The Elbert County tribune., 1915-12-31

Colorado Poultry Fanciers' Associa-
Jan. 17-1s.-Meeting Colorado Retail
Groeers and Butchers Association
Jan 1s-Sixth Annual Convention of
Colo: good Roads Assn at Denver.
Jan. Ie-22--western Live Stock Show
Feb 12-Meeting Republican state
Central Committee in Denver.
Feo io.lsESports Carnival at Steam
March 26-AprT s-coforado Retail
Merchants Associations Food and
Industrial Exposition at Denver.
Delta is to have 60o-ton sugar fac
tory.
Grand Junction is to have another
. big elevator early the coming sea
son.
The s500.O0O,O00 mark in bank
clearings, goal anticipated for sew
eral weeks, came to the Denver banks
as Christmas gift.
Creation of a s1.O00.000 fund for the
promotion of Colorado manufacturing
was authorized at a meeting of the
Denver Manufacturers Association
Investigations are being made by
the State Public Utilities Commits
sion to determine whether Colorado
railroads are running trains on time
Mrs. Louise P. Amber, a pioneer
resident of Colorado Springs. died at
her home, 221 East Uintah street.
She was in her ninety-first year and
was the widow of the late Judge Amb-
ler
Mrs Helen M. Buchtel, daughter of
the late p. T. Barnum, famous circus
left an atat
mately 100000. Her will was filed
in the Denver County Court for pro-
bate
Between s5,000,00O and 100000
will be paid in dividends by Denver
corporations at the close of the years
business. This estimate was made
Tuesday by men high in the financial
world
All sections of Colorado and most
parts OF Wyoming are at the thresh-
old of almost unprecedented prosper
ity, according to the reports contained
in the December bulletin on general
conditions just issued by a Denver
bank.
Grant McFerson of Boulder is the
legitimate bank examiner of Colo
rado and e. e. Diach is holding the
Office without right or authority ac-
cording to decision handed down in
the District Court of Denver by Judge
Allen.
An estimate of the amount of liquor
that viii have been sold in Denver
during the month of December, made
Tuesday by one well informed re-
specting the stocks carried places the
total expenditure at the astonishing
figure of s2,000,000.
The grand champion baby of the
National Western Stock show at Den
yer will receive $50 for being not only
the best example of physical develop.
ment shown in the contest but also
the most efficient in mental equip
ment and in temperament and type.
Seven prisoners row in the state
penitentiary may be released and
brought back to Denver for trial in
the West Side Criminal Court as the
result of the recent decision of the
State Supreme Court depriving the
Juvenile Court of Denver of jurisdic-
ton over adult offenders against the
law
Thomas F. Mcguire, slayer of Harry
r. Montgomery, whom he shot and
killed July 5, and who was sent to
the Denver County Hospital Nov. 16,
TO die, as it was then supposed, has
been removed to the county jail where
he is now, locked up in bankers
row. in the west wing of the Jail.
just across the corridor from Col.
James c. Bulger. also charged with
murder
More than score of Denver men
and women, among them laborers.
dressmakers and rooming house keep
ers, gave accommodation" notes to
John Cusack, former cashier of the
First National Bank at Wellington,
which later involved Cusack in trans |
actione for which he is on trial in the |
United States Court at Denver on a |
charge of embezzling $4,000 of the
institutions funds.
The suit of the State Board of
Equalization, which seeks to compel
Clair J Pitcher, Denver county as |
SCISSOR, to raise Denver's valuation |
$55,000,000, will be fought in the Dis
trict Court on the ground that "the
raises made by the Colorado Tax
Commission on the property involved |
were made arbitrarily, capriciously
and nnlawfully and as matter of |
guess and chance" according to the |
answer filed i'll the case by the city |
attorneys office.
A pocket of gold SO pure that it can
be shipped to the mint without treat |
ment was opened up by the Dunkin
Lea aSlDly Com Bro