The Elbert County tribune., 1917-08-03

eept l7-z2-Colorado state Fair at Pu-
Over 10000 acres of beans are being
cultivated in Weld county.
The Legislature appropriated $40
each for Colorado soldier boys
Wyatt Boyer of Burlington chosen
ON state fair board in place of Spencer
Penrose.
over $1,000 in prizes will be Of
fered at Fort Morgan's Frontier Show,
Sept. AT.
Eighteen autos alleged to have been
stolen by man arrested at Pueblo are
recovered.
First exemption board call summons
fifty-two Denver men to report in Dis
trict No. 5.
Officers reserve men have been
called to report at Fort Smelling.
Mimi, Aug. &c. There are S13 appli-
cants in Colorado.
Colorado will be the next field for
i. w. W.s and their work." asserted
Charles H. Meyer, president of the
Western Federation of Miners.
George r. Broad. son OF Richard
Broad. Jr., of Golden, has been ap-
pointed an assistant paymaster in the
United States navy with the rank of
ensign.
The net receipts from the national
forests under the Denver Jurisdiction
for the fiscal year ending June 80,
1917, show an increase of S29, 500 over
those of the preceding year.
Nearly all of the women of Lead
vile and many from outside the city
were in attendance at big meeting
which organized a women's advisory
council for good work in war time.
]. NJ Taylor has been elected cap
tain of the Denver Grand Army Vete-
ran Military Company. r. H. McGill
has been named as first lieutenant and
r. NJ McElrose second lieutenant
A family named East, from Indiana.
camping on the Rio Grande river
above Creede, had little daughter,
aged years, who fell into the river
covered
1t is reported that during the last
month the Tomboy company of Tellu-
ride, which is an English-owned cor
poration, paid s75,33O, or "a per cent,
in spite of the English tax of 80 per
cent for war purposes.
The old mine near Lake City in
which Walter Mendenhall made the
recent sensational strike, giving fabu-
lous assays, is owned by Mrs. F. E.
Williams of San Diego. and is under
lease to Mendenhall
A score or more of the Indians who
haye been working in the vicinity of
Lamar during the summer are eager
to join Company D. but they have not
yet succeeded because of the failure
of the Indian agent to grant the neces-
sary permission
Fifty-four members of the headq,iar-
ters and supply section of the engineer
train, Colorado National Guard, for.
merly known as Truck Supply Com.
pany No. /, modified at Colorado
Springs, preparatory to going into
camp near Golden.
Agents of the United States Depart
ment of Justice, after conference
with United States District Attorney
lculOWr uCCiutu " Cndi MIb. huiti
Smith of Louisville and Hugh Mcleod
with bringing intoxicants into the
state in violation of the Reed law.
Driven to despondency through her
inability to obtain work, Mrs. Kitty
Evans, so, attempted to drown herself
in an irrigating ditch near the Nine
Mile house, on the Brighton road
north of Denver, and would have been
successful had it not been for the
timely arrival of w. E. Grouse.
NJ L. Baldwin. proprietor of a ho
tel at Idledale, was seriously injured
and Alvin Laub of Memphis. Tenn.
suffered a fracture of the collarbone
when an automobile in which they
were riding plunged over an embank
ment two miles east OF Morrison anc
tumbled a distance of forty feet.
Echoes of the factional fight In the
German Evangelical Lutheran churct
of Windsor, which occurred las
March, were heard in the District
Court at Greeley in the case of the
Rev. William Wilk, discharged pas
tor, against trustees and members o.
the church Mr.. Wilk is suing fol
$4,000 damages on charges of false
arrest, false Imprisonment and mali
cious prosecution.
Possibilities that the Colorado Ma
tional Guard now encamped at ths
Colorado State Fair Grounds. might in
terfere with the holding OF the 1911
exhibition Sept. II to 20, have beer
removed with an announcement from
Governor Gunter that troops would b
removed during August.