The Elk Mountain pilot., 1918-03-21
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS.

Sweet to answer a call from the Brit
ish foreign office for representative
American men to speak to the British
and American troops on the western
front. Letters received by Mrs. Nc
Connell from her husband indicate
clearly that Bishop Mcconnell has on
several occasions been in serious dam
ger.
Though the members OF most school
classes gradually drift apart and lose
trace of each other through the years,
the extraordinary manner in which the
sixteen living members out of the orig
at East Denver High school have
clung together for forty-four years
was signalized by the attendance Of
twelve of the survivors at the funeral
of Miss Emily Miles, who for nearly
half century was associated with the
Denver public schools as student or
director of drawing.
Under new instructions issued by
Frank Adams to the state constabu-
larry regarding the stopping of automo-
biles on the Cheyenne road, no MEM
ber of the force is hereafter to shoot
unless fired upon. The men are to
rely rather on new plan of first
erecting stop" sign in the path Of
the oncoming automobile and leave it
to spiked boards placed across the
road to bring the machine to halt in
case the driver refuses to do SO.
Frederick Gigax. one of the two old
soldiers in Denver holding a personal
letter from Abraham Lincoln thanking
them for services rendered in the Civil
War, was buried from a Denver NOR
tuary. Private Gigax died Qf acute
pneumonia. He was an infantryman
of One Hundred and FiftyNinth Ohio.
He was IA years old. resident of Den
yer for thirty years and was a mem
ber of Farragut post No. l, G. A. R.
John Harrigan, 17-year-old brother
Of Ray Harrigan, who was killed two
weeks ago by officers of the state con-
stabulary, and brother-in-law of Ray c.
Young. who was convicted Of violating
the prohibition law at Greeley. was
arrested in Denver pending investiga-
ton of his alleged connection with q
gang of bootleggers operating in the
neighborhood of Seventeenth and Wei
ton streets.
Tunnelling the mountain to shorten
the Moffat road will be begun as SOON
as Secretary McAdoo approves the
project, according to reports in Den
yer financial circles. 1t is said that
one man stands ready to finance the
project, which. II approved, will take
eighteen months and cost $6.000.000.
Gov. J. C. Gunter will attend = meet
ing Of governors and other state and
federal officials In Washington April
in response to an invitation from
Franklin X. Lane. Secretary of the In
terror. Efficiency in industrial and
agricultural pursuits are among the
topics to be discussed.
Twelve mines In the bituminous
coal fields in Colorado. having total
production of $500 tons of coal daily.
ceased operations as a result of the
Fuel Administrations order reducing
the price Of coal, according to reports
made to the Colorado division of the
Fuel Administration.
A total of 8,O9S surgical dressings.
including $500 gauze dressings. 100
slings, los oakum pads. 210 body bind
ers. 26O T-binders. 800 tampons, 100
cup covers. 27 small pillows and 40
pillow cases. were shipped by the Red
Cross Of Colorado Springs.
Colorado will be virtually out of
flour on May l. according to the state
ment OF Robert ]. Grant, executive
manager of the State Food Admins
tration.
Washington accounts place Colora-
dos quota for the first Increment of
the second draft at 1923.
The American Red Cross Society is
Just $21, 300 richer owing to an auction
that was held at Merino, when a calf
was sold, the proceeds to go to the
society. During the sale more than
ninety persons were the owner of the
calf, each In turn, after buying it. turn
ing 1t back to be sold over again. The
prices paid for the calf ranged from
s. to $3.50.
Miss Lesta Bennett OF La Junta, is
station agent for the Santa Fe rail-
road, replacing an employs who went
to war. She is one of the first women
to be employed in this capacity by the
railroad.
ST. Patrick's day was observed gen
orally in Denver this year. as former
ly. with the exception that there was
no parade.
joseph w. Talcott. sc years old, a
veteran of the Civil War, died at
Mercy hospital in Denver following an
operation.
Mrs. Homer c. Crones was elected
president Of Craig Colony at the an
nual meeting of the officers in Den
YER