Elbert County tribune., 1921-11-25
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lwestern N.-.paper unlon N.., seriee.l

Ihe body OF the man taken out OF
| Copeland lake by two farmers was
Identified at Brighton as that OF John
| Thiil, laboring man, who had been
stopping in Denver. Coroner Jones has
decided that the man probably commit
ted suicide, being broke" and discour-
aged.
| Denver will have n direct highway
to the East by the opening Of the 1922
tourist season, If the plans of the Kan
sas City-Denver Airline Association
materalize. The proposed road will
cut the distance from Kansas City to
Denver from 871 miles to approximate
ly 575 miles.
| News of the death ef Herbert A.
| Herrick, former managing editor of
| the Denver Times WIS received in
| Denver from Louisville. KY. ApopleIy
was the cause. Mr.. Herrick was 81
years old and at the time of his death
was assistant city editor Of the Louis
vile Courier-Journal.
| Senator w. s. Kenyon of Iowa is
coming to Colorado. He will address
the Colorado Farmers Congress nj the
Agricultural College Dec. regarding
some of the more important legisla-
tion which he and his comrades Of the
"Agrarian Bloc" are pushing In Con
| gress for the benefit of the farmers
and stOckmen.
Automobile registration fees collect
ed by the state motor vehicle depart
ment for the last ten months exceeded
| those of the entire twelve months OF
1920 by more than S92, 900, according
to data compiled by Carl S. Mlllken,
secretary OF state. The total amount
of money collected to date is placed
at 1892, ,755.43.
Forty thousand license number
plates for use In Denver next year on
automobiles of the passenger type
have just been received by Secretary
of State Milliken for distribution to
owners Dee. 20. An additional 10000
plates which were received have been
shipped to the county clerks of El
Paso, Pueblo and Weld counties.
Denver probably will be officially
represented at the meeting TO be held
Dec. s. mt Riverside, Calf, by the
League of the Southwest. when mat
ters relating 10 the Colorado river wa
ter rights will come up for discussion.
AS the Colorado river obtains SO per
cent of its water in Colorado, the state
and city Of Denver are vitally inter
ested
The Arkansas valley has this year
experienced one of the most remarka-
BILE falls known. The temperature has
been above normal almost all of the
time, and only one day since the mid
die of August has had any precipita-
lion of moment. Seedmen state that
the weather has favored their work 80
that the crop has been harvested in
the best of conditions. The sugar beet
men report the same favorable autumn.
A crop of 10,S72,OOO bushels is the
Nov. / forecast for Colorado corn, ac-
cording to the report just issued by the
State-Federal Crop Reporting Service,
compared with the tentative estimate
of 1S,940,000 bushels last year and 10.-
100000 bushels of corn harvested in
1919 as reported by the federal census
bureau. The average yield this year Is
estimated at II bushels per acre, as
compared with 20.7 bushels last year
Criminal cases in Denver Increased
81 per cent during 1921 over the aver
age total number of prosecutions for
each OF the four preceding years. The
annual average of the years 1917 to
1920 was 1925 cases filed by the dis
trict attorneys office. In the first
nine months of 1921, 1,796 cases have
been filed. If the same proportion con
tinues the total for the year will be q
396, an Increase of 1,O71 over the pre-
vious average
The Denver Country Club horse
show and wild west exhibit at the
stockyards stadium has been post
poned from Nov. % to Dec. II, 1t was
announced by. Frank Harris, who is in
charge of the show.
The American State Bank at Gran
ada, Colo, was robbed by yeggmen
who dynamlted the voult and smashed
the safety deposit boxes therein. The
robbers got $500 In money belonging
to the bank and an equal amount from
the safety deposit boxes which be-
longed to customers. One hundred and
thirty-five dollars of the money the
bank lost was in pennies. The rob
bers overlooked several thousand dol
lars in cash aud bonds at the rear of
the vault.
Weld county, Colorado, unclassfied
half century ago so far as its agri-
cultural values were concerned, ranks
as the twenty-sixth county Of the en-
tire United States in value of crops
and live stock. according to n federal
census report made public in Denver.
In list of the fifty leading counties
of the nation. Weld holds this position
with total crop and live stock value
in 1919 of S23,203,475. Its crop value
alone was s21, ,19s,se0, giving it rank
as the twenty-third county