The Elbert County tribune., 1919-03-07
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

.illery training school and S250OO0 in
equipment will bt, sent to Fort Col
ins. The school will open with the fall
.erm in September and the work will
DC compulsory \ certain number of
lours n week With all men except SEN
ors. This action of the War Depart
nent follows conferences between
President Lory and A. A. Edwards.
president of the board, with Brigadier
General Danforth and Col. Thomas
| Sloan, and n recent visit of inspection
10 the school by Colonel Sloan. The
battery equipment for the school will
consist of five guns, including how
itzer and French 7J, two tractors,
two trucks and ninety-slx horses. with
a number OF noncommissioned officers
and instructors
Five employees of the Denver & Rio
Grande, Walter E. Robertson. Ira Da-
Wis, Harold Foster, Ray H. Bartlett
and Alva Brown, are prisoners in the
county jail at Grand Junction on
charge of robbing a merchandise car
of d large amount of whisky December
18th. Robertson. 1t is said, confessed
y,
others. The men are charged with bur
glarizing car of whisky en- route to
California. According TO the confes-
sion of Robertson the car was entered
through an end door, the head was
knocked out of barrel Of whisky and
the men carried the whisky away in
milk cans. later bottling it.
IL Iii -
the practice OF dentistry in Colorado
was the subject of Il lively debate
when efforts were made to amend GER
tain of its provisions. Senator w. Il.
O'Brien, who introduced an identical
bill in the Senate, took the lead in sup
port of the measure. He Is dentist
The bin amends in number of re
spects the present law regulating den
tistry, bringing under It's provisions
dental hyglenists as well as regularly
licensed dentists, and providing legal
machinery for procedure In cases
where licenses are revoked by the
State Board of Dental Examiners.
DIR. George A. Norlln. for the past
two years acting president OF the Uni
versity of Colorado in the absence of
President Farrand, was elected prcsi-
dent By the board OF regents of the
university, filling the vacancy caised
by DIR. Farrand's resignation. The
resignation of DIR. Farrund came rs a
result of his appointment by President
Wilson as national director of the
presence in Washington.
Clifford Sproules, aged 81, negro,
must hang for Staying w. W Green,
turnkey at the Pueblo county jail, Oc
tober 10th, when Sproules endeavored
to make his, escape from the jail.
Green died after being shot twice by
the negro in the corridor of the jail A
jury brought in n verdict of first de.
gree murder, with death penalty rec
commended.
Unconvinced that the plea OF priv
legged occasion" should exempt unscru
pulous newspapers from accountability
for malicious attacks upon the chnrac
ter of individuals, the Colorado Sen
ate gave It's final approval, on third
reading, to the Andrew libel bill. Tht
measure was adopted by vote of .
to Is and went to the House withou.
the emergency clause.
The Allen bill to submit constitu
tional amendment exempting the prop
crty of civil war veterans of the Unioi
army or navy from taxation sto this
extent of $1,000, has passed the Hous,
as was also the Colgate ,bill to estab
| Rsh a department of social diseases IL
| the state board of health.
The In Junta Industrial Association
staged u record get-together meeting
recently More than 100 were present
| Plans We're discussed for the better
| ment of the city. Among these is one
for a new high school building, which
would include an auditorium suitable
for public gatherings.
Blue-sky legislation to be considered
by the Senate is confined to one meas
ure. 1t is Senate bill No 3 and was
reported out of the judiciary commit
tee by Senator Henry o. Andrew
| chairman. The bill bears the name.
of Senators Knauss, Peterson, Dun.
klee, Tobin and Andrew. The measure
Is a composite bill representing wha'
the committee believes to be the best
| features contained In several submit.
ted by Republicans and Democrats. II
is not designed to Interfere with spec
ulative securities that have merit, bu'
does contain provisions that will driv.
the "wildcatter" from the state and
provide penitentiary terms for those
who misrepresent facts.
The establishment in Colorado of an
immense hospital for discharged sol.
diers by the United States public
health service is an assured fact. Word
has been received from Washington by
the Officers of the Colorado Develop.
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