Elbert County tribune and Elbert County banner. (Elizabeth, Colo.) 1920-1921, 1921-04-08
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS.

State Highway Commission, OF when
S124,976.46 Will be paid by the govern
ment II approval is made by District
Engineer J. S. Bright One and three
tenths miles of concrete road between
Fort Collins and Loyeland constitutes
one of the projects, to cost SJ4.Ul3.2l.
One and one-tenths miles In Boulder
county, running south from Longmont.
will cost T,3S1.07, the road also to
be of concrete; while a third concrete
road project embraces four and four
tenths miles between Brighton and
I Denver, In Adams county, the estimat-
ed cost of which is 51,959.72.
Richard winnerah. 12-year-old
schooIboy of Ouray county. is the
champion talker of Colorado. He was
awarded first prize In the annual ora
toricaI contest conducted by the Colo
RADIO Association of County Superin-
tendents and Institute Workers at
Corona school in Denver. Eighth grade
pupils from every county In the state
| competed A. the same time Mildred
Akey, pretty little 13-year-old miss Of
wray, Colo, was declared the cham
pion eighth grade word speller of the
state.
Pahaske tepee, the building which
is to house the Buffalo Bill museum
on Lookout mountain near Colonel
Cody's grave. is rapidly nearing COM
pletion and 1t is expected it will be
thrown open to tourists by June l. The
city of Denver is erecting the building
in conjunction with Buffalo Blll's fos-
ter son. Johnny Baker. who has been
granted the concession, and viii con-
duct a first-class restaurant and pa
vilion in the building for the conven-
fence of tourists.
George C. Willard, recently SEN
fenced to serve eighteen to nineteen
months in the penitentiary, after being
convicted of bribery, will not have to
serve this sentence unless the appeal
which will be taken to the Supreme
Court reverses Judge r. J. Black, who
ruled that Willard had been erroneous
ly convicted. The peculiar quirk of
the law has caused CONSERVATION in
Grand Junction.
Permission to continue the tri-week-
ly passenger service on the Denver &
Salt Lake railroad till May 1 has been
granted by the Colorado Utilities Serv-
ice. The order was issued on applica-
ton of Receiver w. Il. Freeman, who
declared that the passenger traffic
was insufficient to warrant the re-
sumption of daily passenger service at
this time.
The state tax of 1 cent n gallon on
gasoline and oils has been declared
constitutional in decision rendered
by Judge Charles G. Butler of the Dis
trict Court at Denver. The validity of
the tax has been in issue for several
months. A number of oil companies
have paid the tax into the state treas
ury, others have resisted payment
William w. Prantz, former convict
at the Colorado penitentiary, is in jail
in Littleton, charged with the robbery
of the Strasburg bank and the depot
at Byers. Both crimes We're COM
mitted last month. When arrested
been stolen from the depot at Byers,
were found ON Prantz.
The work of the convict road gang
which was recently sent to Montrose
county from the state penitentiary has
proved so satisfactory that the county
commissioners have contracted to use
approximately thirty more men when
the construction camp is moved to
Cerro Summit, where extensive road
work is being planned.
Historically accusing them of break
ing up her home, Mrs. John Haner, SO
years old, wife of homesteader and
mother of seven children, residing four
miles south of Center, Colo, shot and
instantly killed N. FL. Relaford and
Frank f. Schmid. She fired five shots
at Relaford and three at Schmid, all
taking effect
Fred Maddocks, son of c. E. Mad
docks. former Colorado Springs con-
tractor, and Frank Peterson, both Sim
la high school students, have confessed
to rifling postoffice mail sacks of reg
istered mail and of robbing the postof-
flee itself at Simla of sums which to-
tai $1,000, police say at Colorado
Springs.
All along the Grand river and the
Gunnison river farmers are busy rip
rapping the banks of the river to re-
pair places damaged by high waters
last spring when the floods from the
hills broke all records and did half a
million damage in western Colorado.
Model reservoir has yielded up the
bodies of two of four Berwind youths
who. were drowned while boating on
the lake March 10. Search which has
gone on unremittingIy, was rewarded
when drag hooks lowered from raft
brought up the bodies.