Elbert County tribune., 1921-11-18
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS.

statistics for the month OF OctoOer,
1921, as compared to an aggregate OF
301 for the corresponding month the
previous year, according to monthly
report made by Miss Florence Leitch,
registrar. Thirty of the mortaii-
ties were children under 1 year ola.
The record for the same month in 1920
was twenty-eight. Other deaths rec
orded included two from poison, taken
with suicidal intent, one by hanging.
three by firearms, one by asphyxiation
five by accidental falls, three by rail-
road, street car and automobile acci-
dents, three by crushing and four by
murder.
Aztec, New Mexico, has become an
oil and gas center with very good pros
poets Of a through railroad and agri-
cultural development of the surround
ing country undreamed of by the most
| optimistic resident. A group of Aztec
men, believing 1t to be an oil region,
formed a local company, financed 1t
and brought in two drlllers and sunk
| a we'll. At less than 1000 feet the drill
struck gas and is spouting more than
| forty feet, is wet, and experienced oil
men assert that 1t is a sure Indication
| of the presence of a new oil field.
Conrad Greenameir 81 years old. a
rancher, shot his wife, Mrs. Elizabeth
Greenameir, 55 years old, and then
killed himself, on their farm twelve
miles east of Brighton. Undersheriff
Virgil @. Clemmons and Deputy Sher-
iff Harry p. Mckinney of Adams coun-
ty, who Investigated the tragedy and
brought Greenameir's body to the
Brighton morgue, attributed the shoot
ing to an incessant querrel which is
said to have ragged between the couple
for several months. They have four
grown children.
A platinum and gold medal set with
a ruby measuring half an inch in dia-
meter and carrying an insurance value
of $4,000, has just been sent by the
japanese emperor to Capt. Jacob Ber-
ry, resident of Denver, for meritor-
ious service with the Twenty-seventh
infantry in Siberia. This honor, which
signifies the Order of the Rising Sun.
is believed to be held by only three
other Americans, General Wood, who
received his emblem last week; Gen
eral Morrow, and Major Miller
Thirty days each was the sentence
passed at Pueblo by Federal Judge
Robert f. Lewis upon James A. Nc
Donald and Alexis Byrne, who plead
ed guilty to transporting stolen au-
tomobile from st. Cloud, Mimi, to
Colorado. The men have been con
fined in Jail since their arrest. Santos
Juarez, 17-year-old Mexican youth
pleaded guilty to robbery of the post
office at Crook, Colo, and was sent
enced to two years in the reformHtory
at Boone, Mo.
Mrs. Jane Baker, aged "a years, who
twice crossed the western plains in an
OK cart and who is reputed to have
been the first white woman to live in
Denver, died at the home of her adopt
ed daughter, in Murtaugh, Ida. On her
second trip across the plains, in 1857,
from Tennessee, she stopped at the
present site of Denver, where she saw
the first house erected and bought the
first yard of calico offered for sale
there, paying $1.50 yard for it,
There will be no permits issued for
the manufacture or sale of beer in
Colorado, according to n message re-
ceived by Il. II. McClenahan, director
of prohibition enforcement In Colo
RADIO, from Roy A. Haynes federal
commissioner. The reason is given
that no such permits will be issued
for any state where there is "bone-
dry state prohibition, and it will be
recalled that Colorado was dry before
the nation.
Fort Lyons Naval and Marine Hos
pital at Las Animas has been aban-
doned to the Veterans Bureau by the
United States naval hospital corps.
Thirty officers and sixteen enlisted
men of the navy and marine corps have
been ordered to Denver and most of
them have reported to the Fitzsimons
General Hospital at Aurora for treat
ment
The Loveland Real Estate Exchange
has voted unanimously to join both the
nation and state boards of realtors.
Twenty-seven members of the ex-
change were present at the meeting
w C. Moore was elected committee
man to attend the meeting of the ma
tional committee in Des Molnes, Iowa.
Alpha Blk, % years old, a student at
the State Teachers College at Greeley,
was held up on the campus by man
of apparently % years. The young
man, who is from Seibert, handed over
80 cents, all he had. "Aw, you're only
kid" said the holdup, disgustediy,
and he handed back the half dollar.
The annual meeting of the State
Farm Bureau will be held on the cam
pus of the Agricultural College at Fort
Collins, Dec. and 10. Farm bureau
delegates to the Farmers Congress,
which will assemble Dec. 6, will save
thereby considerable railroad expense