Elbert County tribune and Elbert County banner., 1921-03-18
Pithy News Notes
From All Parts of
Colorado
western ser.Drper unlon Nsxs serIc... !,

| oaiHuei W. Morgan, formerly a cDnn-
ty agent in Kentucky for. four years,
has accepted a similar position in
Montezuma county, Colo.
fire destroyed the Berthoud Alfal-
ia Milling and Feeding Company's ele-
vator at Berthoud. Damage to the
! plant is estimated at $4,000.
A. o. Kelso, well known Morgan
county farmer. is dead, following a
| lingering Illness of about two years.
Mr.. Kelso has lived in that vicinity for
nine years.
Several cases of MantOu water have
arrived in Washington from Governor
Shoup, to be distributed at the christ.
ening of the U. s. S. Colorado at Cam
den, N. j., March ~.
With the filing of Incorporation pa
pers for the Gem Tunnel Company
with the secretary of state, the re,
1uyenation Of mining In Clear Creek
and Gilpln counties Is promised
Alamosa taxpayers Will vote at the
April city election on the issuance of
$4,000 city bonds to be loaned to the
school district for the purpose of fin
Twenty-four dollars head should be
the maximum assessment on cattle, &C.
cording to "A resolution passed at
meeting of the Uncompahgre Valley
Cattle and Horse Growers Associa-
tion held In Montrose
The fourth annual Colorado state
basketball tournament passed into his.
disputed champions. The Greeley
team was by far the class of the tour.
nament, and won ali games easily.
Jack Noble, proprietor of soft
drink parlor in Denver, who shot him
self through the base of the brain in
the presence of his wife and friend
at his home, died at the county hos
lowing the shot.
Postponement of confirmation of the
sale of the Denver & Rio Grande rail-
road until March %, during which time
the stockholders would be given an Op-
portunity to purchase the road for S10.-
100000, was ordered by Federal Dis.
trict Judge Lewis of Colorado sitting
with Federal Judge Walter Fl. Sanborn
at Kansas City.
Charles Coutu, 80, is dead in Nor
wood as a result of having slashed his
throat from ear to ear with a razor.
Ill health is believed to have caused
Coutu to take his life. He had been In
Norwood only Il few days prior to the
finding of his dead body In cabin
where he had been stopping.
james w. Burns. 80, was smothered
to death in AN alley while digging
ditch ut the rear of his home in Pu-
eblo. He was in the employ of ID. E.
Burke, plumber. As he stopped to lift
n shovel of earth the ground back OF
him caved in, crushing and smothering
him before William Pratt, fellow
worker, could aid him.
The Amerlcanizntion school at
Montrose closed this week with the
largest enrolment of any similar in
stitutiOn in the state. The school
started out the first night with two
pupils and grew to II total registration
of sixty-siN, including forty-four Mexi-
cans, seventeen Russians, three
Italians and two Frenchmen.
The Weld county grand jury at
Greeley returned five indictments
against Elvin ID. Lockard. bookkeeper
and confidential secretary to William
c. Roberts, owner Of the Roberts Loan
and Investment Company, who com
mitted suicide last July when threat
ened with exposure of embezzlng and
swindling operations involving $780,
600.
Sugar City. the only town in the Ar
kansas valley that has Sunday movies,
wants them closed. A committee of
women petitioned the district attor-
ney's office TO enforce the state law
prohibiting the operation of moving
pictures on Sunday.
Charles @. Clinton, convicted OF at
tempting to murder police officer,
was sentenced In Colorado Springs to
a term of twelve TO fourteen years at
hard labor in the penitentiary at
Canon City. Clinton was one of the
participants in n gun battle last Octo-
Der, II day after the robbery of the Ell
bert County Bank, in which two police
men and three alleged bandits took
part. Two of the latter were killed
and Clinton was wounded.
j. Il. Anderson. As years old, was
killed when the team of horses he was
driving became frightened and ran
away on Main street at Fort Morgan
Anderson wus delivering milk to his
customers at the time of the accident,
and as the horses dashed down the
street they collided with an automobile
standing at the curb. The impact
threw him from the wagon, and as 1t
turned over 1t fell on him, crushing
him to death.