The Elbert County tribune., 1915-03-19

TWO homes in Keenesburg were de.
stroyed by fire, together with a sum
oil money and some valuable jewelry.
The citizens of Denver during 1914
paid s7,1S2, 2,6O6.2O, or 5000 per capita
for tramway, gas, electric and tele.
phone service.
me persons named by Judge Lind
sey OF Denver in his charges that a
conspiracy to defame his character
exists made denial of his accusations.
Joseph l.. Gray, deputy fish and
game commissioner has been advised
OF large mountain lion having been
trapped and killed in the Laramie
river.
Mayor Thompson of Aurora has be-
gun campaign to secure much
needed improvements on the Colfax
avenue road through that city to
Denver
Judge Fl. McGarry of Colorado
springs was formally chosen president
AT a meeting of the new directors of
the Ell Paso Consolidated Gold Mining
Company.
A parade and patriotic exercises
were heid in Denver on St Patricks
day, the days events closing with the
thirty-ninth annual dance given by
Hibernian clubs.
Ihe Denver Boulder & Western
railroad has announced an increase OF
~ per cent in freight and passenger
rates on its line to Eldora and Ward.
Tourist rates will not be affected.
Of.
Representatives. sixty members voting
ana i've absent, Representative w. w.
Rowland was expelled from the House
March Is, and his seat declared
vacant
That the case OF Robert ]. Mason,
charged with conspiracy in the mur-
der of Ruth Merriweather. be set for
March 20, was the request made by
Mason's counsel in the West Side
Court in Denver.
Grace Wells Rose. 6, died of scarlet
fever at the University hospital in
Boulder while her mother, Mrs. Lillian
Rose, and her aunt, Mrs. Eunice Ba-
ker, we're lying dangerously i'll with
the same disease at their home in
Salina
One year and one day in the fed
eral prison in Leayenworth, Kan. was
the sentence pronounced in Denver on
X. F. Lounsberry by Federal Judge
Robert e. Lewis. Lounsberry pleaded
guilty to charge of using the United
States mails to defraud
The big Fourth Street viaduct span.
ming the Arkansas river and the Den
w p to Io
railroad tracks at Canon City, which
has been under construction during
the past five months. is completed ana
thrown open to travel.
Justifiable homicide was the verdict
rendered in Denver at the coroner's
inquest into the killing of r. E. Sho-
walter of Loveland by Clayton Patti
son, in Curtis street rooming house.
where Pattison had found Showalter
and Mrs. Pattison together.
One day after her release from the
Denver county Jail. where she was
sentenced by Federal Judge Robert E.
Lewis for raising United States postal
money orders, Claudine Stokes, 20,
alias Dora Carney, was arrested for
the same offense. according to Post
office Inspector F. T. Frawley
Unless a compromise is reached
within the next few days a contest
will ensue over the will of the late
James W. Hair. wealthy retired coal
operator, whose death six weeks ago
at the home of Mrs. Rose Deahl in
Denver revealed that he had led a
dual life for more than twenty years
Railroads serving Colorado have
announced tourist rates for the com
ing season. effective June l, and good
until Oct l. The same favorable rates
as have been in effect during the tour
ist season for many years will be in
effect this year, despite the general
tendency to raise passenger rates
throughout the country
Commenting the members of the
House of Representatives for their
action in purging their membership,
the first time on record that a ma
iority has expelled a member of its
own party, Governor Carlson delivered
in person a message to the Twentieth
General Assembly and urged speedy
accomplishment of the pledges of the
Assembly and the administration.
John H. Ballenger. the man who
originated the city directory business
in Colorado and who published the
first directory of Denver more than
forty years ago. when only 5000 per
sons could be found along the Platte
river to fill the pages of the book, died
at his residence in Denver after pro
longed illness. Ballenger was n
years old and came to Denver in 1872
Six thousand dollars was introduced
az evidence in the trial of three sol
diors ch rnnd ,,-stI, rcr,nrctie.r. Nth