The Elbert County tribune., 1919-05-16
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper union News Service

lOlOrhdO Springs ana wealthy real
estate man, committed suicide by in
haling poison fumes. His body was
found by neighbor.
Miss May Henderson, a clerk In the
office of the State Board of Charities
and Corrections. was appointed secre-
tary of the State Board OF Pardons by
Governor Shoup.
A bond issue of 100000 was voted
by the Brighton school district at the
election for the purpose of erecting an
eight-room addition to the present
grade school building
Price of food took n sudden leap up
ward at Loveland and reached high
water mark. At Farmers Union pie
social, pie made by the belle of the
evening finally sold for s21.
Neil Bogie, so, of GoIdfield, was
Killed and Harry Jones, a fellow work.
man, was badly injured by prema-
fure explosion in the 1,S00-foot level
of the indicator mine at Victor.
n. X. McCreery, manager of the
Longmont plant of the Great Western
Sugar Company, announces that the
company viii build $4,000 dormitory
for the use of the employees of the com
pany during the coming summer.
G. C. Lamb, acting president of the
Western Slope Livestock and Fair AS
sociatlon, has called a meeting of the
board OF directors of that organization
to meet in Grand Junction May 23rd.
The fair will be held September 23rd
to 26th.
The Holly Sugar Company of Grand
Junction, according to the annual re-
port of It's president, A. E. Carlton,
registered profit of $50.9iS5O during
the year ending March 3lst. The to-
tai volume of business for the year
was given at slightly less than $780,
900
Five men were Injured, three of
them seriously, in the collapse of
new concrete bridge over irrigation
ditch No. 2, nine miles northeast of
Greeley The men were removing the
scaffolding when the structure crum-
bled and they We're caught and buried
In the ruins.
Were other crops not to be consider
spell prosperity for the Longmont sec
tion this year The acreage is the
largest by far in the history of the
Longmont factory, being more than
10000 acres, and all indications are
the crop viii be a hummer.
clifford S. Davis, the only Fremont
county man as far as known who has
4
Guerre for extraordinary valor in ac-
tion, has arrived at his Cafion City
home after twenty-three months of ac-
tive service attached to both the
French and American armies.
One of the Oldest buildings in Lead
Vile. the Hyman Isaacs clothing, dry
goods and household furnishings store,
has collapsed. The building was erect
ed in 1879 and was Mt first of logs,
being one of the first two-story log
business buildings in Leadville 1t was
remodeled about 1882 and a portion
was bricked.
Mich Obroderich and George Guicich,
Montr0se, were arrested there and
their grips searched. They were sus-
pected of knowing something about
the murder of FraEk A. Carlson, of
Denver, in Telluride The men were
arrested by Sheriff GIL and they stat
ed they had come direct from Silver
ton and were going to Bingham Canon
Utah, to work. Obroderich had q
bloody handkerchief and revolver in
his grip and Guicich had pair oi
brass knuckles.
Sixty years ago this spring, John II
Gregory discovered the elusive ant
much-rumored gold of Colorado in &
gulch between Central City and Black
Hawk. Sixty years ago the news was
spreading around the Clear Greek dis
trict, percolating into the villages or
the site of Denver and beginning the
great Colorado gold rush.
The union miners In the Silvertor
district of the San Juan basin unani
mously voted to reject the proposed
reduction of % cents a day In wages
and an increase of % cents day fol
board. amounting to 80 cents n day
less money, when they met to consider
and vote on such a request from the
mine owners. The prevailing wage IL
$3.50 for an eight-hour day.
Miss Helen Dove has accepted po
sition as lookout for the forestry serv
ice and will spend the summer on Dew
MS Head mountain, forty miles south
west of Denver. 1t will be her duty to
report forest fires In the surrounding
area of 1000 square miles, which in
cIudes Pixies peak. Miss DOVE is the
first woman lookout to be chosen fol
this important work In the Colorado
Wyoming district.
The women of Breckenridge yanked
Summit county over the top in the