Elbert County tribune and Elbert County banner., 1921-06-24
Pithy News Notes
From All Parts of
Colorado
western Newspaper Union N.~. Service. !

Thefts from the Denver National
Bank said to aggregate several thous-
and dollars and TO have extended over
a period of years came to light Thurs
day, following the arrest of John L.
| Hanley of 1913 Marion street, veteran
bookkeeper employed by the bank.
Under the auspices Of the American
Legion, and backed by every booster in
the community, Montrose will this year
| put on the biggest July celebrate
ever attempted on the western slope.
| There will be street parades and street
| sports, water fight, auto races. base
ball and fireworks and-boxing.
James T. Monroe, slayer of Albert
Shook, has been acquitted of a charge
of murder by jury in the West Side
court in Denver. Shook was shot to
death by Monroe In Room SOB OF the
Millard hotel last December as a eli
max to his alleged interference in the
family affairs of Monroe and his wife.
Work has started on the Esperanza
group of mines near Silver Plume
which viii be welcome news TO those
interested In mining in the famous sll.
yer district. Brown mountain, on
which this property is situated, has
been the scene of more excitement.
both as to rich strikes and killings
over the same than any other noun
tain in America.
Weld county will produce 100000
bushels of wheat this year, judging
from present indications. Figures
compiled by the field men of the coun-
900 acres planted to wheat in the
county this year. Because of the large
amount of moisture the yield will be
from thirty to fifty bushels on the non
irrigated land as well as in the irri-
gated districts. There are $4,000 acres
of wheat on the irrigated farms and
about 100000 on the dry land
Coming as complete surprise to the
many friends of Mr.. and Mrs NJ. NJ
Rim was the Secret interlocutory di-
vorce decree obtained by Mr. Rim In
the District Court at Boulder. Mrs
Rim visited Boulder less than two
weeks ago, was met Mt the train by
.1r, Rim and spent the night at their
home on Lovers hill, where her sister,
Mrs. Ellen Judy, has been visiting
Since the alleged escapade OF May o
between Mrs. Rim and Blaine b. Glib
son, former instructor In journalism at
the University of Colorado.
What promised to be murder
mystery" of the great flood at Pueblo
followed the finding of the skeleton of
woman in a box in an alley off the
main business district. Colorado
Rangers estimated that the woman had
been dead eight or nine months and
an investigation was started to deter
mine the identity of the murdered
woman. r. II WINNER. manager of
the Gallup Saddlery Company, blew
the murder" theory to pieces with the
announcement that the body was the
mummy of cliff dweller which had
been in the store for at least fifteen
years. The mummy floated into the
alley during the flood
I'm bad hombre. During the last
year I've handled more than $4,000
taken in through robberies. I was one
of the men who cracked the Kansas
City bank for $4,000 last year" This
was the statement made in the Brigh-
ton Jail by Glenn Stitt, alias Ray
Jones, alias Raymond Miller, charged
with the murder and robbery of
Charles l.. Liebers on the Brighton
road last September. Police place lit
tie credence on Stitt's story of the
Kansas City robbery. 1t is believed he
is something of professional con
fessor," who wishes TO make himself
appear bold bad bandit to the pub
lie.
A bandit gang, mounted on swift
horses and armed with automatic 45s,
raided Crestone, near Saguache, and
shot up the three principal stores. The
gang raced into the town ut breakneck
speed and immediately opened fire.
Citizens fled to safety before the raid
ers, though few of the bolder spirits
exchanged shots with the outlaws No
attempt was made to rob the stores,
and the bandits soon dashed on out OF
the town.
At n mass meeting held in Pueblo at
which seven fraternal and relief organ
izations, including tho American Red
Gross. five civic organizations, the com
mander of the Colorado National
Guard, and city and county commits
sloners. telegram was formulated
and signed by the various bodies, four
teen in all, and sent to John w. Weeks,
secretary of war. The message stated
that your published statement given
to the Associated Press of June II, is
not only based on mlsinformation, but
is misleading, and has done Pueblo and
the Arkansas valley enormous injury"
The wire further said that more than
1000 persons are drowned or missing;
665 homes have been swept away;
more than $500 persons are homeless"
An offer of the services of the best
engineering talent in the state of Colo