The Elbert County tribune., 1915-10-22

LIZ Sedee tdA ieNs mas Deeu placeu
at 2.1O mills
A receiver has been asked for the
town of Oak Greek
1t is stated that an oil strike has
been made near Alamosa
A veteran Odd Fellows Association
wos organized at Colorado Springs.
over 200 odd Fellows and Re
bekahs held their annual state con-
vention at Colorado Springs.
William Harold Hurdle, 11-year-old
son of W. E. Hurdle of Fort Collins,
was drowned in the Eaton ditch.
Thirty-one students of the Cali
fornia Agricultural College were the
guests of the Denver Boy Scouts.
Tony Perry, who murdered Steve
Kojuharoff at the Hecla mine, was
taken from Boulder to the Canon City
1rison.
Henry Wilson, while locating hunt.
ing grounds for party from the East.
roped bear near Hot Sulphur
Springs.
Cripple Creek is now eighty miles
by automobile from Denver since the
completion of the new highway over
Nighthawk hill.
The eighth regular meeting and.
banquet of the Agora or Southern
Colorado Schoolmasters' club, was
held at Canon City.
Mark Murphy, for thirty years an
employe of the Union Pacific railroad,
was run over by coal car in front
OF the depot at Sterling
John r. Lawson was one of the
speakers at the fiftieth anniversary
celebration of the Masons and Marble
Settlers Union in Denver
Adam Shellabarger, pioneer Colo
radoan and retired rancher, died in
Denver as the result of an operation
following an illness of two months
The next national convention of the
American Road Builders Association
may be held in Colorado, according
to letter received by Robert E. Hig-
gins at Pueblo.
Jesse F. Welborn was reelected
president of the Colorado Fuel & Iron
Company and its eleven subsidiaries
at the annual meetings held in Dem
yer.
Mary F. Kiker, the 19-year-old
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. B. f. Kiker
of Boulder, died of pulmonary tuber
culosis. She had been an invalid al
most since childhood
George Quinn, sentenced in Denver
to die on the gallows Jan 90 for the
murder of VIM. Herbertson. was TAX
en- to Canon City. where he viii be
placed in the death cell
When Congress reconvenes, Senator
John f. Shafroth said he would take
up the rehabilitation of Fort Logan
and attempt to have it restored to its
former Importance as an army post
Charles Boettcher, millionaire sugar
and Portland cement man of Denver,
will be elected president of the Mof-
fat road in the near future, according
to rumor in Denver financial circles.
]. b. Cosgriff. vice president of the
Hamilton National bank, and brother
of T. A. Cosgriff. who died recently,
was elected president of the bank at
meeting of the board of directors in
Denver.
Men distinguished in the railroad
and financial world, including the son
of George ]. Gould, were in Denver
to attend the annual meeting of the
stockholders and directors of the Den
yer & Rio Grande railroad.
Pouncing down upon a pheasant
and starting to carry it away in his
talons, the largest golden eagle ever
7 f..tI. ~
l.. Munson on his farm near town,
just as it raised from the ground.
Norman Veeder of Denver was the
first candidate to receive his scholar
ship in the 100000 ten-day campaign
conducted by Denver University in
order to obtain the 100000 endow-
ment fund offered to the university by
the general board of education.
The will of the late Dennis Sullivan.
which was filed for probate In the
County Court in Denver, made John
Clark Mitchell, president of the Den.
yer National Bank. the principal bene
ficiary, and named Mr.. Mitchell and
the Denver National Bank as the first
executors of the will
Mrs. Lucy M. Poe, an aged Denver
woman, whose will was lodged with
the Probate Court. bequeathed to her
first husband, James S. Bitter, the
wedding ring he gave her upon the
occasion of their wedding thirty years
ago, at the same time wishing him
lifelong happiness and health" TIC
, her second husband Mrs Poe left IS
So that she might have an oppor-
tunity to break away from the "evil
influences" of John Gordon Thorney-
work her husband and an alleged