The Elbert County tribune., 1919-06-27

counties of the state in the percentage
OF Its land In cultivation, has approx
rnateIy 2.300 farms. with total of
Gii.T31 acres This county has approx
imatciy 100000 acres OF wheat for the
1919 harvest
George w. Olinger OF Denver was
elected president of the Colorado State
Sunday School Association for the
coming year at the closing session of
the annual convention OF that organiza-
tion In Pueblo. Twelve hundred dele
gates attended the meeting.
Lake county, Colorado's premier
mineral producing county, shipped met
ais to the value of $410,000,000 to the
end of 1918. Silver leads in value,
with production worth approximate
ly $184, 10000 and zinc stands second,
with about ss0,000,O00
An exceedingly rich strike of gold
and silver ore has just been reported
In the. Golconda mine in Horseshoe
basin, fifteen miles up Hanson creek
from Lake City. There is, according
TO the report, over six feet Of ore,
three feet of which will run from
$1,000 to 5000 per ton, about equally
In gold and silver.
An important strike of good ore In
n large ore shoot has been made at a
depth of 1000 feet in the yindlcator
mine on Bull hill ut Victor. The dis
coyery Is in section of the mine
ehich has not been worked for several
years. 1t is believed that the discov-
cry Is the Old Lille vein that yielded
so richly years ago.
Hurled sixty feet from the side car
of motorcycle when southbound
Union Pacific train crashed into the
mathne in which she was riding five
miles east Of Loveland, Mrs. William
Tracy, was instantly killed, and Mrs.
Verne Tippits, driver of the vehicle
received injuries which 1t is feared
may cause her death.
Albert Bevan, 10, and Frank McCar-
thy, Ii, rescued Jack Simpson, 10,
from drowning at Colorado Springs. 1t
was Bevan's fourth life-saving exploit
and McCarthy's second. The Simpson
boy, too, participated In the event for
the second time, as Bevnn pulled him
out of reservoir last summer after
he had sunk for the third time.
Believing that male juvenile delin-
qucncy and incorrigibility are largely
due to nasal malformations, diseased
or enlarged adenoids and tOnsils,
Judge Karl w. Farr of the Teller
county court, has decided that surgi-
cal operations will effect more reforms
than the imposition of sentences to
penal or semi-penal institutions.
Compulsory voting and minimum
e.. ~. A..A. ,,.n
two additional matters that Gov. Oil
yer II. Shoup viii be asked to include
in~the call for special session Of the
Legislature, to be assembled for the
primary purpose of ratifying the wom-
an suffrage amendment to the consti-
tuition Of the United States.
Colorado's public school fund has
produced in the last six months more
than 100000, which is to be distrib-
uted July to the sixty-three counties
of-the stnte on the basis of school pop
ulatiOn for use of the county schools.
This is the largest sum in the history
OF the state which has been produced
and distributed in this manner, the
previous high figure having been the
1921, 900 distributed Jan. last The
$685. $50. that being the total June /
The sum to be distributed next month
is made up of the interest on the total
fund. rentals on state lands and inter
est on deferred payments paid into the
fund by buyers of state land.
Boys and girls pig-raising clubs
have now been organized by County
Agent NJ. Il. Knapp and his assistants
I'm practically every large town in
Weld county. Clubs are In existence
ut Greeley, Kersey, Johnstown, Ault
Eaton, Windsor ard Platteville. More
than 100 pure-bred pigs have been
purchased by the club members.
George Engel. pioneer Douglas coun
ty rancher committed suicide by hang
ing near his home in Lower Lake
eulch, about eight miles southwest
from Castle Rock Members of the
family being unable to find the father
called for assistance from Castle Rocl
and, after untiriag search, he was 10
Gated in an unfrequented gulch, hang
Ing from limb of tree.
George Bosko. convicted of killing
Elton c. Parks and VIII I. Hunter OF
the Rye road near Pueblo on the after
noon of April IL. was sentenced to be
hanged during the week beginning
Sept %. Tom Bosko. brother of the
doomed man, was given life imprison
ment. 1t is likely that appeal to the
Supreme Court will be made. The at
.tol.neys have sixty dnys in which to
file their bill of exceptions.
Hughie Burns, miner 35 years old
committed suicide in sensational
manner by shooting himself through
the heart at dance hall at Altman