The Elk Mountain pilot., 1919-11-06

gar Company i'm all plants have Il
chance to share in prize money this
season and the factories are competing
| for the money. A bonus is to be given
at the end of the campaign to every
man in the employ of the company.
| This bonus will be based on mini
mum output and large prizes Will he
given where the men exceed this mini
mum. During the first week every
factory In the Colorado district was be-
| low the minimum, but the daily shifts
are now said to he exceeding this min
fmum and are rolling up bonus every
day.
The Denver office of the United
States marine corps recruiting service
has asked that all discharged marines
and those on the reserve list report to
the recruiting office to prepare for
plans being made TO celebrate the an
niversary of the signing of the armis-
tice. 1t has been planned to have
former members Of the marine corps
act as escorts to Governor Oliver II.
Shoup and Mayor Dewey C. Bailey
during their addresses to be given at
the big municipal bonfire.
Fifty persons In n total of seventy
nine, the largest naturalization class
ever examined in the district of Colo
radO were granted United States citi-
xenship by Judge Robert Il. Lewis I'm
the Federal court yesterday. Repre-
sentatives from sixteen countries were
among the applicants, including Germ
any, Austria and Hungary.
The trial of John $. Little. charged
with having killed Richard Pullian at
the Leyner Engineering Works. near
LittletOn. on Aug 9, terminated when a
jury. after three hours deliberntiOn.
found Little guilty of second degree
murder. The penalty is from five to
twenty years In the penitentiary.
Following up President Wilson'S
virtual command to the coal miners to
call off their threatened strike In the
bituminous fields, government officials
disclosed that the adoption of drastic
measures are contemplated In the
event that the unions defy the execu-
tive and shut down the mines.
Matty Smith, known to many Colo
RADIO fight fans. has arrived in New
York from overseas with II lieutenant's
commission In the Australian army. n
score of decorations, title of an Anzac
flying "ace" and the lightweight cham
piOnship OF the interallied armies.
The final coupon on the Second
per cent Liberty Bonds becomes due
next month and the last coupon on
the First 4 per cents. being converted
3h per cents Is payable In December.
Plans for drive for Sl5OOOO. to he
launched Dec. 1st. have been formu-
lated by the Colorado Public Health
Association of which James H. PERISH
ing has been chosen president.
The body of Frank Maxwell Camp
bell, % years old, former member of
the students army training corps and
former student at the Colorado Agri-
cultural College and at Washington
State College. Pullman, Wash, was dis
covered with bullet wounds in II at
Fort Collins by Clarence Drexell, a stu
dent at the college, who recognized
Campbell as his classmate last year.
No cause for the murder has yet been
solved
Two large corporations, one min
ing and the other an oil company, with
their principal offices in Denver, filed
articles of incorporation in the office
of Secretary of State James X. No
land: The River Valley OIL Company
with capital stock of 500. 900 and the
Leadville Operating and Development
Company, the business Of which is to
be in connection with placer and lode
mines, Incorporated for 100000.
A Denver produce company has pur-
chased carload of celery grown in
the Brewster and Rainbow Park dis
trict near Florence, and has shipped
it to Denver where 1t will be dis
tributed The same firm has also
shipped out three carloads of cabbage
from local growers the past week.
Helping to drive out the bandits who
for long time have infested the
mountainous jungies of Santo Domingo,
Private Lester NJ. KeetOn, of Eaton,
Colorado, is now serving with Squad
ron I'd" of the United States Marine
Aviation Force which makes its head
quarters at San Pedro de MacOris in
the eastern part of the island of Haiti
Private keeton is son OF Mrs.
Martha Keeton of Eaton. Colorado
j. NJ Sellers and party OF Florence
while coming down through Phantom
cafion recently, ran into two mountain
sheep just below the second tunnel.