The Elbert County tribune., 1915-08-20
STATE NEWS
OF INTEREST TO ALL
c o L o r A DO
PEOPLE
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

Dry Farming Congress at Denver
OCT 2-s-Fair and Race Meeting at
Oct. 5000 Fellows Annual state
convention at Colorado Springs.
Denver Boy Scouts will start on
their summer outing at Platte canon
on Aug. 81.
An examination to fill vacancies in
the forest service will be held in Den.
yer Sept. II.
Harry X. Thaw reached Denver
Tuesday on his auto trip to the Cali
fornia expositions
The National Retail Monument AS
sociation of America held its annual
meeting in Denver.
Mrs Mary Stewart, 45. a widow.
was arrested at Colorado Springs,
charged with shoplifting.
Clay Monson will tender to the
President his resignation as postmas.
ter at Steamboat Springs.
Colorado hunters are making the
most Of the fifteen-day open ,seasan
on doves allowed them by law.
Pedro Perez. Mexican bean pick
er. is at the Longmont hospital with
Stll-lUlllCltu NOunu III HIS ltll
lung.
Denver's 5000 little home gardeners,
from the forty-four school districts of
the city, celebrated their Harvest fes-
tival at City Park.
Ex-President William H. Taft spent
a short time in Denver Tuesday. He
was on his way to Salt Lake, and from
there goes to the California exposi-
tions.
Juan Romero, 20 years old, accused
of Staying his step-father, Don Jose
Romero a beet rancher. near Long
mont, last month. was taken into Gus
tody at Boulder.
Miss Theodosia Slothowef of Den.
yer, student at the University of Wis
consin, was chosen as one of six
young women to typify the American
college girl at the Panama Pacific ex-
position
The drill team of Denver camp No.
1. Woodmen of the World won the
first prize of $1,000 in the drill con-
test held in San Francisco at the sill
yer anniversary celebration of the Pa
cific Woodmen.
Alfred Douglas, Boston millionaire.
is now a Colorado property owner.
the resident of fashionable Brookline
having purchased 100 acres of i'm
proved apple and peach land in Delta
county for sS0,OO0.
After a six months search of war
stricken Belgium for his niece, Miss
Mary Lorang, a school teacher. John
Lorang of Boulder located her and
they reached New York on the way
back to Colorado.
Homer Hagan, 33. rancher living
five miles south of Glenwood Springs,
was killed and the top of his head cut
off in an automobile accident at the
Three-Mile bridge, three miles south
of Glenwood Springs
George Daniel. who has just as
sumed charge of his new office as
postoffice inspector in charge of the
Denver district. is a Denver man, al
though for years he has been located
In New York, st. Louis and Cheyenne.
Mrs Mary A. j. Crees, II. who was
a daughter of James Patrick Cad-
well, one of the three survivors of the
American ship Chesapeake, sunk by
the British frigate Shannon in the war
of 1872, died at her home in Boulder
She came to Colorado in 1861. living
first at Central City.
Praying for death, after once having
died" and been restored to life. Rob
ert Burns, 80 years old. whose real
name is Robert Goodman. Jr. of Ro-
chester, N Y, passed away in the
~ bac itaI in
suited from the effects of double
dose OF carbolic acid which he drank
during fit OF dependency
Sweethearts in youth friends when
each had married another after they
came of age, sweethearts again after
each had been bereft of spouses,
Ralph Eugene Wood and Mrs Flora
+. Barnes sent John c. Wood, broth
er of the bridegroom-to-b to the
court house in Denver to secure a
marriage license in order that the
couple might marry
Beneath lonely tree two miles
west of Manhattan beach the police of
Denver found a cache of $3.50 in coin
and bills and several valuable pieces
of jewelry. 1t was the plant" OF
Meriel McGrady, 10. alias Frank
Crume. confessed burglar The youth
disclosed to the police plans for
series of robberies of Denver homes
and confessed to breaking into two
houses The money and jewelry dis
covered were stolen from the home OF
Herman Rothman in Englewood
Frederick Emerson, hermit of the
Colorado & Southern railroad yards
and man of mystery for more than