The Elbert County tribune., 1918-03-08
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

The dwelling Of L. H Mortensen al
Sanford was destroyed by fire
Grover celebrated the laying of tn,
corner stone of its new $4,000 schoo
building.
The Benskin farm, near Kersey
consisting of 100 acres, was sold fol
s25,OoO.
There was not a single death from
contagious disease in Denver il
February, according to the report OF
the department of health.
Another contingent of 1876 men OF
Colorados draft left Denver for Camp
Funston to take their places in the
ranks to fight Prussianism.
Mrs. ]. V. (Fanchon) Rose was
taken to the Brighton Jail last week
and held as witness in the case. set
for March 6, growing out of the No
Ian robbery at road house.
Mike Rossi of Denver, was arrested
by Deputy Sheriff Sedgwick, neal
Grover and his automobile and thirty
one cartons of whiskey and sack
filled with bottled beer were confis-
Gated. Rossi was taken to Greeley and
placed in Jail
Colorado's activities for entertain
ment and protection of soldiers are to
be conducted by a committee on war
camp community service operating CO.
operatively with the State and Nation
al Councils of Defense and with the
National Commission on Training
Camp activities.
After conferences with the State
Council of Defense and the special
committee appointed by Governor
Gunter to investigate the conditions
existing in southwestern counties of
the state because of long freight
hauls and consequent high food prices,
John D. Shanahan will make a com
rlete report on the conditions to the
United States Food Administration
Grain Corporation.
With testimony divided between
suicide and murder as the theory of
the death of James C. Houf. engineer
in a Denver hotel, coroner's jury OF
six brought in a verdict fastening the
crime of muruer upon some person
unknown to the authorities. Houf
was found in furnace of live Goals
early Friday morning. March l, by
John Cusack, night clerk at the hotel,
Twelfth and Larimer streets
Farmers in seventeen counties have
responded to the patriotic call sent
out by the Colorado immigration Bu-
reau to help crop stimulation by en-
couraging the tillage of all vacant
tracts this summer. AS a result of
this campaign, instituted early in the
winter by Edward d. Foster, immi.
grafton commissioner, the bureau
completed the first list of available
the tenants rent free.
The United States Supreme Court
in Washington handed down final
decision in the Denver Union Water
Company rate case that definitely
ends the water controversy of twenty
years. The court sustains the injunc-
tion granted by Judge Lewis in the
United States District Court of Colo
RADIO. This enjoined the city of Den
yer from enforcing an ordinance de-
claring a 20 per cent reduction in
water rates. The decision sustains
the findings of Special Master w. ]
Chinn, that the valuation of the water
company's plant. May 1, 1914, was $13,
415,S99.
Never before has the demand for
increased production in agriculture
been so imperative. The operation
of the selective service law and en-
listments in the various branches of
the service have materially reduced
the number of employees on the
FARMS" declares Governor Gunter in
a proclamation designating the week
of March 1928 as special registration
week for the United States Boys
Working Reserve. and urges all able
bodied young men between the ages
of 16 and 81 years, and not regularly
employed, to enlist for their summer
vacation in this branch of the service.
Administration forces among the
United Mine Workers declared the in
ternal troubles in the district were
increased instead of decreased, with
the resignation of John r. Lawson as
president of the Colorado State Fed
eratiCI of Labor. Lawson and Ed. L.
Doyle, represent the anti-administra-
ton forces among the miners, and
their efforts resulted in the organiza-
tion of new miners union at Pueblo
Frank H. Mulligan, former Denver
city detective, was the first defend
ant tried on the charge of highway
robbery in connection with the hold
up of Mrs. Harry T. Nolan at the
Model roadhouse Jan. 2. A venire of
forty jurymen was summoned to ap-
pear in the District Court at Brighton
March G. when the trial was scheduled
to begin.