The Elbert County tribune., 1917-12-14
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union New. s.rric..
coMINo EVENTS.

I1ee McClune farm near Platteville
was sold for $4,000.
Three hundred convicts in Colorado
may be put on war work.
Num- has organized a home guard
unit with fifty members.
The snow and cold weather Dec. 9
and 10 delayed Denver trains.
The Methodist church of Longmont
has purchased $1,000 cathedral pipe
organ with chimes.
Professor S. A. Guthberiet. geolo-
gist of Lincoln, has been appointed
deputy state oil inspector of Colorado.
In four days at the Denver livestock
market 1924 cattle were weighed
and disposed of, breaking past rec
ords.
Milton w. Allen of ordway and VIII
liam B. Butler of Olney Springs have
been commissioned as second lieuten-
ants.
The richest silver ore ever found in
the Cripple Creek district in CONNER
cial quantities is reported to have
been struck in the Isabella property.
Forty-seven of the sixty-three Colo
rado counties propose to expend a to-
tai of s1.S00.000 for state highways
alone in 1918.
The Ell Paso County Women's Coun-
Gil of Defense has arranged for speak
ers to go to all kinds of meetings to
arouse a spirit of patriotism.
The sugar factory at Grand juno
ton paid 81 for beets this year, but
now announces that for the beets of
next season it will offer $3.50 per ton
The Nushaft mine, one of the best
coal producers in the Rockvale dis
trict. is at-work again after extensive
reconstruction following a disastrous
fire.
The new cheese factory at the
creamery works, La Junta, in one day
received $4,000 pounds of milk which
filled three tanks each of 900 gallons
capacity.
Hartman. Prowers county, has
taken step in advance by forming
community church which will be in
ter-denominationa and open to all
Christians.
The budget for the City and County
OF Denver for the year 1918, as sub
mitted to Mayor Robert w. Speer by
the heads of the various departments,
is $4,032.6O4.22.
Charles Howard. formerly section
foreman of the Missouri Pacific at
Ordway. is now in France. where he
is in the service of the government
building railroads.
The Postoffice Department has an
nounced the closing of the fourth class
office at Anaconda in Teller county
and mail for that place will now be
sent to Cripple Creek.
To confer with the government on
the excess war-profit tax and the fix
ing of the price of silver. committee
from the Colorado chapter of the Am
erican Mining Congress went to Wash
tngton.
The Croix de Guerre, Frances
equivalent of the world-famous Vic
toria cross Of Great Britain. has been
pinned to the uniform of William T.
Huffman, East Denver High school
graduate.
Henry w. Deutsch. Denver man ap-
pretended as an alleged Austrian spy
in Hugo, roped, shot at and forced to
kiss the flag by mob of indignant
townspeople and cowpunchers, sue
ceeded in furnishing $4,000 bond and
was released.
According to the records of the fed
eral food administrator for Colorado,
Thomas b. Stearns, the banner for pa
triotism in the observance of Tues
days as meatless days is carried off
by the citizens of Golden, the metrop-
oils of Jefferson county, and as a re-
suit one market in Golden is COM
PEELED to close up for lack Of patron
age on every Tuesday of the week.
Every court in Denver. including the
Supreme and Federal, will close be-
ginning Dec. Is. SO that the judges
and all members of the bar may de-
vote their entire time and attention
to advising and assisting those sub
ject to draft in filling out and answer
ing the involved QUESTIONABLE. The
courts will remain closed until all of
this important business has been at
tended to.
Several young men of Fowler went
out on patrol duty and brought in 119
rabbits. A party from Pueblo went
to the Apishapa, twenty miles south
of Fowler and got 125 rabbits.
Residing in the very heart of the
devastated area of Halifax, the moth
er. sister and brother of Edward G.
Mccarthy, of Denver, escaped the re-
cent catastrophe virtually unhurt.
The clerks In the offices of the sec
retary of state have been busy the