Elbert County tribune and Elbert County banner., 1921-07-15
Pithy News Notes
From All Parts of
Colorado
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Less thiin ten hours Hfter she Is al
legged to have kidnapped her 3-year-old
daughter from the home of the child's
father, John Edge. in Denver, Mrs.
Madge Edge Of Birmingham. Ala, was
arrested mt McCook, Neb.
While swimming in a bayou along
the Colorado river, and in sight of hun
dreds of picnickers, Evelyn Carall, 49,
year-old high school girl of Grand
Junction was drowned and three com
panions narrowly escaped death when
they attempted to rescue her.
Word was received in Boulder of the
death of David Hershman, pioneer Of
northern Colorado, at Long Beach,
Calf. Mr.. Hcrshman came to Colo
RADIO Immediately after the Civil war
and fermed at Loveland. Later he
moved to this city and few years
ago to California.
The first open-air wedding of the
summer was held ut Ouray, when John
+. Leathermnn of Indiana and Mrs
Jennie A. Rose. teacher In local
school, were married in the Chipeta
grove near Ouray, In the heart of the
mountains. The Rev j Freeand
Johnson of Montrose performed the
ceremony.
The Seibert Kanred Wheat Growers
Association has been organized at Sci
bert to take charge of the sale of the
immense crop of Kanrcd wheat now
being harvested. Selbert is the only
place in Colorado with large acre
age of this wheat, which was devel-
oped during a fifteen-year period by
the Kansas experiment stations.
The Ault school directors have ac-
cepted plans and awarded the contract
for new senior and junior high
school building which will cost $4,000
and which Will eventually house 500
pupils The new building is TO be com
pleted and in use by early winter. The
building will front on Liberty park,
which was recently purchased and i'm
proved by the school district
In the famous Cresson mine, Cripple
Creek district, fresh ore body meas
uring 125 to $50 feet in width and
some 200 feet in length was recently
opened up. 1t is between the eleventh
and twelfth levels, and is 30 per cent.
ore, the value averaging from S12 to
S15 per ton. In is conservatively esti-
mated at Sl.500,O00 as ii stands. The
Cresson ''vug" of 1914, located at some
1,250 feet from surface added $3,000,-
600 to the Cripple Creek output in
1915
Two accidents in two days occurred
on the race track at Granada. Irwin
Merrill, 26, of Lamar was instantly
killed when n racing machine which
he was testing skidded on muddy
stretch of the track and overturned.
Merrill was II son of H. C. Merrill of
Canon City and well known there. The
other death occurred when Forest Nc
Gibbon. 10. son of well-to-do farmer
living near Holly, Colo, was run down
by heavy truck on the track. Both
died before medical aid could be adj
minstered.
The contract for the completion of
the new 100000 high school ut Ala
mosa has been let by the board of edu-
cation, and it is expected that the
building can be completed before the
beginning of the next school term. This
school was authorized two years ago
when the people voted II bond issue of
| $4,000, hut when the bids were opened
II was found that owing to the great
increase in costs of materials and Ia
bor the bond issue was several thous-
and dollars short of enough TO finish
the building according to the plans.
Mount Blanca, one of the highest
mountain peaks in Colorado, was
flown over by f. L. Bowers and C. o.
Thalmadge, Colorado Springs ayiators.
| The men were flying at an altitude of
| 14,500 feet when they passed over the
summit II is the first time an air
plane has ever accomplished this feat,
so far as is known
Artie Mckee, charged with the ms,
der of his wife in Yuma county on the
afternoon of April 3, 1921, was con-
! victed Of murder in the first degree at
Akron after the jury had been out five
hours. Mckee has been tried twice be-
fore in Yuma county, the first trial
beng.a hung jury and the second re-
sulting in conviction.
One man is believed to be dying with
four knife wounds in his side, another
is in critical condition with several
slashes in his body and "a third man
is being held in the county Jail here
following II stabbing affray, at Pros
pect heights, one mile south of Canon
! City. The wounded men are Frank
Snyder and Louis Pierce, both Aus
trian smelter workers. Mike Anderson
is in Jail accused of attacking the two
men.
Mrs. Katie Gertrude Bourk, 2S years
old. committed suicide by taking poi
son at the county hospital at Greeley.
Mrs. Bourk had given birth to a daugh-