Elbert County tribune and Elbert County banner., 1921-04-29
Pithy News Notes
From All Parts of
Colorado

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John Foster Symes of Denver has
been nominated by President Harding
TO be United States attorney for the
district of Colorado.
Two hundred and fifty Denver &
Rio Grande railroad shopmen, repre-
senting practically all of the mechan-
ical departments crafts, have been put
back to work after being laid off since
March 10.
For the benefit of tourists from
Texas and other southern states, a
movement has been launched by Trim
idad business men for the building of
| direct route into the San Luis valley
from that place.
Delegates from towns on the Union
Pacific from Denver to the Kansas
state line and on the Rock Island from
Colorado Springs to the Kansas bound
AIRY, met at Limon to perfect the or
ganization of an Eastern Colorado
| Chamber of Commerce.
! One man was killed and two women
were injured in snowslde which
came down Republican mountain at
Silver Plume, Colo, during the bllz-
Yard, wrecked several houses and
buried the town under from six to
twelve feet of snow.
e. NJ Carr of Ault. Colo, was
elected president of the northern
at the closing session of the conven-
ton OF that body in Loveland Fort
Collins was chosen as the meeting place
for next year by the delegates.
BaptistS of Longmont will start work
on new $4,000 church building with
In the next thirty days, according to
announcement made by the building
committee. A campaign for the raising
of building fund has resulted in the
subscribing of total of $37 500
Delegates from all quarters of the
globe will gather In Montrose during
the first week of June to attend the
meeting of the General Missionary
| Society of the United Presbyterian
church More than $50 are expected
to be in attendance at the convention.
| The first American silver dollars
ever manufactured in Denver are now
being coined Mt the United States mint
|
| 600 ounces of silver in small amounts
extending over n period of more than
thirty days, from the leading mining
camps of the West. Coins of this de-
nomination were last stamped by the
Philadelphia mint in 1904. until their
resumption at that place last month,
! officials said.
Judge james l.. Cooper in the Ere
mont county District Court in Canon
City sustained the demurrer of attor-
neys for ex-County Commissioners G..
V. Hodgin, James Belknap and ]. v.
| McCandless in the suit Instituted
against them as individuals by John
w. Richardson of Denver for $4,000
damages for injuries to himself and So
| 600 for the death of his wife, as a re-
| suit of an automobile accident near the
! McCumber ranch on the Canon City
Florence road on the night of April 80,
| 1920.
Il can think of no more delightful
| place to go on vacation than Colo
RADIO, state of true western hospital
| ity.n commented President Harding
\ after Senator Phipps. speaking on be-
half of the citizens, had formally ex-
tended to the President the invitation
from the Colorado Legislature to make
the Rocky Mountain state his summer
home. Besides Colorado's invitation to
become its guest, the President was
presented with certificate OF life hon
orary membership in the Denver Press
| Club. On behalf of the club, Warren
Il. Given of Denver handed the Presi-
! dent Il gold engraved membership card.
| Robert CORTLAND Pierson, 20 months
old, who fell from thrd-story win
/ dow in Denver, probably will live.
| Physicians mt the county hospital say
| the infant, who is suffering from n
fracture at the base of the skull, has
an excellent chance to recover. The
case is said to be one of the most I'M
usual In the history of the accident
ward of the hospital.
A purebred Holstein COW, Princess
| Johanna Hope, owned by e. J. Lind
| quist of Denver, produced the greatest
amount of butterfat of any mich COW
in Colorado during March, according
to reports of the Colorado Cow Test
| ing Association. 9iighest record for
herds was made by that of Harry Yea
ger of Longmont. His cattle produced
5S.5 pounds of butterfat.
Charging that they We're illegally ar
rested and held in connection with the
murder of S. Yamaguchi, wealthy Jap
anese healthseeker, Charles Ferguson
and Samuel Franklin, mountaineers
living near Golden, have filed suit in
the District Court. of Jefferson county
asking damages totnling 100000
against Sheriff Gary Kerr of Golden
and Charles Bjork, private detective
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