Elbert County tribune and Elbert County banner., 1920-12-17
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS.

Public Utilities Commission. effective
Dec IS, requires all electric, gas, wa
ter and telephone public utilities IN
Colorado to give direct notice to pa
irons before changes In rates or regu-
ations effecting service can legally be
made. Under the public utilities law
notice is deemed to have been given
the public when the public utility posts
copy of the new rate schedule In It's
office and files schedule with the
state commission. at least thirty days
before the effective date of the pro-
posed new rates The commission has,
! however, decided that each consumer
or user of public utility service must
have direct notice of rate changes. The
order effects 332 public utilities In the
state.
Following a clash between Colorado
sheep owners who were attempting to
move q 900 over the Utah line for win
| ter pasturage and Utah officers who
stopped them on the state line charg-
Ing an attempt to evade the quarantine
law, the sheep owners secured a tenn
porary injunction which will prevent
Utah authorities from enforcing the
quarantine law. The injunction will
hold until the attorneys of the sheep
men have placed their case before the
courts. In the meantime Colorado
sheepmen, who assert that their flocks
will starve II forced to remain on the
home range, are moving them over the
line to the regular Utah pastures.
Grand Junction and Grand valley
cattlemen returning from Collbran re-
port one of the best meetings of the
Plateau Valley Stock Growers Asso-
ciation ever held In the history Of the
organization, which, next to the Un-
compahgre Valley Horse and Cattle
Growers Association, is the largest In
Colorado The names of over 200 cat
tie and stock men are on Its rolls. The
meeting held at the close of the week
was attended by hundreds of people
from all over Plateau valley and the
auditorium at Collbran. in which the
sessions were held, was taxed by the
crowd.
New clews which may prove of in
terest in the murder of Jacob G. Den
ton, wealthy broker, at Los Angeles,
nre being investigated. Finding of
cancelled check issued by Mrs. Louise
Peete, charged with Denton's Staying,
led to Identification of n woman en-
ployed by her as Mrs. Katherine Nor
ris. Investigators for the prosecution
and the defense are searching for Mrs
Morris, believing she may be able to
give additional information on points
,rh iCt, c1 nm
Plans for a big pageant to celebrate
the fiftieth anniversary of the found
ing of Colorado Springs, July 81, 1921,
are now being made by the Pioneer So
ciety and Chamber of Commerce COM
mittees. 1t is proposed to hold the af-
fair in the Garden of the Gods, with
scenes representing various points in
the development from the little log
shack town and Indian fighting days to
the present.
The Pueblo Commerce Club is to
have n new home. Already an option
has been secured on n site of siXty-six
feet frontage on Fourth street and
just west of the alley between Main
and Court streets, most central loca-
ton. A campaign has begun among
the members Of the association to OBJ
tain funds to finance the building,
construction to begin as soon as pos
sible.
Fire, of unknown origin, In the Bon
Ton bakery, driven by high wind,
endangered the entire northern part of
Colorado Springs. Firemen battling
the flames In the bakery were forced
to wade knee-deep In bread dough.
The bakery was damaged to the extent
Of $1,000, and the roofs of several
residences in the Deighborhood were
burned.
The city of Fort Collins is expending
S102, 600 for tile work this winter and
the work has now reached stage
where its completion is looked forward
to at an early date.
The razing of the old church edifice
at the corner of Santa Fe avenue and
Seventh street, is destroying another
of Pueblo's land MARKS The building
was put up in 1868, when ST. Peters
Episcopal church was organized, the
first church of that denomination to
be established in the state south of
Denver.
Enlargement of operations at the
Loveland plant of the Empson Pack
ing Company to an extent which will
triple the annual payroll of the local
plant is planned by the management
of the company, according to state
ments of r. II. Oviatt, manager at
Loveland.
Students of the Agricultural College
at Fort Collins who are members of
the r. o. T G. will be obliged to at.
tend four-day spring encampment
next May, according to Major Harri-