The Elbert County tribune., 1919-10-03

oct rs.
Miss Flora Brown, so years old. who
weighed 52J pounds, is dend In Denver
of heart trouble.
Half of the Colorado Fuel and Iron
Companys coal mines In Trinidad dis
trict are closed and total of over L.
500 mon are out OF work as result
Sixty-six school teaches of Fort Col
Inns will receive bonus of $50 eacii
on their years work, as a result of ac-
ti0D taken by the school board on a
petition asking for increases of % per
cent.
The budget for the city of Boulder
for next year, as submitted to the City
Council by Manager Salter. calls for
expenditures In the amount OF $120. .230.
which Is the estimated total of re-
ceipts.
Stock raising Is, next to mining.
Colorndo's oldest Industry The cen
sus bureau found the value of all do
last year close to 25,000000 or 400
per cent better than IN 1909.
s. Il. Carver, Ellston, Colo, so years
old, pioneer miner, was killed Mt the
Cresson mine, near Cripple Creek,
when two tons of loose rock fell on
him In a slope between the seventh
and eighth levels of the mine.
The town of Ault, Colo, has applied
80 the State Utilities Commission for IA
certificate of convenience and neces-
slty authorizing il to proceed with the
construction and operation of n muni-
cipnl light and power plant.
Tony Marmone of Mt Harris mar
rowly escaped death at Oak Creek
when he backed out Of the Newberry
garage into Oak creek He was caught
underneath the automobile and held
there several minutes before he was re-
leased.
Clinton W. Dexter, %, sugar fac
tory employe, Is dead from injuries
suffered when he was struck by an au-
tomobile nt Longmont. Dexter made
lcnp for passing truck In order to get
a ride home, when he missed the vehi-
Gle and stepped In front of nm nutomo-
bile coming IN an opposite direction.
The strike of the steel workers at
the canister quarries Mt Canon City
md the throwing out of work of con-
siderable number of men who are em-
I.ioved there. Canister is used as a flux
IN the making of steel and large quanti-
ties were furnished by the quarries
icre to the Mlnnequn plant
Threshing machines are busy in ev-
try section of Routt county and the
',icid of grain is far above expectation.
Notwithstanding the dryest season
Known for many years, Routt county
'ln'n;ains Its position as a section that
I ns never known a crop failure. In
u-anlity the yield is satisfactory. in
>.,i,,. cnses phenomenal
t;pvernor Oliver H. Shoup has an
rYrunced tiie names of three women
;li,pointees he has designated to repre-
sent Colorado nj the Farm Womens
National Congress at Hagerstown,
Md, on October 2S to 81. Tie APP
,jontees are Mrs. Harvey Van Horne
o. Dotsero. Mrs Charles A. Lory of
Fort Collins, md Mrs, Bell Hnrbert of
Mnnznnoln.
The Western Slope Pure Bred Stock
Association is the nnme of new or
tsmzation of stockmen which was or
gnnized at Montrose. The purpose of
this organization is to encourage the
production Of pure bred stock among
ihe counties of the western slope and
to cooperate among the members in
the growing and exhibiting of pure
i'rcd animals in the realm of live stock
The town of F'lagler will construct
ever two miles of cement sidewalks
lls fnll Nearly mile of concrete
e'rl,ing has already been ordered.
Many other civic improvements are un-
,lcr consideration by the Flagler Com
mcrclal Club.
ora Doak. 16-year-old son Of Mrs.
chnlon Moon, twenty-five miles south
rsl of Hugo, accidentally shot himself
chile ont hunting The gun was dis.
IN gad while the Young man was talk
mr. It out of the wagon, the bullet strik-
ing near the heart. Doak lived but
few minutes.
The Rabbit Ear Pass highway, a
''"cntv-tyyo mile strip sixteen feet wide
extending from Steamboat Springs to
connection with the highway to Den
yer has been completed after five
years of work, according to an an
iiouncement made mt the United States
hurenu In Denver.
Through an agreement between the
State Highway Commission and the
commissioners of Larimer county S3n,-
900 viii be spent in improving tho
iovelnnd canon road between Love
land and Estes Park 1t is expected TO
have the work completed before travel
TO the hills starts next year.
Failure on the part of former state
trcasursrs to make good the states de-
niand of a year ago for $4,000 al
legged shortage, discovered in the state