Elbert County tribune and Elbert County banner., 1921-01-07
Pithy News Notes
From All Parts of
Colorado
Western se-,p.p.r Union s--, s.rs-,,

Mrs. Andrew (Aunt banny) Payne,
said to be more than 100 years old, for
mer slave and pioneer of Middle park,
is dead.
II. v. Ellington Of Denver has been
appointed state supervisor Of trades
and Industrial education at the Colo
RADIO Agricultural College.
County commissioners OF Gunnison
expect to spend $1,000 OH the Black Me-
sa road and about $4,000 on the road
from Gunnison to Somerset.
The bill extending for six months
the time in which 1920 assessment
work on mining claims can be done
was signed by President Wilson.
The sundry civil bill reported to the
House In Washington carries S377. 600
for the Grand Valley reclamation pro-
ject and $4,000 for the Uncompah-
gre project.
w. II. Gottle, foreman of the charge
floor of the Arkansas Valley smelter,
was killed at Leadville when 1000
pound elevator which he was repair
Ing fell on him.
Dominic George, a Frenchman, 55
years old, steel worker, was found with
his head cut open with an az. by the
police. Mt his home In Pueblo. The
motive for the crime is believed to
have been robbery.
Sixty.five School Of Mines students
are in Idaho Springs finishing their
practical work In the mines, instead of
having to do 1t In the summer Fif-
teen of these are Chinese, who are be-
Ing sent to the Golden school by their
government.
Dean O. Dewitt. IA, was killed In
stantly and John Scheinek. IL, was Sc
riously injured when horse which
they were riding stumbled and fell
while crossing pasture near Dewitt's
home, the L. II. Dewitt ranch, six miles
south of Calhan. Colo.
Mistaking strychnine pills for Christ
mas candy, Marguerite Schneider. 3
years old, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank Schneider. living on n ranch
east of Colorado Springs, died after
she had swallowed quantity of the
poison.
There is snow enough In North park
to need the snow plow on the Colo
RADIO, Wyoming & Eastern, the train
to Walden being drawn by two en-
gines. At Foxpark, the crest OF the
mountains, the thermometer registered
10 degrees below zero recently.
Jack Shinr of Shinn Park, a promi-
nent rancher, caught his hand in the
couo of a grain t,rip1Inu ,nor china opd
crushed the thumb and one finger He
was unable to find way to get to
Montrose except to drive the fifteen
miles himself, so he got into his car
and, in spite of the pain, made the
long drive. The surgeons amputated
two fingers.
A company has been orgenized COM
posed of DeBeque business men, stock
growers and oil shale operators in
western Colorado to construct a mod
ern hotel at DeBeque at n cost of $780,
600. The proposed hotel is to have
fifty rooms, all of which will be fur
nished in the most up-to-date manner.
A site for the building has already
been secured and 1t is expected to start
building operations early in the spring.
A unique plan to relieve the strin-
gency in money matters which is be-
ing felt by farmers has been proposed
and will likely be put into effect at
Seibert. 1t is proposed by local mer-
chants and other business people to
allow farmers credit on their wheat
and corn on hand to the extent of 81
a hpchat tho OK
on the latter A mortgage and bond to
guarantee delivery of this grain In
May will be taken.
The frozen body of Severance Ben
ton. 60 years old, owner of n non-irri-
gated homestead fifteen miles south
west of Virgins, was found in his
shack by neighbors who visited the
place. Benton had been dead for sew
eral days and is presumed to have died
from exposure and lack of medical at
tention.
Denver Is assured of one of the
greatest medical schools and state hos
pitals In the United States as a result
of Governor Shoup's decision to rec
ommend to the next Legislature that a
fund of S500,000 be appropriated to
meet the requirements of the Rockefel-
Ter Foundation, which has promised
100000 of the necessary $780, 900 for
the construction OF the great institu-
ton
w. H. Harvey, convicted In the West
Side Court in Denver of stealing the
automobile of w. Il. Doetschman, Sept.
80, was sentenced to the state reform
atory by Judge Henry ]. Hersey. Har-
vey, according to the states evidence,
was the ringleader of gang of youths
which was making business of steal
ing motor cars, altering them in cow
shed near Aurora and later disposing
of them.
Two Thousand dollars In trayalers,