Elbert County tribune., 1921-10-14
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS

eral lots of drives have appeared on
the market this season. but the long
est drive was completed when C. II.
Mccoy. William Henry and o. C. NIu-
grage of Grand county arrived in Den
yer with 1s2 head of cattle from Radi-
um, Colo, a distance of 1875 miles. The
cattle were quartered Mt the Union
stockyards and We're pronounced by
local traders to be in the finest condl-
ton after their long trip on the road.
which consumed ten days.
A contract for 1000 yards OF car
pets has been let by the State Board
of Capitol Managers to the Daniels K
Fisher Stores Company. About $500
yards of the carpet will be laid in the
new state office building. The carpet
is of special design and bears the seal
of Colorado woven into the nap. 1t is
brown in color which was adopted by
the members of the board for all the
offices of the state capitol building
Future requirements of carpet in the
state buildings will be made under the
contract made with the local store The
total cost of the carpets is about $751;
600
THE longevity of man has been no
ticeably Increased during the past few
years in all countries" declared DIR.
w w. Grant of Denver, recognized
authority on cancer in an address be-
fore nearly 1000 Pueblo people at the
municipal auditorium. "This longevity
is increasing more noticeably among
women than men," he added, and stat
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been reduced considerably in every
disease with the exception of cancer,
o, which statistics show three times ns
many women die as men.
]. H Weisgerber, Pueblo telegraph
operator, while touring the country In
an automobile recently, had an exclt-
ing experience with blue racer snake.
The snake, which was five and half
feet long, crawled under the car after
having bitten into the tire. The car
was stopped, but no trace of the snake
could be found Eventually, 1t was dis
covered In the battery box only to be
lost again in the mechanism of the
machine. When finally located in the
dust pan 1t was killed.
A special committee from the Den
yer Civic and Commercial Association
has presented request to Governor
Shoup that Colorado be fully repre-
sented at the proposed conference of
state water commissioners to be held
in Washington on Oct. 10. The meet
| ing is to he held in order that plans
may be made for the settlement of
state water disputes by arbitration in
conjunction with a federal commits
sioner to be appointed by the Presi-
| dent
Sheriff Erne A. Morse of Morgan
county received a postal card from
Woody Rogers, Georgia convict, who
escaped from officers while being tal-
en- from Fort Morgan to Georgia. Ros-
ers was arrested at Fort Morgan sew
eral weeks ago on charges of forgery.
1t was then learned that he had es-
capped from the Georgia penitentiary
where he had been serving a life SEN
| tence for murder. Rogers sent greet
ings" to Sheriff Morse.
With the completion of repairs on
the large fire truck which has been
out of commission for some time,
trucks and one of them is the most
modern machine known-a pumper
with capacity for $50 gallons per min
ute and costing $12,95O. The city
| plans to sell the smaller truck to
| Fruita.
John Williams, "a years old, pioneer
miner and prospector, was found dead
in his cabin on the outskirts of Silver
ton. He came to the Triangle country
in 1880 and was known as johnny Be
hind the Rock" He had been in poor
health for several months, and q few
days ago suffered severe fall on the
| streets.
| Gladys Warren, years old, was ia
tally burned at her home in Colorado
Springs when her clothing caught fire
from some unknown cause. Mamie, an
elder sister, seized Gladys, who ran in
to the yard, carried her back into the
house and plunged her into tub Of
water. Gladys, however, had inhaled
the flame and died later.
| The shale men of Mesa county have
received an urgent invitation to attend
the American mining congress to be
held in Chicago, Oct. II to %. There
will be shale oil conference at the
congress and there will probably be
quite a few attending from Grand
| county.
The Atlas mine and mill. ten miles
west of Ouray. are running at about
capacity now with ninety men at work.
| The recent addition to a twenty-ton
filter press has made the mill more ef-
ficient. The Atlas has the biggest pay
roll of any mine in Ouray county.
DIR. Crum Epler, for twenty-one
years in Pueblo, was elected president