Elbert County tribune and Elbert County banner., 1920-09-10

| NelS Melvin Peterson, lZ-year-Oi0 son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Peterson, living
near Wild Horse. thirty miles south
east. of Hugo, was instantly killed
when he was dragged to death by a
horse.
Approximately Is per cent of the
1900 men employed in Colorado coal
mines will ask for an increase of S1.50
| II day 1t has been announced These
compose a class of men known as in
side and outside day labor and do not
include men who dig coal.
| w. f. Stoltz, alias William Brown,
who was seriously injured August 18th
when he was crushed between two
tram cars at the central car barns,
where he was working, died as the re-
suit of his injuries at st. Luse's hos
ptal in Denver
Cleveland Hunter, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. James NJ. Hunter of the Hunter
section, ter miles northwest of Grand
Junction, was shot by Il. 3. Goddard
while in the Goddard melon patch.
Young Hunter was with some other
boys getting watcrmelons. He is now
in the Fruita hospital.
me- Arl1llu MESA lNtHblt
has let contract to II. NJ Wiley for
the erection of the main hotel building
at the resort grounds at Alexander
lakes. This has been needed for sew
eral seasons, due to the increased
number of tourists who have been
camping each summer at the Grand
Mesa Lakes
Seventy-eight men have re-enlisted
| in the navy for duty aboard the Simp-
son, all of which reside In Colorado
and Wyoming, only twenty-four more
ex-nnvy men are needed to man her
and she will be the crack destroyer of
the navy She will be commissioned at
Philadelphia. Her home port will be
San Diego, Calf. N
William Kicks, Grand Junction gro
Ger, has been forced by County AS
SCISSOR Ocee o. Fellows to admit that
he did not report a large amount of
sugar he had in storage ut his place of
business when the tax assessor called
at the Kicks store and his assessment
was raised from little over $1,000 to
$4,000 by the assessor.
Delta will hold its annual flower
locally grown gladiolus, sweet peas,
dahlias and asters will be put on dis
| play. Many attractive prizes have
been offered by the merchants for the
| best flowers shown. After the exhi-
bition the flowers will be auctioned off
and the proceeds given to the City
| Park fund.
The Cripple Creek Short Line, which
| operates tourist trains between Colo
RADIO Springs and Summit, has closed
| its season. The road was re-opened to
| Summit on June 2Sth. On May nth,
| last, Judge II. Il. Lewis of the Federal
| District Court in Denver, gave the OPP
orators of the road permission to close
and the traffic to Cripple Creek and
| return was annulled
Eutimo Duran, charged with murder
in the first degree for killing his WIFE
| Mrs. Pillar Duran, and Crestino Jiron,
whom he claims was her clandestine
| admirer, was bound over to the Dis
trict Court in Moab, Utah, at the pre-
| liminary hearing just held. Duran is
| charged on two separate counts with
| first degree murder. The killing took
| place in Thompsohs, Utah, July 30. Du-
ran killed Jiron on the depot platform
| Just after Jiron and Mrs Duran re-
turned to Thompsons from trip to
Grand Junction. He then followed his
| wife home and killed her
Joseph Chapman, 26, of Boulder, who
was killed in the Interurban collision
near Globevile, was n former United
States marine and served in the bat
ties of Beleau wood and Chateau
Thierry. He was wounded twice and
badly gassed. He was decorated for
bravery.
Two bears were killed within few
yards of each other by ]. F. Naylor in
North Park while on camping and
fishing expedition. He found the ami
mails early in the morning within 100
yards of the camp and dropped one at
the first shot. The second one started
to run away and it took four shots to
bring it down, after 1t had run about
$50 yards.
Richard Forrest, a 76-year-old farm
er of the Eckert neighborhood, at Del
tn, lost his right foot when it became
caught in steel cable connected with
a hay-loading machine which Mr.. For
rest was operating on his farm. The
harness of the horses became en-
tangled and Mr.. Forrest attempted to
straighten it. but frightened the ami
mails, which caused the loose cable to
become taut. His right foot was
caught in the cable and snapped off.
Remarkable yields of both wheat and
barley are reported from fields of
grain just threshed in Larimer county.
Fred Schmer has just harvested twelve