The Elk Mountain pilot., 1919-10-30

The Red Cross Roll Call drive will be
conducted nationwide from Novem-
The Red Cross Christmas Seal sale VIII
take place all over the United States
from December to TO- 1919.
Colorado will receive $1,755.759.1'
from the United States government for
good roads under the provision OF the
1915 law providing federal aid for post
al routes.
The united population of Montrose
are preparing to stage the largest ceie-
brntion in their history an Tuesday,
Nov. IL. in honor Of the signing of the
armfstice.
A twenty -four-hour endurance test
for motorcycles is to be held In north
ern Colorado Nov l and .. 1t starts
promptly at noon Nov. and continues
until noon the following day.
Louis Kern, rs years old, vice presi-
dent of the First National Bank of
Windsor, pioneer farmer and landown-
er of the POudre valley. was found
dead in his bed at his home in Wind
SOr. a
State Senator Harry Casaday, chair
man of the committee to push the issu-
ance of S25,OOO,OOO for good roads in
Colorado, outlined the proposed route
of the roads before the Boulder Lions
club.
Edward Pring, George Snare and
VIM. C. Johns were found guilty of in
voluntary manslaughter by a jury in
the second hearing of the Samuel Hunt
H. t,,s< NlYprs a
Colorado Springs.
Three small sons of Joe Stain. II
farmland, were burned to death near
Greeley when the house in which H.
Stain family lived ON the ranch OF w.
NJ. Wilson was destroyed by fire The
father and mother We're working in
field near by at the time. Wilson was
severely burned in attempting to res
cue the children.
The sentiment of the 800 coal min
ers in the Trinidad district concerning
the impending coal strike appears to he
against the plan. The result of Il bal
lot taken in the Berwind-Tobasco camp
shows that 152 miners are against the
strike, while g. voted in favor of 1t. OF
the 46 women who voted, A are
against the strike and . in favor of 1t.
The proposed improvement of an
eleven-mle strip of the COlOrado-to-
Gulf road has met with the approval
of the New Mexico highway commits
sion, according to n report sent to j.
S. Bright, district engineer of the fed
eral bureau of public roads nt Denver.
tnI of ha iS
200. The strip which is to be improved
is to be surfaced with crushed stone. II
is near Clayton, Union county, N. NJ.
c. A. Van Dorm. president of the
First National Bank at Craig. Moffat.
county: C. H. Wise and II. s. Hamilton
of the same town filed application with
the State Public Utilities Commission
for certificate of public necessity and
convenience for the establishment Of II
power and light plant at Craig. They
are about to organize the Craig Serv-
ice Corporation, they said in their APP
plication. and have already obtained a
franchise.
Gov. o. H. Shoup declared that no
salary increases for statehouse en-
Legislature in his call for an extra ses-
sion. There are no funds available for
such increases at this time. he pointed
out StatehOuse employees in II formal
petition had requested the governor to
include in his call recommendation
for increase of pay of all state en-
ploy6s now receiving not more than
800 month
Fifty farmers of Nucla community
have set S15 as the minimum price that
they would accept for their crop of hay
this winter.
The demand for sugar in Denver is
so great that the supply OF that com
modify on hand at the plant of the
Great Western Sugar Company at
Brighton never exceeds trucklOad, ac-
cOrding to officials Of that Organiza-
ton. The shortage has been SO acute,
they say, that the wholesale and job
hing houses OF the capital city are TAX
ing the entire output from the Brigh-
ton factory. Local dealers in turn are
buying back from Denver
Oren Flinde, aged 20. was convicted
of first degree murder at Boulder after
the jury had been out forty-five min
utes. The jury recommended life i'm
prisOnment The youth was on trial
for Staying his father and a ranch
hand employed by the latter on Sept.
IL, at NiwOt, Colo. The trouble had its
start several days before the killing,
when the father killed a dog belonging
to the boy. The latter brOOded over
the matter for several days, and then
shot the father and the ranch hand
The slowly advancing price of silver
is encouraging much proSpectjnp in fhe