The Elbert County tribune., 1920-04-02
COLORADO
STATE NEWS


Company.
Allan France, an employe of the
pickle company at Brighton, died at
Denver hospital of concussion OF
the brain, sustained when he fell
twelve feet from a ladder on which
he was working at the pickle plant.
Various organizations of Olathe plan
to rnise $4,000 for the construction OF
modern community house In honor
of the soldiers, sailors and marines
who served In the great war, according
to plans started at a mass meeting
Miss Dorothy Lell, 19-year-old daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. +. L. Lell of Ash
Mesa, died on her birthday, following
an Illness of several weeks OF pneu-
monIa, which she developed after she
had recovered from Influenza.
A. A. Bennett of the Trinidad Fin
and Feather Club has announced that
30 600 Eastern brook trout have been
placed In the small streams In various
parts OF Las Animas county. These In
addition to the carload of trout fry
put I'm late last summer have made the
streams In the Stonewall country fair
ly alive with fish.
Undersheriff william Stretcher. who
was injured at Boulder when a city
automobile and fire company truck
collided In heavy wind storm, died
at University hospital in that city. He
was the third man to die from in1ur-
les received in the accident, the others
being Chief of Police. l.. p. Bass and
Joseph Salter, 17-year-old son of City
Manager Salter.
George Il. Adams, 65 years old.
resident of Greeley for 40 years, Is
dead following n paralytic stroke. Mr.
Adams came to Colorado in 1873 and
homesteaded at Seely's lake. He is
one of the wealtlIiest cattlemen in
Weld county and is said to have ac-
cumulated fortune of 100000. He
was member of the w. o. w. and
Knights of Pythias.
The safety deposit boxes of the
State Bank at Parker, were rifled OF
several thousand dollars worth of Lib
erty bonds, war savings stamps ana
other negotiable securities. The rob
bers went about their work in the
same manner as they did at Sedalia,
when they stole about $1,000. En-
trance was gained through back win
dow. The robbers then sawed their
way into the vault, where they rifled
the boxes The thieves escaped, leav.
ng no clues.
Four graduate scholarships amount
ing In all to 81 $50. has been announced
by the management of the State
Teachers College at Greeley. They
are 5000 scholarship offered by the
Greeley First Presbyterian Church to
n young man or woman student, $50
scholarship offered by the same
church to young man student, $500
scholarship given by the COngrega-
tionnl Church of Greeley to q young
man student, and $500 sch0laruhip
offered by the Henry Strong founda-
ton under the management of Mrs
Charles Denison of Denver
Caroline Jones, 17-year-old school
girl, was found guilty Of voluntary
manslaughter at Durango. This yer
dict was returned by the jury, which
had been out twelve hours, after hear
ing her trial on a charge of shooting
and killing Carl Bay, young returned
soldier, in an alley at the rear of his
home in Bayfield, last January. Under
the Colorado statutes the penalty for
voluntary manslaughter is imprison
ment at the state penitentiary for
from one 20 eight years. Miss Jones
displayed no signs of emotion when
the jury's finding was returned. The
defense announced it would appeal.
F. w. Powers, who is in the employ
of the Biological Survey of the govern
ment in its efforts to exterminate
predatory animals In the Rocky Noun
tain region, killed big mountain lion
near Echo, about fifteen miles up the
river from Canon City.
Mrs Mary Caten, 3S, was instantly
killed and her husband was seriously
injured when an automobile In which
they We're riding turned over on the
Goodnight road near Pueblo. Caten
lost control of the car, he said, in ex-
planning the accident
Ross Henry Anderson, 81 years old,
farmer of the Cowan district near
Hugo, WINS instantly killed when an
automobile in which he was driving
turned turtle, pinning him underneath
The accident was caused by the break
ing of the steering gear
Herbert Whorten, l3 years old, will
probably lose his left foot as the re-
suit of being thrown under heavy
disk harrow on ranch twenty-si1
miles east of Hudson. The three
horses attached to the disk ran away,
and the youngster was thrown from
his seat and the heavy machine passed
over him. The boy was taken to
Denver for surgical treatment.
The jefferson County Pure Bred
Livestock Breeders Association was
organized at Golden at meeting of