The Elbert County tribune., 1916-12-01

tion at Colorado Springs.
A total of s1.547.15s5O will be
raised by direct taxation in Denver
for school purposes next year.
The State Tax Commission has
been retained by 1850 votes. accord
ing to figures which have been given
the commission by county officials.
Theodore Nelson, charged with kill
ing Roy ]. Knapp in an automobile ac-
cident, appeared before the. West
Side Court in Denver and gave a
bond of $4,000.
Impressive and solemn exercises
marked the fiftieth anniversary cele-
bration of Colorado Commandery No.
1, Knights Templar, held at Temple
Ell Jebel In Denver
Members of the state legislative
board of the Brotherhood of Railway
Trailmen met in Denver to devise a
legislative program for the coming
session at the State Legislature.
Morris L. Smith, manufacturer of
slides for motion picture theaters and
widely known as Smith, the Slide
Man." committed suicide in his home
at Denver by cutting his throat with
razor.
Fifty-eight Denver autoists paid
$3.50 in fines in Police Court follow
ing their capture for speeding despite
the fact there had been two serious
accidents, one resulting fatally during
the week.
An Idaho Springs report states that
the mining output in the old reliable
camp of Gibson gulch is brighter,
and more work is being done on the
old mines in the District than has
been done for several years.
A new record for bank clearings in
Denver was established for the week
ending Nov. %, when the total clear
ings reached $19, isl 900. The increase
for the week over the same week last
year was 61.4 per cent. The clearings
also gained s1,4S1 900 over the previ-
Gus week
The Great Western Sugar Company
announced that it will contract for the
1917 sugar beet crop on the basis of an
average price of s6.75 per ton TO the
farmer, an advance of $1.00 per ton
over the contract price for the 1916
crop and soc per ton over the price
actually paid the farmers this year.
Not an idle house in breckenridge,
Kokomo, Robinson or Montezuma is
Summit county's response to the pres
ent fair prices for zinc, silver, copper
and lead. AS winter approaches the
need of houses to shelter the in
Nf l.. -
these camps is very keenly felt.
]. M. Bryen of South Chicago, so
years DID, was found dead in his room
at Greeley. A bullet hole in his head
indicated that he had killed himself.
Mr.. Bryen was brother of Photion
Bryen, in jail at Greeley charged with
killing j. e. Jackson, ranchman,
near Stoneham. last summer, in a
quarrel over wages.
Walking without word to the bed
side of his wife, who lay very i'll in a
rooming house at Pueblo, Charles
Niece, railroad switchman 81 rars
old drew a revolver and shot himself
through the heart, dying instantly
The wife received such shock from
her husbands suicide that, it is said,
she probably will die.
The Consolidated Mines Develop
ment Company, operating the Yukon
group at Alice, have good ore in
three headings on the upper or 130-
foot level. One drift shows six to
eight inches of smelling ore, assaying
$50 per ton, and one and one-half feet
of mill dirt which assays from $40 to
$12 gold per ton and four to six
ounces silver.
The social season of Colorado's
most exclusive poultry will open Jan.
l at the Denver auditorium and for a
week thoroughbred chickens, hens,
roosters, turkeys and rabbits and the
whole aristocracy of the barnyard will
contest for ribbons, cups, premiums
and prizes under the auspices of the
Colorado Poultry Fanciers' Associa-
ton in the seventeenth annual cham
pionship show.
Members and representatives of
more than thirty organizations in
spired by patriotic motives met at
Trinity Methodist Episcopal church
in Denver under the auspices of the
Washington-Lincoln Memorial Associ-
alton to formulate plans for the Wash
ington-Lincoln pageant to be cele-
brated in Denver next February. The
Knights of Pythias, Boy Scouts and
other bodies attended in full regalia
of their orders.
Denver postoffice inspectors and
police authorities of Denver and JEFF
ferson counties are conducting a
search for band of yeggmen who,
broke into the postoffice at Edge
water, just across the Jefferson
Lima from Danuar