Elbert County tribune and Elbert County banner., 1920-07-02
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS.

be shipped to a central point In the
several states and from there be dis
tributed by each congressman In hil
district. In the Colorado allotment
there are twenty-one field guns, how
itzers and trench mortars: fhirty-eighi
| vehicles, ninety-four machine guns and
quite number of small guns and
thousands of small articles. Manager
]. l.. Beaman of the State Fair has
written each congressman from Colo
RADIO, urging that these goods he
shipped to Pueblo at thet ime Of the
State Fair, Sept. 1925. where they
may he placed On exhibition and then
distributed from there. By this ar
rangement the visitors attending the
State Fair will have an opportunity of
seeing the entire collection.
Partial reports from county asses
sors received by the State Immigration
Department show that the acreage de-
voted TO beans In the state this year
is somewhat larger than early prelimi-
nary reports Indicated il would be. In
quiries made during the spring tended
| to show that the acreage devoted to
the crop this year would not be much
in excess of 81 per cert of last years
acreage, or about $4,000 acres, exc!u-
| sive of those raised for seed. Such
returns as have been made by county
assessors up to this time indicate that
the acreage planted this year is at
least so per cent OF that for last year,
and may run slightly above 10000
acres.
With the death of one member of the
city fire department and property
damnge estimated at more than 500
900, Telluride witnessed the worst fire
| in its history. The fire, which started
| in the new flotaton mill of the Snug
gler-Union mine, one and one-half
miles east of Telluride, consumed the
entire building, in addition TO destroy
ing the residence of Bulkeley Wells,
president and general manager of the
mine, the mine office building, the
company store, an oil warehouse, three
cottages, seven freight cars and an
enormous amount of lumber and coal
| stored near.
The town of Ault has been exonerat-
ed from alleged contempt charges by
|
been charged that Ault had violated
orders issued by the commission last
| September in regard to the operating
OF municipal light and power plant
Testimony of witnesses appearing be-
fore the commission brought out the
| fact that the town officials We're in no
way responsible for citizens plugging
in" on the municipal power wires aft
er the order to restrain had been is
sued by the commission.
II takes a courageous man to save
his burning house with buckets of milk
worth 10 cents a quart wholesale, hut
David Easterly and Martin Van Voor-
| his, ranchmen on the Cornwall ranch,
on Ohio creek, possessed the necessary
courage when their ranch home caught
fire. Twenty gallons of lacteal fluid
sufficed to douse the flames, which
had started on the roof
| Pueblo post No 2, American Legion,
has established its headquarters in the
| canteen used throughout the war by
the local chapter of the Red Cross to
serve hot lunches to soldiers passing
through the city. The building has
| been moved from near the Union sta
tion to Court and Fifth streets, and has
been comfortably and costly fitted up
as a clubhouse for the Legion.
| Owing to the failure of materials to
arrive, the ceremony of laying the cor
nerstone of the new S500.000 Sterling
| hospital will not take place for few
| weeks. In the meantime. efforts 10
raise the remainder of the money to
| meet the cost of thes tructure will he
redoubled, in the hope of having the
| fund complete when the cornerstone is
laid.
| Harry Falkner, 80, town marshal OF
| Brighton, and former deputy sheriff
was shot twice by bank robbers. Falk-
ner was rushed to Mercy hospital, Den
| YER Fallsner is believed to have been
shot by the ''lookout' for the bank
robbers, who were on the point OF
breaking into the American bank on
Bridge street. at Brighton.
The hearts of forty orphan children
| and eight residents of the State Odd
Fellows Home at Canon City were
made happy when over 500 representa-
tives of the triple link from all parts
of the state assembled there to cele-
brate the first annual homecoming OF
| the order in Colorado.
| Struck in the face with flying
piece of Jagged steel, the broken part
| of an automobile fan, George Schaefer
mechanic employed in garage al
Trinidad. sustained n fracture of the
skull, the loss of his left eye and a
deep laceration extending from his left
temple down to his upper lip.
| Miss Iva Goddard, 40 years old, who
| owns homestead six miles east OF