Elbert County tribune and Elbert County banner., 1920-10-01

The August production of gold from
Cripple Creek mines and dumps is
placed at 36,091 tons, yielding SAT- ,6O4
or an average of S12 to the ton.
One of the biggest and richest
strikes in the history of the old Mary
Murphy mine, near st. Elmo, is report
ed by men working on the property.
A vein of ore eight feet wide and
very rich in silver had been uncov-
cred.
Merrill Holt, 81 years old, son of A.
d. Holt, prominent retired rancher of
Boulder county, and son-in-law of
Jacob Fillius, prominent Denver at
torney and former supervisor of that
city, committed suicide in Thompson
Park by shooting himself with shot
gun.
Elmer S. Prather, proprietor of the
Yuma ice plant, was badly burned
about the arms and face when gas
engine exploded, nearly burning Gown
the ice plant. Mr.. Prather was In
1ured year ago at the Washington
county fair at Akron in the auto races
and has not entirely recovered.
the second tri-county potato bake,
which was held three miles south of
Eastonville. Tons of huge red and
white potatoes were baked in special
ly constructed ovens, which were in
stalled in the Frank Evans pine grove,
while several steers were barbecued.
Potato growers from all over the state
were in attendance.
Willie Smith, 16, son of Robert
Smith, a rancher living five miles north
of Greeley, was drowned while duck
hunting at Boyd lake. Smith was alone
in the center of the lake in n canvas
canoe. Howard Sanders, IL years old,
who was on the shore, saw him stand
up in the boat and fire at flock
of ducks. With the shot the frail
canoe capsized and the youth disap-
peared in the water.
Willard L. Straque, workman in
the Wellington mines sawmill at
Breckenridge was beaten to death
when his clothing caught In a large
belt going at the rate of several hun
dred revolutions n minute. He was
dead when his body was taken from
the machinery. He was 80 years old
and had been working for the yelling
ton Company for about two years.
Increase in the output of coal over
the state is shown in the monthly re-
port filed by James Dalrymple, state
coal mine inspector During August
1897 men were employed In the
mines, the report says. Las Animas
county headed the list for the month
with an output of 381, ,193 tons. Routt
county again showed a great decrease
In the output. mining only $4,000 tons
A lone bandit, giving his name as
Clifford Riley, 10 years old, wearing
a mask and armed with big nickel
plated revolver, held up and robbed
a score of persons on westbound Santa
Fe passenger train No. 8. When ar
rested at La Junta, where he leaped
from the train into the arms of Charles
Stewart, special agent for the Santa
Fe, Riley said his name was John
Morgan.
Getting out Of control on n steep in
cline at Baxter pass, near Atchee,
Colo, a new Shay locomotive of the
Uintah railway, backed 200 feet down
the Z per cent grade, plunged from the
rails and rolled $50 feet into the gulch
along the track. Members of the To-
comotive's crew, which was on the first
trip over this route and unattached to
any cars, saved their lives by leaping
from the cab as the engine began its
descent.
The Denver & Rio Grande railroad
has been ordered sold to satisfy judg-
ment rendered in favor of the Equi-
table Trust company of New York
amounting to more than $4,000, 900.
The final hearing was held in Denver
before Judge Walter II. Sanborn of the
United States Circuit Court Of Appeals,
who gave the decree in absence of
United States District Judge Robert E.
Lewis.
Fifty thousand dollars worth of
whiteface Herefords were shipped out
of Montrose in one day. This was the
first big shipment this year and in
cluded GOO head of cattle, which were
shipped to the Kansas City market as
feeders. The animals were in sp,en-
did condition. The 600 head, which
were fed on the range between Natu-
rita and Nucla, wre driven over the
hills to Montrose and loaded there.
Two men whose names were not
taken when they hired a taxi cab fror
J. A. Slaton at Grand Junction, TO take
them to Mack, twenty miles west Of
that city, stopped Slaton, the driver,
after twelve miles of their journey had
been covered, thrust revolvers against
his body and then stole his automobile
and the money on his person, amount
ing to several dollars.
Mrs. Antoine Trunde, "a years old,
was fatally injured at Yuma, when she
was struck by a motor car driven by q