The Elbert County tribune., 1913-11-14
WEEKS EVENTS
COLORADO
Vsstern NewsDaDsr Union News Service.

Jan. -i9-Colorado Poultry Fanciers'
Jan, ls-2t.-National Western Stock
Show at Denver.
Jan-Meeting Colorado Good Roads
.AssoSlatlon at Colorado Springs.
isio.-Last Grand Council of North
american Indians at Denver.
The Denham." Denver's new thea
ter. has been formally opened.
The cornerstone OF the new Elks'
home at Focky Ford has been set in
place.
The absence of street number and
room number in office buildings Is
given as the cause of the delay of
mail in Denver.
James Murray, fifty-six, engineer.
had his right hand cut off In the gear
ing or the elevator machinery of the
Ideal building In Denver.
John F. Brady. state liquor license
Inspector, is slated for the position of
postmaster at Manitou, according 20
information received In Denver.
Quick work on the part of the mill
tia dispatched to the La Veta district
after the killing. rounded up eight sus-
pected of taking part in the ambus-
cade.
The city council of Colorado Springs
named R. C. Wright member of the
civil service commission to succeed
George NJ. Irwin, whose term has ex-
pired.
The Perry mine of the Moffat Coal
Company at Oak Hills, four miles east
Of Oak Creek, resumed operations
with Its full force of men, numbering
eighty-five.
Another dynamiting outrage. the
blowing up of the Colorado Fuel and
Iron Company's water pipe line be-
tween Segundo and Primero, was re-
ported at Trinidad
Major William T. Snow, assistant to
the chief of militia affairs of the War
Department at Washington, declared
while on visit to Denver that the
United States is not prepared for war
with Mexico.
Losing his grip on freight car lad
der as 1t was passing through Eaton,
Jerry Hunt, eighteen. had both legs
severed just below the trunk and died
four hours later In the Greeley hos
pital.
Joseph F. Smith. high priest of Nor
monism, stopped in Denver short
time en- route from Chicago to Salt
Lake City to meet and discuss local
church affairs with Mr.. and Mrs. John
l.. Herrick, in charge of the Norman
mission at 622 West Sixth avenue, and
other mission officials.
Preparations for the celebration of
| the fiftieth anniversary OF Union
lodge, No. Z. the second Oldest Mason
ic body in Colorado. founded Novem-
ber 20, 1868, are being made by Off
GERS and members on scale that
promises to eclipse any other event OF
the kind ever held in Denver.
On information that two men had at
tempted to pawn one of the watches
secured by the bandits who help up
the Burlington train near Omaha, in
a northern Colorado town, Denver po-
licemen stopped and boarded a Bur
lington train at Sand creek and
searched the train without results.
To the surprise of many, who looked
for long court battle before the mud.
died state of affairs. created by the
/
! Pueblo could be Strengthened out,
Commissioner of Public Safety Thorn.
as d. Donnelly and Charles A. Lannon,
commissioner of highways, resigned.
Because jury had found him guilty
of the charge of selling liquor on Sun.
| day, Judge Butler in the West Side
| Court in Denver pronounced one of the
heaviest sentences yet imposed on any
of the saloonkeepers indicted by the
grand jury, when he sentenced Joseph
Barnes to six months In the, county
| Jail.
After marrying man out of kind.
| ness and desire to do him a good turn,
as she declares, Mrs. Georgia Felt, fif.
teen, has brought suit for divorce
| against Al Felt. The couple we're mar
ried two months ago. and the girl-wifs
asserts that she has been subjected to
much cruel treatment in the short
| length of time.
A new species of pea produced by
Luther Burbank. noted horticulturist
and botanical scientist. and developed
after eight years of work and the ex.
| penditure of $4,000 by the Empson
Packing Company of Longmont. Colo
RADIOS largest manufacturer of canned
goods. was used by that corporation
this season for canning purpose for
the first time.
The mine operators made formal
offer to the state and city of Denver
| TO turn over to the municipality OF
commonwealth any one Of the coal
mines operated by them on payment
of the appraised value of the equip
ment. State Senator Frank NJ Cove
| general attorney for the big compl
nies, states the operators will accept
the valuation of any arbitration com