Elbert County tribune and Elbert County banner., 1921-07-29
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS.


has completed the rea.sessing of four
townships along the Platte river in the
southwest part of Weld county and
( turns in figures showing a loss of
I S1s4. 800 to property along twelve miles
of the course of the river. One thou
/ sand acres of land is damaged for
total of S117.5O0. On this land Il prop
erty loss OF $67O00 Is given, including
II total loss of $50 ncres of beets, S3J.-
| 600; 30 acres Of cabbage, $4,000; 200
acres of wheat, $1,000; 200 acres of
corn, $4,000: 100 acres OF oats, $500
Another chapter in the efforts of
heirs of A. ]. Macky, Boulder banker
to deprive the University of Colorado
of its full share of the estate as resldu-
airy legatee was written in the Coun-
ty Court by Judge f. ]. Ingram HIS
decision sustained all three contentious
of the board of regents and as re-
suit the university will profit by some
$4,000. The suit involved the real es-
| tate holdings of Mr.. Mackey, which
were not mentioned In his will, which
disposed of some 100000 in stocks
and bonds.
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that it shall be known as heaven on
earth, though its streets are to be
paved gold. This gold will he poured
into cement mixtures and used to fin
ish 100000 paving job. The rock
which will be used TO make the paving
is TO come from the dump of the old
Vindicator mine at Cripple Creek. In
this dump, according to reports made
| by mining engineers and assayors, may
! be found thousands of dollars worth
of pure gold.
John Morgan, 9-year-old son of
Frank Morgan, a sheepman, was in
stantly killed on Barlow creek, ten
miles north of Rico, when he was
caught by II rock slide His head was
crushed and his body badly bruised.
Members of the family and friends
! from the Morgan sheep camp on
Lizard Head were spending the day
fishing and picnicking. The children
were rolling rocks down the mountain
when the rock slide caught young
Morgan.
! Mrs Alvrettie Miller has been ar
/ rested at Fort Collins on the charge of
! being accessory before the fact in
/ burglarizing of several cabins in the
| Big Thompson canon last winter, fol-
| lowing the report of the jury in the
| district court convicting her two sons,
]. II. Miller and George Miller, of bur
glary on the charge of stealing various
articles from the cabins. The court
granted the brothers fifteen days in
which to file motion for new trial.
Owing to the inability of the mem
bers of Greenwood Post, G. A r., to
climb the stairs 10 their old meeting
quarters in the Odd Fellows building
at Canon City, the county commission
ers have given them a room on the
| first floor of the courthouse opposite
that of the county superintendent of
| schools for their use in holding their
meetings. Since the first of the year
| Greenwood Post has decreased in num-
bers from forty-fve to thirty-seven.
Fully 10000 trade unlonists are ex-
pected to march in Denver's annual
Labor Day parade, Monday, September
8, members of the joint Labor Day
committee of the Denver Trades and
Labor Assembly and the Building
Trades Council said Yesterday Far
more than this number will gather in
the afternoon and evening they pre-
dict, for the picnic which the organized
labor bodies of the city will promote
at Lakeside.
Troop headquarters of the Colorado
rangers have been transferred from
Pueblo to Denver, and in the future all
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be sent there, according to announce
ment made by Col Patrick Hammock,
superintendent of the ranger force.
The last of the great plains cattle
/ herds is to pass into the realm of
memory when Bill Shanahan, George
Baxter and Nern Simpson move their
herds from the Seihert country to
homesteads which they will take near
Meeker, Colo.
One of the finest mountain parks in
the state will soon be the property of
the city of Fort Collins as the result of
action taken by the City Council in
approving application TO the forestry
| bureau for n park site a mile and
half above the junction of the Little
| South Fork with the Poudre river.
According TO city commissioners, the
site is the prettiest piece OF canon
scenery up the river
Twelve small experimental fields of
hubam, or annual white sweet clover,
are growing in Saguache county this
year. This is a new crop for this val
| ley, and the experimental fields were
| planted under the direction of the
Saguache county farm bureau. This
crop Is very scarce in the United
| States, and last year the seed sold for
| S16 pound.
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