.
The band which was formerly
known as the First Colorado Cavalry
band. and was later consolidated with
the First Colorado Infantry band, fol-
lowing the forming of the One Hun,
dred and Fifty-seventh infantry, which
included both units. received orders to
depart for Camp Lewis, American
Lake, Wash.
Supt Frank Adams of the state po-
lice announced the following promo
tions of men from the ranks: Anil H.
Dahlene. captain, $500; Randolph M.
Hagerman and Fred q. Trosper, lieu
tenants. $1,000; Harry E. Jewett, SER
geant. $1,000; Albert 8. Gundy and
Charles G. Swope. corporals. 5000.
George Charming. convicted of the
murder of Willis Miller, his brother
in-law, at Nederland. last May. was
denied a new trial in the District
Court at Boulder by Judge Strong and
aentenced tn the state non itentiarv for
from fifteen years to life. A stay of
execution of sixty days was granted.
Work on the new bridge over the
Fountain creek at Wigwam is pro-
zressinR ranidlY aa also the grading