The Elbert County tribune., 1919-03-14
COLORADO Nxws NOTES.

| dication that even this vast sum Will
be raised several millions of dollars
before the final sum Is reached. Ap-
proximateiy 10000 acres Of beets had
been signed up for by the Great West
ern Sugar Company In northern Colo
RADIO and 1t is possible that the final
f1gures will reach 100000. Basing the
beet crop. however, only on 100000
acres and with an average Of twelve
tons to the acre, on the $40 flat rate
ton to be paid by the Great Western
Sugar Company, there will be 1.6S0,OO0
tons of beets or $16,S00,00O paid to the
| farmers
The greatest building boom In the
history of Pueblo is in sight. NUM-
cipal improvements are contemplated
when spring comes. Two new paving
district petitions have been filed with
the city commissioners and two petit
tions asking for the creation Of two
other paving districts are being cir
culated among the property owners
and the response IL such that there is
no doubt but that they Will be included
in the work this spring.
An employment bureau for the re-
turned soldiers and sailors has been
opened at Denver In the Knights Of
Columbus building, by the National
Catholic War Council. under Whose
auspices all X. of @. work IL carried
on. 1t Is open to soldiers and sailors
of any creed and every effort will be
made to secure employment for them.
No fees will be charged. Lieut.. James
b. Kenney, recently returned from the
service, Is In charge of the bureau.
A proposal for bond Issue for
$4,000 is likely to be submitted to the
taxpayers of Logan county shortly in
the interest of dormitory for the
Logan County Industrial Arts High
school, The need of dormitory has
been apparent for long time, and it
Is declared that many of the rural
children are prevented from attending
the high school because of the lack OF
accommodations for lodging in the
city of Sterling.
State superintendent of schools has
offered bronze tablet to the school
showing the largest holding per capita
OF War Savings stamps. 1t Is said that
Pittsburg, Pa, and Breckenridge, Colo,
pupils are running meek and neck"
with S75 to the pupil. Mrs. Melissa
Hayden, superintendent of schools of
Summit county, Colorado, is confident
that the Breckenridge schools will
prove to be the winner Of the bronze
tablet
Finding little to do since the cessa-
f,f ha
Gil of Defense of Trinidad has formed
itself into Community Welfare
League. The business men of the city
have set out to raise 81 900 as a sink
ing fund necessary to equip the head
| quarters of the organization. Late
reports show that considerably more
| than the desired amount has been
| raised
Capt. James f. Abbott, son of Mrs.
Eugene H. Abbott of Greeley, has been
appointed attache of the United States
to Japan with headquarters at Toxic.
| For six months Capt Abbott has been
stationed at Washington as military
| intelligence officer and previous to
this had been sent to China, Japan
| and the Far East to investigate con-
ditions there.
| Mrs. Dora Belle Johnson, wife Of
| W. D. Johnson, proprietor of hotel
Mt Fountain, thirteen miles south of
| Colorado Springs, was drowned when
she accidentally fell Into an abandoned
| well In the rear of the hotel. There
| was only four feet of water in the
! well and the woman fell head fore
most. burying her head in the mud.
The next few days will determine
| whether there is any oil in Pueblo
| county. The drillers operating at the
well of the Overland-Big Eight, five
miles west of Pueblo, have gone
through the red beds and claim to be
in the cap rock, which is just above
the supposed oll-bearing sands.
Murl Edminston of Montrose, con-
fessed slayer of Vincent Corado of
Telluride, was taken from Jail at Tel
luride, and at n night session of court
in Grand Junction was sentenced by
Judge Black to twenty to twenty-five
years in prison. Edminston, after kill
ing the Telluride man and hiding the
body, stole his automobile and several
hundred dollars in cash that he car
| ried
Mrs. r. r. Rose Is being held in the
county Jail at Sterling on charge of
stealing an automobile. The car,
which belonged to E. L. Harris of Will
lard, was stolen from in front of the
postoffice in Sterling on the night of
| Feb. 10. Mrs. Rose was captured in
Holyoke Her husband was also ar
rested at the same time in Fleming.
and is also being held.
Seventy-eight new members were