Elbert County tribune and Elbert County banner., 1920-07-23
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS.

surances already given for this years
big show. At IA low estimate there
Will be LOO exhibits. Think of the
educational results TO come from 100,-
900 people studying 1,500 interesting
and instructice object lessons. Fair
dates are September 10 to % and all
railroads are making rates from all
over the state TO Pueblo.
Killed and buried by n snow slide
many years ago. unmissed, unidenu-
fled, is the story to be told by the
skeleton of man which was found
in the debris of last years slide from
the Telescope mine near Chattanooga.
The bones were found by prospector
and the accident which befell the I'M
known several years ago was only
revealed by another slide. Every eff
fort is being made to connect the dis
covery with some one missing for
years from the district, but so far none
has shed light on the mystery.
total of 1856 automobiles have
registered at Overland park. Denvers
free motor tourist camping grounds,
so far this season, according to a re-
port received by Walter Il. Lowry,
manager of improvements and parks.
For the same period last year, when
the camping place for motor visitors
was ut Rocky Mountain lake, but SO3
automobiles had registered. As each
machine averages four persons, 1854
persons have enjoyed the privileges of
Denver's free tourist camping grounds
so far this year.
Two Western slope swimming pools
were recently caught in the net which
local internal revenue collectors put
out for those who failed to pay proper
taxes to the government. The tax on
swimming pool sales became effective
in September, 1917, and up to the mid
die of this year the swimming pools
at both Ouray and Ridgway had not
made any payments of taxes. The pool
at Ouray was forced to pay more than
$500 in taxes. Appeal has been taken.
The pool at Ridgeway had to pay more
than 5000.
Ward Paddock, 1S-year-old stepson
of L. r. Humphrey of the Denver
Times editorial staff, was killed in
stantly Wednesday at Naturita, Colo,
the wagon on sharp turn in the
road and broke his neck, according to
word received here. Paddock was
employed in the commissary depart
ment of the Standard Chemical Com
pany at Naturitn and was transporting
supplies from the warehouse to the
point when his death occurred
William S. Tampkin, one of the old
est members of the local lodge of Elks
of Denver, and a resident of that city
for the last thirty years, died at st.
Anthony's hospital. after several
weeks illness. Tampkin was n years
old. He was known to the lodge mem
bers as "Old Bill" For the last few
years he has been employed by the
Elks' Club. Tampkin was born and
reared in the west No close relatives
survive him.
Apportionment of the $3.50, 191. "a
public school income fund which was
assigned for distribution July l, 1920,
is now ready, according to a state
ment made from the offices of the
state auditor Mary C. G. Bradford,
superintendent of public instruction,
will make the apportionment, basing
the various sums on the district school
populations. The money will be turned
over to the counties for actual ex-
penditure.
Work has started on a 20,000-bushel
grain elevator at Agate for the Scott
George Grain Company of Denver,
Colo. This will place the total value
of buildings under construction there
at more than $4,000. This building
bonn is the result of the bumper crop
of wheat and corn crops raised there
last year. The prospects are for a
much larger yield of wheat this year,
and the corn acreage will exceed 49,
900 acres
The Colorado State Industrial Com
bility for the failure of the Denver
Tramway Company and its employees
to reach wage settlement and re-
fused to hold further hearings or as
sumo further Jurisdiction in the mat
ter as long as the conditions of the
controversy remained virtually I'M
changed The commission practically
charges that the Denver city council
and city officials are responsible for
the present situation on account of
their refusal to follow the commits
sion's recommendation in its award of
May 10, 1920, that proper fare be
granted the tramway company so that
it could meet the wage award of the
arbitration board handed down last
March.
More than 800 trophies of war will
be received by the state of Colorado
as its share of the articles which are
being distributed to various states
and territories, on the basis of the
number of men who were in service
during the conflict, according to a