The Elk Mountain pilot., 1918-02-07

COMING EVENTS.
Feb 22-2a-Annual Winter Sports Car
nival at Steamboat Springs.
Jan; 22-24EAnnual meeting Coiorado S,aio
Capitol building in Denver.
The thermometer registered Is de-
grees below zero at Fort Morgan on
Jan. 81.
Nearly half million people use the
Bike National forest, in Colorado, each
year for recreation,
w. w. Mackey, for many years a
resident of Denver. died suddenly at
Casper. Wyo., Of pneumonia.
Denver bank clearings for January
were $S4,296, ,95S.51 an increase of $21,-
523, ,OS2 .O3, or 23.i per cent. over Janu-
ary. 1917.
The receipts Of the Denver post
office for January. 1918, show an In
crease of $31. .55O.s6 over the cores
ponding month of 1917.
William Lugg was elected president
of the Longmont Commercial Associ-
alton, Lloyd c. Harris is vice-president
and C. p Emery secretary.
The total amount of timber out on
the national forests in the fiscal year
1917 was S40,612,0 900 board feet. as
against ia SOC, 900 board feet In 1916.
One of the largest natural gas wells
In the West, estimated to be flowing
at the rate of 100000 cubic feet OF
gas day, has Just been opened six
miles east of Delta.
In the interests OF economy and thev
welfare of the district. members OF
the Denver board have decided to de-
fer the erection Of a new East Side
High school for at least three years.
At the Farmers Institute at Long
mont H. e. Middleton WAS elected
president; Theodore Taylor. first vice
president; Mrs. James H. Golden. sec
ond vice-president, and Mrs. Belle Alb
bott, secretary.
The Catholic Colonization Society
of tho United States has started = ma
tion-wide campaign to aid landseekers.
and has decided upon Colorado as ono
of the best states to which to direct
prospective settlers.
John P. Smith Of Denver, serving
as a fireman aboard the receiving ship
Norfolk, was commended for bravery
by Secretary Daniels for having
leaped overheard to rescue drown
ing companion Jan. IL.
For the first time in its history Ker-
sey is without hen, rooster. chicken.
turkey or fowl Of any kind. Everyone
who owned poultry has sold 1t. The
high price of chicken feed 10 blamed
for the absence Of poultry.
Katie Bankart. young gin living
near Sterling. is held to the District.
Court ON q charge Of stealing $375
from her father. The girl says she
took the money because her parent
owed her for work in the beet fields.
Orders to cooperate with the state
officials in the breaking up of Illicit
distilleries have been received by Har-
vey Slusser, United States internal
revenue agent for the Colorado dis
trict from the head office in Washing
ton.
Business men of Pierce are plan
ming a jubilee celebration to be partic-
ipated in by everybody living in that
section. The occasion is the prosper
ity. which has increased 100 per cent.
over the corresponding period of
year ago.
Sam w. Pierre. contractor of Nor
rison, who had charge OF building the
new road in Deer Greek canon from
Pritchell to Littleton. was seriously in
jured when a rock rolled down upon
him. breaking his right leg and inflict-
ing other injuries.
Trinity Methodist church in Denver
has placed its first gold star on its
service flag In memory Of the death.
from pneumonia, Of Fred w. Kent at
Fort Sam Houston, Tex.
The potato growers of northern Col
orado are faced with serious loss un-
less cars can be secured more rapidly
than they are now being furnished.
There are more than 5000 cars Of po-
tatoes yet to be shipped and unless
they can be moved in the next ninety
days they will spoil.
twenty-five pioneers of Colorado
who had been in the state before Jan.
i, 1860, we're given their twenty-eighth
annual banquet by the Pioneer Ladies'
Aid Society at Ell Jebel temple in Den
ver Including the families of the pio-
neers and the Ladies' Aid Society
members, $50 people sat down to the
banquet.
Affairs of the Farmers Life Insur-
ance Company are being Investigated
by insurance commissioners and attor-
neys general Of Colorado, Kansas. Ne
braska and Texas, following the tenn
porary suspension of business by that
V,mpany 1t is said policies aggregat-
ing $14.O00.000 are involved.
An antelope, said to be the finest