The Elbert County tribune., 1914-02-27
COLORADO
NsfSTATE NEWS
Newspaper Union News Service.
DATES FOR COMING EVENTS

July 13-14-Grand Lodge Session. B.
Sept. 11coiorado i m Estate State Fair at Pu-
eblo.
Isi5.-Last Grand Council of North
The new depot at Fruita is nearing
completion.
Mae Gates has been appointed post
mas,2r at Seibert.
Forty mayors attended the state con-
ference at Boulder.
The mercury registered 20 degrees
above zero in Denver on the 21st,
shattering all February records in the
history of the city.
The body Of a man about thirty
years old was found in a packing box
in an old grave in the Fruita ceme-
terry by A. B. Zimmerman.
Flad Kocezar, a Slav miner. who has
lived at Silverton twenty years. was
found murdered in front of Dallas sa-
loon. His skull was fractured.
Funeral services we're held Sunday
In Denver for Mrs. Amelia Gilchrist.
negress. who was in all probability
the oldest resilient of Denver
The birthday of George Washington
and George Washington Clayton were
celebrated in the assembly room of
the George w. Clayton college.
News has been received of the death
Rt Kansas City of John Matthew, for
merly a prominent broker sf Colorado
Springs. He was sixty years old.
A tiny Identification ring, made
a rin ad nh
Cameron from marrying his sister,
known as Mary Hardy at Buckingham.
Miss Jessie Forbes of Windsor,
seventeen years old. may lose the
sight OF her right eye as the result of
being struck on the head by batted
baseball.
The annual reunion and banquet OF
the Ohio Society of Colorado will be
held in Denver. Wednesday evening,
March 4, president Day" Elaborate
preparations are being made for the
event.
The Colorado Museum of Natural
History, on commanding spot in
Denver City park, is destined to be-
come the finest institution of its kind
in the country, in the opinion of ex-
perts.
The acquisition of the Quito mine on
Chicago creek by the Colorado Quito
Gold Mining Company, will probably
result in development being inaugu-
rated on this rich producer at an early
date.
An addition that will practically
double the capacity of that depart
ment has just been completed in the
open hearth department of the Colo
rado Fuel and Iron Company steel
mills at Pueblo.
Judge r. F. Lewis, in the United
States District Court in Denver, SEN
fenced Francis f. Searway of Denver
to three years in the federal prison at
Leavenworth upon his plea of guilty
to counterfeiting.
That all Denver turn out to cele-
brate the passage of the armored
cruiser, which bears its name, through
the Panama canal on March 10, is the
suggestion of H. H. Buckwalter, Den
yer business man
Fifty representative business men
of Denver pledged the necessary fl
nancial support to collect agricultural
and other exhibits which Colorado will
show at the Panama-Pacific exposi-
ton at San Francisco in 1915.
The extent of the flow of oil recent
ly encountered by the United on the
New Castle tract, near Florence, was
demonstrated when pumping was be-
gun. and an average of seventy-five
barrels day was maintained.
Brush society is excited over the
elopement of Lawrence Bolinger, son
of one of the biggest ranchmen in
that vicinity, and Miss Grace Adams,
Brush high school
With 1888 COWS pledged and still
more available In the event they are
needed, the agriculturists of Haswell,
Kiowa county, east of Pueblo. are con-
fident that they will secure a large
milk condensery within the next few
weeks.
Mrs Margaret d. Conway, Denver's
new lady COP" or rather censor of
public amusement. wac appointed by
Commissioner OF Safety Nisbet. Mrs.
Conway formerly was assistant prin-
cipal of the Franklin school. She was
BACKED by more than twenty-five wom-
eng organizations for the position.
While District Attorney John A.
Rush was filing complaint of lunacy
against Don p. Blackwood, alleged
paranoiac. in the District Court in
Denver. Mrs Bernice Blackwood. who
assisted her husband in threatening
Rush's life at the point of pistol,
sat in the matron's quarters OF the city |
jail and insisted that her husband is