The Elbert County tribune., 1915-07-02

Dry Farming Congress at Denver
The National Association of Station
airy Engineers held its annual picnic
at Eldorado Springs.
After June 80 the penalty runs
against those who are subject to the
federal income tax and who failed to
pay it.
At Eaton, Irving Carr, 10 years old,
lost two fingers of his right hand in
an accident while repairing an auto
mobile.
While preparing to retire shortly
after o'clock, Samuel Thomas, 65,
!. dropped dead from heart disease in
his room in Denver.
While playing on her fathers farm
near Broomfield, 2-year-old Ethel Fern
Towner. daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. A
L. Towner, fell into an irrigation ditch
and was drowned
Firemen of Gilpin and jefferson
counties held their last annual picnic
at Lookout Mountain park The pic
mic took the place of a tournament
which had been held in former years
Dead for ten minutes, Murtha Carr
the 6-year-old daughter of City Detec-
tive Peter Carr, was brought to life
by the efforts of physicians and
nurses in st. Joseph's hospital in
Denver
Under the direction of County Agri-
culturalist w. II. Lauck and four stu
dents of the State Agricultural Col
1ege. a farm management survey is
being conducted throughout Ell Paso
county.
Rates for workmens compensation
insurance in the state fund will be
announced on July 10, according to a
statement made by Chairman Nc
Laughlin of the Colorado Industrial
Commission.
Colorado railroads are rushing their
new passenger tariff sheets for filing,
as the new rates go into effect Thurs
day, July 1. in compliance with the
rsrecent order of the State Utilities
Commission.
That wild animals in the foothills
and mountains to the west of Love-
land are more in evidence than ever
before is the concensus of opinion
among those who spend considerable
time in the hills
While his 5-year-old son, Myron,
stood few PAGES away and watched,
Clarence F. Bergen, 80, proof clerk
for the Woodmen of the World. shoot
and killed himself in the bedroom of
his home in Denver.
Following the decision of Denver
merchants, Colorado Springs retail
stores enforced rule that no more
women's clothes would be sent from
their stores on approval and that such
goods purchased would not be ey-
changed
A crowd of more than 900 persons
watched score of volunteer rescuers
save the life of Roy Kendall. an as.
phalt worker who was pinned fifteen
minutes between a street car and a
steam roller at Fifteenth and fremont
streets in Denver.
The next convention of the Brother
hood of Locomotive Firemen and En-
ginemen and the ladies' auxiliary of
that organization will be held in Trim
idad during the month of August,
1916, according to the decision of the
convention which ended after a three
days session at Pueblo.
The purchase of the Blue Bird Min.
ing Company's property in Cripple
Creek and the construction of low.
grade ore plant with a capacity of
about 200 tons a day is being con
sidered by o. H. Shoup and b. H.
Hopkins of Colorado Springs and Mel.
son Franklin and w. ]. Price of Grip
pie Creek.
The annual ten-day conference of
the Seventh Day Adventist church of
Colorado closed at Boulder At the
final business session it was an
nounced that $4,000 had been sub
scribed by persons attending the con-
ference for foreign missions There
were three subscriptions of 81 900 and
several of $500.
Adam McGregor, the Denver youth
who went to Scotland last fall to en-
ter the English army. and who has
been in active service in France for
the last two months, is among the
missing in the Tenth Liverpool Scot
tish regiment. which he Joined in De-
cember. according to a cablegram re-
ceived in Denver.
Margaret Much. the 15-year-old
North Denver High School girl who,
according to the story told by her
companions, was kidnapped from a
buggy by group OF Fort Logan sol
1iers Friday night, and who was
: found wandering in a dazed condition
Saturday morning, was still delirious
Monday from the shock of her expe-
rience, and unable to cast any light
on the identity of her abductors.
Mrs. Minnie Howard, negress, 55