The Elbert County tribune., 1916-03-17
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

springs.
May 2.-Repubiican State and Third
and Fourth Congressional District
convention at Pueblo.
May 1s-Democratic State Convention
at Colorado Springs
Aug. S-Democratic State Assembly at
Denver.
primary to select postmaster
for Boulder is opposed by many citi-
zens
Edward Scrafford, veteran U. p.
engineer. died suddenly at his home in
Denver.
forest fire is raging in the tim
ber land thirty miles northwest Of
Pueblo.
Irishmen of Denver celebrated the
anniversary of the birthday of Robert
Emmett, Irish patriot. with an enter
tainmeut at the Auditorium.
William SAMSON of Denver sued the
American Smelling and Refining Com
pany for s2,o51 for $4,000 pounds of
sacked ore, gold and silver
Asserting damages in collision with
Mrs. Nora Staley's auto while riding
his bicycle in Denver, in August. 1915.
James w. Bruce filed suit for ST..
911.5O.
Work has been started on n swim
ming pool and pavilion in Monument
Valley park which Spencer Penrose
will build for public use In Colorado
Springs.
An inheritance tax OF s6.563 was
collected by Leslie e. Hubbard. state
Inheritance tax appraiser, from the
estate of D. Wilson Moore, who died
in Colorado Springs Jan. 10.
A double funeral was held in Den
yer when Albert Keefer, who was
killed when thrown from a horse at
the stockyards. and his wife, who
ended her life the following day,
were buried.
Denver is tenth in list OF seventy
six leading cities in the country in
percentage of increase in amount ex-
pended for building in February, 1915,
over the expenditure for February,
1914.
Mrs. Esther Williams. who was
burned to death in a prairie fire neaI
Aurora, was victim of a mania for
self-destruction, according to testi.
timony adduced by Coroner Sherman
Williams of Denver
A new membership campaign is to
be organized to secure additional
members for the new Denver Civic
and Commercial Association. 1t is ex
pected that this campaign viii bring
the membership up to 5000
The third trial Of ]. Lotion David
son, Denver undertaken, charged with
conspiring with Vivally Turley to de.
fraud insurance companies through
taking Turley's death, began in the
District Court at Colorado Springs.
Bishop F. J. Mcconnell of the Colo
RADIO Methodist church is safely out
of Mexico and it is believed that he
gave orders for all of the American
Methodist missionaries in that repub-
lie to leave for this country at once
Twenty-Five brewery workers en-
ployed at Coors' Golden Brewery
walked out following, they allege, Il
reduction of wages graded from 25
cents to $1.25 day and a declara-
tion by Adolph Coors for an open
shop.
The contract was awarded by the
Union Pacific Railroad Company to
Fitzpatrick brothers of Denver and
Beatrice, Neb., for the construction
of sixteen miles of second main liue
track in Wyoming. starting at a point
fifteen miles west of Evanston ana
running toward the Utah line The
job will cost between $2,00O,0O0 and
heavy grading.
Mrs Rubye Burkhardt De Remer,
socially prominent and wife of Al
ian De Remer, has chosen stage
career in preference to matrimony.
A few days ago. her husband and her
mother. Mrs Charles Burkhardt, re-
ceived notes from the young woman
announcing she had left Denver
secretly to meet the Gus Edward
troupe at Dayton. Ohio. and embark
on a life behind the footlights.
The complaining witness in the
trial OF Arthur Montague, whose story
of the attack upon her was vindi
Gated by the jurys verdict eonyictine
Montague on the most serious charge
will become a bride Immediately fol.
lowing Judge J. w. Sheafor's ruling
upon the defendants motion for
new trial, which will be filed and
submitted in the West Side Court in
Denver within the next week or ten
days. The groom-to-be is a success
full young draughtslhan, formerly q
school teachers of South Denver.
The trial of George Reichert OF
Fort Collins, charged with having
caused the death OF Louise Mansfiel