The Elbert County tribune., 1914-04-24


1sl5.-last Grand Council of North
American Indians at Denver
The strike of oil in Dry creek basin,
San Miguel county. has caused great
excitement in that part of the state.
Frank Lyman Hulen was found gull
ty of bigamy by jury in Golden. The
maximum penalty is $1,000 fine or
two years Imprisonment.
Meeker is to have a new and mod
ern First National bank building. con
struction work upon which was be-
gun by Denver contractors.
Some of Americas leading singers
will participate in the music festival
to be staged at the Auditorium in
Denver May 2s, 90 and so.
Two more arrests in the Spurgeon
kidnapping case were made in Denver
when P A. Mclaughlin and Michael
Burke were ordered arrested.
The various counties OF the state
have been given total of s149100 for
use on the state roads. This is ex-
elusive of ssO,5Oo appropriated for Ell
wood pass.
One hundred Denver Club women
are planning to go to Loveland, April
23 and "a, to attend the convention of
all the federated clubs of the north
eastern district of Colorado.
Be sure seed of the best possible
quality is purchased for the garden.
Neither the gardener nor the farmer
can afford to use poor seed because
ft &c oh &c
in the end
After a residence of six months in
Long Beach, where she had gone for
the benefit of her health, Mrs. Re
becca Eaton, widow of Ex-Governor B.
". Eaton of Colorado, died from
stroke of paralysis.
The engagement Of George lies,
eldest son of Senator Thomas H. lies,
of Craig, one of the best known stock
men in northwestern Colorado, and
Miss Barbara Allan, a society belle of
Idaho Springs, has been announced.
That Colorado stockmen are raising
hogs in much larger numbers than
they did a few years ago is evidenced
by the rapid increase in the number of
hogs received at the Denver yards
from day to day from Colorado points.
The Golden Cycle Mining and Mill
ing Company of Cripple Creek has
mailed out its regular monthly divi-
dend checks of 8 cents per share. The
total dividend is $4,000, bringing the
amount paid in dividends this year to
s1S0,00o.
John Fawcett, convicted of obtain
ing s25 from waitress in a Broadway
restaurant in Denver on forged
check, was sentenced by Judge Perry
in the West Side Court to a term OF
from three to five years in the peniten-
tiary at Canon City.
Three alleged shoplifts, woman
and two men, giving the names of Mrs.
Edith Larson, Louis Pente and Levi
Coombs, were arrested in a Pueblo
department store by store detectives,
who, charge that the trio had stolen
several pairs of shoes.
If something can be done this spring
TO reopen the big mines of Ohio City.
in Gunnison county. and in Pitkin and
vicinity. it will be blessing to the
state. 1t was a sad day for the indus
trial interests of Ohio City when 4.
NJ Lamont. manager of the Raymond
Mines and Mill, passed away, for he
had planned making extensive i'm
provements there.
Denver clearing house banks have
paid for their proportion OF the stock
in the federal regional reserve bank
to be established at Kansas City, ac-
cording to the call of the organization
committee under the new law. This
call was for the payment, in gold or
gold certificates. of one-sixth of the
stock of the total amount allotted to
the national banks of Denver on or be-
fore May 8.
Eight of the ten men charged with
participation in the abduction of the
Rev. Otis l.. Spurgeon and the mob's
subsequent mistreatment of him
pleaded not guilty to the charges
when arraigned before Judge Perry in
the West Side Court in Denver.
Mrs. Elizabeth Chivington Ottoway,
a pioneer and the only child of John
NJ. Chivington, colonel of the First
Colorado Volunteer cavalry. famed as
the hero of the Sand Creek battle and
other Indian uprisings in the early his
tory OF Colorado. died at Aiamosa OF
paralysis.