The Elbert County tribune., 1917-01-05

Jan. 26.-Athletic Club boxing contests
at Denver.
Jan. Is-27-Annual Food Show at Dem
YER
Jan; 2o-27-Annual western Stock
Feb. 2-4-Y. NJ C. A Annual Conven-
tion at Colorado Springs
The Colorado Legislature convened
Wednesday.
Gasoline took jump in price of one
cent a gallon in Denver and retailed
at 23 cents.
Over $3.50, 900 was paid out Jan.
for interest on s17,50o,o0o in savings
to Denver people.
James J. Chambers, 80. the Oldest
man in Denver. died at the home Of
! his daughter. Mrs. C. H. Ustik.
Two men killed and one seriously
injured is the record for New Year
day accidents in Colorado Springs.
The Daughters of Colorado gave a
reception at the capitol on New Years
for the outgoing and incoming COVER
nors and their wives.
Mrs. Daniel Williams of Golden,
mother OF Wayne Williams, state in
dustrial commissioner. is seriously i'll
with double pneumonia.
Sweeping changes in the game laws
of the state will be urged upon the
Legislature by the Northern Colorado
Fish and Game Association
j. N. Pierce, prominent cattleman
and rancher OF Pueblo and Denver.
died at the Mineral Springs hospital
in Pueblo from uremic poisoning
Freight rates on coal from the Wal
senburg and Trinidad districts will be
reduced under an order just issued by
the State Public Utilities Commission.
The Denver City Council formally
ratified the acceptance by the munich
pality of the $4,000 branch libraries.
the gift of Andrew Carnegie to Den
ver
Denver high schools are to have
corps of cadets to be taught the rudi-
ments of military exercises until the
recently authorized Steever cadet sys-
TEN can be put into effect.
The State Supreme Court reversed
the death sentence of Nick Damas,
charged with the murder on Feb. 1S.
1915, of William Dick, a wealthy mine
operator of Walsenburg
Complete reorganization of the Col
orado State Board of Health has been
recommended by the United States
public health service. according TO ad-
vices received from Washington.
The Denver Negro Woman's Club
purchased quarters for the Girls
Friendly Club and Day Nursery at
1857 Clarkson street. Dedicatory ex-
ercises were held New Years day.
Colorado women, fortified with
equal suffrage rights, are going to de-
mand a change in the state constitu-
tion in order that their sex may sit as
jurors in trials where women or child
ren are involved.
Colorado flour mills produced 1,5O0,-
900 barrels of flour in 1916. a gain of
r525.000 barrels over 1909, the year of
Vthe last census, accordingsto estimates
made by the federal reserve bank for
the tenth district.
Following closely upon the deaths
of his two sons, who died within the
last nine months, Lemuel ]. Smith.
one of the most prominent of the &C
tive politicians OF the state. died at
his home in Denver.
Increased prestige and political
power would be Germany's should the
war end in a short time, according to
Prof. D. Shaw Duncan, head of the
department of political economy at the
University OF Denver.
Wide interest is being attracted to
the second annual food show of the
Denver Manufacturers Association,
which will be held in the associations
headquarters In the Civic and Com
fercial building from Jan. IS to 27.
The annual convention of the State
Federation of the Colorado German
American National Alliance will be
held Jan. 7 in Denver. The number OF
members which will be represented by
delegates is about $4,000.
At meeting of the Denver County
Metal Mining Association held in Den.
yer officers were elected, director
of the state association chosen and
delegates and alternates to the state
convention, which meets in Denver,
Jan. 8, were selected.
After a running revolver battle in
Denver with George Hilton, grocer,
whom he and companion had held
up in his store and robbed of $40 an
unknown bandit leaped on a moving
car at Seventeenth avenue and Pearl
street and, holding the passengers and
conductor at bay with his gun, rode
five blocks to Lincoln street, where
, he jumped off and escaped.
Five prisoners sawed their way to
liberty in the county jail in Boulder.
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