Elbert County tribune and Elbert County banner., 1920-05-21
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

from disease were about normal. These
reports show that losses of cattle from
exposure We're As head per 900. which
is :he heaviest loss reported in the past
eight years. The loss of sheep from
exposure was 43 head per 1000. which
was the heaviest In the past eight
years with the exception of 1919, when
the loss was 80 head per 1000. Losses
of lambs from both disease aud expcs-
ure We're 80 head per 1000, compared
with an average loss of 40 head for the
past eight years. Losses from disease
were as follows: Horses, n head
cattle. 20 head sheep, 81 head swine.
SO head.
An assay return from the Buring-
anne office in Denver attests the ex-
ceptional value of the latest ore strike
in the Gold King Extension mines at
Silverton. The samples We're taken
from the fifth level, at 1000 feet from
surface The ore body is five feet In
width and has been followed for TWEEN
ty-five feet without decrease in
strength. The assay return shows 9O.a
ounces in gold and 13.S ounces in sill
yer to the ton, calculated at 81 ,S25.3l
per ton at the smelter.
Reports received by the Colorado
Cooperative Crop Reporting Service
from the Crop Reporting Board OF the
United States Bureau of Crop Esti-
mates show that there will be slight
shortage in the acreage devoted to po-
tatoes in the principal late potato pro-
ducing states this year and very ma
terial reduction in the acreage devoted
TO dry beans for market, provided the
farmers do not revise their plans for
planting these crops
Western Colorado and eastern Utah
people are warned that they should
take immediate steps to dispose of the
thousands of dead animals that are ly-
ing ON the open waste places, terrible
reminders of the hardest winter the
region has known in decades. and to
prevent summer of disease and pesti-
lence The many dead animals will be
burned. hurled or destroyed by chem
icnls, stockmen say.
An unsolicited advance of 30 cents
day has been granted to the miners
in the Cripple Creek district. Under
the new scale the minimum wage paid
in thar district will he S42J. Machine
men will receive 81 and the timber men
SITE. The increase also will apply to
contractors, men engaged in this line
of work receiving more money per foot
of ground broken and per ton of rock
handled.
Miss Thelma Conley of Denver, %,
and pretty, until short time ago an
artist il local department stores, went
TO tool shed on II tennis court. and
ended her life by firing n revolver bull
let into her brain. Friends said she
WAS suffering from mental derange-
mcnt caused by overwork and TO rem
edy which she had recently taken a va
cation trip to California.
George Peery, who, with his two bro
thers, recently purchased the flour
mills of the Golden Milling Company,
perhaps the oldest flour mills in the
state, is making arrangements TO oper-
ate them after an idleness of about ten
years. The Peerys have invested heav-
ily in Golden real estate and will make
that city their home.
Samuel Phillips, % years old, was
instantly killed by lightning while
working in a field near his home at
Ash Mesa, West Olathe. The same bolt
knocked down several other men, but
none of them was seriously injured.
Two of three horses were felled to the
ground.
Grieving over an unsuccessful love
venture, II is said, Danny Mullen, 30,
mining man at Grand Junction, shot
himself below the heart He is said To
have asked a prominent young woman
TO marry him; and when she refused
he went to room in the Bell hotel In
Grand Junction and attempted suicide.
Gunnison came into permanent pos
session of the Western slope ora.oricnl
conference cup when for the third sue
cessive year il defeated the other
schools entered in the conference. In
the series of orations and declamations
Gunnison scored 46 points. Montrosc
came second with 33 points, Paonia
third with u points, and Delta fourth
with % points.
Real estate transfers recorded at the
Boulder county court house for the
first four months Of the present year
represent money value of s2,434 1886.
County Assessor John VI. Jones esti-
mates the value of the escrows and
contracts that have not been filed will
bring the total up to $3,OOO.0OO.
Three thousand dollars already has
been raised at Durango for July
Fourth baseball tournament open to
any baseball team In the state. Seven
thousand dollars in purses will be
hung up and the celebration will ex-
tend over three days.
Miss Esther Watson, daughter of
Sheriff Jeff Watson of Mesa county.
has assumed duties ns a denutv sheriff