The Elk Mountain pilot., 1919-01-16
Pithy News Notes
From Al PnSls OF
Colorado
We.tern New.peper Union Now. serylce.

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Western Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING EVENTS.
Jan. 20-21-Mid- winter meeting OF
Colorado Editorial Association Al
Jan. si-MeetinE Colorado County Com
missioners at Denver.
Jan. 22-Colorado stock Growers Az
sociation meeting at Denver.
Jan. 22-Meeting Farmers Educational
Cooperative Union at Denver,
Jan. 21-2S-MOuntain states Lumper
Dealers Association meeting in Den
Jan. 1s-s4-Hardware and Implement
Jan. 23-24-Western Shorthorn Breed
ers' Association at Denver.
Jan. 2a.a4-Meetfnx Oidtime Cowboys
Jan. 24-26--Aeeting Colorado horse
Breeders Association at Denver.
Ian. 1bcMeetinx Colorado Auctioneers
Jan. 2l-2s-Western stock snow a.
Jan. 2i-2s-Meeting American National
The annual intercollegiate track
and field meet will be held in Den
yer on May u at Union park.
Mrs. r. D. Shaw. formerly of Den
ver. died At Fort Collins after four
days illness with pneumonia.
The kettle has begun to call the
pot black in the Aearings in prog
ress before the Adams county grand
jury.
Farmers in the Hayden district re-
ceived more money for the 1918 crops
per acre than the previous value OF
the land.
Certificates Of honorable service
will be given men leaving the naval
service before the expiration OF their
terms Of enlistment.
Nearly every city in Colorado will
probably get one or two German can
mons for park or court house decora-
tions II the present plans work out.
Colorado Springs first wounded war
veteran returned last week. He is
Earl Kinsman. who lost an arm in the
fighting at Chateau Thierry. July 30.
Leadville'sl metal production in
1918 had value of $478.925.416-
. record of which 1.-The highest mining
town in the world'' may well be
proud.
Ex-Governor Carlson addressed the
meeting Of the Denver Manufacturers
Association in conjunction with invit-
ing soldiers to discuss the problem Of
unemployment.
Colorado will have . general reve-
nue. surplus Of more than $725,0Oo
when the tax inheritance collections
for 1918 are all in. according to State
Auditor Charles Leckenby.
The federal bank Il Wichita. ac-
cording to q report just issued, made
loans during November to eiehty-five
Colorado farmers. for q total Of $2O1,-
100. During the same period, twenty
two Colorado loans, for q total Of $780,
500 were paid off.
Soldiers who have been undeserved-
ly though technically branded on the
government records as "deserters."
are to have the stigma removed wher-
ever possible. The aid of every loyal
citizen in Colorado 10 asked to see
that this Is done.
acres of land belonging mainly to the
school fund, but also the property of
other state institutions such as the
penitentiary. Agricultural College.
State University. public. buildings and
internal improvements.
The State Highway Commission in
making up its 1919 budget has laid ~
extensive foundation as its funds
viii permit for q system of permanent
roads. In forming a nucleus for this
system It has selected a dozen traffic
concentration points for the construc-
tion Of concrete roadway. with the
idea Of branching out from these GEN.
tiers along the main thoroughfares as
rapidly as money can be obtained for
the purpose.
Federal. state and city flags have
been officially ordered at half staff
out OF respect to the memory OF ex-
President Roosevelt. Federal officials
are following the example Of the au-
thorities at Warrington, while Cover
nor Gunter and Mayor Mills. issued
the Instructions for the state and city
institutions respectively.
City Commissioner Andrew w.
Frandsen was the first Montrose man
to be fined for violation of the new
quarantine regulations. His children
came down town and the commission
er was At once handed a request to
appear before Justice W. H. Franklin.
He was fined $6.75. A daughter Of
Mr.. Frandsen is i'll with influenza.
There are seventeen national forests
wholly within the confines Of Colo
RADIO and two partly within the state
with 13.367 ,59s acres that are inside
the borders. Within these forests pri-
vate owners have 1.51O,421 acres.
making = total Of 14.S78.019 acres en-