The Elbert County tribune., 1915-11-19
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Ie.tern N.~se.D.r unlon N.r. s.rrle.
DATES ron COSTING EVENTS.


Peak Rabbit and Pet Stock Associa-
lon at Colorado Springs.
Jan 5-lo-Sixteenth annual show of
colorado Poultry Fanciers' Associa-
tlon at Denver.
Jan. -western Live Stock Show in
at Denver.
Merchants' Association's Food and
Industrial Exposition at Denver
Rocky Ford Baptists will build
new church,
The old Mountain View hotel at
Colorado City was damaged by fire.
County Judge Horatio Wilson
Hanes. 81, died at Montrose of Bright's
disease.
The school directors of Loveland
have awarded a contract for the new
$4,000 high school building.
Mystery surrounds the death of Jo-
seph Turcotte. 65, of Denver, whose
frozen body was found in the noun
tains near Crags
The new penitentiary building at
Canon City has been completed, and
the administration offices moved into
the new quarters.
John A Grant of Denver, a pioneer
mining promoter of Colorado, was
found dead lying in a mountain road
near Gunnison, beneath his rig.
A new tungsten field of which infor-
nation has been let out very carefully
while prospecting was in progress, is
that located on Lee Hill, northeast of
Sunshine.
The Colorado Poultry Fanciers' As
sociation is arranging details for the
sixteenth annual show which is to be
held in Denver at the Auditorium the
week of Jan. 8.
Congressman. E T. Taylor has rec
commended for appointment as post
masters C. S. Logan at Ruena Vista,
w. ID. Newton at Palisade, and Mrs.
Serena e. Pollock at Rifle.
A Colorado Food and Industrial ex-
position will be held under the aus
pices of the Retail Merchants Asso-
citation of the state from March 90 to
April in the auditorium in Denver.
The Newland Canon Coal Mining
Company of Pueblo filed articles of in
corporation with the county clerk,
naming n capitalization of $3.50, 900.
The new company has purchased a
coal mine near Florence.
Michael Liberti, peddler, charged
with the shooting and killing of Fred
Harris, negro, was found guilty of
Involuntary manslaughter by jury in
the West Side Criminal Court in Den
yer.
Convicted of bigamy and sentenced
to the penitentiary, where he served
his term, Lyman Frank Hulen eloped
with Miss Ethel Dennis, daughter of
Sheriff Dennis of Golden, to Boulder,
where they were married.
In a single paragraph. written in his
own hand, DR.. Edmund G. Rivers of
Denver. who was drowned Oct. "a in
Barr lake. drew will that will give
all his property, valued at about $780,
900, to his sister, Lily r. Rivers of
Baltimore.
Charles Magnassen, known as the
axe man" because of a fondness to
use that implement when seized with
an attack of insanity. is reported to
be recovering in Greeley hospital
from an operation to remove a growth
from his brain.
After 1916 the county will not re.
fund any taxes to the city of Fort Col
Inns for the upkeep of city roads and
streets as has been customary for a
number of years. This ultimatum was
announced by the commissioner after
County Attorney Paul W. Lee reported
that it was not legal to do so.
Colorado school children are to be
taught safety first" methods in the
classroom. They are to be taught to
turn over boards that have nails stick
ing up from them, to pick up pieces of
broken glass, to do the hundreds of
things that may prevent accidents
about the home or the school
According to jury in County Judge
Ashbaugh's court at Littleton, Frank
V. Johnson. formerly a member of the
Denver police department, waited too
long before he made the discovery"
that his wife was bigamist. The di-
vorce, which Johnson sought on the
bgamy charge. was denied him and
the brand of a bigamist was erased
from Mrs. Johnson's name
The possibility of an attempt to re-
call the decision of the State Supreme
Court in the liquor case involving Den
ver's ordinance for the issuance of IL
censes after Jan. is interesting per
sons most directly affected in the out
come of the case. Whether such a re.
call could be held. regardless of the
nature of the courts decision, is a
mooted question
The University of Colorado has been
granted a special use permit to oc-