Elbert County tribune and Elbert County banner., 1920-06-04
Pithy News Notes
From All Parts of
Colorado
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All of northern Kareli northwest
Russia) has been conquered by the
Bolshevists, according 10 Helsingfors
dispatch to the National Tidende. III,
Karelian population has fled TO the
forests
What is declared by mining men to
be 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 saving to Moffat county OF
$1,000 The bridge will be>safeguarded
against future mishaps by concrete
abutments.
When C. f. Thayer of Fort Morgan
attempted TO crank his automobile the
machine bucked forward. knocking hin
unconscious, and then continued it,
course across the sidewalk and through
the plate glass window of a grocery
store.
few minutes before, of former hus
band james Waddell, who is dead,
Mrs. Josephine Stiles of Denver the
wife of Frank Stiles. committed sui
eide by poisoning in her bedroom at u
hotel in that city
The first candle fire to occur in Den.
yer in fifteen years resulted in n S5C
loss at the home of Vic Walker, depu.
ty constable, 1929 Lafayette street
The candle had been placed on Il table
earlier in the evening and when mem
bers of the family retired for the night
it is believed they forgot TO extin
guish it,
Denver is overwhelmingly Ameri-
can, according to figures compiled
from the official census received by
the Give and Commercial Association
giving the city n population in 1920 OF
256,369 In 1910 the number of native
born citizens was 1862 as against
20S,707 in 1920. a gain of 20.2 per CEN
us compared to n gain OF POI per Gem
in the entire population.
Resolutions authorizing the director
ate of the Industrial Sugar Conpan,
10 issue negotiable bonds TO the value
of S3500O0 at any time it may see fi'
TO do so, to remove the company head
quarters from Fort Morgan to Denver.
and to increase the directorate from
five to seven members were adopted al
a special meeting of the stockholders
of the company ut Fort Morgan.
Harold Jensen, IL. of Denver. was
stabbed Just below the heart during
an encounter with a young opponent
and lies painfully injured from the ef
fects. The story as told by the you'll
indicated that he had been fighting
with lad about his own age, when
the latter drew Il knife and plunged il
into his ribs near the heart Police
Surgeon Campbell attended Harold.
The man who was killed at James.
vile, Wis, was not Earl Ballard. the
son of Mr.. and Mrs. H. +. Ballard OF
Longmont This WAS proven when the
casket supposedly containing his body
arrived from Janesville. Mrs. Ballard,
mother of the supposed dead man, and
several of his sisters and brothers and
other relatives positively disclaimed
any resemblance between the dead
man and Earl Ballard.
4. Benjamin f. Smith, alias Hal II.
Hubbard, Jr., 26 years old, was SEN
fenced TO term of six 10 ten years
in the state penitentiary on a charge
of obtaining money under false pre-
lenses, by District Judge Charles Corn
forth at Cripple Greek. Smith is al
legged to have passed number of bad
checks in Colorado Springs and Sallda,
but was successful in obtaining money
on but one check here.
Railroad men have acquired new
mining property at Monarch lake,
about fifteen miles north of Cranky,
on the south fork of the Grand river,
which is expected to develop into one
of the big mineral discoveries of Colo
rado A small corporation has been
formed and work is being pushed The
lead is said to be sixty-five feet wide
and at a depth of twenty-five feet gives
returns of over 500 per ton in gold 1t
is thought by expert biologists to be
the biggest proposition that has been
found in the state.
The forest resources of America are
today being destroyed three times as
rapidly as nature, assistedby the or
ganized forestry movement, can re-
place them with new growth. Unless
prompt and effective measures are in
troduced to arrest this process of dis
sipation the country Will, probably
within twenty-five years, find itself no
longer able to meet the market demand
for forest products. Such n condition
can only result in industrial stagna-
tion, exorbtant prices for wood pro-
ducts which enter into the daily life OF