The Elbert County tribune., 1913-10-10
Date. OF ConInx Eve.ts.

as Fire Day.
Six petitions calling for amend
ments to the city charter have been
filed at Pueblo.
Changes in the two chief positions
in the Denver postoffice are expected
within the next few days
One hundred and fifty armed guards
prevented an invasion OF Sopris by
striking miners Sunday
The "wets" filed their petition to
initiate an ordinance providing for
high license saloons in Grand juno
lion.
Joseph Smith. John Musick and
John Jackaway. inmate of the state re-
formatory at Buena Vista. have es-
capped.
Grand Junction may have munich
pally owned theater. George Bullock.
a Socialist attorney, is behind the
scheme.
The first car of honey to be shipped
out of Montrose county this year left
Montrose for Ohio. netting the bee
men s3,700.
Under the proposed administration
of the new currency law, Denver will
get the regional bank for the entire
Rocky Mountain region.
Colorado alfalfa, because of the
drought in other parts of the United
States, is being shipped to the four
corners of the country.
The Manitou Mineral Springs prop
erty has been purchased by a syndi-
cate from the General William j.
Palmer estate for $25O,0OO.
DR.. William Fowler, fifty-eight, resi-
dent of Colorado Springs for thirty
years and prominent in social ana
business circles, died in Pueblo.
With roar that was heard for miles.
500 pounds of giant blasting powder
exploded in subsidiary power house
thirty miles north of Trinidad.
What is said to be the largest cleo
trical pumping plant in the state will
be installed as feature of the Moffat
Municipal Irrigation project in Sa-
guache county.
Frank E. Kimball. sixty-five years
old, and in point of service one of the
Oldest mail carriers in the country,
died at bis home in Denver after an
illness of two days.
Stephen Rafferty,, aged twenty-nine,
committed suicide in his home in Den
yer by swallowing carbolic acid. His
inability to secure work is given by
his friends as the cause for his death.
The board of county commissioners
of Teller county announced that the
assigning of wages by county en-
ployes must cease in the future and
that any man assigning his check
would be dismissed
Vest pocket soup slugs. coffee cap
sules, tea and milk tablets, from the
unique commissary of party of
Colorado Springs newspapermen who
departed on an automobile trip to the
Yellowstone park.
Peter Forte. serving a life sentence
in the penitentiary for killing his
wife. has appealed to the Supreme
Court asking for a reversal of the
lower courts order. Forte was ar
rested Sept. 10, 1912.
war of words, or battle between
r~Sarbers, has been started in the
Cripple Creek district as the result of
an announcement that the BARRIERS of
Victor would hereafter charge half
dollar for hair cuts, raise in price
of fifteen cents.
Sava Radakovich, said to have been
driven out of Servia for participating
in killing King Alexander and Queen
Draga, has absconded with slOO, 900,
the life savings of hundreds of EN-
ployes of the steel mills, according to
the Pueblo police.
The Moffat tunnel contract, as re-
vised and corrected by the city attor.
ney and members of the ,unnel com
mission, was signed for the city of
Denver and ten copies sent East to
the offices of the Denver & Salt Lake
road in New York
Only eighteen years old, Marie D.
Cain, who weighs 1877 pounds, was
taken before United States Commits
sioner s. c. Hinsdale and sent to the
county jail under bond to the federal
grand jury. which meets at Pueblo |
She is charged with sending improper
-etters through the mails to her step
father, Charles d. Cain.
Filled with grief and worry over
the sufferings of his wife. who lies in |
st. Luke's hospital. seriously III. |
George w. Means. postmaster of Au- |
rora. was overcome by a nervous at
tack and was obliged to be taken to |
the same hospital
Harry Starr went to Holly, but not |
as in former times when he was one
of the most dreaded bandits in the |
Western country. Starr has been pa.
rolled from the state prison by Gov
ernor Ammons. and he went 10 Holly |
a r,aal IL. L