Elbert County tribune and Elbert County banner., 1920-06-25
Pithy News Notes
From All Parts of
Colorado

succeed V. c. Ledford. who has re-
signed.
Arthur c. McCiung, rancher living
| fifteen miles south of Yuma, died of
injuries received when he was kicked
by n horse recently.
Joseph Bell of Sterling, Colo, Bur-
lington bridge worker. was killed by
bolt of lightning near Lysite, Wyo.,
during thunderstorm.
George Fitch of Denver, who was for
several years teacher of science at the
Golden high school. has been appoint
ed superintendent of schools of Golden
to succeed w. ii. Simons.
| Two persons were killed and several
injured in wreck of Santa Fe pas
senger train No. near Rene, twelve
| miles south of La Junia. Over thirty
passengers were injured.
| John Trella, an employe OF the Wolf
Park mine, was fined 500 and costs
In Justice of the Peace Court AT Canon
City for having given away liquor at
the marriage celebration of his daugh-
ter.
Berthoud pass Is open to automobile
travel. Rabbit Ear pass is still showed
In and Is not expected 10 be opened for
a month. The Midland trail west OF
Krenmlng is passable, but in very
poor condition.
| The LoveIand Stock farms of Mount
Pleasant, Iowa, have purchased
white shorthorn heifer from the Max
.well-Miller Cattle Company of Steam
boat Springs to use in its show herd.
The price paid was $500.
Accidentally coming into contact
with n high voltage power line carry
ing 23,0OO volts of electricity. Austin
! ovid. 26 years old, Il resident of Grip
pie Creek. and an employe of the Ar
kansas Valley Light and Power Gem
pany, was instantly killed ut Cripple
| Creek
Members of the Colorado State Fire
| mems Association have filed with Sec
| retary of State james p. holland pc
tition. signed by $4,000 persons, for an
| initiative measure providing for the
installation of the double platoon
| system In all of the paid municipal
| fire departments IN Colorado.
The original plow used to lay out
trayals of incidents in the history OF
the colony were conspicuous in the
historical pageant during the two-day
| festivities in celebration of the found
ing of Greeley by Horace Greeley, fa-
nous editor of the New York Tribune.
| Miss Mable Gillings. age ~. of 3l1l
| West Tllirty-sixth Avenue, MAS .proba-
| bly, fatally injured, and five other Den
| yer girls were hurt when an automo-
| bile in which they We're riding was
overturned on the Denver and Colo
RADIO Springs road. Miss Gillings suf-
fered a fractured skull and broken
shoulder
Miss Carrie Shore, 20 years old, of
Parshall, Colo, was killed, and Miss
Hannah Pettingell of Hot Sulphur
Springs, Lieut.. Harold Beaton and
Axel Peterson of Parshall We're slight
ly injured when the touring car driven
by Lieutenant Beaton plunged into a
gulch on the Dillon mail road, six
miles south of l<remmling.
Boys hunting for frogs near Craig
discovered what they believed was a
doll floating in the water. They in
vestigated and hauled the supposed
doll ashore They were shocked to
find it was dead infant about Z
weeks old They notified the authori-
| ties and the coroner held an inquest.
| Coroner j. G. Clayton said that the
baby was probably dead before being
placed in the branch of Fortfication
creek.
| .t..r
was S11 ,I2O,627.7 according to the
| quarterly report of State Treasurer
| Harry E. Mulnix. OF this amount S3.
| GSS, ,215.45 is on deposit in 2G0 banks
| throughout the state. The balance is
| invested in the various state funds. or
| these the school fund has S6,1S7, ,7S4.72
and the compensation insurance fund
| has S769, l50.S4.
| The total valuation of Colorados
| public utilities is S229, 1875, 100, de-
crease of 81, 2,5S2,010 from the 1919 as
sessed valuation, according 10 report
| by the Colorado State Tax Commission
| The decrease is due largely to the fact
that the assessments of several rail-
| roads have been greatly reduced dur
| ing the last year and through railroads
having combined valuation of S1T0.-
$40 having been dismantled within the
last year The value of the Mountain
States Telephone and Telegraph Com
| pany was fixed at S12545,S70. an in
crease of S225, 900 over the 1919 valua-
tion, while the entire assessed valua-
tion of all of the telephone companies
operating in the state was fixed at
S12,9S2, $50, or an increase of S259,25O
over last year.
The jury at Wray in the case of
| rtia MIX nn ehnr.,nd with th., .,...,.-