The Elk Mountain pilot., 1918-02-21
Pithy News Notes
From All Parts of
Colorado
lestern New.paper Union New. Service.
COMING EVENTS.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING EVENTS.
Feb. 22-23-Annual Winter Sports Car
nivaf at Steamboat Springs.
The Canning company of Fort Lup-
ton will enlarge its plant.
Military training has been made
compulsory at Colorado College.
Large deposits of low-grade man
ganiferous iron ore occur at Red Cliff.
David Harr and Sec. Gonzales were
killed in an impromptu duel at Wal
senburg.
A cold storage plant to cost In the
neighborhood OF SIT 900 will be erected
at Sterling.
School children of Sterling have
completed 100 ambulance pillows for
the Red Cros.
A crusher, weighing eight tons, has
been installed at the Colorado Central
mine In Georgetown.
A mill for the treatment of ore will
be erected at the foot of Kendall
mountain near Silverton.
1t is reported that factory for the
be established at Pueblo.
Colorado mutton may be exempted
from the "Meatless Day" order Of the
national food administrator.
Loveland Masons have appointed a
committee to investigate the feasibil-
ity of erecting a $4,000 temple.
Moffatt county commissioners have
authorized the expenditure of $4,000
on bridges during the present year.
A strong flow of gas has been en-
Canon Oil and Gas Co., nine miles
east of Delta.
Articles of incorporation of the Ber-
thoud Driving Association. which will
build race track near that town,
have been filed.
An accidental explosion at the Pea
nut coal mine at Crested Butte, des-
troyed both eyes for Tony Tezac and
one eye for Joe Plute.
Ben C. Hilliard. U. s. congressman
from Denver. has stated that 10000
packages of selected garden seed will
Schools at Loveland will not be
closed for spring vacation. thus dis
missing earlier to enable the scholars
to assist with the summer farm labor.
war to the death" has been de-
clared against the men engaged in the
illegal traffic in liquor by Col. Frank
Adams. superintendent Of the state
constabulary.
The sugar beet growers of the Long
mont section of Colorado are practi-
cally a unit In demanding $40 q ton
for 16 per cent beets for the 1918 sea
son.
The Santa Fe shopmen at Pueblo
will work ten hours day In an ef-
fort to catch up with the repair work
that is piled up in all departments OF
the shops.
Thomas Connolly of Denver. fire
man on train No. of the Denver G
Rio Grande, fell off the engine when
the train was two miles out Of Green
land and was killed.
The Denver mint will receive a de-
ficiency appropriation Of $4,000 II the
urgent deficiency appropriation bill
now before the House of Represents
tives at Washington is passed.
The financial standing Of Denver is
shown in the advance reports Of F. d.
Stackhouse. city auditor, for the year
1917. There was q balance Of $1.489.-
1876 at the end Of the year.
Struck by an automobile driven by
a woman on Seventh street in Walsen-
burg. Mrs. Henry Clark of Trinidad.
was seriously injured and Norma.
her four-year-old daughter. killed.
w. A. Gum of Fort Collins, born on
Lincoln's birthday eighty years ago.
was the honored guest at compli-
mentary dinner given at Golden by
fellow associates of the prospectors'
Colorado's insane asylum at Pueblo
is being taxed to capacity. according
to James R. holland, secretary Of
state. who has returned from an IN
spection trip to several state institu'
tions.
Several patriotic gatherings and
general suspension of business
marked the homage paid by Denver
to the memory Of Abraham Lincoln.
who was born Feb. IL, 1909, 109 years
ago.
There should be an abundance OF
water for irrigation during the coming
season, according to the reports OF
the Federal Forest Service and noun
tain snowfall observers of the wealth
er bureau.
Because of threatening epidemic
of scarlet fever among the children OF
Boulder. Mayor F. c. Moys. acting
upon advice of the city health author