The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1916-05-11

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Nay ls-Denocratie STATE Coavoatiss
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In Denver.
ry Festival and Carnival at Glen
wood Springs.
Aug. National Convention Of Rep
resenta'ires of Negro Race at Den
Aug. s-Democrstic state Assembly at
Pueblo marksmen have organized =
rifle club.
A big tungsten strike has been
made at Nederland.
The Boulder May fete increased
the college fund over $1,000.
Sheriff Krisher destroyed about
$3.50 worth Of liquor at Ouray.
More than twenty families q day
took up homesteads in the Pueblo
land district in April
Edward P. Pitkin. 81, Civil war vet
eran. and member OF Byron l.. Carr
Post. G. A. r.. died in Denver.
William J. Jordan was acquitted at
Cortez in the District Court Of the
charge of murder of Dudley Morri
son at Dolores.
George E. Ledgerwood, 70. who
was stricken with apoplexy ON his
10th birthday. died at st. Mary's hos
pital in Grand Junction.
A benefit concert to assist In aid.
ing 100000 homeless orphans of
France will be given in Denver by
the Society of Fatherless Children of
France.
The Denver Motor Club will not
own country home this year. but
instead will lease quarters at Morri-
son for use as rest rooms and social
quarters.
A. A. Peters of Denver was elect.
ed secretary of the American Poul.
try Association at the annual con
vention OF that organization held in
Peoria, Ill.
The report of the city building in.
spector for April shows that permits
for building operations in Denver in
that month reached $340,960, an in
crease of $11,s7o over April 1915.
A bill providing that q term of the
Federal Court shall be held each year
in Durango, beginning next October.
recently introduced In the Lower
House of Congress. passed that body.
Eleven banks in Denver. including
national and state banks and trust
companies. had deposits on May / ag-
eregating $s2.sOO.OOO. These were
the largest deposits in the history of
Denver banks.
The ore shipments from the Tellu-
ride station for the month of April
totaled III cars, keeping the record
up in the front rank. All these ship
ments were concentrates, no crude
ore being shipped during the month.
While practicing at the school yard
for track and field meet, Ovid
Plumb, son of Mr.. and Mrs. A. B.
Plumb of Kersey, was struck in the
head and seriously injured by dis.
Gus that slipped from the hand Of
Paul Crist.
In wheat field near the corner
Of West Ellsworth avenue and Sheri-
dan boulevard in Denver, the body
of an unidentified man, apparently
about 20 years old, was found by
Bernard Shock, dairyman. His
throat was cut and, few feet from
his body, was an open razor.
IN hi
stolen with the aid Of an accomplice
from the St. Louis postoffice two
months ago, in a dozen cities over
the country, in order to keep up an
expensive living at fashionable ho-
tells, James c. McKeown, 80 years
old, was arrested in Denver by fed
eral and city authorities.
DR.. Lucien l. Blake, inventor of a
submarine signal system in use in the
United States navy, constructing en-.
gineer Of the United States light
house board and scientist whose
experiments In the recovery of ore
values added millions of dollars to
the wealth of Colorado, died in Bos-
ton. Death followed an operation.
Sentences imposed year ago on
Eugene Buchanan, cattleman of Lo-
gan county, and eight associates, by
Federal Judge Robert E. Lewis, for
interference with a homesteader,
we're nullified in the reversal Of the
| lower court by the United States
Circuit Court of Appeals in st. Paul,
MINI. The case was remanded for
| trial.
Two Grand Junction high school
seniors on a geology class picnic was
seriously injured when they fell from
cliff in Nothorofare caiion. Arthur
Groves, 18, is in st. Mary's hospital
with both ankles badly sprained and
his right arm broken, and John Lave,
10, is suffering from a bump on the
head that threatens conclusion and q
sprained ankle and wrist, as we'll as
many abrasions.