The Elbert County tribune., 1916-03-10

Inc Maccabees lodge at FREDERICK
Is growing rapidly.
Work on Deltas sugar factory is
expected to start sooE.
s. A Matthews Is to have a 200
acre melon patch at Rocky Ford this
season
Contracts have been made at Fort
Collins to raise over $4,000 acres of
sugar beets.
Sugar beet acreage in the Arkan-
sas valley is to be larger this year
than ever before.
At Trinidad the Knights of Colum
bus initiated class of forty-five at
a recent meeting.
About 125 business and professional
men and farmers attended a boost"
banquet at La Junta
The Garfield county coal mines at
South Canon have been closed down
for an indefinite period
Fort Morgan chicken thieves were
traced to Greeley, where they were
arrested, and confessed.
The first annual convention of the
Colorado Retail Clothers' Association
will be held March Il and Is at
Denver
1t is stated that Mesa county cattle
men will oppose the submission of the
proposed herd law to vote in No
vember
Discoveries of rich tungsten ore
was reported by Fred Gcble, state
highway commissioner. who returned
to Durango from the Silverton dis
trict.
The state of Montana wants to
know how Denver manages to keep
the infant death rate so low and
stands SO high on the list of Ameri-
can cities.
The State Supreme Court granted
a new trial to John Jones, a crippled
negro sentenced to death from Routt
county for the murder of Bale Hern-
don, sheepherder
An inheritance tax of s11,432 was
collected by Leslie E. Hubbard. state
inheritance tax appraiser, on the es-
tate of Col. George S. Newman, owner
of MacRose farm near Littleton.
Another movement to discourage
y,
one for another general revival in
Denver. were taken up in the meeting
of the Denver Ministerial Alliance
Senator Helen Ring Robinson, one
of Denvers representatives on the
Ford peace project. returned home
with the declaration that the famous
mission did not by any means end in
failure.
Miss Elsie Ulrich, member of the
sophomore class of the West Denver
High School, won the prize of the
twenty-sixth annual Mary Louise
White oratorical contest. held in the
auditorium of that school
Joseph Smitham, 76 years old, a
resident of Denver for more than
thirty-five years, died in Santa Fe, N
NJ. of complication of diseases fol-
lowing an attack of grip. He was
born in Cornwall, England In 1870
From the estate of Col Geo. s.
Newman, owner of the famous Mac
Rose farm. the State inheritance tax
Department received a tax of $1l,-
432. so. The value of the total estate
was placed at s293856.3G by Leslie
e. Hubbard, inheritance tax appraiser
Mrs. Lucy Wilson, so. died thirty
six hours after her son William, 35
passed away. The mother was pre-
pairing to take her sons body from
Denver to Kirksville, Mo. for burial,
when she was seized by an attack of
heart disease. hastened by grief, and
passed away
Cooperation among the $50 super
visors and rangers in the thirty gov
ernment reserves in the Rocky Noun
tain region is being urged in sched-
ule of meetings conducted in the field
by Smith Riley, district forester, and
bis assistants, Fred Morrell, C. ].
Stahl and C. NJ. Granger
Denver's rapid growth as a grain
market was shown at the annual
meeting of members of the Denver
Grain Exchange when figures We're
read showing that the exchange had
handled 5,54S cars of grain, worth be-
tween $6,000000 and s7.0O0,00O, with
in the last eleven months
What Grand Junction Dolice declare
is the most frightful vandalism ever
committed in Grand Junction oc-
Cured when three small boys, all un-
der 10 years of age. entered a house
at 1860 Rood avenue. which was with
out tenant. demolished the entire
furnishings. turned the water on in
the kitchen and flooded the premises,
fht damage totaling $1,000.
Mrs. Amelie Gehrung Brocker one
of Denver's eldest pioneers and