The Elbert County tribune., 1915-05-21
STATE NEWS
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COMING EVENTS.
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jug s6-2S.--taii Festival at Flagler.
" SfpI -I-Oct s-Aeeting International
Dry Farming Congress Denver
X S. Rhea of Golden has been ap-
pointed water commissioner for dis
trict No. 7.
The Mid-Colorado Oil Company at
Aurora reports traces of oil and gas
at depth of | GOO feet
The Denver Norwegian Association
gave reception and banquet in com
memoration of the Norwegian national
holiday.
Mrs. Mary Knox Colvin, eighty-four.
- passed away at the home of her
daughter, Mrs. Charles l.. Parsons. at
Boulder
The Delta High School track team
won the eighth annual track meet in
which eight high schools of the West
tern slope participated
Mrs. John l.. Ramer. wife OF Sec
retary of State Ramer, underwent an
operation for tumor in st. Joseph's
hospital in Denver.
Convalescing from recent serious
illness, Mrs. Jane NJ. Ligget OF Den
yer celebrated her ninty-ninth birth
day at her home.
verdict for s 900 was awarded to
Mrs Phoebe A. Cunningham. in Sl0,-
500 personal injury damage suit
against the city OF Denver
s20,000.O0O consolidation OF the
biggest producers in the Cripple Creek
district is in the air, according to re-
ports in Colorado Springs mining
circles
Private interment at the Fairmount
cemetery followed the funeral serv-
ices in Denver for Joseph C. Helm.
former chief justice of the State Su-
preme Court.
. Angelo Marsh an Austrian Iaborer,
was given verdict of $3.50 against
the Colorado Fuel and iron Company
in Denver for injuries sustained in a
Ascoke oven accident two years ago
Mrs. Lue Giles OF Boulder was
severely cut across the forehead and
her niece, Miss L. NJ. Garbarno was
badly bruised when the horse Miss
Garbarino usually drives. became un-
manageable and ran away.
In Browns park near Craig, the
ranchers are becoming interested in
sheep. Miss villa Mcclure, school
ma'am of that section has small
flock which yielded a 200 per cent.
lamb crop and averaged better than
twelve-pound clip this season.
Five auto loads of Loveland people
left for Highland Lake to join in the
search for twenty -months.old
Newell Faulkner, son of Harry f.
Faulkner of Highland Lake The child
disappeared five minutes after COM
ing in from play to ask his mother
for cookie. and is believed to have
been kidnapped
A snowstorm that assumed blizzard
like proportions shortly before noon
enshrouded Denver Tuesday and
threatened all former snsw records
for the month of May with oblitera-
tion. The thermometer registered 80
degrees at noon the record tempera-
ture for Man is since the first records
were taken in 1872.
William 8. La Fair, one OF the most
prominent catlemen on the Western
slope. died at his Whitewater home,
near Grand Junction. Heart disease
was the cause He was 81 years old,
and for the last two years had op-
Grated the only hotel exclusively for
cowboys in the state. 1t was known
as the Cowboys home"
Rev. Father Hugh L. McMenamin.
pastor of the Immaculate Conception
cathedral of Denver. is one of six
priests in the United States whose
names will be rendered to Pope Bene-
dict for the appointment of bishop of
Salt Lake City to succeed the Right
Rev. Lawrence Scanlon, who died a
week ago. according to word which
reached Denver.
With a declaration that he was
about to pull something funny l..
T. Ergood. twenty-seyen. a commits
sion brokerage expert. calmly raised
a revolver to his breast in the Navarro
hotel office in Denver and, smiling,
sent a bullet crashing into his heart.
He fell to the floor dead Four per-
sons, standing near. witnessed the
tragedy
With four square inches of his skull
cut away, Malcolm Puckett. seven
teen-year-old Warren academy student,
who plunged sixty feet over a cliff in
Bear Creek caiion, is lying at Mercy
hospital in Denver near to death, but
surprise to physicians because of
the way he has clung to life. A por-
> tion of his skull was removed when IL
became apparent that an operation
was necessary in order to give him a
chance for his life.
The Agricultural College at Fort
Collins viii observe Memorial day this
year in manner which has not been