The Elbert County tribune., 1918-03-29
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.


Craig has been opened for business.
The molybdenum concentrating
plant at Urad in Daily district is COM
pleted.
Leven S. Perry. retired farmer of
Cotopaxi. died of nephritis; he was 81
years old.
NJ. e. Diehl of Montrose sold to L.
A. Sewell of Fruita, ESQ of his 2-year-
old ewes for s25 per head.
H D. Hudson. who has fruit tract
at Penrose. but lives at Hudson. has
patch OF 400 acres of wheat.
The 4-year-old son of Mrs. Hannah
Epler. of Nepesta, fell into an irriga-
ton ditch and was drowned.
Fifteen sets of lessees are actively
engaged on the properties of the Isa-
bella Mines Company on Bull Hill.
Copper prospects near Peck's camp
on East Beaver creek. six miles south
east of Clyde, are to be developed this
spring.
+ Over 5000 people at Trinidad bid
farewell to the fifty-one recruits OF
the last military call when they left
for the East.
John Henry Marke, who enlisted at
the Denver British Canadian mission
is the first minister of the Gospel to
be accepted at that station.
Study of German has been abolished
in Centennial high school at Pueblo.
The students now taking the course
tKyf1t h.a fnI To fcl ho tnr
]. F. Humphrey, president of the
board of trustees OF the Colorado
School for the Deaf and Blind. has an
nounced that $4,000 boys dormitory
will be erected.
Protection of Colorado's crops from
prairie dogs. ground squirrels and 9th
er rodents is being well cared for by
the state etymologist. DIR. Charles A.
Lory has reported to the State Council
of Defense.
Information is wanted by Mrs. NJ.
Ryan, of 1859 Champa street, of the
whereabouts of Michael F, Ryan, sec
retary of the Social Welfare Brother
hood. He was last seen in Denver on
March 8.
The original will of John William
Wright, Colorado pioneer, who died
March IS, was filed for probate in the
Denver County Court. The document
is dated Oct, 10, 1887, and remained
unchanged.
Charles H. Bussey, 6s years old. a
cripple of Denver, attempted suicide
by turning on half dozen burners on
a gas range in his room, slashing his
wrist and cutting his throat from ear
to ear with a razor.
To reduce the deaths of babies in
Colorado the Woman's State Council
of Defense has urged all women's
County Councils of Defense to organ
ize child welfare committees where
none have been formed.
Ninety pound samples tested at
Golden School of Mines show the
stratum from which this shale was
taken will average from eleven to fif-
teen feet thick and yields 70 gallons
per ton. The shale is from De Beque.
The constabulary patrolling the
northern boundary for bootleggers
coming from Wyoming reported the
arrest of two Denver men and the con-
fIscation of 142 quarts of whisky at
Hereford. Weld county. The men
gave the names, of Paul Grieger and
Henry Sardner.
Three hundred Denver boilermak-
ers, blacksmiths, pattern makers and
sheet metal workers gave notice of a
demand for 33 1-3 per cent. increase
In wages. The men are employed in
the machine and boiler shops where
the 300 machinists walked out several
days ago, following demands for In
creased wages.
A factory is being built at Num- for
The manufacture of fence stays.
A patriotic mass meeting at which
the principal speakers will be Miss
Kathleen Burke. the only woman the
British government has permitted to
visit the firing line on the western
front, and Dr. Robert NJ McElroy, ed
ucational director of the National Sc
eirity League. will be held in the
Denver auditorium.
The Colorado Patriotic League,
through its corresponding secretary,
Mrs. Samuel Kirby. is writing to the
various county councils of defense In
the state, requesting them to organize
branch patriotic societies to cooperate
with the state league in its active ef-
forts to fight seditious utterances and
encourage patriotism.
Mrs. Wilson L. Burns and Mrs. Wal
ter Shaub, both of Cripple Creek, were
perhaps fatally injured when car
driven by Mr. Burns went over a cliff
on the old Florence & Cripple Creek
roadway and fell a. distance of fifty