The Elbert County tribune., 1915-10-15


were entertained at Sterling
A. l. Anderson of Denver was acci-
dentally shot through the foot while
out hunting.
Forty-six homesteaders claimed
lands at the Pueblo office in one day,
breaking all records.
Speaker Clark of the National
House of Representatives favors Pu-
sblo for munitions factory.
Mrs Mary b. Kerstein, 81 years old.
died at the home of her daughter.
Mrs. Frank H. Schultz, in Denver.
Denver Odd Fellows will celebrate
the election of Frank C. Goudy to the
office of deputy grand sire of the or
sanization for the United States.
Sara Bard Field of Portland. and
Frances Joliffe of San Francisco, two
suffragists, were welcomed by Cover
nor Carlson on their arrival in Den
yer
Securing enough labor for the farm
ers of the Greeley district is becom-
ing a serious problem. and just now
there is a decided shortage of help of
al kinds
The two men under arrest at Ala
mosa charged with robbing the La
lara State bank, refuse to say one
word regarding that crime or about
themselves.
One man was probably fatally in
lured, second dangerously hurt and
third suffered bruises in an automo-
bile crash at Sixteenth avenue and
rIa ctr tn,
Two moose heads, the first trophies
Of the first open season on moose
last month in Wyoming, arrived in
Denver from Moran. in the vicinity
of which they had been shot.
Mrs. Frank Sherwin, the one woman
to whose efforts more than any other
is probably due the selection of the
columbine as the state flower for
Colorado, died at her home in Palmer
Lake.
Postmaster B. F. Stapleton of Den
yer has received unofficial advices
that Denver is to be made distribut
ing point for postal supplies after the
removal of the office to the new
building.
Mrs. Charles Krebs, widow of Den
yer & Rio Grande fireman, who was
killed Feb. % last when his engine
jumped the track near Fountain, was
given judgment In the Federal Court
at Denver for $1,000.
The high schools of Canon City and
South Canon have been dismissed to
give the students an opportunity of
assisting the ranchers in gathering
fhair usl,i to pF ha
largest in recent years
Joseph Parks, Denver hotel proprie
tor, has been held responsible by a
coroner's jury for the death of Roy
Bacon, whom he shot during an argu
ment between the crippled cabaret en-
tertainer and Parks wife.
With the $4,000 reward offered by
the heirs of the dead man as an in
centiye for their work, private detec
tive agencies and individuals in prac
tically every portion of the United
States have taken up the hunt for the
slayers of Isaac Solomon, who was
beaten to death in his pawnshop in
Denver on the afternoon of July 81
Merchants and bankers are warned
by government authorities to avoid
cashfng money orders made out or
Johnstown, Colo, on blanks number
ing between 12,142 and 1920. These
money orders, together with 800 and
$3.50 in postage, were taken from the
Johnstown postoffice when it was loot
ed by unknown robbers.
The prompt arrival of his son.
David Hoffman, saved the life of
George II. Hoffman. farmer residing
two miles east of Loveland, when the
latter was at the mercy of an en-
ragged bull which attacked him in the
farm corral and after trampling him
under foot, tossed him about the farm
yard
Following talk by Gov. George
Carlson in which he addressed more
than $50 enthusiastic Y NJ. C. A
workers, devoting the first half of his
talk to a plea to see that the recent
prohibition amendment to the consti-
tuition of Colorado is strictly enforced,
the membership campaign of the
Greeley Y. NJ. C. A. was started.
Miss Mildred Downing, sister of Roy
Bacon. the cabaret entertainer, who
died at the Denver county hospita
from bullet wound inflicted by Jo
seph Parks, raced TO the county hos
pital in an automobile to be at heI
brothers side before he died. She
reached the hospital three minutes
after physicians pronounced her broth
er dead
Mother Pancratia. founder and head
of the Loretto Heights academy, died
at s.. Josephs hospital in Denver as
the result of an operation performed