The Elbert County tribune., 1914-04-17
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DATES FOR COMING EVENTS

Aug. 2s.-Farmers' Fair at Fowler.
seBt l-4-Ar T k n Is Valley Fair.
Sept, Watermelon Day. Rocky Ford.
: sept. 2-5;-Farmers' ard stoclSmen's
Sept. 1-z.-Morgan Co. Fair. Fort Nor
Sept. 1-4-LarImer Co. Fair. Loveland.
Sept; s-11--crowiey Co. Fair. Sugar
Sept. io-suear pav sugar CITY.
Sept; 14.-colorado State Fair at Pu-
Sept. -1s.-Golo. state Fair. Pueblo.
sept. 22-25.-Western Slope Fair. Mont
Sept. 2s-5s-El o Paso Co is Fair. caihan;
sept. 2s,3o-Inte err County Fair and
Isl5.-Last Grand Council of North
American Indians at Denver
Denver wants Admiral Dewey and
Mrs. Dewey as her guests on May /.
the anniversary of the Battle of Ma
Mia.
Denver will be host to royalty some
time next month when Queen
Eleonora of Bulgaria will visit the
city.
Mrs. Elizabeth Graves, for fifty-two
years resident of Arvada. died of
pneumonia after an Illness of one
week.
Plans for Denver's Indian pageant
probably will be submitted to the
board of directors OF the Colorado
Publicity League soon.
Thomas B. Duvall, eighty-seven. a
resident of Denver for forty-nine
years, died of old age at the home
of his son. Henry E. Duvall, liz Den
yer.
The visiting governors in confer
ence in Denver were the guests of the
Indiana Society of Colorado at an en-
tertainment and ball given at Ell Jebei
temple.
Gladys Means, nineteen years old.
was acquitted on the charge of muir
dering her infant child at the regular
term of the District Court in session
at Cheyenne Wells.
The funeral of w. II. Bryant, for
mer city attorney of Denver. who died
at the Johns Hopkins hospital in Bal
timore, Nd, was from the Bryant resi-
dence, 1107 Pearl street. in Denver.
The questions of government con-
troll of forest reserves and other pub
lie lands as it affects stockmen was
discussed at the annual meeting OF the
Colorado Stockgrowers Association in
Nenver.
The honor of being in charge of the
el1porate arrangements for the 1914
MI festival at the. University of Colo
RADIO has been given to a Pueblo young
woman. She is Miss Dorothy Burton,
I senior
At the Denver meeting of the Colo
rado Cattle Growers Association, F.
ID. Squire of Rifle and F. P. Johnson,
Denver, were reelected. respectively,
president and secretary for the en-
suing year. and NJ. J. Mcmillan, Carl
ton, was chosen vice president, and
Arnold Powell. Yampa, treasurer.
To the charge that the railroads get
$1,000,000 worth of streets and alleys
for money they gave to help build the
$750,00 Colfax-Larimer viaduct, for
mer Alderman John Mollison enters a
vigorous denial. The charge was made
by Commissioner Pitcher at meet
ing of the city council of Denver.
Reports from Adams, Gilpin. Clear
Creek and other counties state that
the Mountain States Telephone Com
pany is establishing new schedules.
not at all alike but seemingly based
upon the principle "of all the traffic
will bear" The increase in rates
amounts to from ten to fifteen per
cent and applies to all classes OF sery-
ice.
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Box ranch, near Crook, thirty miles
northeast of Sterling. which may re-
suit fatally. Becoming involved in a
dispute with Mike Essey, an Assyrian
beet grower, who has portion of the
land leased, w. A. Mclaughlin. or
Shorty" Mclaughlin. as he is IA
miliarly known. shot the former in the
neck. the bullet lodging in the right
side.
Six counties OF Coiorado-Alamosa
Rio Grande Saguache, Costilla. Cone
jos and Mineral-through their repre-
sentatives in mass meeting at Ala
mosa, refused to accept the new sched-
ule of rates which the Mountain
States Telephone and Telegraph Com
pany proposes to install May LIST and
by resolution adopted amidst the
greatest enthusiasm, decided to in
corporate and build an independent
system of their own. to be known as
the San Luis Valley Cooperative Tele-
phone Association.
Tie following Colorado postmasters
have been appointed to fill vacancies
caused by resignation: Glendevy,
Larimcr county, Hans M. Sholine. to
succeed d. L. Davy; Pryor. Huerfano
county. William E. Sperry, to succeed