The Elk Mountain pilot., 1918-07-11
ourKMMIAL STATE I11lGs.

Before leaving TOR California the
First Colorado regiment. now the
18TH infantry. stationed at Camp
Kearny. was presented with . brown
bear. which has been the regimental
mascot at the California camp. But,
regulations forbid the transporting of
the members of the regiment have Of
fered to present him to the city of
Denver II a home will be given him at
City park, in q letter received by Man
ager of Parks and improvements ]. A.
Burnett.
The American Railway Express
Company, a $40,OOO.O0O corporation
formed recently in Delaware at the
instigation of Director Of Railroads
McAdoo. will employ $231,00O of its
capital stock in Colorado, according
to incorporation papers filed with the
secretary of states office by c. M.
Day, general agent of the company In
Denver. The company comprises .
merger of the Adams. American and
Wells Fargo Companies.
The employees OF the Russell coal
mine in Weld county subscribed
through the Greeley committee 81 POS
for War Savings Stamps. Everybody
connected with this mine has con
tributed to all Liberty bond issues
the Red Cross and now the present
War Savings Stamp drive, making the
record 100 per cent.
Twenty thousand people thronged to
City park to hear the impressive patri-
office exercises and pledge anew Den
ver's allegiance to the flag and to the
principles for which the hation Is
fighting-those principles embodied in
the Declaration of Independence hun
dred and forty-two years ago.
Two railway bridges near Gunnison
were set on fire by unidentified men.
who are supposed to be Germans and
the acts are declared to be attempts
to prevent the shipment Of coal by
tying up traffict east and west.
Thinking he was turning q somer-
sault in q spirit of Jest after diving
from a raft sixty feet from shore. =
half-doxen boys watched Glen Kohler.
IA years old. drown at the Lakeside
bathing beach In Denver.
Russians in Denver still adhere to
| the cause of the allies and gathered
In the Russian Orthodox church at
Globeville July and offered prayers
for the arms Of the American and al
lied forces in Europe.
Denver. Pueblo and Grand JunctioC
have been designated as headquarters
cities OF q subregional districting ol
the federal reserve district No. IA. fol
i've war production.
The state collected $33,757.39 inner
itance taxes during the last fifteez
days in June. according to the semi
monthly report. Collections durinl
the current biennial period have nov
reached $54O.171O9.
lDepver's- application, for . reopen
ing Of. the rate order granted the
Mountain States Telephone and Tele.
graph Company June IA was denied
by. the Colorado Public Utilities Com.
mission.
Information has been received BY
wire that Adjt. Capt Woodrow Wilson
Woodbridge Of Denver has been CON
| spicuous for bravery in France. hav-
ing aided y wounded man under fire.
The Denver Cooks union accepted
the compromise proposal Of the Hotel
and Restaurant Keeper Association
and agreed to work ten hours a day
with . 5O-cent increase In wages.
While her little 12-year-old son lay
mangled on . white cot in another
ward. Mrs. Esther Cove died from the
effects Of carbolic acid at the Denver
County hospital.
Robbers effected entrance to the
Bennett State Bank and succeeded in
carrying away Liberty bonds, War
Savings stamps and cash amounting in
all to $4,000.
The extension service of the Colo
rdo Agricultural College has been con
Quoting campaign to encourage the
building Of silos in eastern Colorado
Three Adams county men we're ar
rested at Fort Collins, on their way
home from Laramie. Wyo., and paid a
fine of $3.50 each as bootleggers.
A total of $22.333 was added to the
Denver War Savings pledges through
the appearance of Nine. Olga Petrova
at City Park and Denver theaters.
The returns for Colorado income tax
amounting to $25,s75.7s2. the largest
in the history OF the state, were H.
sued in Washington.
Articles of incorporation for the
Robert w. Speer Memorial Associa-
ton were filed in the office of the sec
retaryof state.
Mrs. John Plementosh has taken
the contract for carrying a portion Of
the foothills mail route. between Wet.
more and Rye.