The Elk Mountain pilot., 1918-06-20

eOr Fourtn OF July celeDratlOn.
The rivers of northern Colorado are
running bank full and spilling over in
many places.
The northwest quarter of section 3.
unimproved land, near Otis. was sold
for SOS per acre.
Andrew Ceilings Of Salida was
killed in railroad wreck near Salt
Lake City, Utah.
w. P. Machlin has purchased the H.
4. Clark ranch. midway between Mesa
and Molina. at a cost of $1s.SOO.
The annual convention of the
Junior Order, United American Me
chanics. will be held at Pueblo next
year.
The State Fair Commission will
stage an aeroplane exhibition at the
1918 State Fair Sept. % to % at Pu.
sblo.
The new school building in Otero
county, District No. 6 near Fowler.
has been completed and formally
opened.
W. D. Wright Jr. was elected prest-
dent Of the Rotary Club at tho annual
stag dinner held at the Dsnver Ath-
lstic Club.
Queen and Jake. the two largest
East Indian Rhesus monkeys in the
Denver City Park 800. are celebrating
the advent Of boy.
Nearly fifty representatives from
eastern COLORADO towns met at Fort
Morgan and laid plans for starting .
big War Savings Stamp campaign.
Albert w. McIntirs, former gov
ernor Of Colorado. is . patient In
Steele hospital. Denver. He il suffer
ing from q severe attack OF erysipelas.
The State Highway Commission has
appropriated 363,255 for the mainten-
ance and Improvement OF the Rabbit
ear Pass road during the coming sea-
SON..
Mrs. Priscilla E. Boise hanged her
self In q barn in the rear OF her home
at Pueblo. She was rs years old and
had been . resident Of Pueblo for thts.
ty years.
Boiled beef on Tuesdays and Thurs
days, roast beef on Wednesdays and
bsefsteak ON Saturdays at one meal
On days named is the new beef con-
servation plan.
Tor the most part barley. rye and
hay show An improvement either In
condition or production over 1917 and
~ compared with the fivsysar aver
are. while fruit does not promise 30
well.
New operations began for the COM
pletion OF the Fail River road In the
heart of the Rocky Mountain National
Park which u to 20 over the divide
and toin the Grand Lake country with
the Big Thompson valley.
Swollen streams caused BY melting
snow in the higher attitudes under the
hot spell, has filled irrigation bitches.
and for the present, 1t least. dis
psllsd any fear Of the loss Of 10000
acres Of wheat, valued at $1.26O. 900.
The great reserves Of government
and state lands still available in the
western country should be held for
soldiers returning from the war. II the
opinion of Thomas J. lyman. warden
Of the state penitentiary at Canon
City.
A verdict recommending that Will
liam Truman be held for murder was
returned at the inquest over the body
OF Fred L. Porter. killed at 26 South
Logan street, Denver. when truck
driven by Truman passed over his
body.
Twelve thin-vein coal mines In the
Walsenburg bituminous field were
granted increases over the fixed gov
ernment prices through an order IL
sued BY ]. 8. Murphy, manager OF the
Colorado division Of the Fuel Admin
htration.
Colorado was called on by the War
Department to furnish eighty-two men
toward the call for 5000 registrants
for limited service in the spruce d.
vision of the aeronautics service. They
will be sent to Vancouver barracks,
Vancouver, Wash. during the six days
beginning June Is.
George M. Randall, major general
in the United States army and vete-
ran OF three wars, died at his home
in Denver following an illness of two
weeks from grip and heart complica-
tfons. He was II years of age, and
had been a resident Of Denver for the
past eight years.
Seventeen estates involving alien
enemy property were the total num-
Der found by the appointees of Judge
Ira C, Rothgerber OF the Denver Coun-
" Court out of a total number ex-
.,aed,uS 5000. The amount involved
In the seventeen estates Is about
3115.0Oc.
"A day OF devotion to the American
hrousht to a fitting close at