The Elbert County tribune., 1914-08-07

AUG. zs.-Farmers' Fair at Fowler
Sept. s-s-Annuai Harvest Festival at
Sept s.-watermelon Day. Rocky Ford.
Sept 2-5.-Farmers Steckmens
Sept i-4."aioTgan Co. Fair. Fort Mor-
Sept 1-5.-Larimer County Fair. Love
Cantaloupes are now being shipped
from Grand Junction.
The Democratic congressional con-
vention for the First district will be
held Aug. 6.
Guy J. McKnaw was drowned In
Barr lake. twenty miles north of Den
yer. while fishing.
Mrs. A. d. Tyron. who came to Den
yer from her home in Phippsburg.
died in the office of physician while
being treated.
Henry Sussman, travelling sales
man who had been in Denver for three
days. was found dead from an over
desc of heroin.
general call To Australians to
rally to the support of the fatherland
In the war which now threatens all
Europe. was issued in Pueblo by spe-
cial agent OF the Austrian consulate
in Denver.
Frank Harrington, ten, son of Mr..
and Mrs. F. r. Harrington of Windsor,
was kicked by horse and seriously
injured while feeding the animal in
barn. His hip was fractured and the
ligaments torn loose from his leg.
Lightning that played over Denver
Saturday and the rain storm which
followed claimed the life of one man
and injured four others. The man.
Frank Bodamer, a Iaborer, lost his
life as the result of the downpour.
The Fraser river project as an avail
able source Of supply for Denver's city
owned water system was investigated
by A. Lincoln Fellows and Armour c.
Anderson of the Denver utilities com
mission and ]. B. Lippincott, hydraulic
engineer of Los Angeles.
Fifty thousand Denverites knelt In
the churches of the city Sunday and
united in a common prayer for peace.
In every church. Catholic or Protest.
ant, ministers and priests implored d.
trcphe impending in Europe.
While the enthusiasm was at its
height in the Democratic state assem-
bly, few days ago, John ]. Davoren,
fifty-five, for thirty years prominent
member of Democratic political circles
and leader in Democratic conven-
tions, died at his home in Denver.
Gratitude for protection Nf his
daughter, which he was unable TO ex-
press as he desired in his lifetime, has
been shown by an Illinois farmer to
Henry Barr, Denver policeman. Barr
was bequeathed half of the farmers
estate. 1t is estimated that Barr viii,
receive about $4,000.
A Boulder grand jury. after deliber-
ating thirty minutes. returned true
bill against Wilson Davis charging
him with the murder OF his former
partner. Champ NJ. Smith. who was
shot and later blown up by dynamite
in an effort, the police claim, to hide
the crime June IL at the Eldora mine
The suits brought by the Consum-
ers' league to secure equitable rates
to Denver and to restrain the hauling
lines and connecting roads from en-
forcing exhorbitant switching charges
will come up in Denver August 6 on
demurrer filed by the Denver & Inter
mountain railroad.
Mystery surrounds the suicide at.
| tempt of Florence Brown, fourteen
year-old high school girl, who took car
bclic acid at her home in Denver. The
| girl. according to her mother, was an
unruly daughter. She drank the poi.
son, which has placed her at the
threshold Of death. after she had been
reprimanded for keeping late hours.
DeBeque. in the northern part of
Mesa county. has an oil well which
flows about 500 barrels a day, shoot
ing the oil 60 feet into the air because
the owners are unable to "cap" the
hole until the tools at the bottom of
the well can be recovered The oil
is of paraffine base and is said to be
of high quality. though no analysis has
yet been made
Arraigned in Justice Stapleton's s.
court in Denver upon a charge of
grand larceny preferred by her daugh-
tiers, Mrs Minnie Rosenthal, So. plead
ed that she had stolen to make herself
a home after her children had driven
her from their house. The daughters
are Fannie and Rachel Rosenthal of
1852 West Colfax. They filed charges
that will result in penitentiary SEN
tence for their mother if she is found
guilty of them.
Governor Ammons has declared the
counties of Las Animas and Huerfano,
the chief counties involved in the