Elbert County tribune and Elbert County banner., 1920-05-28
Pithy News Notes
From All Paris of
Colorado
-stern NeN.paprr IinIon New. serrice

A movement II on 1901 10 OBTAIN an
infantry company or cavalry troop
in the reorganized Colorado National
Guard for Grand county.
A moderate measure of protection
to enable the tungsten industry TO de-
veIop has been urged in the Senate by
Senator Phipps, Republican, of Colo
RADIO.
Potato planting has started in The
Greeley district and is well under way
About 1900 acres viii be planted this
year. as compared to 21,0OO planted
last year.
What is declared by mining men to
he one Of the most important strikes in
the San Juan district in recent years
has been made by the Paymaster
Mines Company, operating the Paymas-
Ter group OF claims in the Red Noun
tain mining section.
The Rangely bridge, which fell into
the water three weeks ago, has been
raised and practically all the structure
saved, at q saving to Moffat county of
$1,000. The bridge will be safeguarded
against future mishaps by concrete
abutments
Ansperng the spirit calling, she said
few minutes before, of former hus-
band, James wadde1, who is dead,
Mrs. Josephine Stiles OF Denver, the
wife OF Frank Stiles, committed sui
eide by poisoning in her bedroom at
hotel in that city.
MOntrose will entertain the western
slope July with the largest celebra-
~ 1. H.,
Montrose, according to arrangements
made at a recent meeting of local bus
mess men. No Fourth Of July celebra-
tion has been held there for two years.
Derver saw it's first funeral of a
slain war hero when Wallace Simpson
post Of the Legion officiated In uni
form and with an honor guard and
firing squad at the funeral of Private
Henderson. Denver, colored douRhboy,
whose body was shipped to Denver
from Brest.
Crawling through hole in the stone
wall of the county jail, previously dug
by Ed Williams in an attempted Jail
break" I3-year-old Willie Still. jailed
at Grand Junction for throwing rocks
at trains, successfully made twelve
foot drop to freedom and ran to his
home, where he was later found by
his father and returned to Jail.
1t costs the taxpayers of the state OF
Colorado only 1851 cents a day to keep
prisoner in the state penitentlary
The actual value of the upkeep of each
of the $50 prisoners in the custody OF
Warden Tom lyman is 93 cents day,
but the 1T.3 cents In addition 10 the
taxpayers cost is represented ny the
farm and dairy products of the prison
farms and gardens which are worked
by the prisoners.
Nine hundred persons will take part
in the pageant to commemorate the
founding of the Union colony nj Gree
ley, which will be given on the cam
pus of the State Teachers College on
Monday, June 18th. Two thousand
dollars Is being raised by popular sub
scription to pay the cost of staging the
pageant, which will picture the com
ing of the immigrants. the development
of irrigation and the growth of Gree
ley.
Weld county is now upon a cash
basis, with not n cent of bonded in
utDttuHtSS anu WIN ho iSEioiNiNh "di
rants outstanding BY the calling in
of S3S9,0O0 worth of registered war
rants, of which S22S,5 800 worth was
paid, the last of the outstanding debt
of the county was wiped out. This
makes S220,O00 worth Of debts which
have been paid during the past two
Years, of which all but $4,000 was
registered warrants in the road fund.
Thirty-five British merchants, repre-
sentatives of the Royal Trade Board
of Great Britain, will arrive in Cello
RADIO Springs this week for a stay of
three days.
Carlos w. Hall of jefferson county,
and one of Colorados leading pure
bred Holstein men, received word that
he had been named by the Holstein-
Freisan Association one of their twen-
ty-six judges in America and that he
had been selected to act as judge at
the Nebraska state fair this fall. The
judges selected by this association
hold the judgeship for the remainder
of their lives.
Railroad men have acquired new
mining property at Monarch lake,
about fifteen miles north of Granny,
on the south fork of the Grand river,
which is expected to develop into one
cf the big mineral discoveries of Colo
rndo. A small corporation has been
formed and work is being pushed. The
lead is said to be sixty-five feet wide
and at depth of twenty-five feet gives
returns of over 500 per ton In gold. II
is thought by expert biologists TO be
the biggest proposition that has been
found In the state.