The Elk Mountain pilot., 1919-03-06
okNrENN1AL STATE ITEMS.

equipment will be sent to Fort Col
I Inns The school will open with the fall
term in September and the work Will
be compulsory a certain number of
hours n week with all men except SEN
iors. This action Of the War Depart
ment follows conferences between
President Lory and A. A. Edwards.
president of the board, with Brigadier
General Danforth and Col. Thomas
Sloan. and IL recent visit of inspection
TO the school by Colonel Sloan. The
battery equipment for the school will
consist of five guns, including Il how
itzer and French IS. two tractors,
two trucks and ninety-six horses, with
!, number of noncommissioned 0fficers
and instructors.
Blue-sky legislation to be considered
by the Senate is confined to one meas
ure 1t is Senate bill No. 3 and was
reported out OF the judiciary commit
tee by Senator Henry o. Andrew,
chairman The bill bears the names
of Senators Knauss, Peterson, Dun
klee. Tobin and Andrew. The measure
is n composite bill representing what
the committee believes to he the best
features contained in several submit
ted by Republicans and Democrats. 1t
is not designed to interfere with spec
ulative securities that have merit, but
does contain provisions that will drive
the 'wildcatter" from the state and
provide penitentiary terms for those
who misrepresent facts.
The Bigelow House bill regulating
the practice of dentistry in Colorado
was the subject of lively debate
when efforts were made TO amend GER
thin of its provisions. Senator W. F.
O'Brien, who introduced an identical
bill in the Senate, took the lead in sup
port of the measure. He is "A dentist.
The bill amends in n number of re-
spects the present law regulating dem
tistry. bringing under its provisions
dental hygienists as well ms regularly
licensed dentists, and providing legal
machinery for procedure In cases
where licenses are revoked by the
State Board of Dental Examiners.
Under the provisions of bill by
Senator Barney Napier, passed on third
reading. cities and towns of Colorado
may soon be fighting the packing com
panies for control of the meat bust
ness. The measure provides that cities
and towns may operate abattoirs and
cold storage houses. Senator Napier
and fellow supporters of the measure
declared that such municipal owner
ship and operation would be IL weapon
n hn
far step toward bringing meats TO a
fair level of prices for the consumer.
A dozen snow slides have run in the
section around Ouray and played
strange pranks but with little daniage
The Guadalupe mine buildings, eight
eral hundred feet to the bottom OF u
gulch, leaving Mine Manager Ackerson
mnrOoned and partly buried in tun-
mel. The one thing left intact was the
telephone switchboard, which Acker-
son managed to reach and summon
miners who dug him out.
The automobile races up Pixies Peak
probably will be resumed this year, ac-
cording to plans being made by Presi-
dent Spencer Penrose of the highway
company. Motor car manufacturers
in all parts Of the country are being
interviewed relative to entries and II
they are able to catch up with their
war orders in order to give time tn
the race the event will be staged In
| all stock cur events.
Death has snatched patient from a
hospital, II prisoner from the county
jail and criminal case from the Dis
trict Court in Pueblo when John Rene
CUR, reported well enough to be return
ed from the hospital to the county jail
| collapsed on the steps Of the hospital
and died three minutes later.
Five employees of the Denver & RiC
Grand9, Walter T.. Robertson, Ira On
Wis, Harold Foster, Ray II. Bartlett
and Alva Brown, are prisoners in the
| county Jail mt Grand Junction on a
charge OF robbing merchandise cal
Of a large amount of whisky December
18th. Robertson, 1t is said, confessed
his part in the robbery. duplicating the
others. The men are charged with bur
glarixing a car OF whisky en- route to
California. According to the cOnfes
sion of Robertson the car was entered
through an end door, the head was
knocked out of II barrel of whisky and
the men carried the whisky away in
milk cans, later bOttling it.
| Greeley claims the distinction of hav.
Ing more kinds of rats in the business
section than any place in the United
States. According TO the night police
who spend much of their time patrol
ling the alleys, there are white rats,
black rats, gray rats, calico rats and
brown rats now running ut large. Ac-