The Elbert County tribune., 1916-02-11

Many farmers about Fort Morgan
are arranging to raise large acreage
OF beans the coming season
What is expected to be the biggest
pure food show ever given in the West
VIII take place in the Denver Audi
torium from March 20 to April /.
Joe Cippollone. an Italian, was cleo
trocuted in the Victor American Fuei
Company's coal mine at Chandler by
! accidental contact with a transmits
sion wire.
At the meeting of the Fort Morgan
City Council the $4,000 bond issue of
1903 of the original water works con
struction fund was voted to be ro-
tired. This consisted OF $4,000.
Led by DR.. Henry A Buchtel, chan
cellor of Denver University, a Colo
rado branch of the League to Enforce
Peace, of which former President
Taft is the head, is being organized
in Denver.
Fred L. Patrick, Denver mining
man, was acquitted of the charge OF
involuntary manslaughter arising out
of an accident last fall in which his
automobile struck and killed A. B
Reynolds.
Tristan B. Peck, 80, a veteran of the
civil war, is the oldest person who
ever received divorce in a Denver
court. District Judge Butler gave him
divorce from Emma L. Peck, who de
serted him forty years ago.
The superintendent of public in
struction of the western land-holding
states will meet in Denver Feb. II and
Is to form an organization of their
own, separate from the national or
ganization of superintendent
David B. Moore, former evangelist,
convicted of having fired shot 1T
his wife in lawyers office in Den
yer. was sentenced from the West
Side Court to term of one year
the county Jail and to pay fine of
$500.
With a net income for the twelve
months of s2,316,175, and plans under
consideration for growth and exten
sion, the Mountain States Telephone
and Telegraph Company closed Dec
81, 1915, one of the most successful
years of its history
Arthur Montague, itinerant mer.
chant who jumped his bond of $500
ten days ago, while awaiting trial on
a charge of attacking a 17-year-old
orphan girl, was returned to Jail in
Denver from Kansas City, where he
was caught
DR.. Bennett, Graft, held responsible
by Denver coroner's jury for the
death of Mrs. Ruth Kamp, who died
at Mercy hospital, and against whom
a charge of murder has been lodged
In the Criminal Court, must furnish
s25,000 bail.
Barely forty-eight hours after his
son, Douglas A. Roller, and his nurse,
Mrs. Mary E. Robinson. were shot
during struggle with a burglar in
room next to where he lay sleeping
William w. Roller, "a, died at the
home of his daughter. Mrs ]. Meyer,
Jr., in Denver. Death was due to
uremic poisoning.
twelve-day blockade of railroad
traffic in southwestern Colorado was
lifted Monday. Delayed and regular
traffic over the Denver & Rio Grande
moved out of Durango and Alamosa
The line over Cumbres pass was
cleared of drifts from six to thirty
feet deep ending the longest stop
page of traffic over this road for sew
eral years.
Mrs. Emerson ]. Short of Denver,
former president of the South Side
Woman's Club, has been appointed
oh Of bo
committee of the woman's section of
the Navy League of the United States
by Elizabeth Ellicott Poe, general sec
retary of the organization The aim
of the organization is to enroll 1000.
600 members by March 1. who will
stand for national preparedness.
Reports that Lena Schwartz, CHIEF
witness for the state in the trial OF
George Reichert, Fort Collins rancn-
er, and Eddie Lewis. a chauffeur,
charged with responsibility for the
death of Louise Mansfield, beaten AMI
kicked at Petersburg road house
several weeks ago, has been offered a
bribe to leave Denver and fail to ap-
pear at the trial. are being investi-
gated by Samuel w. Johnson. district
attorney for the First Judicial dis
trict.
A jury in Judge Burke's division of
the District Court in Denver brought
in a verdict in the suit of Knight Hol-
loway, IA, against the Rev. Hugh l..
McMenamin and Mrs. Euphemia Kel-
ley, awarding Holloway s1,S75.50 dam
ages from each of the defendants.
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sheriff F. j. Curkeet OF Arapahoe