Elbert County tribune and Elbert County banner., 1920-05-21
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

Great Western Sugar Company will be
located on the w. a Purvis 2c0-acre
farm adjoining the town limits OF
Johnstown.
Alex Miller the deaf-mute who is
lodged in the Weld county jail on
charge of having murdered Adam
Shank, his wife and four children four
months ago, will be tried the week OF
May 81
The substantial growth of Golden is
shown by the annual report OF II. r.
Curry, city clerk, who said that S12.-
6S0.99, the largest amount ever col
lected in water rents, was taken in.
The report shows that II cost SIS, 1913 Ga
10 run the city in the last year. The
city debt is Sl39,00O
Professor w. J. Morrill,, state forest
er and head of the forestry department
of the Colorado Agricultural College.
has distributed this spring at cost
about $1,000 small trees, including
seeding elm, honey locust, black locust
and Russian olive, and about 10000
tlree-year-old pines. These trees have
gone chiefly to farms in eastern Colo
RADIO
With Montrose at one end and Du-
range at the other end of probably the
greatest expanse of scenic beauty in
the world TO be made accessible TO
travel. thousands of citizens are eager
Iy awaiting the completion of the Du-
rango-Silverton highway. This road
will enable thousands of tourists each
year 10 visit one part of Colorado that
has been a closed book to all except
tourists who seek the most rugged
scenery, regardless of the trouble and
inconvenience Of getting to il.
A bill introduced by United States
Senator Lawrence c. Phipps in Con
eress IL passed will establish in Colo
RADIO a second United States Public
Health Service Hospital for District
No. IL, embracing the states of Colo
RADIO, Wyoming, Utah and New Mex
leo. The first hospital for the dis
trict was obtained by the taking over
of the United States Army Hospital
at Fort Bayard, n. NJ, the formal
transfer of which will be made to the
health service in few days.
A. f. Evans Dunwody, wealthy res
years, dropped dead in Philadelphia,
Pa, Of heart disease, according 10 a
message received from there. He and
his wife, Mrs. Sarah Dunwody. lef'
Colorado Springs with the intention of
spending several weeks in the Eiist,
where they visited frequently. Mr.
Dunwody. who was T3 years old. came
10 Colorado Springs many years ago
for his health and had lived part of
each year since then in that city.
Thousands of dollars worth Of fur
niture seized by the police in Denver
during raids on alleged gambling
houses has been turned over To the
Salvation Army by Chief of Police
Hamilton Armstrong and will be used
in furnishing that organization new
quarters in Denver. Such furniture
is usually destroyed, but realizing
that 1t would be put to "A good pur-
pose by giving it to the salvation
Army, Chief Armstrong consented to
it's being disposed of in that manner.
Alberto Madrid, railroad worker at
Trinchera, who was arrested at that
place and lodged in the county jail at
1
ney ]. w. Hawley that he attacked
with an AK Valentine Anaya, barber
at Trinchera, while the latter was
asleep in his bed, inflicting injuries
which are expected to cause the death
of the victim. Madrid declared the
assault was committed with the mo-
tive of robbery and that he had taken
$50, all the money that Anaya had at
the time.
fund has been opened at Fort Col
Inns to finance recount, if it car be
obtained, of Fort Collins population.
The Commercial Club telcgraphed Con-
gressman Charles Timberlake asking
him TO endeavor to prevail upon the
Census Bureau to make a second count
for the city.
The Boy Scouts of Longmont, Louis
Vile, Nederland and Boulder will CO.
operate in field day exercises at the
Colorado Chautauqua at Boulder on
May %. The Boulder brass band will
assist in the program and will lead the
parade. An extensive program, fol-
lowed by an all-night pow-wow AT the
camp of Troop No. 3, south of Boulder,
has been arranged for by Scout ENecu-
tive C.. w. Badger.
Citizens Of Grand county and north
western Colorado generally, holding a
mass meeting at Hot Sulphur Spriags.
following the opening of the Moffat
road, adopted a resolution in which
they expressed their gratitude to res
idents of Denver. the operating force
of the Moffat road, the State Highway
Commission and others for their eff
forts in breaking the recent serious
snow blockade on the Moffat system.