The Elk Mountain pilot., 1918-11-21
Pithy News Notes
From An Paris of
Colorado

western Ne SSpap-r Union news Sersice
The alfalfa mill at Broomfield will
soon commence operation.
Beet growers were paid about $13.-
100000 for beets delivered in October.
State inheritance tax collections
for the last biennial period amounted
to $593.G92. VI.
f. F. Stroman. of Pueblo. Is report
ed in the Canadian casualty list as be-
ing wounded.
Mrs. Mcdonald. wife of Former Gov
ernor Jesse f. Mcdonald. died at her
home in Denver.
A sugar beet weighing 17h pounds
was raised by J. A. Benner on his
ranch near Craig.
Approximately 100000 bushels Of
wheat have been threshed In Larimor
county this season.
The town of Miner. 10 miles west
OF Steamboat Springs. has been
equipped with electric lights.
At a meeting Of the Routt county
commissioners. a petition was granted
for the proposed Todd Creek road
from Morrison creek to Yampa.
The honor flag OF the United States
shipping board has been awarded to
five Denver machine manufacturing
plants for meritorious production.
The Colorado Farmers and Farm
Womens Congress at Fort Collins
will be held early In December this
year instead Of January as originally
planned.
Work will commence at once upon
Z 7OO-foot accompaniment shaft on
the famous Pinnacle vein at the In
ternationai Fuel Company's mine
north OF Mt Harris.
Prices were advanced on nearly all
the principal food products sold by
fixing committee, which announced
Its weekly list Nov. Is.
Mrs. Theodore M Stuart. wife Of
the Denver lawyer and captain In the
United States army. died at the home
of her parents. Mr.. and Mrs. David
C. Bradley in Centerville. Iowa.
The demand of the janitors Of the
Denver public schools for an increase
IN salary was denied at the meeting
OF the school board. The increase
asked lenged from SIS to $40 month.
There is to be no slackening in war
work in Colorado. That word was
sent to County Councils of Defense
when the Colorado council met In
regular weekly session at the state
house.
Peter Ganbry. co years old. former.
iy . laborer on the Colorado & South
ern railroad at ST. Elmo. died at st.
Josephs hospital in Denver as the re-
suit OF burns received when a lamp
exploded in his home.
A telegram asking President VIII
son to authorize Maj Gen. Leonard
Wood to come to Denver at an early
date and give an address upon recon
struction needs. particularly in rela-
tion to the welfare Of returned sol
diers. was sent by the Denver Civic
and Commercial Association.
Twentysix young men whose minds
had not been tuned up to concert
pitch for the grand symphony OF evo-
luton now being played in unison
with the roar Of cannon. walked out In
red-capped and red-headed Indignation
when four women appeared among
them as porters at Denver's Union
station.
Following the verdict of coronef's
jury that Miss Mary Lareau came 10
her death as the result of an illegal
operation performed without warrant
OF law. Miss Helen Stoushton has
been arrested, and Mrs. A. De Foe
h m IN utn nj
ment made by District Attorney Will
liam e. Foley Of Denver.
With the reports received at the
office of the manager of health in
Denver. Nov. 12. incomplete on ac-
count of the fact that no reports were
made Nov. IL. the toll of the influ-
enxa epidemic for twenty-four hours
totaled nine deaths and seventy-seven
new cases. This brings the number of
deaths to 430 and the new cases to
4.831.
Influenza is raging among the
Southern Ute Indians at the Ignacio
agency. twenty-five miles south of Du-
range. One hundred cases are re-
ported among the 400 Indians on the
reservation and twelve deaths have
been reported. No whites have died.
IGnacio is quarantined tightly against
either entrance or departure and all
stores have been closed.
Lieut.. j. II. Cover. former Denver
municipal golf champion. and one of
Colorado's most popular golfers, is
credited with the honor Of having
bombed the Kaiser. In a letter to his
mother. Mrs. John H. Cover OF Den
YER, Lieutenant Cover says that, ac-
cording to the official intelligence re-
port. the night he bombed Mannheim
the Kaiser was paying an official visit