The Elbert County tribune., 1915-09-10
COLORADO
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Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING EVENTS.

Sept 27-Oct s-International Dry
Oct tar9Tdng mn SonEress Denver r;s,,,~ at
OCT. is.Godd Fellows. Annual state
convention at Colorado Springs
Ninety-seven babes were born in
Denver hospitals in August
Former Iowans will picnic at Wash
1ngton park in Denver. Sept. IL
Four persons were hurt in three
cycle accidents in Denver Sunday.
There are 17,236.114 acres OF public
land available for settlement in Colo
rado.
An exceptionally heavy yield of
beans is reported in the Loveland dis
trict.
Ten men were taken in a raid on
an alleged gambling den in Engle-
wood.
Seized with an attack OF heart dis
ease, Mrs. L. B. Well ca. pioneer resi-
dent of Denver. died while at work in
her kitchen.
Mrs Clara Bledden OF Denver. who
was robbed and attacked by negro.
is aiding the police in searching for
her assailant.
The boom in tungsten property is
gaining force and volume every day
and Nederland is now the center of
observation among mining men of the
state
II. w. Risley has filed demand
for s20s.33 for the printing commits
sioners salary for August He was
suspended Aug. 9 by the governor.
offices in the state house to remain
open until o'clock on Saturdays,
thus ending the summer half holiday.
Work of improvement on the build
ings at Elks park for the Trinidad
Las Animas county fair, which will be
held there Sept. 21-24, is going on con-
stantly
That the Fort Morgan sugar cam
paign will begin the latter part of the
month and continue 120 days, is the
way the management is figuring at
this time.
Approximately $4,000 will go to the
German and Austrian consuls for the
widows and orphans OF soldiers killed
at the front from the volksfest held
in Denyer
James c. Bulgar announced that he
is a candidate for president of the
Colorado State Federation of Labor.
The convention is to be held in Den
yer, Sept. 1s.
With a score of 9S.l points. the
Chandler first aic team of Fremont
county won the annual first aid con-
test at Walsenburg. given by the Vic
tor-American Fuel Company.
Charged with an attempt to SNUG
gle three large hack saws into the
county jail to be used in general de-
livery, Jesse Hiram, 20. was arrested
by Sheriff Frank Kane at Trinidad.
Mary Crosivich. 5-year-old daughter
of John Crosivich, a wealthy Austrian
groceryman, was perhaps fatally in
jured when she was pinned beneath
her fathers automobile on the Santa
Fe trail, east of Pueblo.
The big Boulder county fair
opened at Longmont. with 1000 pres
ent. The bumper crops this year
have produced numerous spectacular
exhibits-the most wonderful patrons
of the fair have ever witnessed.
Durward Banton. 1S-year-old Dem
yer boy, committed suicide in a San
Francisco hotel because of love for a
15-year-old schoolgirl, Miss Dorothy
Hatch, to whom he had been forbid
den to write affectionate letters.
Colorados state flower-the colum-
bine-should become the national
flower, according to S. l.. milford.
landscape gardener in the office of
a.. - h1r ,,al,
of the Department Of Agriculture.
The following trustees to the Tiff
School of Theology were named: r.
F. Watkins, H l.. Shattuck, Edward
Wilcox, d. C. Dodge, the Rev. w S.
Tiff, w. T. Scott, the Rev d. D. For
syth, C. K Durbin and Mrs Elizabeth
Warren.
Commissioner OF Finance Pitcher,
acting as ex-officio assessor of Den
yer, presented to the city commits
sioners his assessment for 1916
S310,s54, 900. The commissioners ac-
cepted the assessment without a dis
senling vote.
The actual launching OF the big In
ternational Soil Products Exposition
and Farm Congress, which will open
its gates Sept. 26, took place when a
bottle OF Manitou champagne was bro
ken over the foundation of the first
building aracted in the grounds in
Denver and nail made from gold
taken out of the Gregory Boobtail
mine was pounded into the wooden
structure.
For Aug. Is, on a basis Of 100 per