The Elk Mountain pilot., 1918-03-07
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS.

for Salvation Army war relief FUNDS.
A total of $4,000 was collected by $50
carriers who participated in the drive,
and an average of $54 for each war col
lected in this city as against $40. the
| highest previous record, which was
made by the Chicago letter carriers.
That all claims against the estate OF
the late David II. Moffat, Denver pio-
neer banker and railroad builder, had
been paid was declared in the County
Court in Denver in the application OF
the executors for dismissal. Fred G.
Moffat, nephew; Mrs. Marcia Nc.
Clurg, daughter, and Mrs. Marcia
Moffat. the widow, were discharged
and the estate declared closed.
| Colorado must furnish 1856 regis
trants as the last contingent of A.
753 men called into the service
through the first army draft. Figures
and schedules were made public by
Provost Marshal John Evans. The
original Is per cent allotment called
for 656 men, but credits and replace
ments of the various draft boards re-
duced the number to 1856.
A modern, sanitary public market
building of reinforced concrete, coy
ering $4,000 square feet of floor space.
three stories high and containing nine
| ty-seven store spaces for small mer-
chants dealing in food products. will
be erected on eight lots at the south
west corner of Fourteenth and Cali
fornia streets in Denver at q cost OF
100000.
Damage to the extent of several
thousand dollars was sustained Feb.
26 when a forty-mile gale sweeping
over Denver smashed show windows
in downtown business houses. wrecked
tramway wires, uprooted telephone
and electric poles. and swept sign
boards before its path.
1t is reported that lifting the ban
on mutton and lamb as food in Colo
RADIO will increase the consumption
10000 pounds a week, and means $751;
300 additionally paid for food, and
brings the total mutton and lamb
consumption in the state up to 24o,-
900 pounds a week.
Acting upon suggestions from the
sheriffs office thst fines Of convicted
bootleggers be made heavier than in
the past, the County Court at Trini-
dad fined r. Evanoff $3.50 and SEN
fenced him to serve ninety days in jail.
Evanoff conducts a soft drink estab-
lishment at Aguilar. =
Inheritance tax receipts during the
last half OF February amounted to Sc.
310.7l. representing seventeen estates.
This makes a total OF S3sS. .s90.5s for
the biennial period to date. The larg'
est estate was that of Beth Campbell
Snyder of Denver, valued at $685.
817.36.
With the appointment Of DR.. Ben.
jamin s.. Matthews as bacteriologist
and Mrs. L. c. Barker as chief clerk
by the state board Of health. the or.
ganixation of the state bureau for the
prevention of social diseases among
the civilian population was completed.
Burned and charred almost beyond
recognition. the body Of James l..
Houf. claimed by his friends to be an
inventor and q man of wealth, was
discovered in the firebox of the heat.
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LArimer streets in Denver, Friday.
Mrs. Elizabeth Muncaster of Den.
yer received telegram from the War
Department that her son. Roy Mnncas.
ter. was one of those lost on the Tus.
cania. torpedoed Feb. off the Irish
coast. He was a member of D com.
pany, Twentieth Engineers.
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the Sailors and Soldiers home in
Monte Vista OF A. w. Redd, a pioneer
prospsctor and mine operator OF Colo
RADIO.
The citizens of Fort Collins will vote
at the election in April on a proposal
to abandon the commission form OF
government
Mrs. George Vaughn of Hillrose do
mated rooster to the Red Cross work,
and 1t was auctioned. The fowl was
sold eighty-three times, the result
being $250.5O for the cause. Hillrose
claims 1t to be the highest priced
chicken in the state.
The will of DR.. Arthur ]. Holmquist,
who committed suicide in his home in
Globeville, Feb. 13, was filed for pro
bate in the County Court in Denver.
He beQueathed all his property to five
persons who have been kind to me in
| my recent troubles"
Walter Clifford Ridgway, "a. of Eat
on, died at Camp Mills. Hampstead,
Long Island. from pneumonia. The
body will be brought to Eaton for
burial. Ridgway is the first enlisted
man from Weld county in the new ma
tional army to die.
Members of the Ouray Teamsters'
Union. Local No. 430. Of Ouray. have
sent a large package of smokes for