The Elk Mountain pilot., 1918-03-07
P'ithy News Notes
From ANPayts of
Colorado

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Marie Rose Craig has been elected
city clerk of Salida.
Pueblo firemen have enlisted to aid
the Red Cross in knitting socks for
soldiers.
An order of the Postoffice Depart
star route to Jasper.
Antoine Herbenick was arrested in
Pueblo on a charge of operating an il
licit whisky distillery.
caale reduction plant is to be erect
ed at Colbran by the Western Colo
RADIO Oil and Refining Company.
Rudolph Van Duper, 60 years old. a
farmer from near Gilcrest, was killed
at crossing of the Union Pacific near
Peckham.
The working force at the Roosevelt
tunnel of the Cripple Creek Deep
Drainage Company has been increased
to two shifts.
A black hand note received by Mrs.
Julia O'Conner of Greeley has caused
her to become so seriously Ill that her
life is believed in danger.
Sarah Jane Bush, aged 72, held in
the jail at Delta on charge OF the muir
der of her son and grandson, spends
her time knitting for the soldiers.
Charles L. Crisp of Sterling suffer
ed several broken ribs when his car
turned over near Hudson. Arch War
ner was with him, but was not hurt.
A jury in the West Side Court in
Denver found Paul Baird guilty of hav-
ing beaten and maltreated his 6-year-
old stepson, Ray Desermia, on Jan. 4,
last.
Funeral services for James F. Mar
key former Denver alderman and city
auditor, took place Saturday In the
Sacred Heart church. Interment was
in Mount Olivet cemetery.
With a total of $64,779 subscribed
or pledged, the Knights Of Columbus
campaign for the maintenance of its
activities in American cantonments
and French army camps closed in
Denver.
The production OF the Cripple Creek
gold mining district for February, re-
ported from mills and smelters, totals
S2,2S4 tons, with a gross bullion value
OF $869,582.2O. The average value to
the ton was $1O.56.
Colorado financiers point out various
reasons for expecting q higher and
permanent value for silver. One of
these is the statement that a hundred
and fifty millions in bullion is to be
sent over to the allies.
The War Department at Washington
has ordered the immediate transfer
to France of Teller Ammons. son Of
former Gov. E. M. Ammons, where he
will complete his course Of training
prior to going to the front.
Forty-five years dd not prove a good
match for IA. according to Mrs. Hope
Henderson, who told Judge Ingram in
the Denver County Court tlat she was
the latter age when she married
George C. Henderson in June.
Provision has been made for the
completion of the series of twelve con-
crete bridges between Morrison and
Evergreen by the Colorado highway
commission and officials Of Denver
and Morrison and jefferson county.
Colorado cannot be put down as
leaning to race suicide. for. with a
population of 1000. 900. there were 49,
261 births during 1917. This is a high
average, according to statistics Of the
country. Births exceeded deaths by
40 per cent. there being 10.743 deaths.
according to the compilations Of Miss
Marie E. Egger. register Of vital sta
tistics in the office of the Colorado
state health board.
The Iron Mask mine at Brecken-
ridge shows a new 3O-inch streak of
rich carbonates.
The largest one-day's receipts in the
history of the treasurer's office for the
city and county of Denver were re-
corded March 1, when general taxes
amounting to s6Os.59ssO and special
taxes amounting to N3,143.97 were
paid.
The Nile Irrigation district of Nor
gan county recovered judgment for
100000 and costs in the District
Court of Morgan county, in a case
brought by the district against the
National Surety Company of New
York
P. H. BALI, Jr., of Denver. was
found guilty in the District Court at
Littleton on two bootlegging charges,
one of having liquor illegally in his
possession for sale and the other OF
Illegally importing liquor into the
state.
Receipts at the Denver postoffice in
February were $15s,09O.56, an increase
of $32, ,204.45 or 25.6 per cent over the
corresponding month of last year. Re-