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The Detroit times., 1911-01-12
Yours respectfully,
CHARI.ES COIIINS. No. 4

p. Please excuse writing and
may hope for an early reply.
suppose you know my young wife got
a divorce and the custody. or the baby
girl. She Is married again, however. A"
The Elbert County tribune. [volume] (Elbert, Elbert County, Colo.) 18??-1920, 1911-04-21
state Can't Use Coal.

Washington--In response to letter
gram urging that the provisions of the
act turning over the Fort Lewis Indian
school in Colorado to the state be car
ried out, Secretary Fisher telegraphed
to Gov. John F. Shafroth, as follows:
Have this day wired government.
custodian to permit state custodian to
take possession Fort Lewis school
property. In this connection, permit me
to call your attention to the qualified
estate granted by the act Of Congress
and the conditions Upon which 1t is to
be held by the state of Colorado.
namely, as an institution of learning,
and that no right to mine or remove
coal or other mineral deposits under
the soil is conferred upon the state
or can be recognized without further
congressional legislation"
The Elbert County tribune. [volume] (Elbert, Elbert County, Colo.) 18??-1920, 1911-04-21
Minor Mention.


A recent fire in Limon did consid-
cradle damage.
The Trinidad postoffice will hereaft-
er be closed on Sunday.
The ministers of Grand Junction
have organized baseball nine.
Glenwood Springs big annual festi-
val, Strawberry Day. will be held June
18th.
At Montezuma William Smith shot
and instantly killed ]. E. C''Private')
Black.
The government has selected the
site for the Federal building in Du-
range.
The public school building at Glen
wood Springs was recently damaged
by fire.
T. E. Nycherley. miner. was at
tackled and killed at Lafayette by four
Mexicans.
The county board has let the con-
tract for the new high school building
at Castle Rock.
Recently night riders raided ditch
camp near Delta and drove away
Japanese laborers.
Fruit men of Fremont county say
their fruit crops have not been dam
aged by the cold.
In last and exciting game of base
ball the Lupton Blues defeated the La
Sale reds by score of to 1.
Lee Holmes Hilton, banker. son
nf 7 nf q
killed in a street duel in Sylvana
Ca
Helen Walker, aged 4, daughter o.
George Walker OF Loveland. died as
the result of kick received from 4
colt
The tri-weekly service of the star
route between Highmore and De
Beque will be permanently resumed
May list.
The saloon and residence of Joe
Mantilli, at Starkville, also a public
dance hall, burned with a loss of
$4,000.
The State Board of Pardons has
ordered the release from the peniten-
tiary Of John w. Reeve and Frank E.
Kiser.
There are sixty men after municipal
jobs in Greeley and the new City Coun-
ell has held secret session to consid-
er their claims.
Stopped by two masked highway
men in Pueblo, A. T. Thomas, presi-
dent of the Pueblo Feather Company,
was robbed of s53.
No damage has been done to fruit
around La Junta by the cold weather
of the last few days. Buds are not
far enough developed.
The Elbert County tribune. [volume] (Elbert, Elbert County, Colo.) 18??-1920, 1911-04-21
COLORADO
LEGISLATIVE
Three Appropriation sIIIs.

There are now before the State
Legislature OF Colorado three appro-
priation bills which have a very direct
tion development of this state. These
bills were introduced by Senator Car
penter and have not yet been report
ed out by the finance committee.
The first bill is entitled IAN act
concerning a division OF Topographic
surveys, Aproyiding for the manage
ment and duties of the same. and for
cooperation by such division with the
United States geological survey. and
making an appropriation therefor"
The appropriation named in the bill
United States geological survey map
is probably known to every one who
has been Interested either In mining,
irrigation or engineering work. These
maps show the topographic features OF
the land, such as mountains. hills. val
ley and gulches; all bodies of water.
such as lakes, marshes, streams and
springs; the routes of travel, such as
railroads, wagon roads and trails.
cities. towns and permanent build
ings, and the names OF natural and
other features. as well as permanent
monuments which are available as
starting points for local surveys. town
ships. section lines. boundaries and
land grants. They serve great varie-
ty of purposes. but are especially val
liable in connection with preliminary
locations of railroads, canals and high
ways, and are very useful to prospec-
tive investors and settlers In making
study of the country in which they
propose to locate. They are also very
valuable to travellers. prospectors. etc..
as guide maps. They are very useful
in the study OF water powers and tho
development OF the mining interests
of the state.
The Elbert County tribune. [volume] (Elbert, Elbert County, Colo.) 18??-1920, 1911-04-21

Grand Junction.-Smudging has
been general throughout the Grand
valley and for six miles the valley
looked like one big bonfire. From
midnight until after sunrise every
ranchman was out with his smudge-
pots. The temperature in some places
dropped to 20 degrees outside the or
chards, but the lowest temperature in
the smudgepot area Was rs degrees.
In most places the smudgepots kept
the temperature above 81 and %. 1t
is impossible to get an accurate esti-
mate of the amount of, damage done.
but fruit experts declare apples and
pears are not injured to any extent.
The Elbert County tribune. [volume] (Elbert, Elbert County, Colo.) 18??-1920, 1911-04-21
Ancient River pIseovered.

Greeley.-That the bed of an an
Client river. into which abundant
streams are still pouring. winds under
meath the plains in the vicinity of
Pierce is the opinion of those who
have been sinking wells in that re-
gion and was further substantiated
when James Gault discovered the pet
rified bones of mammoth in the ex-
cavation for well on his farm east
of Pierce.
Dan Kinney of Eaton, in ''witching"
for water on the Gault place, located
the we'll when others had failed. The
depth is twenty-seven feet and big
stream was encountered, sending out
flow sufficient. Gault says. to irri-
gate his farm of 100 acres.
There was no evidence of water for
twenty feet, when suddenly the strata
became moist and what first ap-
peared to be a big rock was uncov-
cred. Close inspection showed it to
be the remains of mammoth. The
opinion of those who have explored
the country is that they are the pet
rified bones of one of the big ele-
plants which roamed this territory
millions of years ago and browsed on
vegetation along the river. The same
kind of fossils are found along the
Platte river.
The Elbert County tribune. [volume] (Elbert, Elbert County, Colo.) 18??-1920, 1911-04-21

The House passed three bills on sec
ond reading and gave two other meas
ures considerable attention. The three
bills passed were Senate bill No. 1872,
by Hits, law regulating the ware
house business and the issuing OF
warehouse receipts; Senate bill No.
4G5, by Cornforth. bill legalizlng rae
ing meets with an amendment provid-
ing for the holding of ten-round box
ing exhibitions, and House bill No.
554. by Madden. making new provi-
sions for the forming of road improve
ment districts. House bill No. III. by
Teller, reclassifying the counties of
the state, and House bill No. 400, by
Homer, providing for the licensing of
real estate agents and brokers, were
considered but final action was de-
layed.
The Teller bill, reclassifying the
counties of the state according to
the latest census, is one of the most
important introduced at the present
session The bill changes the pay of
many county officers.
The Elbert County tribune. [volume] (Elbert, Elbert County, Colo.) 18??-1920, 1911-04-21
SPORT.

The first continued flight from
London to Paris in an aeroplane has
been made.
BY a score of seven to four. the
Omaha Western League club de-
feated Lincoln of the same league.
President McGill of Denver an
nounced the purchase of Lee Quillen,
a third baseman, from the Brooklyn
Nationals.
Washington punched three hits in
the sixth inning and with Cunning
hams triple and Millers single in
the eighth defeated Boston to 2.
Aviator Lansor flew in an aero
plane from the aviation field at
Kiewit to the Belgian capital, Brus.
sells, carrying his three sisters as pas.
sengers.
Captain j. Hardness Lloyd of the
All-English polo team, which is to
play the American team for the inter.
national championship, arrived in New
York from England, accompanied by
Herbert Wilson, one of his players.
The national balloon race will start
from Kansas City July 10th, accord
ing to arrangements complete be
tween George NJ. Myers, president OF
the local Aero club. and the Aero
Club of America. with headquarters
In New York.
In the annual boat races between
crews of the University Of California
and Stanford university, decided on
the Oakland Estuary at Alameda, Stan
ford won the freshman race over a
three-mile course, by one length. Time
0:16.
The Elbert County tribune. [volume] (Elbert, Elbert County, Colo.) 18??-1920, 1911-04-21
News Summary of the Past Week

After brief conference between
President Taft and Secretary of State
Knox. the resignation of DR.. David
many, was announced.
The House of Representatives. by a
vote of 296 to 16. passed the Rucker
resolution proposing constitutional
amendment for the direct election of
United States senators.
A terrific wind, hail and thunder
storm accompanied by heavy down
pour of rain, swept over st. Louis,
causing many thousands of dollars
damage and indirectly three deaths.
The great double deck grandstand
and the right field bleachers at the
National league baseball park, in New
York, were destroyed by fire, causing
a loss estimated at from $4,000 to
100000.
The anniversary of the birth of
Thomas Jefferson was marked by the
passage of a bill In the Senate pro-
viding for the erection in Washington
of a statue to the Sage of Month
cello" at cost of 100000.
The alleged murderers of George
w. Crichfield, the American recently
killed at his ranch near Tuxpan, Mex,
are under arrest and are being Wig
orously prosecuted by the Mexican
courts, declares American Consul
Miller at Tampico in a telegram to
the State Department
Increasing interest in the postal saw.
ing5 bank system is indicated by a
statement made public by Postmaster
General Hitchcock; $2O1.961 was on
deposit at the forty-eight postal saw
ings banks at the close OF business on
March 31st. increase OF $6S,092. The
number of open accounts are 4,307.
Claiming that the answer made by
Edward B. Mclean and his wife, Eve
lyn Walsh Mclean. daughter of the
late Thomas F. Walsh, to the suit to
recover $1s0.0OO. the selling price OF
the Hope diamond, are insufficient in
law to constitute a defense to their
action, the firm of Cartier, New York
jewellers, filed in the District Su
preme Court motion for Judgment
The Elbert County tribune. [volume] (Elbert, Elbert County, Colo.) 18??-1920, 1911-04-21
Automobile Tax Bill.


There is before the Legislature
bill imposing state tax on all auto
mobiles and motorcycles. 1t is claimed
under the provisions of this bill $780,
900 will be paid into the state treasury
annually.
For the registration of every motor
cycle including the right of the owner
to operate, 81.
For the registration of every COM
mercial vehicle used solely as such
and every motor truck regardless of
the horsepower, So.
For the registration of every auto
mobile OF less than twenty-one horse
power. IS.
For the registration of every auto
mobile of twenty-one horsepower and
above, but less than thirty-one horse
power, $3.50.
For the registration of every auto
mobile of thirty-one horsepower and
above, but less than forty-one horse
power, $40.
For the registration of every auto
mobile of forty-one horsepower and
above, but less than fifty-one horse
power. $3.50.
For the registration of every auto
mobile of fifty-one horsepower and
above. $25.
The road district bill introduced by
Representative Madden is one of the
measures recommended by the Good
Roads convention that met in Denver
oh n
will allow the formation Of road i'm
provement districts in all parts Of the
state.
The Homer bill providing for the
licensing OF all real estate brokers
and agents is meeting with some oppo-
sition.
The warehouse bill. passed on sec
ond reading. is one that has already
been adopted in about twenty states.
The warehouse men are contending
that uniform warehouse laws are need
ed in all states so that warehouse re-
ceipts may be negotiable securities in
any part of the country.
The Civil Service bill ms amended
was passed on second reading. As
originally introduced this bill provid
ed for the abolition of the Civil Serv
ice Commission, but 1t has been
amended so that the commission will
be continued but changes made in the
law to remedy defects in the presen:
system of State Civil Service.
A large delegation OF clergymer
waited upon Gov. Shafroth to request
that he veto the Cornforth racing
bill passed few days ago by ths
State Legislature.
The Elbert County tribune. [volume] (Elbert, Elbert County, Colo.) 18??-1920, 1911-04-21
FOREIGN.

A slight earth shock was felt in
Rome recently. 1t caused some alarm
in the city, but apparently no damage
was done.
1t is believed that twenty lives were
lost when the little wooden steamer
Iroquois. plying between Sidney. Van
couver Island and the islands of the
Gulf of Georgia was capsized soon aft
err leaving Sidney recently.
The new English battleship cruiser
interchangeable has made the record
speed for dreadlaughts of twenty-nine
knots. The interchangeable was launched
at Davenport in October. 1910. In her
trials December, 1919. she is said to
have made twenty seven knots. with
reduced power.
The Elbert County tribune. [volume] (Elbert, Elbert County, Colo.) 18??-1920, 1911-04-21
WESTERN

Col. Charles M. O'Connor and the
Sixth cavalry, stationed at Fort Des
Moies, have left Des Moines for Arizo-
ma.
A fall of rock in slope on the 60o-
foot level Of the Homestake mine at
Lead, S. D., killed Gust T. Beckrath
and seriously injured Ben Battson.
Two troops of cavalry at Fort Vel
lowstone. Yellowstone park, have re-
ceived orders to be in readiness to go
to San Antonio at moments notice
Joseph Hammil, aged 80, recently
escaped from Colorado penitentiary,
where he was serving time for muir
der, was arrested at Assumption, Ill.
The business section of Bothell, a
town of 1900 people. situated at the
head of Lake Washington, twelve
miles north Of Seattle, was swept by
fire with loss of $4,000.
Judge w. s Kenyon, progressive
and government "trust-buster" was
elected to the Dolliver seat in the
United States Senate from Iowa. on
the sixty-seventh joint ballot.
The exodus of negroes from Oklaho-
ma to Alberta. Canada. which started
several months ago. is continuing, de-
spite the fact that 1t is not being en-
couraged by the Canadian government.
The steamship Northwestern ar
rived in Seattle from Cordova, Alaska,
bringing the first cargo of copper ore
from the mainland of Alaska, and was
greeted with the noise and color be-
fitting the magnitude of the event
Miss Elsie Stuart of Eli, Neb.. sue
ceeded in seeing the back of her new
Easter hat, but in so doing she dislo-
Gated her neck, tearing some OF the
ligaments from their fastenings. neces-
stating her being sent to hospital.
Sabine Rarebit, fox terrier. owned
by Thomas Plant of the Sabine ken
nels of Orange, Tex, was awarded
the H. 8. Blake cup as the best dog
exhibited in the twenty-seventh an
nual show OF the New England Ken.
mel Club in Boston.
While Mrs. John Norman was walk
ing along the beach at Long Beach,
Calf, with her twenty-two-months
old baby boy toddling by her side. 4
gigantic wave suddenly swept in and
tore the child from his mothers grasp
The baby drowned.
Gov. Cruce of Oklahoma issued O
statement endorsing the state bank
guaranty law. deploring the opposi
ton Of national banks to the law, and
threatening II this opposition does moi
| cease to remove all state deposits
from national banks.
The Elbert County tribune. [volume] (Elbert, Elbert County, Colo.) 18??-1920, 1911-04-21
Weeks News from All Over Colorado

Canon City will become a postal
savings depository on May list, max
ing II the second Colorado point TO
have that distinction.
The Town Council has passed an Or
dinance extending the fire limits OF
M,nitou SO as to eliminate many ct
| the tent shacks that increase hre
risks.
Forest Rutherford, former Pueblo
man. was wounded at Douglas. Ariz-.
by a stray bullet fired during bat
tie across the line in Mexico re-
Gently.
Never before in the history of Weld
county were there better prospects for
a bumper fall wheat crop, OF which at
least 100000 acres is growing in the
county.
The elegant new home of st. Mary's
academy in Denver has been reared to
one-half it's full height of four storiess
and will be complete and ready for oc'
cupacy by the school August 1.
There is a good prospect that Gree
ley will have a salaried team OF first
class ball players this summer. or
the $5,0oo needeo' sl'ooo mas ueen SUI
scrioed 10 Ilnance the KIM vi d team
that Greeley wants.
A boarding house baseball league Is
-. W ~ -. .,a,,o,,, houses have agreed
10 NAV series of nine games for a
onn Tho bouse winning for two sue.
oass;va raasons 10 IN keen the trophy
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maSoi 49, " ss,,,.,,, =.
Ter i,oin z,nu.e" ,,t,o.,' h,,i,dsns
supply Iout - IT,. 20
.oi .o,,o,,,,o 70 .i,7t.i,
The Elbert County tribune. [volume] (Elbert, Elbert County, Colo.) 18??-1920, 1911-04-21

Theodore Roosevelt has returned
home to New York from seven
weeks tour of the West and middle
West.
John c. Stubs, vice president and
direction of traffic of the Hartman
lines, of Chicago. has resigned his
place.
Alexander Doty, sixteen, lost his life
trying to save his chum, Osborne Oar
by, eighteen. with whom he had gone
boating on Lake Michigan.
Eighty-five thousand persons trav-
eled from eastern cities to points to
the Pacific coast during the thirty-five
days period ending April 10th.
On the ground that it was special
legislation, the Pennsylvania eight
hour law was declared unconstitution-
al by the State Supreme Court.
The directors of the Metropolitan
opera house in New York, have decid-
ed to raise the price of orchestra and
other circle chairs from S. to Sc.
The United States is spending $780,
100000 in terrifying the Hawaiian
Islands, making the whole insular
possession the Gibraltar OF the Pa
cific.
Gen. w. s. Muse. sixty-eight years
old, U. S. M. c., retired, died at Cam
bridge. Md. He entered the marine
corps in the Civil War as second lieu.
tenant.
A newspaper to be published in the
interest of the tramp is the latest
fancy to emerge from the brain of DR.
James Eads How, the millionaire
tramp.
DR.. Daniel X. Pearson. Chicago's
distinguished philanthropist, cele
brated his ninety-first birthday by dis
tributing 100000 among educationAl
institutions and for missionary work.
Fearing that his five-year-old son
William. would not recover from an
attack of diphtheria, Harry Van Blair.
com, farm hand of Hohokus, N. j.,
slashed the boys throat as he lay on
his sick bed, with razor.
Six were killed, one fatally injured
and twelve other seriously hurt at the
Midvale steel works at Wayne Juno
ton. Pa. when container filled with
molten steel gave way. the LIQUID
splashing over more than a score of
the employees.
In driving the last interlocking steel
piles OF the last of the twenty caissons
forming the inclosing. wall of the huge
cofferdam, surrounding the wreck OF
The Elbert County tribune. [volume] (Elbert, Elbert County, Colo.) 18??-1920, 1911-04-21
Rise In Temperature predicted.

Denver-Reports from all parts of
the state indicate that the fruit crop
has been but little damaged by the
frost of the last few nights. The
buds are not far enough advanced. it
is claimed, to be in any great danger
of destruction. and Forecaster Bran
denburg expresses the opinion that
there would be decided rise in the
temperature in all p:'ts of the state.
The Elbert County tribune. [volume] (Elbert, Elbert County, Colo.) 18??-1920, 1911-04-21
Woman May Get Fortune.

Observation-Disclosures in tracing the
lineage of her father. dead for many
years. and the exchange of many let
ters between herself and court Off
GERS in England will lead. it is be-
lieved, to the establishment of the
claim of Mrs. Stella Troth Flader of
this city to good portion of $1,000
600 left by her great uncle in England.
The Elbert County tribune. [volume] (Elbert, Elbert County, Colo.) 18??-1920, 1911-04-21
GENERAL.

A shortage in the ice crop and in.
crease in freight rates is held respon-
sible for threatened raise in ice
prices.
DR.. B. Clarke Hyde, convicted Of the
murder OF Colonel Thomas H. Swope,
millionaire ph'lanthropist at Kansas
City. has been granted a new trial by
the Missouri Supreme Court.
The Elbert County tribune. [volume] (Elbert, Elbert County, Colo.) 18??-1920, 1911-04-21
Kills wife, Children and Sell.

Youngstown.- Grant Riekerd. a
plumber. attacked his wife and five
children with a gun and AK and killed
his wife and three children and prob
ably. MORALLY wounded the other two
chifdren. He then shot and killed him
self
The Elbert County tribune. [volume] (Elbert, Elbert County, Colo.) 18??-1920, 1911-04-21

Grand Junction.-This city is pre-
pairing for one OF the most elaborate
entertainments ever accorded a con-
vention meeting on the Western
Slope when the State Society of
Christian Endeavor convenes here
June 18th to 18th. Delegates to the
number of 300 will be present from
.all parts of the state.
The Elbert County tribune. [volume] (Elbert, Elbert County, Colo.) 18??-1920, 1911-04-21
VIII Visit Every Town.

Greeley.-At the meeting of the
Weld County Commercial Club at Ault,
recently, 1t was decided that the clup
take its first journey over the county
April rs. when automobiles will be
provided and members will visit every
town in the southern part of the coun-
ty.
The Elbert County tribune. [volume] (Elbert, Elbert County, Colo.) 18??-1920, 1911-04-21

Manila.-Lieutenant Walter H. Rod
ney OF the Second United States cav
airy, stationed in the Augur barracks.
I'm the department OF Mindanao. was
murdered by a Moro. crazed with re-
Iigious passion. The assassin belongs
to the Mohammedan sect OF Juramen.
tados-
The Elbert County tribune. [volume] (Elbert, Elbert County, Colo.) 18??-1920, 1911-04-21

A baby show. a dressed doll show
and a moving picture show will be
the special features of the flower show
at Stratton park August %, "a and
25 by the Ell Paso County Horticul-
tural Society at Colorado Springs.
The Elbert County tribune. [volume] (Elbert, Elbert County, Colo.) 18??-1920, 1911-04-21

Windsor.-This town wants a cream
cry and cheese factory and expects to
have both located here early next
summer.
The Elbert County tribune. [volume] (Elbert, Elbert County, Colo.) 18??-1920, 1911-04-21

Washington.-Anoth decision day
passed without the United States Su-
preme Court announcing Its ruling in
the Standard OIL case.
The Elbert County tribune. [volume] (Elbert, Elbert County, Colo.) 18??-1920, 1911-04-21
WASHINGTON.

Nearly 800 delegates to the twen-
tieth continental congress of the
Daughters of the American Revolution
are crowding hotels In Washington.
The Elbert County tribune. [volume] (Elbert, Elbert County, Colo.) 18??-1920, 1911-04-21

Peaches suffered most, and rs per
cent Of full crop is all that will be
harvested.