The Elbert County tribune., 1919-10-31

from December to 10, 1919.
Colorado will receive S1,755.T59.17
from the United States government for
good roads under the provision of the
1916 law providing federal aid for post
al routes.
The united population of Montrose
are preparing to stage the largest cee-
bration in their history on Tuesday,
Nov IL. in honor of the signing of the
armistice.
A twenty-four-hour endurance test
for motorcycles is to be held in north
ern Colorado Nov. 1 and 2. 1t starts
promptly at noon Nov. and continues
until noon the following day.
while being tubbed at the Phi Gam
ma Delta fraternity house, Junius Day.
freshman student In the University OF
Colorado. was severely scalded by d
stream of boiling hot water.
Louis Kern, 7S years old, vice presl-
dent of the First National Bank of
Windsor. pioneer farmer and landown-
er of the Poudre valley, was found
dead in his bed at his home in Wind
sor.
State Senator Harry Casaday, chair
man of the committee to push the issu-
ance of S25,OOO,OOO for good roads in
Colorado, outlined the proposed route
of the roads before the Boulder Lions
club.
Edward Pring. George Snare and
VIM c. Johns were found guilty of In
voluntary manslaughter 'bys.a jury in
the second hearing of the Samuel Hunt
murder case in the District Court at
Colorado Springs.
The trial of John S. Little. charged
with having killed Richard Pulian at
the Leyner Engineering Works. near
Littleton, on Aug. 6. terminated when Il
Jury. after three hours deliberation,
found Little guilty of second degree
murder The penalty is from five to
twenty years in the penitentiary.
Three small sons of Joe Stain, Il
farmland. were burned to death near
Greeley when the house in which 4
Stain family lived on the ranch of w.
NJ. Wilson was destroyed by fire. The
father and mother were working in n
field near. by at the time. Wilson was
cue the children.
Early reports indicate that the acre
age planted to winter wheat in Colo
RADIO this fall will be considerably
short of that planted last fall, partly as
n result of the poor yields obtained in
many districts last year and partly be-
cause of fear that the price of wheat
will go down after the government
price guarantee Is removed.
The proposed Improvement of an
eleven-mle strip OF the ColOrado-to-
Gulf road has met with the approval
of the New Mexico highway commits
sion, according to a report sent to j.
S. Bright, district engineer of the fed
eral bureau of public roads at Denver.
The estimated cost of the work is S93-
200. The strip which is to be improved
is to be surfaced with crushed stone. 1t
is near Clayton, Union county, n. NJ
Gov. o. Fl. Shoup declared that no
salary increases for statehouse em-
| ployes would be recommended to the
Legislature in his call for an extra ses-
sion. There are no funds available for
such increases at this time, he pointed
out. Statehouse employees in a formal
| petition had requested the governor to
| include in his call recommendation
| for increase of pay of all state EN-
| ployes now receiving not more than
| S1OO a month.
| Fifty farmers of Nucla community
! have set S15 as the minimum price that
they would accept for their crop of hay
| this winter
The demand for sugar in Denver is
so great that the supply of that com
modify on hand at the plant of the
Great Western Sugar Company al
Brighton never exceeds a truckload, ac-
cording to officials of that organzas
tion. The shortage has been so acute,
they say, that the wholesale and job
ping houses of the capital city are taxi
ing the entire output from the Brigh-
ton factory. Local dealers in turn are
buying back from Denver
Oren Flinde, aged 20, was convicted
of first degree murder at Bouider after
the jury had been out forty-fiNe min
utes. The jury, recommended Sife i'm
| ihe souih WIS on triai
FOR Staying his father and a ranch
hand employed by the latter on Sept.
| IL, at Niwot, Colo. The trouble had its
start several days before the killing.
when the father killed dog belonging
TO the boy. The latter brooded over
me matter for several days, and then
shot the father and the ranch hand
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The slowly advancing price Of silver
is encouraging much prospecting in the
old silver producing districts of Colo