The Elbert County tribune., 1913-12-19


jan 24--Nationai western Stock
Jan. 5-ls.-Mceting Colorado Good
Roads Assn at Colorado Springs.
sept a--Colorado State Fair at Pueblo.
tf;nGrand Lodge Session, b. p.
Jan. 15.-AnnuaI Meeting colorado
iLsrmers iara i Congress at Agricultural Col
l9i5.-Last Grand Council of Moth
American Indians at Denver.
. The wire mill at the Minnequa steel
plant at Pueblo opened with a force
Oh 800 men, for run of ten dos.
Elizabeth Malone. eighty-eight. Dem
yer pioneer, died at her residence,
l2l6 Ogden street, of arterial sorosis.
Colorado Springs lodge of Elks has
arranged to give a Christmas party
TO 700 children on Christmas morning.
Numerous abuses of settlers
through fraudulent assignments of
leases on state lands have been dis
covered by the State Land Board.
The heavy sale of Red Cross Christ
mas seals is surprise to all con-
nected with the campaign being con-
Quoted by the American Red Cross So
ciety.
Louis Busher cut two acres of oats
six miles southwest of Grand juno
ton on the 18th. This breaks all
Western slope records for late har-
vesting.
number of applications for par
don. parole and Communication of SEN
tences were heard by the State Board
of Pardons in the executive chambers
of the statehouse
Denver is to have a Housewives
league, the first organization OF the
kind in the state, which is to conduct
systematic campaign to obtain pure
food for'the households of Denver.
The man who was found cut In sew
eral pieces on the Colorado C South
ern railroad tracks near the Griffen
Wheel works, in valverde, was identi.
fled as Frantz Leidinger a laborer,
who lived in Valverde.
1t is estimated by the highway COM
missioner's office that the snowstorm
left 1900 wagonloads of snow on the
business district of Denver from I'm
lou depot to Broadway and from Four
teenth to Eighteenth streets, inclusive
Three weeks ago James Miller, thir.
ty-five, had an iron bar an inch thick
driven into his brain. A few days age
he walked out of the Red Cross hos.
pital at Victor in full possession OF
his faculties and physicians, who de.
clared he could not get well, said his
recovery would be complete
The annual report of the comp
troller of the United States treasury
shows that Denver's national banks
stand near the top of the list OF
United States national banks in the
amount of legal reserve. Only one
city in the ry-Galveston-has a
larger reserve than Denver.
The United States deputy marshals
have seized the plant of the West
!. ern Oleomargarine Company of Den
yer, and arrested the proprietor, A. H
Flood and two of HIS employees, Rob-
ert e. Hunt and H Musselman Flood
was released on $4,000 bond and Hunt
and Musselman on $500 bonds each.
Sixteen gold jewels emblematic OF
the rank of past consuls in the
Woodmen of the World were received
by Charles B. Ritch, clerk of Book
Cliff camp at Grand Junction. The
jewels are to be presented at a cere-
mony on Dec. % at which large
number of the recipients will be pres.
ent.
The United States civil service com.
mission has named Feb. 21 and May
1G as the time when examinations will
be held for stenographers and type
writer's in the field service. The fol.
lowing are the places for the examina,
tions in Colorado: Colorado Springs
Denver. Durango, Grand Junction
kGreeley, Montrose and Pueblo.
Thomas r. Woodrow, a cousin OF
President Woodrow Wilson and for
= mer assistant city attorney under the
Speer and Arnold administrations, wa.
elected Democratic county chairman
to succeed John b. Hunter, commits
sionsr of improvements, at a meetins
OF the executive committee of the Dem
ocratic county organization in Denver
California may talk all it pleases
about it's s1.000-sn-acre returns from
orange groves, but it has nothing Oh
Colorado and the Grand valley. F. S
Csrlnan, who has an orchard on Fruit
oRidge, near Grand Junction, has just
received returns on three-quarters OF
an acre of pear orchard which will
show returns of close of $1,000 in &C
tual cash.
II. hlSSQpson, head of the depart
ment Of an,mal husbandry ofthe ag
ricuitural department of the Univer
sity of New Mexico, located at Las
Cruces. has been agreed upon by the
board of trustees and members of the
advisory council of the Boulder anc
st. Vrain Valleys Agricultural Com
! mercial Association for the position Of