The Elbert County tribune., 1916-11-24


City.
Jan, 2o-Athletic Club boxing contest.
at Denver.
Jan; 2o-27-Annual western stock
Show at Denver.
rep z-4-Y. NJ C. A Annual Conyen-
tion at Colorado Springs.
Frederick Goodrich was granted
parole at the recent meeting of the
board of parole.
series of mysterious thefts has
baffled the officials of the East Den
yer high school.
Work has been started in Denver
on 100000 machinery manufacture
ing plant for a compressor company.
Denver national banks have COM
pleted their subscriptions to the cap
ital stock of the federal reserve bank
for the Tenth district.
William A. Reed, worshipful master
of the Pixies Peak Lodge No. sc, A. F.
and A. M, and prominent mining man,
died suddenly at his home at Cripple
Creek
For the privilege of talking freight
rates." George j. Kindel. independent
aspirant for Congress in the Denver
district. spent s49o.20 during the last
campaign.
Lloyd A. Duncan. son of Robert
Duncan, Denver mining man, was
found not guilty of the theft of an
automobile by jury in the District
Court at Boulder.
The United States Civil Service Com
mission has announced an examina-
tion for Adams county, to be held in
Denver Dec. g., for the position Of mo-
tor rural mail carried at Aurora.
An announcement from Washington
confirms the plan of making Denver a
district headquarters for the admins
tration of federal grain standards,
which is to go in operation Dec. 1.
George Riley. bookkeeper at st.
Joseph's hospital in Denver, is in Sc
rious condition as a result of an at
tack by negro whom he discovered
lurking in the rear of the nurses quar-
ters at the hospital
Nearly 100000 will be spent in Den
yer within the next few months in the
erection of buildings to care for the
business of Armour & Co., packers. OF
this amount 100000 will be expended
in the construction of a new storage
plant.
Despite the fact that reports from
over the country indicate that there
has been considerable damage to crops
in other sections, Colorado farmers
are reporting that recent cold snaps
snd SHOWS have left little damage in
their wake
Twenty-Five men and women, guests
at fashionable Denver hotel at 1441
Logan street, put on an impromptu
nightgown parade when fire which
started in the boiler room sent clouds
of smoke billowing through the three
story structure.
Plans for the .ooi and Industrial
show of the Denver Manufacturers
Association have matured and already
the members of the organization are
busy preparing for their exhibits. The
show will be held during the second
week of January.
A bill opening in some manner the
Mount Evans region as scenic attrac-
tion for the benefit of Denver can
easily be passed in the United States
Senate, in the opinion of G. M. Hitch
cock. United States senator from Ne
braska, who visited in Denver.
Judge Robert Strong of the District
Court announced at Boulder that he
would grant the petition for a new
trial in the case of William Knowles.
Louisville miner, who was found guilty
on an assault to kill charge in connec-
the Hecla mines.
Worry over the tragic death of his
favorite daughter, Ruth, and the
events of the subsequent trials at
which DR.. Floyd W. Noble and DR.
Robert j. Mason, the latter the daugh-
ter's fiancee, we're tried for murder,
are said to have caused the death OF
Sherman H. Merriweather, Denver
business man.
Holding that patents involving 1,12O
acres of coal lands near Boulder were
secured Illegally. Judge R. w. Lewis
at Denver, in the federal court, re-
versed the decision of Master in Chan.
Gerry Musser and restored to the
United States the lands for which he
decided patents had been secured in
an irregular manner.
Bitter rivalry between the Univer-
sity of Colorado and the Colorado
School of Mines, which began four
years ago over the possession of
goat-the mascot of the University OF
Colorado football eleven-broke out
afresh when fifty students from Boul-
der motored to Golden and painted the
School of Mines buildings with red