The Elbert County tribune., 1920-02-27
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

| meeting to be held IN the House OF
| REPRESENTATIVES at 1890 Saturday
Feb. 2S. representatives of taxpaying
organizations, farmers organizations,
and chambers of commerce who would
be asked to present their views con-
cerning the best plan to secure In
creased efficiency in the schools, BET
| ter training for teachers. and TO take
up the question of better salaries for
trained teachers. Notifications OK
this meeting are being sent TO repre-
sentative organizations OF property
owners, but any organization Will be
welcome whether notified or not
Edward Eckhardt. 2-year-old son of
Paul Eckhardt, farmer living east OF
| Greeley near the sugar factory, WAS
rescued with his brother, Samuel,
years old. from their burning home by
| Conrad Kaufman. who, passing, saw
| the house in flames and discovered
the children huddled together in the
burning kitchen. The younger child
| is suffering from severe burns about
| the head and shoulders and little hope
is held out for his recovery. The
mother of the children is dead and
the father was In town on business at
the time of the fire.
Forty stamps OF the new Gold King
Extension mill at Gladstone have been
started to pounding the accumulated
ores of the Gold King Company. and in
a short time will be running sixteen
hours out of every day. Manager w. u.
Kinney states that the company will
now be shipping constant stream of
high-grade concentrates, which will be
hauled to the railroad cars for trans
portation to the smelter, as well as the
regular shipments of gold bullion made
| TO the United States mint at Denver by
this company.
| w. T. Van Eaton, rancher living
eight miles northeast of Num-, Colo,
is dead as the result of injuries re-
| ceived when he was struck by Union
Pacific passenger train No. 104 as he
was crossing the railroad tracks neaI
/ Num- In heavy touring car. He was
carried over 1000 feet on the locomo-
tive pilot, but was apparently unhurt
when picked up He was rushed to
hospital in Greeley. Internal injuries
|
News of her sisters death in Wales
robbed Miss Hannah Henry, go years
old, of her last family tie. She drank
poison at the home of Mrs N Fergu-
| son in Denver, dying within a few
minutes after removal to the county
hospital For weeks Miss Henry had
| planned visit to her sister and had
purchased her railroad transportation,
steamship passage and arranged for
the passport, when letter arrived,
| telling of her sisters death.
With disbursements of $S,413,94S.33
in 1919, Denver paid out more money
than in any other year in the history
of the city, according to statistics com
piled on the cash balance and receipts
for the past year by City Auditor f. ID.
Stackhouse. Not only were the dis
bursements much larger than in other
years, but the receipts, totaling ST.
716 1850, exceeded any previous
twelve months
| Edward 4. Devine, associate editor
of the Survey, and one of the leading
social workers of the United States,
will be member of the faculty of the
| University OF Colorado summer school,
which will open on June IA at Boulder.
Mrs. Cora Winchell of Columbia Uni
versity will have charge of the classes
in home economics and Prof Jerome
Dowd of Oklahoma University of the
| department of social science
Using hack saw furnished him by
his wife, Louis G. Martin, wanted by
| fha In,
of grand larceny, escaped from the
county Jail at Colorado Springs while
Deputy Sheriff c. w. Mimic of Flint
was making preparations to take him
back to the Michigan city on night
train. The saw, together with pair
of pliers and wire nippers, were
found in his cell after the escape.
AIisgauging the distance he had as
cended with car in an automobile ele-
vator at garage in Denver, Lawrence
Huff, IS, n mechanic employed at. the
garage, backed the car off the plat
form and plunged twenty feet into the
elevator pit below with resulting
fracture of the skull and other injuries
The somersaulting machine hurled him
against the edge of the pit, and only
the support given it by the pit walls
prevented instant crushing of Huffs
body.
large still producing enough
moonshine to supply Morgan county
and its surroundings for weeks was
discovered in operation on farm
eighteen miles south of Fort Morgan
by Sheriff e. A. Morse. More than a
hundred gallons of whlskey, ready for
customers, was awaiting shipment A
huge supply of barley, corn and raj
sins were also seized.
Mrs. w. 7. Holbrook, 62 years old,
wife of prominent Palisade fruit
| grower, was Killed and her husband