The Elk Mountain pilot. [volume] (Irwin, (Ruby Camp), Gunnison County, Colo.) 1880-19??, 1919-06-12

numbered some OF her most noted ut
erary men. Chief Of those who have
30 far expressed their Intentions OF
visiting Estes for more or less length.
periods are Irwin 8. Cobb, humorist,
Karl Hartman, editor of the Ret
Book magazine; Robert w. Servisa
Jack Lait and Opie Read. These have
made reservations at the Big Thomp-
son hotel operated by Glenn G. Yore,
an old Newspaper man. Walt Mason,
the prose poet, and William Allen
White, newspaper man and novelist,
each have summer homes in the park
and are expected to spend their sum-
mers there with their families.
Efforts Of Charlie Gardner Of San
Diego. blind newsie. to save the life
OF John D. Kennedy, rancher, from
Gunnison, Colo, has been repaid by .
$4,000 legacy. Hearing that Kennedy.
a casual acquaintance, was dying,
Gardner went to his physician and In
sisted that he be allowed to submit
to a blood TRANSMISSION. Gardner lost
q quart of blood In the operation, but
Kennedy died. He left his entire -
tate, valued at $4,000. to Gardner.
All of northern and eastern Weld
county will be represented at the
Northern fair. which is to be held in
Grover Sept. IL. Products from all
townships within a fifty-mile radius of
Grover will be on exhibition, making
the largest non-irrigated farming ex-
hibition in the state this year. Grover
people are planning to buy and i'm
prove permanent fair grounds near
town this summer.
The Supreme Court has handed
down decisions under which the tele-
phone rates Of 1918 must continue to
be paid while the case Is refought:
VIII II. Murphy is given office as en-
gineer Of the State Land Board;
Judge Ben B. Lindsey must pay q
$500 fine for contempt Of court, and
A. F. Enyart, Ordway. Colo, bank
president, gets new trial on the
charge Of murder.
Denver will receive six pieces Of
German artillery and two machine
guns with shells for display purposes,
II bill introduced in the federal
House Of Representatives by Con-
gresham William N. Vale IL passed.
The bill provides that the guns shall
be from the captures made by the
American expeditiOnary forces and de-
livered to the United States under the
terms of the peace treaty.
The school board of Denver IL pre-
pairing to submit to the taxpayers at
a special election to be held some time
In the coming fall the proposition of
ings which has been In preparation for
several months. OF the issue $685.
600 is to go to building and the ~
mainder for furnishing three new
high. six new Junior high and twenty
three new elementary schoolhouses.
The 1919 year book Of the state Inn
migration department will show that
the total assets Of all banks in Colo
RADIO at the beginning Of 1919 were
$SO5, 7s2, 284.46, compared with $780,
S85, O60.52 at the beginning of 1918.
There were In the state at the begin
ming Of the year 126 national banks
and $40 state banks and trust COM
panies, or a total of 500 banks for the
state.
Charles H. Wright, q, lineman en-
ployed by the Western Union Tele-
crap Company, was electrocuted and
burned almost to a crisp at Colorado
Springs when his body accidentally
came in contact with high power line
while at work. 1t was necessary to
shut off the entire electric system Of
the city and summon the fire depart
ment before the body could be re-
moved from the pole.
In Colorado is 2.23 tons, compared
with an average for the entire United
States Of LAS tons and minimum av-
erage Of 1.13 for New Hampshire and
Missouri.
The crops In the -Montrose section
and most Of the great Uncompahgrs
valley are two to three weeks ahead Of
crop is over 100 per cent average and
10 ready for the first cutting now.
Some potato patches are showing re-
markable development and the farm
ers are declaring 1t is one of the most
advanced springs in the history Of
Montrose county.
Denver at its tractor show June
to II is going to be given a practical
demonstration of the meaning Of
"treat 'erh roughw The boys who did
It and the things they did it with will
be there. They came from the govern
ment arsenal at Rock Island, ILL.,, and
the Aberdeen proving grounds in Mary:
land, and every part that the tank and
the tractor played in the war in France
will be demonstrated in Denver.
Unnaturallzed foreign-born residents
Of Colorado have but a short time ip