The Elbert County tribune., 1916-04-14
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

SprlnEH
April 26-Annuai Convention western
tioH.
April 2s-May e-Food show at Colo
RADIO Springs.
May 2.-RepublIcan State and Third
and ana Fourth Congressional District
hay lS-Democrat;c State Convention
at Colorado Springs.
dS n5-Progressive State Convention
Denver.
Greeley will spend $4,000 for new
garages.
milk condensary may be estab-
hshed at Fort Morgan.
The last week in June has been Sc
lected for Loveland's Chautauqua.
A shipment of beet seed will pro-
vide Fort Morgan growers with
supply.
The contract for Loveland's new
nigh school building has been let for
s76.396
Nicholas Hazard of Saguache was
killed by the accidental discharge of
gun while out hunting.
Governor Carlson has appointed ].
A. Miller of Gunnison water commits
sioner for District No. SO.
The petition for the recall of Judge
Burke of the Thirteenth district will
be passed upon by the Supreme
Court
George Seegar, As years old, a
farmer near Brighton, has been ar
rested on charges preferred by his
l4-year-old stepdaughter.
The body of Charles Peterson. an
aged rancher living alone. was found
at Red Dirt, near Gypsum. He had
oeen shot, and apparently dead for
several days.
More than 100 members of the Den.
yer Civic and Commercial Associa-
ton listened to a brief informal talk
by Jacob M. Dickinson, former sec
retary of war
Miss Lucille Martensen, Denver
housemaid, who saved from probable
death her ms tress and was herself
severely burned, died at the Denver
county hospital.
Bulkeley Wells. president of the
Colorado Metal Mining Association,
has appointed a committee to investi.
gate changes in the mining laws pro-
posed by the Foster bill now in Con
gress.
John Bartleson of Denver. whose
separation and divorce from his
former wife, now Mrs. Claude Griffey,
year ago, caused a sensation, mar
ried Mrs. Charline Tennant, daugh-
ter of DIR. and Mrs C. B. James.
ba f,tn
Vaile, who died in California, were
held at the family residence in Den.
yer. Prominent jurists and attorneys,
railroad employees. workmen and peo-
pie in all stations of life attended.
The highest price ever paid on the
Denver market for fat steers weigh.
ing around 1.225 pounds, was paid for
twenty-five head, average 1921
pounds. marketed by ]. r. Rigden of
Fort Collins, when they sold at $3.50.
Little hope is entertained for the
recovery of Miss Lucille Martensen,
81 years old. OF Denver, who was
burned in saving her employers
property by seizing a blazing can OF
varnish and hurting it through win
dow.
More than 200 grizzled veterans of
the Grand Army of the Republic in
Denver helped turn the half century
mark of the organizations existence
with patriotic exercises in Trinity
Methodist church. Five hundred peo-
pie were in the audience.
According to the officials of Adams
county, drunken revelry, extending
into the small hours at the Sand
Creek roadhouse, participated in by a
dozen Denver people, ended disas-
trously when knives and broken bot
ties were welded in a free-forall
fight, probably fatally injuring one of
the women. who is now in a hospital
In Denver.
Denver and Colorado Springs peo-
pie, who are large holders of stocks
in the various copper companies or
ganized by Spencer Penrose, Charles
NJ MacNeill and associates. are ex-
pected to profit heavily by deal an
nounced in New York whereby the
allies have contracted for 400,000,000
pounds of copper to be delivered this
year
II. u. Nudge, president of the Den
yer & Rio Grande railroad. upon his
return from a meeting of the direc.
tors in New York, said in Denver
that the company has authorized an
osder for 10000 tons of steel rails to
replace present main line track at
various points and ten of the largest
types of locomotives now made to
handle freight trains between Den
yer and Pueblo.