The Elbert County tribune., 1917-04-27

Niipple creek miners asked 81
day increase.
The canning factory at Canon City
is being enlarged
A patriotic mass meeting and pa
rade was held at Trinidad
Women of woodcraft will hold
convention at Fountain in June.
Voluntary poll tax for women is
Denver woman's war scheme.
Nineteen boys from Florence have
offered their services to Uncle Sam.
British officer at Canon City be-
heves Lord Kitchener is still alive.
John r. White is organizing a vol
unteer infantry company at Lamar.
The Poudre Valley Odd Fellows AS
sociation held their annual meeting
in Greeley.
Woman's Relief Corps of Boulder
viii make 2i6 comfort quilts for Troop
u and Company B.
Rocky Ford will vote May 7th on
the question of bonds of 100000 for
school improvements.
Miss Mae Everitt of Berthoud has
enlisted as an army nurse and will be
stationed at the Preside.
Armed guards are keeping a con-
slant watch on the Nederland dam,
eighteen miles up Boulder canon.
Fifty Elks attended the Western
Slope celebration at Montrose The
banquet was patriotic in character
Durango is to have Boy Scout
movement this spring that will help
in several ways to attain good results.
Over 1,100 applications were made
by Denver people for lots and tracts
on which to plant gardens and grain.
South Altman, the highest incorpor-
ated town in the United States, now
boasts of the biggest flag in the gold
district
Evans is furnishing her share of re-
cruits for the navy. and already four
have departed for Mare Island train
ing school.
One hundred and forty applications
have been received by the Pueblo ma
val recruiting station since the cam
paign opened on April 1st.
Governor Gunter signed the Horton
prohibition bill on the 23d, the last
day for action on measures passed by
the Twenty-first General Assembly
Victor Chapman, the American avia-
tor who plunged to his death near
Verdun, France, on June 23d last, left
d property worth 100000 at Colorado
Springs.
Alfred Donald Slaney of Denver and
Miss May Belle O'Flaherty of Boulder
were married in Denver; then Mr..
Slaney enlisted and left for the Mare
Island training quarters.
Former Mayor Henry ]. Arnold of
Denver has bought 100 acres of the
Green Mountain ranch for the pur-
pose of establishing a dairy. He will
stock it with Ayrshires.
Rural Colorado is responding patri-
otically to the appeal of President
Woodrow Wilson in increasing food
stuffs production, according to the
opinion expressed by former Cover
nor E. M. Ammons
For the purpose of raising $4,000 to
be used in reorganizing the Colorado
Springs Boy Scouts, and placing the
organization on a permanent and eff
ficient basis, a three-day campaign
will be instituted May Sth.
A trusted employe for thirty-nine
years, Enos Peter Schell, &C years old,
weight clerk in the United States
mint, was arrested in Denver on a
charge of stealing more than 5000 in
new half dollars that We're being re-
minted.
William B. Milliken, mining engi-
neer, clubmdn and prominent in Den
yer society, is made the defendant in
a suit for 100000 filed in the District
Court in which is involved all the ram
ifications of big deal in search for
gold.
Fred Starr and John r. Brockner,
TRUSTEES in the 'penitentiary at Canon
City gained their freedom by taking
advantage of a guard who had trust
ed them and were later recaptured by
two farmers and returned to the
prison.
Death in environments of abject
poverty came to Mrs. Isabella Patter-
son Springer, one-time noted beauty
of Denver, for number of years an
international social favorite the di-
vorced wife of John w. Springer, mil
lionaire. The end came in an open
ward of a Blackwells Island hospital.
New York.
George Britton's place in Denver.
where James e. Tressel was killed
month ago. received its second visit
from the police when detectives OF
the bootlegging squad descended on
the house and removed Britton, four
barrels of beer and trunk of whis-