The Elk Mountain pilot., 1919-03-27
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compensation fund. and reducing fro0
fourteen to ten days the so-called wait
Ing period Intervening between the
date of injury and the time when com
pensatiOn becomes available. The BILL
as passed. increases the medical bene-
fits to $500 within a sixty-day period
following injury. Under the present
law. the maximum medical benefit In
500 within limited period Of thirty
days. The maximum death benefit
under the new measure, 10 increased
from 81, 500 to s., 125. Sponsors for the
measure declare that 1t contains an
aggregate increase of approximately
% per cent in the maximum benefits
available from the state compensation
fund.
Students of the State High School Of
Industrial Arts at Greeley staged u
peace conference at their sophomore.
juniOr-seniOr banquet given in the
Woman's club building. At the peace
table students costumed to represent
the leading characters and statesmen
of the allied nations were introduced
by the tOastmaster. Prof. 4. b. Smith,
impersonating Uncle Sam. The speak
ers in turn told of the part taken by
their nations In the war and expressed
their views as to conditions requisite
to permanent peace. DIR. j. r. Bell,
principal of the school. impersonated
Premier Clemenceau and President
Crabbe. President Wilson.
Because of slowness of local beet
workers to sign contracts for the sea
sons work at the prevailing price of
$25 an acre, they demanding $40,
which the growers refuse to pay, the
Great Western Sugar Company will
import enough laborers to take care
of the enlarged acreage of beeta
around Windsor. E. C. Walters, agrl-
cultural superintendent Of the com
pany, says the labOrers will be Mexi-
cans gathered from New Mexico and
Old Mexico.
A six-ton fighting tank over the top
of Pixies Peak as a feature of the fifth
Liberty Loan compaign is one of the
stunts now contemplated, according to
Eli Powell. member OF the press bu,
reau service. donated the state Liberty
Loan organization by the Union Pa
cific railroad This Sensational feat
is to be attempted In a whippet typs
tank. manned. as Mr.. Powell puts 1t
by ''the hardest fighting tank men tc
be had from service overseas"
A baggage and mail express car on
west-bound Santa Fe passenger train
caught fire while In motion east OF
Baxter, and, with Its contents. was de
stroyed. The touring car was switched
onto siding at Baxter and an engine
summoned from Pueblo to bring 1t tc
Pueblo. The fire continued to burn
until the car reached Pueblo, by which
time it was practically consumed. The
loss to the contents of the car will run
into the thousands, II is believed.
Tons upon tons OF potatoes raised
In the dry farm districts around Gro
Yer are being fed to hogs and cattle
because farmers refuse to haul them
ten or twelve miles to Al railroad ship
ping point when they are selling al
only 30 cents per 100. This condition
has brought about renewal of the
agitation for more railroads and a
committee is now actively at work ell
.deavoring to induce the Union Pa
cific to extend its BrIggsdale branch.
jack, 2l-months-old son of w. r.
Granville, fire boss at the Lucas mine
ut Louisville, was playing In an old
trunk In the yard of the Granville
home near Boulder when the lid fell
on his neck pinning him down. His 3
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screamed. and Mrs. Granville ran out
When she lifted the trunk lid the baby
was dead, the lid having broken his
neck.
Double funeral services were held in
Louisville over the bodies of Lyman
II. Elwell and his wife. Both were
victims of Spanish influenza.
The L.eadville Water Company is
sued an order allowing the city to
use the surplus Of the appropriation
fund left over at the end of the fiscal
year. ending April IA, to pay. the re-
manning debts incurred during the re-
cent influenza epidemic. The surplus
is expected to be around $4,000. The
total debts Incurred during the cpl.
demic amounted to 5000. of which
5000 have been paid TO date, leaving
n total of $1,000 to be paid out of the
surplus.
With but one dissenting vote, II
drainage district embracing 1,2U
acres of valuable land adjoining tha
town OF Windsor was created at n spe
cial election. This Is the first district
of its kind to be created in northern
Colorado and only the second one in
the state since the passage of the law
permitting formation of such districts
w. II. Teller. Charles Sorrels and q.
w. Helps We're elected directors o.
| the. district