Elbert County tribune and Elbert County banner., 1921-09-23
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS.

tually every state, had been registered
early in September. The 1910 totals
were 1906 cars and 29,O24 persons.
Rocky Mountain National Park Off
cinls reported a registration of 35,SoO
cars and 1871, 1893 persons on Sept J.
n the cars registered 80 far this sea
son at Overland park were placed end
to end, allowing fifteen feet for the
space occupied by each car, they would
make an unbroken string thirty miles
In length Cars that were registered
ut the Estes entrance to Rocky Noun
tain park. II similarly placed, would
form a line OF more than 100 miles.
A grievance of long standing Is said
to have been the cause OF the shooting
Mt Trinidad of Roy Stowe. exalted
ruler of the Trinidad lodge of Elks, by
Walter Hall of Pueblo, who is in jail.
Stowe was shot through the abdomen
during n quarrel following party at
Il roadhouse mt which Stowe. Hall and
three women were present. The shoot
ing took place on the highway east of
the city when Hall. 1t is said, renewed
an alteration with Stowe, who was
driving the car, and shot him.
The Rev. Sumner T. Morgan, sc
years old. until last April pastor of the
Loveland Christian church, was
drowned in Mangum, Okla. Word was
received by his son, Wendell Morgan.
who Immediately departed for Man
gum. Miss Lois Morgan, daughter,
resides Mt Loveland The Rev Mr..
Morgan was prominent in church and
welfare circles while pastor at Love
land and well known throughout the
state.
Irrigation season is closing around
Loveland, with more water stored in
the reservoirs and lakes than ever
known in this section. Practically all
the irrigation systems. have ceased
running water for the season, and
many are preparing to make improve
ments in their bitches and reservoirs.
Another late run for fruit trees will
he made some time in October
More than 10000 attended the fair
at Hotchkiss, many OF the nearby
towns declaring holidays to give busl-
ness men and others the opportunity
to view the exhibits and see the races.
The fair just closed has been the most
successful ever held. A special fea-
ture has been the community exhibits
from seven little neighborhoods on the
higher mesns.
United States Senator Lawrence G..
Phipps will be absent from Congress
during the first three weeks of the
coming session, 1t has been announced.
Senator Phipps acted on the advice OF
his physicians in notifying Senator
Curtis, Republican senatorial whip,
that due TO his recent operation for
appendicitis he will be unable to at
tend the session opening.
Dick Wrather. 3-year-old son OF Mr..
and Mrs. j. II. Wrather of Dallas,
Texas. was struck by an automobile
Colorado Springs on the return from
Yellowstone park. The child ran out
from the Wrather car into the street
and WAS run down, receiving injuries
from which he died without regaining
consciousness
All evidence OF II walkout in the
Colorado Fuel Il Iron Company mines
of southern Colorado disappeared
when workmen who have been laying
off or joining in n so called protest strike
against the reduction OF wages, effec-
tive Sept. l, returned to work under
the ruling of the State Industrial Com
mission, which restored the wage scale
in effect prior to Sept. 1.
A verdict. giving damages of $3.50 to
Charles Jones for the injury to his
eyesight as the result of the explosion
| Of n battery while he was working on
it in the shop of l. Rae Cowden, was
returned in the District Court ut Fort
Collins after the jury had considered
the case for twenty-five hours. Jones
asked damages from Cowden of 5000
Optimism was the dominant note in
the nineteenth annual convention in
Denver of the Colorado Bankers Asso-
ciation. 1t was the basis of the vari-
GUS addresses, and it was the tone of
the $50 individuals attending the con-
ventlon. Out of the recent gloom of
the street corner conversations came
er Is concerned, times not only are
showing better, but the outlook is real
ly bright.
a fine for pedestrians who permit
themselves to be struck by automobiles
is solution of the traffic problem in
Colorado Springs. Two-thirds of the
auto accidents that occur on the streets
are the fault of the pedestrians them
selves who wilfully disregard the traf-
fic rules in jay-walking cutting across
the corners and not observing the sig
nails of the traffic policeman. the en-
| gineers say.
During the month of August 15,5Os
automobiles entered the Rocky Noun
tain National Park, according to fig