The Elbert County tribune., 1917-11-30
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Newspaper Union New, Service.
COMING EVENTS.

all kinds.
Numerous inquiries regarding Colo
rado lands have been received by i'm
migration board.
New school building at Sopris is
nearly completed and is to be ready
Tor use by the January term.
Former Governor James Hamilton
Peabody died in Denver Friday, sur
rounded by his family and friends
There has been a remarkable num-
Der Of fatalities this year in the ranks
OF old-time settlers of southern Colo
RADIO.
The suit brought to try to oust Vic
tor Anderson from the presidency of
the School OF Mines was dismissed at
Golden.
Denver residents Sunday visited the
capitol to pay their last respects to
former Governor James Hamilton
Peabody.
Large number of cases of chicken
pox in towns on the west slope. Nine
teen cases were found in the Carbon
dale school.
Colorado has been complimented by
Washington official on the physical
fitness of the men sent to Camp Fun
ston in the first selective draft.
Two carloads of the new municipal
organ for the Denver auditorium have
been shipped from the Wurlitzer fac
tory in North Tonawanda, N. Y.
Over 10000 packages of tobacco
have been sent to American soldiers
and sailors abroad by contributors TO
the Denver Sammy Smokes fund.
The city and county of Denver had
S2,295, 1869 in cash in the banks at
the end of October, according to fig
ures OF F. ID. Stackhouse city auditor.
The navy is in need of more fire
men, and an appeal for more Colora-
do enlistments was issued by officers
in charge of the Denver recruiting Of
flee.
threshing outfit consisting of a
separator and its equipment, owned by
Walter Saunders, was destroyed by
fire, while threshing wheat south of
Norwood.
Fifty-six comfort kits of the design
approved by the government has been
sent to as many boys from Alamosa
county who are in the service. and
fifteen more.
Seibert was the scene Of much ac-
tivity and interest when the Five
Fields Oil Company spudded in it's
Well No. 1 on the Johnson ranch, two
miles west Of the town.
Colorado's last quota of the draft
army will probably not be called un-
til after the first of the year. accord
ing to advices received from Provost
Marshal General Crowder.
dog with rabies attacked children
playing in the grounds of the Fair
mount school in Denver, bit two of
the children and the principal, and
was killed by school boys.
The Knights of Pythias of Colorado
held reception In Denver in honor
of the official visit to Colorado of
John ]. Brown of yandalia, ILL.,, su-
preme chancellor of the order
The Five Fields Oil Company of
Denver. purchased drilling outfit at
Florence and shipped it to Seibert,
where the company will upon the ad-
vice of geologists do extensive drill
ing for oil.
A canning demonstration was sent
to every town and rural district of Rio |
Grande county by the womens coun- |
ty advisory council. Mrs. A. J. Weiss
OF Del Norte. chairman, says the men
admit the women have done more
than they have.
More Colorado men. including Roy
er X. Bent and Floyd NJ. Jardine of
Denver. have been given commissions.
according to telegraphic advices re-
ceived from San Francisco. Others
were: w. C. Page and C. E.
Frey of Grand Junction; r. p. Burn
ham of Boulder and L. r. P. Reese of
Fort Collins
To fight pro-German propaganda by
propaganda, especially in
the effort to put Grand Duke Nicholas
at the head of the Russian soldiers,
he Grand Duchess Tatiana Nicolaovna,
second daughter of the deposed Gar
of Russia, will arrive in Den
yer shortly after Christmas, under the
care of Mrs. Margaret Barry Carver.
founder and organizer of the Russian
civilian relief, who passed through
Denver on her way to some port on
The Pacific" to meet her distinguished
charge.
Food economy recipes that have
been proved particularly adapted to
high altitude are being published by
I
he women's advisory council CT San
Miguel county. Mrs. J. NJ. Woy of
Telluride, chairman, says the recipes
ire ones which have been tried out
~ women of the county.
The Pueblo City Council passed an