The Elbert County tribune., 1919-07-25
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

tinnance OF the body through the ex
piratlon Of the appropriation made by
the last Legislature. The woman. who
Mock, ~ years old. was arrested wllen
the Officers raided the residence nj
300 Birch street, mile east of ths
Country club district, in Denver Two
stills, other paraphernalia incidenta
to the business and sixteen gallons OF
whisky were confiscated at the house
in Birch street. The other still wa.
found in the rear Of the residence OF
William Phillips. 1035 Julian street
Denver.
THE Good Ship Minncqua" is afloat
and taking cargo aboard for her firs
cruise in the Pacific ocean as mem
ber of the United States Merchant ma
rine. The Minnequa is Pueblo's Vie
tory ship and her name would have
been pueblo" il it were not for the
fact that there Is already u battleshiI
In the United States navy by thai
name. The ship was christened by
Mrs. J. G. Brooking of Pueblo and the
name 'Minnelua" was given 1t because
of the beautiful Lake Minnequa at
Pueblo A bottle of water from Lake
Minnequa was broken over the bow OF
the ship In the christening exercises.
The city of Greeley is to increase the
storage capacity of its reservoirs sc
per cent by raising the walls of the
twin basins five feet. The cityt wa
ter supply is brought through forty
mile pipe line from a diversion dam
situated in the Poudre canon, sixteen
miles west of Fort Collins. The local
reservoirs hold 100000 gallons and
the rapidly growing city consumes
nearly 3,500,000 gallons a day. The re-
built reservoirs will hold slightly more
than l5,00c000 gallons,
The 1,200 doctors, dentists and drug
gists of Colorado and Wyoming who
have not yet made their narcotic re
turn to the department of internal rev
enue must do so Immediately, accord
ing to G. OBJ. Berry, chief field depu-
ty of the department. After the expir-
alton of the time limit, July 80. any
doctor registering prescriptions or any
pharmacist filling them who has not
complied with the law will be Liable to
five years in the penitentiary and
fine of $1,000, he said
Charles Graves, 43 years old, a
rancher at Shaffer's Crossing, a few
miles south of Golden. was shot by
Wade Williams, 80 years old, a farm
hand following an argument over the
latter's work on the farm. Two bal
lets lodged in Graves chest. Williams
surrendered to Sheriff Jones of Col
den and declared, according to the
sheriff, that he shot Graves because
the latter drove him about the farm
like slave"
An auto accident which resulted in
the death of Emil Hedstrom, widely
known rnncher, and caused injury 10
three others, occurred when the auto
in which the four were riding turned
over. The car was travelling ut high
rate of speed, when one of the tires
burst and flew off. The car turned n
complete somersault This is the sec
ond fatal accident that has occurred
near Haxtun recently.
A 60 to 65 per cent, beet crop is es
timated for Boulder County by Agri
culturlst II. H. Simpson, who said thai
conditions We're so improved that he
felt compelled to revise his original
estimate of a 40 per cent. yield. The
webworm, which has been causing
much damage to the beets, has dis
natural causes.
The real es' bureau of the Civic
and Commcrcl,i Association of Den
yer has been asked to present recon-
mendations to the board of directors
with regard to the proposed "Presi.
dents summer home" on Mount Fal
con. This action was taken after re
quest was made by John Brisben
Walker for consideration of further ac
rion.
Colorado's wheat and corn crops this
year will exceed last years crops by
mates by the Colorado cooperative
crop reporting service, based ON acre.
age returns sent in by the county as
SCISSORS, in accordance with the new
agricultural statistics law adopted by
the last Legislature. These estimates
place the wheat crop this year ut 49,
627.000 bushels for both spring and
winter wheat, as compared with 49,
335, 900 bushels last year; and the corn
crop at 23,14s,000 bushels as against
20.5S5,000 bushels in 1918.
Better roads boosting received new
encouragement upon advices that the
State Highway Commission had allot.
ted 100000 to Mesa county for road
| construction The amount, it is un.
derstood, Will be equally divided be.
tween the Palisade concrete road and
the proposed concrete road between
Grand Junction and Fruita. The Pal
sade road has been under construction