The Elbert County tribune., 1916-09-08
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.

STOCK snow at HOlyOke.
sept 27-2s-Stats Convention B. p. o. K.
at Trinidad
Sept. 2s-3o-Third Annual Pine River
Valley and Southern Ute Indian Fair
Jan. 2o-27-Annual western Stock
Show at Denver.
A three-day count of tourist automo-
biles passing Flagler showed total
of 4o7
Pueblo is investigating sites for the
proposed installation of a municipal
bath house.
The estimated output of Honey Dew
melons in the Crowley county fields
Is $4,000 crates.
The state convention OF the Ancient
Order of Hibernians held a two-day
session at Pueblo.
The town board at Ault is receiving
proposals for the installation of an
electric light system.
The third annual Pine River valley
and Southern Ute Indian fair will be
held at Ignacio Sept. 2s and 30.
AS far as the railway brotherhoods
in Denver are concerned. the proposed
railway strike is a thing of the past.
Six thousand Denver Sunday school
children participated in the largest
childrens parade ever held in Denver
Emma Goldman, the anarchist, and
Or. Ben l.. Reitman, her manager, ar
rived in Denver from New York city.
The Florence chamber of commerce
is calling attention to the desirability
OF Florence as the site for canning
factory.
Window exhibits of home products
have been installed at Grand Junction
under the auspices of the Chamber of
Commerce.
An inspector of the Postoffice De-
partment will visit Las Animas soon
to look into the matter OF free mail
delivery for that city.
Jerre Leggett, 10, died on his farm
ten miles from Boulder, where he had
lived continuously since 1872, when he
took it up as homestead.
The Colorado Single Tax association
held its annual banquet in Denver in
honor of the seventy Seventh anniver-
sary of the birth of Henry George.
In celebration of the recognition
gained by the Masons of Colorado this
summer in Los Angeles and Buffalo,
the order will hold a barbecue at STRAIT
ton park, Colorado Springs.
The county commissioners of Mesa
county have ordered two steel bridges
to replace two wooden bridges in
Plateau valley recently destroyed by
flood.
Colorado during the month of Au-
gust consumed 2,245.14S gallons of
gasoline, an increase of &C per cent of
the amount used in the state for the
same month last year.
The following mining companies
have been Incorporated Ross Mining
Company, capital 100000. Tom and
Jerry Mining Company, Chandler.
Colo. capitalization, $4,000
The field artillery of the Colorado
National guard left Golden for three
days hike to Fort Logan. 1t will re-
turn through Denver and thence to
the rifle range after parade through
the downtown streets.
Giving battle to a mountain lion at.
tempting to attack a corral of horses
belonging to j. Brown, two miles from
Bailey thoroughbred stallion lost
his life, but saved the drove of other
horses from the lion.
John Johnson. Sr. Sc years old, was
almost instantly killed and his son,
John johnson, Jr., 20, was seriously
injured when a Seeing Denver car
struck a small roadster automobile in
which the Johnsons were riding. in
Denver.
Mrs. Charles 3. Cronin, wife of a
taxicab man, has started action in tn.
District Court in Denver against Mrs
Alice Baxter Burkhardt, wife of Jacob
Burkhardt, to recover $40, 900 damages
for the alleged alienation of the affec-
tions of Mr.. Cronin. Mrs. Cronin asks
a body judgment.
Bearing American flags in token of
their loyalty to country and wearing
commemorative buttons that signi-
fled devotion to the principles of
unionism, a thousand children, be.
tween the ages of and 16, all from
workingmen's families, marched with
their elders in the Labor day parade.
The government needs about 200
stenographers and has announced civil
service examinations. to be held Sept.
IL and &c, at the following places in
Colorado: Denver, Colorado Springs,
Durango, Grand Junction. Greeley.
Montrose and Pueblo. The initial
salaries in most cases are 5000 a year.
Henry Newton Wood. CO, wealthy
and widely known business man,
brother of Guilford S. Wood. secretary