The Elbert County tribune., 1913-05-30

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Oct. 21.-Colorado State Baptist Asso-
1e15.-Last Grand Council of North
American Indians. Denver.
w. |. Rosebaugh. reported injured
in the Long Beach tragedy, is one of
the most prominent citizens of Love-
land.
Members of the Order of Knight OF
Columbus from all parts of the state
attended the annual convention at
Pueblo.
Karl Kroskob, two, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. John A. Kroskob living four
miles north of Iona, was drowned in
three-foot irrigation ditch.
Five thousand children will throng
Elitch's Gardens in Denver June 12
to participate in the field contest and
plays of the Mothers Congress rally.
Burglars, who broke into the Union
PScific depot at Fort Lupton got five
pounds of butter, which was sent to
Mayor A. G. Johnson, a gun and IS
cents.
Gasoline fumes nearly caused the
death of Mrs. e. j. Davis. ST., who
lives on farm near La Sale. Only
the timely arrival of a neighbor saved
her life.
Plans are being made to hold gi-
gantic celebration in Craig. to begin
on the day the first train is run over
to last a full week.
In nine months of the present fiscal
year earnings of the Denver & Rio
Grande railroad increased s1,224.0O0
over the corresponding period of 1912.
The fiscal year 1913 ends July 80.
Miss Lille NJ. Holme of Denver was
one of those killed in the collapse of
the municipal auditorium and pier at
Long Beach, CAL, where thirty-six per-
sons. mostly women, lost their lives.
Nearly 1900 people attended the fu-
neral of Willis v. Elliott, former dis
trict attorney of Denver. The serv-
ices were held under the auspices of
the Knights Templar and the Masonic
order.
The North Sterling reservoir, cost
ing $2.500,000, will be formally opened
June 7, when more than $4,000 acres
of land in the neighborhood of Ster-
ling will be made available for farm
ing purposes.
More than GOO attended services in
honor of memorial Sunday, held by
the G. A. R. and w. r. C. organiza-
tions at Greeley. The Rev. John w.
S. Findley, pastor of the Presbyterian
church. denvered the sermon.
A wholesale reduction in the num-
ber of employees at the capitol is con-
templated by State Auditor Roady
Kenehan and other members of the
auditing board, including the COVER
nor, and the result, they say. will be
a great saving to the state.
John Callison, nineteen, was found
guilty of murder in the second degree
by a jury in the District Court at
Greeley. He was accused of perform
ing a criminal operation on Miss
Hazel Meek telephone operator,
who died September 4, 1912.
Dr. Regis Chauvenet of Denver, for
ten years president of the State
School of Mines, was elected president
emeritus at special meeting of the
board of trustees at Golden. Victor
c. Anderson. who has been head of the
college since 1903, was deposed.
Despondent because her negro hus-
band, B. Coffman, had left her, and
because she could not hold position
when her employers learned that she
was married to negro. Mrs. Maud
Coffman, aged forty, white womwan.
shot herself through the heart at the
home of her father-in-law, ]. B. Burns
of Denver. Death was instantaneous.
The state railroad commission has
postponed the hearing of the com
plant filed by the city of Canon City
against the Florence G Cripple Creek
railroad until June 2, at the joint re.
quest of the complainant and defend.
ant.
Henry Flack. a German, was bound
over to the District Court under 81 900
bond and Henry Dittenbar was bound
over in the sum of $500 at the prelim-
mary hearing at Rifle in which the
two are charged with the murder of
man who is said to be Charles Stew
art and who died in Grand Junction.