The Elbert County tribune., 1916-01-28


at Pueblo.
Trinidad, has scored forty-five booze
raids since Jan. 1.
Mrs Elizabeth W. Cole, eighty-one
years old, died at st. Luke's hospital
in Denver
Fourteen departments of the federal
government in Denver have removed
their offices to the new federal build
ing.
The nineteenth annual convention
of the Colorado Osteopathic Associa-
tion will be held in Denver IAN %
and 90
The eighteenth anniversary of the
Colorado Prison Association was cello
brated with luncheon and dinner in
Denver.
The first case to be prosecuted in
Denver under the new prohibition law
resulted in plea of guilty and a fine
of $l00 and costs.
John L. Stewart, county commits
sioner, died at his home in George
town of pneumonia. Mr.. Stewart was
sixty-four years old
Mrs. Elizabeth McGerr, seventy,
resident of Georgetown since 1879, is
dead at the family home. following au
illness of two weeks.
1t is stated that Gen. John Chase
will resign as head of the state
guard, and that Harry p Gamble OF
Boulder will succeed him.
Richard H. Love. five years United
States revenue agent at Denver, has
been transferred by the Treasury De-
partment to st. Paul, MINI.
Jacob Ebell, Loveland youth, was
arraigned before Justice Payne and
fined s25 and costs for passing worth
less checks on local merchants.
The twenty.eighth state convention
of the Colorado Young Mems Associa-
tions will be held at Greeley, Feb. to
6. Strong speakers have been obtained
Governor Carlson was the principal
speaker at the ninth annual legislative
breakfast of the Central Women's
Christian Temperance Union, held in
Denver.
At recent meeting of the board OF
control of the State Industrial School
for Boys, Charles Huscher was ap-
pointed acting superintendent, sue
ceeding F. L. Paddleford, resigned.
Governor Carlson appointed Fred
erick Goble of Silverton member of
the advisory board to the State High
way Commission to succeed Charles E.
Herr OF Durango. The appointment is
for term of four years ending April
l, 1920.
Lena Carlo, fourteen-year-oldd daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. H. r. Carlo, veal
thy ranch people living at Baxter, five
miles east of Pueblo, is in St Mary's
hospital lowering between life and
death from a quantity of paris green
she took.
w. B. Slaughter, father of Comic
c. Slaughter, formerly with the Mer-
camille National bank at Pueblo,
which was alleged to have been
wrecked by him, is in the Ardmore
jail with a charge of kidnapping
against him, and Dorothy, the 1O-year-
old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. c. c.
Slaughter, is with relatives in Ard
more, Okla.
A policy of preparedness in antic-
General Assembly was adopted at the
session of the Colorado Association OF
County Commissioners in Denver. The
commissioners decided to pass reso-
lutions on proposed legislation now so
they could work while the General
Assembly was not in session in put
ting their views before the senators
and representatives.
Three persons, who fifty years ago
were principals in a wedding cere-
mony in little church in Central
City met Sunday at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Edward c. Hughes in Den
yer and celebrated the golden ami
versary of the occasion They were
Mr.. and Mrs. Hughes and the Rev b.
T. Vincent, Methodist Episcopal
minister, who joined them in matri-
mony half a century ago.
While Claude Maddox, wounded
youth in the Denver county hospital.
and Harry L. Adams, his confessed
accomplice in the chain of burglaries
committed in Denver, are facing trial
on charges which involve sentences
of eight to fifteen years, the police au-
thorities of two Texas cities are en-
gaging in a spirited battle to obtain
priority claims on the pair when the
Denver police have disposed of the
case against them.
Articles of incorporation of the Ma
tional Radium Products Company
were filed with the secretary of state.
The company is capitalized at $780,
600 to mine and treat radium ore ami
o conduct a general mining bus'.