The Elbert County tribune., 1915-12-03

lion at Denver.
Jan. 17-1s.-Meetins Colorado Retail
Groeers and Butchers Association
Jan; Is-22~wsstern Live stock show
March 2o-ApriI s-Colora Retail
Merchants Associations Food and
Industrial Exposition at Denver.
The Denver Club has posted dry"
order, effective Dec. 81.
Miss Louise Bruning was chosen
queen OF Denyer's electric show.
Billy Beardsley. am Ault boy, had
his finger crushed in tumble from
a chair.
The rise in silver has resulted in
the reopening of the Yellow Pine sill
yer mine at Boulder
drop of more than so per cent in
the city tax levy has been ordered by
the city commission of Pueblo.
Governor Carlson has declined the
Henry Ford invitation to join the
peace party on its trip to Europe.
The strikers in the Arizona copper
fields are to receive financial aid from
the Western Federation of Miners.
Caiion City opened its fall fete with
big auto parade. and Queen Electra
headed the throng through brilliantly
lighted streets OF city.
Thomas Mullican. shot in the stom-
ach by Henry M. Rocket at Lake
George. Park county. died at the Sis
ters' hospital In Victor.
Henry Leffler, aged 100 years and
10 days, a Civil war veteran, died at
the home of his son at Hereford, after
only a few days illness.
State Treasurer Stocker distributed
s59,21S to counties in which there are
federal forest reserves, as the states
share of the years earnings
Sixty-two Mexicans were arrested
by Denver detectives in an effort of
the police to end series of stabbings
that have been reported nightly for
more than two weeks.
Secretary of the Interior Franklin
X. Lane ordered a survey of the
Mount Evans region for the purpose
of locating and defining the proposed
Denver National park
The Colorado Kennel Club will give
its eleventh annual dog show, under
the auspices OF the American Club, at
the Denver Auditorium, in conjunction
with the Poultry Show, Jan. to s.
Grand functions chapter of the
Sons Ct American Revolution was pre-
scented with charter by C. p. Top
ping, state president of the order. A
banquet followed the presentation.
The snowstorm which began on the
27th ult., proved to be the heaviest
in the month of November since the
United States weather office was es-
tablished at Grand Junction in 1899.
Henry Roth. German, one of the
most prominent citizens of Loyeland,
inflicted with an AK welded by /. C.
Patterson, in Il row over a debt of 81.
At meeting of Denver people in
the offices of the French consul, DR.
A. Bourquin, committees were organ
lied to aid in the relief work of the
French emergency hospitals in Brit
tany.
The Supreme Court granted TWEEN
ty-five-day stay of execution in the
order issued by District Judge Allen
directing the authorities of the state
insane asylum to receive patients
from Denver.
Mrs. Nellie Herbertson Quinn of
Denver, wife of George Quinn, SEN
fenced to be hanged in January, Is
circulating petitions asking that her
husbands sentence be commuted to
life Imprisonment
By granting q communication Of SEN
tence to r. L. Whitehead of Las Ami
mas county, who has been serving a
life term in the penitentiary, the State
Board of Pardons. in effect, declared
its belief that the man is innocent
When Clarence l.. Ayres, young
Colorado miner, discovered his 1S-year-
old bride, Edna. had been arrested try
ing to give away her baby on the
streets of Denver. he returned quietly
and took back the girl and the child.
new mineral which has come into
recognition because of the increasing
demand for tungsten and its allied
products is the basis of n new indus
try In Colorado. The name that has
been given it is wurtzelite, which,
though not exact. is descriptive. It
has been found in Garfield county.
The November production from the
mines of Cripple Creek district. as Of
ficially reported out from the mills
and smelters, amounted to S2,83O tons
with bullion value of s1,297, AL AS
compared to October, the average
value per ton is higher and an in
crease in valuation obtained is $4,000
Mrs. Olive Butler. one of the most
active workers for suffrage in Colo
rado and one of the first women to be
sent to the Colorado General Assem-