The Elbert County tribune., 1914-04-03
COLORADO NEWS
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All Parts of the State
vs.,srn New.oaDer unlon sew. ser,les.

May i2-i4-state Council OF Junior Or
der OF american Mechanics. Mt Colo
rado Springs.
July ls-la-Grand Lodge Session. b.
r. @. Eiis Mt Denver.
Sept i4-coiorado State Fair at Pu-
l9l5.--I.ast Grand Council of North
American Indians al Denver.
The beet factory at Rocky Ford Is
being enlarged.
sus of its milk COWS.
The authorities of Longmont have
declared war on joy riders.
The labor unions OF Colorado are op-
posed to the Incorporation OF unions.
The State Industrial School and the
East Denver High School baseball
teams split even in a practice game
double header at Golden.
In the Court of Justice OF the Peace
George l.. Seitz at Pueblo lie Roy l..
Mansell of Denver pleaded not guilty
to charge of abducting Miss Lucinda
Etter. eighteen. of Denver.
Sheriff Alexander Yant left La
Junta for Durango. Swhere ne viii take
charge of T.. ]. Beaton, who was ar
| rested there on request of the officers
OF La Junta on the charge OF embezzle-
ment.
Two acceptances to the invitations
to a general freight rates conference
In Denver in April have been received
by the Denver Chamber of Commerce.
They are from st. Joseph. Mo-. and
Hutchinson, Kan.
The Denver Chamber OF Commerce
notified all architects in the state OF
the opening of competition in plans
for the Colorado building at the Pana-
ma-Pacific exposition. to be con
structed at an approximate cost OF
$4,000
Thousands of tourists will be al
lowed to stop over in Denver and Colo
rado on their way to and from the
Panama-Pacific Exposition under
ruling on passenger rates made at San
Francisco by the Transcontinentai
Passenger Association.
The immense, beautiful and costly
Grand Opera Fashion Show. slightly
interfered with by the rain OF Satur-
day night. but which nevertheless
pleased and repaid the $4,000 people
who came. was repeated in its entirety
Monday night in Denver.
Governor J. F. A. Strong of Alaska
will attend the meeting of the West
ern governors in Denver April and
s and the irrigation conference which
will be held here April .. 10 and IL,
according to letter received from
him by Governor Ammons.
Full restitution of the $4,000 short
age charged against w. G. Good, agent
for tire manufacturing company OF
Akron, o., who disappeared from Dem
yer several weeks ago. has been made
by relatives of the tire agent Prose-
cution by the company has been
dropped and the warrant charging him
with embezziement withdrawn.
j. Frank Bellew, 6S years old. a Con
federate war veteran. was arrested by
United States Deputy Marshal Tom
Clark In Baca county. charged with
conspiring to defraud the government
out Of 100000 acres OF land In that
county. He was held In the Denver
county Jail for the Wichita. Kan, au-
thorities, where he will be taken.
A monster mass meeting of farmers
and waiting homeseekers from the
surrounding country. assisted By bust.
ness men and citizens OF Hayden. was
held to express approval of the course
of the state. land board In canceling
the state contract with d. G. Leaci,
and others and the consequent placing
of 10000 acres of state land On the
market
Mary Jane Pease. the two weeks old
baby found on the doorstep of George
w. Gano's residence In Denver last
week. was taken in charge by her
grandfather. Frank b. Smith. OF Cen
tral City. Neb. He took the infant
home to the parents. who had ahan-
doned her. His daughter and her hus-
band are now anxious to secure the
child's return.
Instead of eloping with the girl OF
his choice. Walter johnson, an elec.
trician, OF Pueblo. kidnapped her mother,
Mrs. w. A. Shellman, and with the
daughter. Miss Frankie Shellman. mo
tored to Colorado Springs. pulled up In
front of the court house and before
Mrs. Shellman realized what was tax.
ing place obtained marriage license
and had justice OF the peace perform
the ceremony.
A royal birth occurred in Denver. A
1S7-pound boy was born to Princess
Alice, the big elephant out at the win.
ter quarters OF the Sells-Floto- Buffalo
Bill shows. A staff OF seven physicians
attending the Princess announced that
: Denver was the proud possessor of the
: youngest baby elephant in the world
And there was no doubling the fact
that Princess Alice was the proudest