The Elbert County tribune., 1919-08-16
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING EYENTs

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING EVENTS.
Lsrimer County Fair. I.ovciand. Aug.
Boulder County Fair. Longmont. Sept
Arkansas Valley Fair. Rocky Ford,
Merxan County Fair. Fort Morgan.
Rouft County Fair. Hayden. Sept. s-5.
Logan County Fair Sterling. Sept g.
Delta county Fair. Hotchkiss. Sept O.
Adams County Fair. brighton. Sept o.
Meffat County Fair. MaybeIl. Sept IL
Plateau Valley State Fair, colbrsn,
Baca County Fair. Springfield. Sept.
Trinidad-Las Animas County Fair.
Trinidad Sept. 1919.
conej2s County Fair. Mannssa. Sept.
Western Slope Fair. Montrose. Sept.
Central Community Fair. Greeley. Sept
Yuma County Fair. Yuma. Sept. 1920
PHILLIPS County Fair. Holyoke. Sept
saguache County Fair. saguache Sept
1920.
colorado-New Mexico Fair. Durango,
Colorado State Fair. Pueblo. Sept 22.
Grand County Fair. KremmlIns. Sept
crowley County Fair. Sugar City. Aug
Inter Mountain Live Stock and Fair
Grand Junction. Sept. 80 to Oct. 3.
Douglas County Fair. Castle Rock
Oct. 7-9.
Jim Wong, 70, committed suicide In
Denver by hanging himself In his laun
dry. This Is believed to he the second
suicide of n Chinese In the history of
Denver
Sol Exon. a floclmaster in the Echo
basin country, recently killed one of
the largest brown cinnamon bears ever
seen in that locality, and the animal
weighed 1000 pounds.
More than 1000 acres OF land in the
districts north of Greeley, centering
about Eaton. Pierce and Ault are be-
ing irrigated this year with water
raised from underground by electric
pumps.
The Western Slope Fair Association
has offered a purse of $io0 to the win
ncr of the tl,ree-day baseball touina-
ment which will be held this fall. The
Telluride, Delta, Olathe and Montrose
teams will play for the purse.
The fifth of a series of mysterious
fires In three weeks has led to the
belief that "firebug'' may be at large
in Lcadville. All of these mysterious
fires have occurred in the small hours
of fhe morning and in nearly every
case small building has burned.
The body of Eva Bingham, 20 years
old, of Mct;raw. ,Neb., was found in a
dry ditch one mile from Eaton. A
party with which the girl was last
seen is being sought by officers. Miss
bingham had evidently been beaten to
death, her head being crushed
Every part of Weld county has been
drcnched by henvy and repeated rains
recently Both the Platte and the Pou-
tire rivers have big flows of water and
''ll danger of damage to late crops such
as potatoes and cabbage resulting
fvom drouth Is believed to be past.
Alfred l.. Myers, former well
known resident of La Junta, was killed
by being thrown from horse. His
neck was broken. Myers went to the
postoffice and remained longer than
usunl; his wife went in search of him,
finding his dead body lying along the
roadside, with the horse standing near
by.
Earl p. Bennett. residing northwest
of La Juntu, is erecting what is
thought to be the largest silo west of
the Mississippi river. The silo will
have a capacity of 1000 TONS and is
being constructed of vitrified hollow
tile. In addition to this silo, Mr. Ben
nett has two others, each of 200 tons
capacity. He is engaged in sheep and
cattle feeding
With membership including men
who are leaders in their professions
from every part of the United States,
the lnterMountnln Country Club, or
ganizlng in Denver headquarters, is
prepared to tnke over on Sept 1 the
Mount Morrison hotel property in Bear
Creek canon. The club has secured the
resort buildings and an additional 200
acres, sufficient to give the organiza-
tion ample domain for its prospective
extensive outdoor activities.
DR. G.. X Olmsted of Denver was
chosen head physician of the Wood
men of the World by the board of
managers which held its regular quar-
terly meeting in Denver. He succeeds
DIR. ]. G. Twitchell, formerly of Port
land. Ore, who came to Denver three
years ago to take up the duties of the
position.
A sheepherder, Leon Rispoud. was
killed near Leadviile when the mule
he was riding became frightened at an
approaching automobile and fell,
throwing Rispoud under him. Rispoud
was driving pack train of four mules
when an automobile came down hill
In back of them, throwing tire train
fufn confusion