The Elbert County tribune., 1919-07-25
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
ve4tsrn Newspaper Union New. service

IN fulO Alto, tallI-, HccofulDR W incs-
sagcs received.
Michigan, Colorado and Utah show
big increases In beet sugar prospects.
Forecasts show Colorados crop MS 2,
02a,O00 tons. an Increase of $4,000 /;
aud Utah's 1.20S,O00 tons, an increase
of 205,OO0 TONS
All the jefferson county men who
served IN Uncle Sam's military or nav
nj forces during the war were guests
OF the city of Golden and people came
from all section of the county to at
tend the "Welcome Home" day cele-
bratIon held there.
Greeley business men will furnish
funds to provide life guard and safe
ty equipment for Seeleys lake, the
scene Of several recent drownings, dur
ing the remainder of the bathing sea-
son. They have also inaugurnted
campaign to construct large concrete
bathing pool in one of the city parks
which viii cost at least $4,000.
Louis Mantz, 21 years old, of Colo
RADIO Springs, was arrested at Mont
rose by Sheriff ]. II. Gil and con
fessed to stealing the car he was driv-
ing to visit his sister, critically Ill in
Lewiston, idaho The youth showed
telegram from his sister asking him to
visit her The sheriff took the car and
the boy back to Colorado Springs.
What is believed to be the first case
of typhus fever ever recorded in Den
yer caused the death of Harley VIII
son. decorator Wilson, who was 81
nf nd llp on
by the Denver Omnibus and Cab Com
rnny, became i'll June %. The attend
ing physicians recognized the disease,
hut were unable to stop its progress.
That the beet acreage tributary to
filc Windsor factory of the Great West
err Sugar Company has been reduced
from 1850 to about 10000 acres by
the ravages of web worms and drouth
is the estimate of factory officials.
The officials expect another attack
from the worms early in August ard
5inve made big preparations to fight
the pest.
A tent city, splendidIy decorated,
will be established at City park in
Denver us purt of the Colorado day
celebration on Aug. 1 this year. The
1Orly-tltird anniversary of the admis-
sion of Colorado to the sisterhood of
sstnies viii take the form OF "wel-
come home" for the returned fighting
men of the army and navy and for the
,vnr nurses
Mrs. Guy U. Hardy, wife of Repre-
sentative Hardy of the Third Congress
siona district of Colorado, has accept
a ~ a t,.,,
steel steamer. which Is to be launched
III Seattle Aug. 49, Mrs. Hardy will go
10 Seattle with her husband to attend
the convention of the National Edi-
torial Association, of which her hus-
band is president
Denver will begin the construction
of the south wing to the Colorado Mu-
scum of Natural History in City Park
shortly, as the result of a gift of $780,
600 for that purpose to the city by n
Denver citizen whose name is being
withheld for the present by Mayor
Dewey G. Bailey. The name of the
donor VIII be revealed at the formal
opening of the Civic Center Aug L.
Colorado will produce this year 49,
S27 900 bushels a wheat, compared
with "A production of 13,335,0 900 bushels
last year, according to estimates just
completed by the Colorado Co-opera
tive Crop Reporting service. The pro-
duction of corn, If conditions rema.l
favorable until harvest, will be approx
iniateiy 23, 14S,000 bushels, compared
with %, ,5S5, 900 bushels for 1918.
a team composed of seventeen men
of Coiorado's National Guard win rep
resent the State at the national rifle
matches to be held at Caldwell, n. j.,
the week of August 25.
The old car barn on CoIfaX avenue,
near Aurora, which thes tate highway
commission recently purchased from
the Trnmway company in Denver is
ilc'ng repaired for the storing of some
Of tlae army trucks now being received
from the War Department. Forty-sev-
tn trucks have been received thus far,
and viii be sent to the counties for
Use on county roads as soon as they can
be replaced with the dump bodies.
Mrs. Jennie Murphy. six months
bride of John j. Murphy, is in jail with
her husband charged With attempting
to aid him to escape from the county
jail. where he is held on a charge of
. forgery at Pueblo. IT is claimed that
Mrs. Murphy visited the jail and gave
her husband some bananas. Inside
each banana was hard steel saw Gu
pahc of cutting through the steel bars
In rapid time. Murphy hid the saws in
his cell, but the iailer in making his
rounds and searching the prisoners dis
covered them.
When Mrs. Hannah r. Wnlpole, wild
aw of the late Richard C. Walpole,
one Of the most prominent of Kansas
Citys pioneer business men. died in