The Elk Mountain pilot., 1918-04-11
Pithy News Notes
From All Parts of
Colorado

big garage fire.
started in operation.
At Montrose. 154 filed on thirty land
tracts at the drawing.
Eight arrests were made at Victor
on gambling charges.
A large crowd attended the opening
of Uncle Sans food show in Denver.
In one day over 100 tons of beans
passed through Springfield for La
mar.
Denver Elks celebrated the burning
of $4,000 mortgage upon their home
built six years ago.
During March 1,123 applicants ap-
piled at the Denver army recruiting
station for enlistment.
Benjamin C. West. tubercular suf-
fsrer from Nevada, Mo-. at Colorado
Springs, shot himself in the head.
With suitable and impressive cere-
monies, at Sugar City. the cornerstone
for a new Lutheran church was laid.
Arrangements are being made for a
convention of Sunday school workers
to be held In Salida. Sunday. April
21st.
Two weeks work by the Deaver
Y. M. C. A. netted more than 100000
worth of signed War Savings Stamp
pledges.
Imposing the maximum sentence
under the laws of the state, Judge e.
J. Ingram in the County Court at
Boulder fined four confessed bootleg
gers 5000 each and sentenced them to
serve six months In jail.
One of the biggest strikes made any
whore in the Cripple Creek district
by leasers for more than a year. min
ing men say. now Is being developed
by Hayes & Cartee on the Vindicator
mine at the 1.20O-foot level.
Officials of the Denver & Interurb-
an railway appeared before the Colo
RADIO Utilities Commission to ask an
increase In rates equal to those in ef.
feet on the Colorado & Southern be-
tween Denver and Boulder.
Ed Krier son of Pete Krier
of Walsenburg. has an advan-
Letter announces his safe arrival some
where in France and says he is quar-
tered with the family's relatives over
Owing to improved conditions In the
market for silver. the Champion Min
ing Company has decided to resume
operations on its property ON Camp
bell mountain at Creede. This proper
ty consists of three patented lode
claims, covering about twenty-five
acres of land.
A preliminary estimate Of the gold
and silver production of the United
States in 1917 has been made by the
Bureau of Mines. It places the total
yield of gold at 3s2,69O. 800. and that
Of silver at S61.140.300. Colorado II
credited with 1885. 100 in gold and
Se,721.70O in silver.
Two brothers lost their lives when
overcome by gas in . we'll they were
digging at Goodpasture. community
about twenty-five miles southwest OF
Pueblo. John Wilford was working at
the bottom of the we'll, when he struck
a gas pocket" which overcame him.
His brother. Lowell. went down to res
cue and also was overcome.
Eight thousand acres of farming and
grazing lands owned by the state were
disposed of At the monthly sale of the
state land board. One quarter section.
designated ~ the northeast quarter OF
Sec. IL, T. s., r. 44-W, was appraised
at SIS and brought $40 an acre. Tracts
sold included acreage in Larimer.
Lincoln. saguache. sedgwick, Wash
ington and Weld counties.
An information charging murder in
the second degree was filed against
Mrs. Wilhelmina O'Connor. In the
Denver West Side Criminal Court by
District Attorney William E. Foley,
following an exhaustive investigation
of circumstances surrounding the
death OF Mrs. Joseph T. Russell. fif-
tesn-hour bride Of the physical direct
or of the Denver Athletic Club, who
died in st. Joseph's hospital on the
morning of March 2S.
The largest shipment Of molybden-
ite ore ever made in the United
States left Breckenridge when the Gil
max Company consigned two carlots
to an eastern point for use by the
United States government. The lot Is
valued at $40O, 900 and is accompanied
by four armed guards. The shipment
comprises fifty-fivei tons, estimated at
80 per cent. and was taken from mines
of the company operated in and about
Fremont pass. 1t is to be made Into
high-grade steel.
Colorado apples are not to be in
cluded in the army ration, Acting Sec
retary of War Benedict Crowell hav-
ing pronounced 1t inadvisable to add
q perishable component.