The Elbert County tribune., 1919-12-12
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.


protection of neglected children and
dumb animaIs Many have aided in
the pnst with marked success in com
batting this abuse and have secured
much satisfaction In protecting the
helpless. This is accomplished with
very little time and trouble and the
friendship gained many times rcpays
for enmity incurred Their authority
is ample and backed by the bureau at
tile state capitol. The bureau belongs
TO the people OF the state. and it is II
duty of all good citizens to see that
Its provisions are carried out in every
community.
The menace of tuberculosis is shown
wildly In little health movie which
is now running in Denver and which
Will be shown in every section of Colo
RADIO. The picture and movie slides are
being used to boost the campaign OF
the Colorado Public Health Association
which is raising xl50OOO TO be used In
this state to fight tuberculosis and to
promote public health. The entire
state has organized to back this cam.
paign to build up Colorado by better
stnte Enthusiastic reports from every
section show that the people are arous-
ing to the need which exists for work
of the kind which has been undertaken
by the State Health Association.
T.. ID. Smith, agricultural agent for
La Plata county, has announced that
in the near future he will conduct
throughout the country II series of one
day institutes. nj which he will in
struct the ranchers in farm manage
ment and the keeping OF their ac-
counts, many of them desiring infor-
mntion on n simple system of book
keeping in particular. MS they have had
much difficulty in the past of making
out tlieir income tax returns.
In one of the first convictions re
turned under the Colorado truss .aw,
James NJ. Campbell, Frank Theobal1,
f. W. Patterson. T. s. Barnes and
Thomas McCnrfy. members of tie NiS-
ter Plumbers Association. We're foiIn
guilty in the District Court ut Colo
RADIO Springs of the charge of ,nl-iw-
ful combination in restraint of trade.
1t is ilie first decision in the plumb
ing trust cases which have been in the
courts since November, 1917.
The rnlue of all livestock on the
farms in Colorado in 1919, as estinat-
ed by the Bureau of Crop Estimates
of the United States Department of
Agriculture. was SlT2,75l.0O0. Asses
sors' reports show increases this year
in practically all classes of livestock,
so that indications are that the State
Cooperative Crop Reporting Service
will find the value of livestock ON
farms January l, 1920, to be close 10
200,00O,OO0.
Struck by mammoth rock while at
work In the Sopris mine OF the Colo-
RADIO Fuel and Iron Company, Anrrnio
Saln, coal miner, 30 years old, was
instantly killed The rock, weighing
several tons, struck Salla on the held,
crushing 1t to u pulp and scattering
brains about the working place. rhe
lower portion of the body was also
badly crushed. The dead man leaves
widow and two children at Sopr's.
Grard Douglas, colored y,iih,
charged with statutory offense fol
lowing his alleged attnck upon Miss
Lutte Marshall, Sophomore student
In Colorado College, on the night of
Nov. II, will be taken to Colorado
Springs for trial on the first day cf
the January term of the District court.
the January term of the District Court.
Court requesting his delivery into the
court on that day.
Florence McGlochlin. 14-year-old
daughter. of Mr.. and Mrs. A. ]. Me
Glochiin, lost her voice through fright
when she and three companions met
four mountain lions on Potato hill, two
miles east of Hot Sulphur Springs. She
was taken home and put under the
cnre of DR. F. Il. Bernard and recov-
cred the power of speech the next day
The farm products of Montrose
county again came to the front when
John Howell of Bostwick Park, with
exhibits In the International grain and
hay show at Chicago, captured sew
eral of the most important prizes, in
the wheat and oats entries mainly.
These same exhibits recently took the
main prizes at international exposi-
tons at Kansas City and Wichita, Kan
Due To the stimulus of the two
weeks campaign to secure jobs fos ex-
service men, employers in Denver AID
Colorado have responded to rhe call
to such an extent that n job is Na.-
ing for every Yank who is qualified TO
fill it, according to reports received at
the rehabilitation bureau in rhe
Chamber OF Commerce building in Den
yer.
A new Boulder beet sugar company
capitalized at S2,0O00O0. has filed in