The Elbert County tribune., 1919-03-14
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

RoutHer since lob3, ~ uedu tfoH pieu-
Inonia. He WAS one of the largest In
dlviduai property owners In the city.
Former Governor Elias NJ. Ammons
has been selected as president TO head
Denvers next Stock Show, at the an
nuaI meeting of the directors held In
Denver
OIL excitement caused by the spud-
ding In OF three wells in the Round
Butte field, west of Carr. has caused
M unusual number of visitors and
workmen to 90 to that locality.
The annual value of Colorado's farm
output has Increased more than 125
per cent since 1910. yet less than
one-fourth of the arabic land In the
state Is now In cultivation.
A party of members OF Congress.
nnny accompanied by their wives,
have left New York for visit to the
Panama canal. Among them will be
Representatives Reavis. Nebraska, and
Taylor, Colorado.
Eleven hundred Jobs for returned
soldiers and sailors have been OBJ
tanned through the Rocky Mountain
Auto Trades Association. This state
ment was made by Harrison Gold
smith, secretary of the association at
Pueblo.
Thomas Wilson, lenser on the
Portland mine at Victor, was serious
Iy and possibly fatally injured when
he fell forty feet down stope ut the
S0O-foot level, fracturing his skull. He
was taken to the district hospital. VIII
sons wife and five children live in
suburb OF Hollywood
The $4,000 Carnegie public library
dedication was attended by 500 people
from Florence and adjacent communi-
ties. The building site, consisting of
three lots on the corner of Pixies Peak
and Second streets, is the gift of Mrs.
A. r. Gumaer, and the 5000 books are
the gift of the Florence public library.
Western slope beet growers, at
meeting at Grand Junction, served no
tice on the Western Sugar Company
that the $40 flat beet scale must be
granted ut once II the company ex-
poets any beets ON the slope this sea-
son. The growers declared otherwise
they would put the acreage into wheat.
A posse from counties adjoining
Denver are securing the roads and
hills In search of two bandits who,
after pillaging the village of Mount
Denver, blew up the postoffice, rlfled
the contents of the safe and set fire
to several buildings, the blaze threat
ening to destroy the entire town.
Teachers salaries. vocational edu-
cation, after-war school finances, re-
construction in education and the new
school legislation will be among tho
subjects to be discussed at the super
intendents' and principals spring con-
ference of the Colorado Education AS
sociation In Denver ut the East Den
yer High school, April IS and 10, ac-
cording to an announcement from
Supt. G. e. Brown of the Greeley
board of directors.
Posing as a colonel in the United
States army, man giving the name
OF Lloyd Garrison of Boston won the
heart and almost succeeded in marry
ing Mrs Louise Mcpherson of Colo
rado Springs after a brief courtship.
A marriage license obtained at the
county clerks office spoiled the plans
of Garrison. The police did not like
the cut of his uniform and hailed him
,-f xvhA I'm caI
that Garrison Is not his right name
and that he is not colonel. He is
being held for further investigation.
A 100000 corporation is in process
OF formation by the farmers of Eaton
to be known us the Eaton Potato
Flour Factory" 1t is planned to use
all cull potatoes in the manufacture of
flour. and the mill to be erected will
have capacity of 10000 pounds OF
flour every twenty-four hours and will
employ nearly 100 men and women.
A fire In the coal mine at Somerset
has been burning since Feb. 25, and
has not yet been placed under control.
for Colorado lg on the scene, and a
special group of eight Colorado Fuel
K Iron Company employees, trained in
mine rescue work, has been sent from
the southern coal fields Of that COM
pnny.
"Arbltrntion is not a substitute for
preparedness, but only an adjunct to
it." Gen. Leonard Wood declared in an
address at Colorado Springs. "The ma
ton which is organized and strong
can arbitrate more successfully than
one which is unarmed. Belgium trust
ed to treaty but the Swiss trusted
to organized national defense, and the
boche did not even try to go that way.
The next time France and Belgium
win be ready. WIN we?"
A big Irrigation enterprise was