The Elbert County tribune., 1916-04-28


June I7-Nineteenth annual Strawber-
ry Festival and Carnival at Glen
Aug 2-National Convention OF Rep
resentatives of Negro Race at Dem
Aug. s-Democratic State Assembly at
Morrison is to have a new $4,000
water plant
The Missouri Society of Colorado
will meet in Denver May IL.
The cornerstone for the new Chill
dren's Hospital in Denver has been
laid.
Senator Shafroth has introduced
bill appropriating s150,000 for a public
building at Durango.
A quarter section of land north of
the Lory beet dump. near the Larimer
county line, sold for $4,000.
The new fixtures have arrived for
La Junta's new postoffice building,
and it will be dedicated.
A bunch of choice fat heifers from
the feed lots of A. ]. Emmons of Long
yer market
Denver has been formally invited
by the Aero Club of America to take
part in a flight from the Atlantic to
the Pacific coast.
A bunch of 1906 clipped ewes from
the feed lots of VIM. L. Ayres of
Wheatland, Wyo., sold on the Denver
livestock market at $40.
w. B. Slaughter, president of the
defunct Pueblo Mercantile National
Bank, was acquitted OF the charge of
misapplying the funds of the bank.
Gratitude for their freedom and love
Of the country which gave it to them
brought the Jews of Denver together
to celebrate the 261st anniversary of
their settlement in America.
Using a meat cleaver as a weapon,
William Dairy. a negro. attempted to
murder Mrs. William c. Bolden, wife
of a Denver grocer, following a dis.
pute over an account owed by him.
The Colorado Bar Association has
begun its campaign among lawyers in
the state to propose by election six
candidates to fill the coming vacan-
cies on the Supreme Court bench.
Three members of the family Of
Israel Goldberg of Denver were se-
verely injured when a fractions colt,
which Goldberg was driving to Morri-
son kicked in the dashboard of the
buggy.
Fred Lemont, 35 years old, and
Elizabeth. who he says is his wife,
and who is 20 years old, were arrested
at Castle Rock by Sheriff Nixon on
the charge of stealing an auto from
Colorado Springs.
Miss Bessie Armstead bought three
lots in Nederland few days ago for
$3.50 each, and five days later was Of
fered 1920 for them, which illustrates
the rapidly increasing values in the
mining camp town.
Saul Epstein, former insurance COM
missioner, must pay Henry W. Single
tary. an insurance agent, S1,916 dam
ages, according to a verdict returned
by jury in Judge Class division of
the district court in Denver.
By the terms of jury verdict re-
turned in District Court, Clarence
Moore was awarded Judgment for
$4,000 against Conrad Liebsack for in
juries sustained when the two collided
On the road south of Loveland.
The Colorado Fair Freight Rate AS
sociation received telegram from the
Interstate Commerce Commission in
Washington, stating that the commits
sion's complaint had been received
there and would be given prompt at
tention.
A suit will be filed in the District
Court by Attorney General Farrar on
behalf of State Auditor Mulnix against
M. A. Leddy. formerly state treasurer,
and his fourteen bondsmen for the re-
covery of S9,8GS.50 found to have
been missing from the state funds.
A Denver coroner's jury placed the
blame for the killing of William H.
Cabler, a watchman at the stock
yards, on both Fred Jones and Ralph
Bertram, the two youthful holdups
who were captured by a posse OF
cowboys and officers following the
shooting
The United States now has q re-
markable opportunity to extend per-
manently its foreign commerce into
Central America due to the conditions
existing there from the European war.
according to Richard Crawford Camp
bell of Denver. who has just returned
from two months visit in the south
ern countries.
An affidavit containing eleven
charges against City Commissioner
]. Knox Burton, charging that he is
incompetent to hold office, citing a
number of alleged instances of mis-.