The Elbert County tribune., 1913-04-11

ciave Of Knights Tempiar. Denver
Aug 25--Conference of Governors at
Aug. 26.-Knights of Pythias Grand
Lodge Meeting at Trinidad.
Oct H.-Coiorado. State Baptist Asso-
ciation at Pueblo.
Determined to stamp out stealing of
automobiles in Pueblo, the police ar
rested five boys.
Denver has been officially famed as
the location of the 1913 convention OF
the Federation of American Motor
cyclists.
A tale of a clever woman swindler
has been told detectives by Denver
bank, which lost $1,000 through her
cleverness.
Harold f. Henwood, charged with
the killing of George E. Copeland.
will stand trial for the offense May -
at Denver.
Judge N. H. Taylor, seventy, on the
bench in Adams county for the past
twelve years, died at Henderson after
a short illness.
The Odd Fellows of Denver and vi
cinity will celebrate the ninety-fourth
anniversary of the order at the Audi
torium on Saturday evening, April 26.
From the pulpit to the farm is the
lot chosen by the Rev. G. e. Ladd, for
several years the pastor of the First
Congregational church of Longmont.
Mrs. Margaret E. Whiteley, eighty
two, is dead at her home, "The Pop
lars" Mrs. Whiteley was one of the
oldest and most loved women of Boul-
der.
The taxpayers, by vote 125 to 49,
have decided to issue bands to the
amount of $20,5O0 for the erection of
a new high school building at Ord
way.
William Geary was discharged by
the board of public works of Denver
as deputy highway commissioner and
superintendent of the street cleaning
department.
AS result of the election in Holly
and other Arkansas valley towns, Hol-
ly is the only oasis between Pueblo
and Kansas City. Holly went wet by
a vote of 204 to 40.
r. j. Spencer, declared to have
several dozen aliases. and to be a for
fger of international reputation, was
arrested at Louisville by operatives
of detective agencies.
Forty-three students graduated from
the Colorado School of Agriculture at
the first graduating exercises held
by the institution, in the college
chapel at Fort Collins.
Deputy Game Warden Gray is post
ing notices over the northern part of
the state offering a reward of s25 for
information leading to the arrest of
any one killing pheasants.
Twice the heroine of elopments be-
fore attaining the age of twenty,
Carol Coombs Bruner Wheldon, one
of Pueblos promising musicians, has
attained a distinction that is unique
in that city.
The State Board of Health and the
state university faculty have re-
ceived samples of turtle tuberculin
and experiments will be conducted on
guinea pigs. DR.. w. C. Mitchell,
state bacteriologist, and DIR. Burnett
of the state university. will have
charge of the work.
Judge Charles C. Butler of Denver
has ordered quashed the information
charging James ODriscoll, formerly
alderman of the Sixth ward, with brib-
cry. O'Driscoll was accused of at
tx hill. A
ident of the fire and police board, In
order to get saloon license.
A dividend of 100000 on the pre-
ferred stock of the Midwest Oil Com
pany was declared at a meeting Of
directors in the company's offices in
the First National Bank building In
Denver. The dividend represents eight
per cent on s2.000,000 of stock, and
pays all the interest up to April 1.
The first compilation of statistics
N railroad accidents in Colorado made
from the records of the state railroad
commission show that the transporta-
tion companies handled 7.161,514 pas
sengers on their lines within the state
of Colorado during the past fiscal
year without killing a single one of
them.
The Germans who are arranging
for the turnfest in Denver next sum-
mer say they will offer to the visitors
spectacular pageant that will sur
pass anything of the kind ever seen
in America. Thursday afternoon,
June 26, has been set as the date for
the pageant. Thousands OF people will
take part.
Mrs. Sydney B. Smith. one of the
most prominent club women in Dem
yer, is seventy-five years young
and her friends celebrated the event
hy giving har a Inn chaop a., t,o ,ri...