The Elbert County tribune., 1914-01-09
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
western Newspaper Union News Service.
DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.

hAo- HIGHWAY ASSOC
eiaiion at Colorado Springs
Jan, Injecting Colorado Association
oa rad Sommercial Executives at Colo
Jan 2e-Annual banquet Colorado
fIionees Printers' Society at Denver
jan, g-2!ENationai Western Stock
July l3-l4.-Grand Lodge Session. B.
I: y. Elks at Denver.
sept Colorado state Fair at Pu-
1si5.-Last Grand Council of North
american Indians at Denver.
"Mother" Mary Jones was deported
from Trinidad by direction OF Gen
Chase.
The Sons of Colorado hold their an
nual meeting and election of officers
Jan. $, in Denver.
1t was announced that State Bank
Commissioner E. W. Pfeiffer has de-
cided to resign to go into business.
Denver will lose thirty-five saloons.
according to the estimate of Deputy
Excise Commissioner Graves, in 1914.
Grand Junction Elks gave turkey
banquet New Years for 800 poor
children at their newly dedicated
home.
Lafayette Wiles. fifty-five years old.
died In Longmont from starvation, a
means which he adopted for ending
his life.
Mrs John NJ Graham of Denver,
cousin OF President Woodrow Wilson.
incurred broken ankle and other
minor injuries from fall on an icy
sidewalk
Colorado seed potatoes. as the best
to be had, have penetrated in reputa-
ton into war-ridden Mexico. Three
carloads are wanted by Felipe Cotelli
of the state of Jalisco.
Company C of the first infantry
left Trinidad for Oak Creek. where
trouble is feared between the newly
organized Routt county taxpayers
league and the striking miners.
A committee for the national CON
ference of single takers. to be held in
Washington, Jan. Is, 16 and II. was
elected at the state convention of the
Colorado Single Tax Association. in
Denver.
AS a new year gift to the people of
Denver the Denver Gas and Electric
Light Company has made a reduction
OF five cents per thousand ON gas
This makes the price eighty cents per
thousand
Negligence was assigned as the
cause of the Vulcan mine disaster at
New Castle in which thirty-seven men
met instant death Dec. 16 by the yer
dict of the coroner's jury, returned at
Glenwood Springs.
Last month was the coolest Decem-
ber. with two exceptions, in Denver in
forty-two years, and more snow fell in
the month than in any other month of
any year; but the sun shone for near
ly two-thirds of the time.
Seventy-five weapons, including
about fifty high power rifles, 500
rounds of ammunition and 100 sticks
of dynamite. were seized at Trinidad
by the military search of about thirty
of the tents at the Ludlow strikers
camp.
A thorough search of Pueblo con.
Quoted by the parents of the girl, has
indicated that Mrs. Helen Stoddard
Gottlieb and her husband, with whom
she fled, have left the city and are
speeding to New York, the home of the
violinist bridegroom.
T. M. Gerbrick. who in 1910 con-
fessed to the wrecking of Santa Fe
train In Otero county for the purpose
of robbery. has made an appeal for
parole from the state penitentiary
which will be heard by the State
Board of Pardons.
Arrangements for the annual poul-
try show of the Colorado Poultry
Fanciers' Association at tho Auditor
ium in Denver. Jan. II to II, have
been completed. Indications point to
record-breaker for the classes to be
exhibited according to the officers.
Lamar was gorgeously dressed in
red, white and blue and jeweled with
brilliant festoons of electric street
lights in honor of the coming-out
party of the city's youngest and larg-
est manufacturing industry-the ninth
factory of the Helvetia Milk Con
densing Company.
Mrs Helen Stoddard Gottlieb, who
was married two months ago and
whose parents objected to her marriage
on the grounds that she was un-
der age. and who took her and held
her prisoner in a Pueblo hotel, jumped
out of second story window and es-
capped in an automobile.
The woman known in Denver as
Mrs. Lulu Elder, who shot and killed
Frank s. Gregory in a hotel In Denver
and then sent bullet through her
own brain, was really Mrs. Lola Pack.
ett, heiress to $4,000. the existence OF
which she did not know. according to
attorneys and friends at Las Animas.
With 700 birds that were said to be
tMentY.liYe ner cent batter in nIalitx