Elbert County tribune and Elbert County banner., February 04, 1921, Image 6

About Elbert County tribune and Elbert County banner. (Elizabeth, Colo.) 1920-1921

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NEWS TO DATE
IN PARAGRAPHS
CAUOMT FROM THE NETWORK OF
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
THE WORI-D.
DURING THE PAST WEEK
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE
(Vatin Cafea ?fev« tanirm i
WESTERN
A bomb placed at the bark door of
Patrolman Michael J. Finnegan's resi
dence In Bt. I»uU exploded and In
jured thro** metnbers of the family and
wrecked the back part of the houw.
Police blatne liquor raid victims.
John Simon, who would have cele
brated hla one hundred and first birth
day within a week, died at hi* home In
I>os Angele*. He was born In France !
and came to the United State* when 1
IS year* old. lie had lived in Lot* An
gles fifty-fire year*.
Salt to escheat to the state forty-one
teres of land comprising a farm for- 1
merty owned by J. J. Gledhill and lat- |
*r sold to the U. N. Farm* Omipany.
alleged to be a Japanese concern. hn> j
been filed at Yuba. Calif, in tl»e name
of the state.
A bill baa been passed in the Ne
braska House requirini: county clerk
to file diachirpe paper* for soldier*.
It al»> passed a bill Increasing ti>« pay
of election board* from 3D to 50 cent*
an boor, making the compensation uni
form for the state.
A bill to make highway robbery pun
ishable with s life scoter i f '» in the pen
itentiary has been introduced in the
Montana Legislature. Senator Slat
•ery. sponsor of the measure, said the j
act was designed “to keep out of the
state undesirable* who are creating I
crime wares elsewhere."
Whipping posts for habitual crim
inals was advocated by William A-
Pinkerton, dean of American sleuth*
and head of the Pinkerton Detective |
agency. In I»s Angeles, on a tour of
inspection of his western office*. “The
probation laws in California and all
through the country are rotten,” he de- I
dared. “That is the only word that
aptly describes them. Abolish them
without deluy and go one step farther
and establish whipping posts for high
waymen and prowlers. It is the one
sure thing that will break criminals
of the dangerous class.**
WASHINGTON
The Senate has confirmed the nom
inations of 5,000 junior officers of the
army. The confirmations were the
first of the'present sessiou and were
made in open session by unanimous
consent.
Reduction of the navy’s enlisted per
sonnel to a maximum of 100,000 men,
as compared with a present possible
maximum of 143,000, is provided for In
the naval appropriation bill, reported
to the House.
Legislation proposing a 50 per cent
reduction In the retainer pay of mem
bers of the naval reserve force when
not on active duty would practically
sound the death knell of the naval re
serve, the House nuval committee was
told by naval officials and officers of
the reserve.
President Wilson is having collected
and arranged for reference all papers
and documents in his possession relat
ing to the Paris peace conference, with
a view to the preparation of a book. It
is understood that the President in
tends to begin real work on the book
shortly after his retirement.
The House agricultural committee
voted to take up the Senate bill for
regulation of the meat industry, and
keep at it until disposed of.
j Plans for dedication of the Lincoln
memorial, erected at a cost of $3,000,-
000 to the memory of the martyred
President, have been postponed indefi
nitely. In announcing the delay the
commission said the foundations of the
terrace and approaches were settling
and would have to be underpln-.ied.
The opinion that the American peo
ple were "mulcted” of a billion and a
half dollars last year by the men In
the coal trade was expressed by Sen
ator Calder, Republican, New York,
who was a witness before the Senate
committee considering his hill for fed
eral regulation of the coal industry.
Half a billion dollars in revenues
from back taxes probably will be paid
Into the treasury this year, officials
said. This unexpected revenue source
made possible by new audits of the
returns for preceding years, is ex
pected to partly offset the loss ex
pected in the slump in excess profits
taxes. Some officials estimate that
the excess profits taxes may fall off
$1,000,000,000
With a reduction in War Depart
ment estimates of $099,275,502.93, the
army appropriation bill carrying u to
tal of $331,222,012.02 has been reported
to the House by the appropriations
committee. The appropriation Is based
on an army of 150,000 men, exclusive
of the Philippine scouts or the flying
cadets. Provisions are made for 14,-
* 000 commissioned officers, or 1,000
more than are now in the service. The
bill shows a reduction of about $64,-
600,000 as compared with appropria
tions for the current year
FOREIGN
Fifty-two person* were killed and
twenty-six injured In a mine explosion
near Frlen**<hactit-I>ei*nitz, in Sax
ony, according to an Exchange Telo
srrapb dispa i«-h from Carlsbad.
The ex-kaixer I* suffering from aw
aggerated übwni mlndednea* at hie
home in Doom and is often unable fee
recognize his visitor* or to write with
a pen, according to a Berne dispatch to
Paris.
Fifty-fire caa*** of sleeping sickness
have been n*j»orted during the past
four weeks in London. This Is a largo
ncrease, only twenty-three being re
ported in the previous period of four
weeks.
Simple ceremonies marked the per
manent entombment of “a Soldier of
France.” representing the French un
identified war hero, under the Arc de
Trionipbe In Paris A plain stone slab
marks the resting spot of this unknown
[wflu.
The Frankfort Gazette, relative to
the attempt to kidnap Grover C. Berg
dolt and Isaac Rtecher. in Kberbach. '
Rnden. says that the “wild west ' metb
od« as practiced by sheriffs in the bor
der districts of Kansas and Colorado
are hardly adaptable to Germany.
Gen. Ambrose Arrieta, one of tb»-
eleven Arrleta brothers reported to
have leading am insurrection in
: Durango, ha* called at the headquar '
iters of General Lopez, government
commander there, and denied that
either lie or any of hi* brothers ever
thought of starting a revolution.
Thirty thousand refuge*-a from
Crimea in the CaueasusA-ninong whom
are twenty generals, seventy colonels '
and a nephew of the novelist. Tolstoy, 1
face starvation unles- aid J- sent by
the allied governments. It Is learned.
Typhus and other diseases arc ram-
I»ant and score* of death* are !»eing re
ported daily.
, The State Department, at Washing i
; ton ha* sent an emphatic note to Mex
| :vt» protesting against encroachments
! on fhs rights of American oil produc
ers. Mexicans are alleged to have '
taken advantage of a denouncement
system put in effect In Mexico when 1
claims are contested to take American !
oil claims and reap profits from i
them, it was learned, and it is this
practice which the State Department
has protested against.
GENERAL
C. w. Foster, who probably was the I
oldest fireman in active service in the 1
country, is dead at Lawrence, Mass.,
aged 87. He had missed only six
alarms since he Joined the city Tire de
partment in 1850.
What Is said to be the first title In
surance company in the United States
to be organized and conducted by worn- J
cn, i* now In process of formation in
Philadelphia. It will be known as the
Womens Trust Company.
A bill making refuaul of a landlord
to rent his property to families with
children a misdemeanor, punishable j
by a SIOO fine and ninety days’ impris
onment has been Introduced in the
lower house of the Michigan Legisla
ture.
Brick making companies with head
quarters ut Ogden. Utah, announced a
cut of from 15 to 25 per cent in the
cost of brick, which they said brings
the price virtually to pre-war levels.
Common brick was quoted at $12.50 a
thousand at the yards.
Zemmes Wulmsley, chairman of the
National Memorials Commission of th<*
American I-egion, announced his com
inittee hus decided to recommend ac
ceptance of the $5,000,000 offered the
American Legion by the Knights of Co
lumbus for use in the erection of a me
morial to those who died in France.
Suicides in the United States in 1920
numbered 0,171, including 707 children,
members of the Save-u-Life League
were told by Dr. H. M. Warren, presi
dent. This exceeded the figures of
1919 by more than 1.000, he said. Dur
ing the year 2,604 womeu, a large in
crease, died through self-destruction.
The American Bonding and Casualty
Company with headquarters at Sioux
City, lowa, capitalized at $500,000 and
with $100,000,000 worth of policies ou
Its books was declared Insolvent at Chi
cago. Albert Sabath, an attorney, was
appointed receiver. Liabilities were
said to be $3,000,000 and assets "con
siderably less.”
“Florence Harding lavender” Is the
Intest color entrant into the category
of fashion, named after the wife of the
President-elect, who herself selected
the shade which will be turned out In
large quantities by a well-known silk
mill. The color is In orchid tone. Mrs
Harding's second choice was a blue,
between an electric and a sapphire.
This will be known as "Marion blue"
and used for a house dress.
The sexton in the Eighteenth Street
Methodist Episcopal Church of New
York pulled the hell rope before morn
log services but no sound came. He
climbed to the steeple and found Tim
othy Jones, 24, lying over the rope in h
semi-del Irion* condition. After being
revived, Jones said he climbed to the
belfry a week ago to escape the cold
and had lain there a week trying to
forget his hunger.
The navy yards on the Atlantic coast
should he sold and the money used for
the building of one big base on Naxra
gansett bay, ki the opinion of Rear Ad
mlral William 8. Sims, president of the
naval war college. Speaking at New
port, It. 1., he said he believed Narra
gansett bay should be developed by the
erection of repair plants capable of
raring for a whole fleet. In the event
of the navy requiring repairs after an
engagement with an enemy force, ho
said the fleet would be forced to scat
ter to several yards for the necessary
work.
ELBXBT COUHTT TBIBUHE: ELBEKT COUNTY BAHNEB
Pithy News Notes
From All Parts of
Colorado
(W mxan \IWWOJ l afea .1m Srrrtea >
William Mussulman, 10-year-old-son
of a Fruits rancher, was almost in
stantly killed when he fell from a pony
he was riding The lad was riding the
pony and driving home bis father’s
cow* when the accident occurred.
Work at l>onginnnt has started in
wrecking the city hail to make way
for a new $50,000 municipal building.
The new hal! will contain council ‘
chambers, rest rooms, a gymnasium
and office rooms for city official*.
Among the chief need* which will be
discussed at the annual meeting of the
Grand Junction Chamber of Commerce
In February, the need of advertising
western Colorado's wonderland to the
world will receive great attention. \
plan will be discussed for an advertis
ing campaign which will virtually In
troduce to new fields the possibilities
of that part of Colorado.
Mrs. Bertha M. Dickey, who entered
a desert claim on land six miles from
Cimarron a year ago and whom the
government has tried to disguises* up
on the claim that the hind wa* too
rough for cultivation and therefore
should be re-designated a* grazing
land, won In a contest case heard In
the Montrose land office after she had
proved by several witnesses that ’he
land was actually in cultivation, hav
ing been plowed with a tractor last
fall.
Uncle Bam paid the Colorado State
Highway Department approximately
£952.122.78 a* the government share
of the constructed federal aid road
work In the state during 1920. accord
ing to District Engineer J. S. Bright
of the United States Bureau of Public
Rotols. “This money represents the
federal payments on forty-seven pro
jects under construction or completed
through the state.” Bright said. “Twen
ty-two separate projects were com
pleted during the year at a total esti
mated cost of $1,066,835.44, of which
the federal government w-as requested
to pay $410,967.3f1.”
Charles T. Stockton, furniture deal
er of Bristol for a number of years. Is
dead, and four other persons are In
the hospital suffering serious injuries
as the result of an accident which oc
curred six miles between Bristol and
Holly. The injured are Joseph Zel
lars, who is suffering from u broken
leg; O. IL Hite, badly bruised, and
Henry Thompson and Ernest Burke se
verely bruised about the face and
body. Stockton, Zellara, Thompson
and Burke, all of Bristol, were eu
route home from Holly when the ma
chine in which they were riding col
lided with a horse and buggy being
driven by G. R. Hite, who is a well
known Prowers county farmer. It Is
suid a blinding snow storm was the
<-ause of the accident.
No state with the exception of Mon
tana bus shown so rapid an increase
in the acreage of land under cultiva
tion in the past decade as Colorado,
and few states have shown a lurger
percentage of increase in the number
of farms. Within the past ten years
approximately 10,000,000 acres of gov
ernment land has been homesteaded,
while large areas of privately-owned
lund have been broken and placed un
der cultivation. Records of the State
Immigration Department show that
this movement hus been much stronger
in the past five years than in the pre
ceding five years, and that there was
an ac/ual decrease In the population
of the state during the first two years
after the 1910 census was complied.
The Increase In subsequent years has
been due primarily to agricultural de
velopment, which has been much more
marked In the non-irrigated than In
the irrigated districts.
Thieves who have been getting such
good hauls of late at Grand Junction
met with a different reception at the S.
It. Parker home In that city. The in
truders were greeted by a volley of
shots from the Parker family arsenal
and the neighbors took up the fusil
lade. sending the would-be robbers
away at a record clip.
Decision to withhold financial snp-
I>ort from the Colorado School of
Mines magazine and refuse to furnish
headquarters in the school buildings
for the editor of the publication, was
voted by the board of trustees of the
school at a recent meeting, at which
publication of an article derogatory
to the institution was considered.
Jose Ramon of Cordova, Colo., will
receive $1,035 for injuries received in
an old Apache Indian uprising. In
which he fought as n federal soldier, if
the United Stutes Senate posses a bill
making the appropriation which was
reported on favorably by the commit
tee on claims. The lower house al
ready has passed this bill, and also one
of a similar kind to aid Mrs. Joseph C.
Akins, the widow of an officer killed
In the uprising. The latter bill hus
not been reported out, however.
Noncolorudoans attending the Univer
sity of Colorado next and subsequent
quarters will he charged Just twice the
present rate, according to an order
made public by the Board of Regents.
The tuition fee In the college of liberal
arts, engineering school and school of
pharmacy Is to b# S2O a quarter, the
tuition for the law school will bo $25
a quarter. The new fees will material
ly Increase the revenues of the univer
sity, and will probably have little ef
fect upon the present attendance. The
registration Is now past the 2,000
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS.
While the farm population in the
country as a whole haa Increased much
lees rapidly in the past decade than
the population of the cities. In Colo
rado the population of the farming dis
tricts ha* grown more rapidly than
that of the cities. Figures announced
by the federal census bureau and
complied in the office of the State Im
migration Department show that the
rural population of Colorado 1* now
51.76 per cent of the total population,
compared with 49.3 per cent in 1910
la the United States the rural popu
lation ia now 48.7 per cent of the total,
compared with 53.7 per cent in 1910.
The rural population in Colorado In
1920 is 486£70, compared with 394,184
in If 10, the Increase being over 23 per
cent. The urban population in 1920
was 453J39. compared with 404.840 in
1910, the Increase being slightly less
than 12 per rent. In the United States
a* a whole the Increase In urban pop
ulation In the past decade was 28-8 per
cent, while the increase in rural popu
lation was only 3.1 per cent. These
figure* show clearly that, while there
wa* a strong movement from the
farm* to the cities in the country as a
whole, the movement In the Rocky
Mountain stares wa* from the cities to
tue farm*, und that this movement
was especially strong in Colorado and
Montana.
The total school population of Colo
rado Is 250,813, and on this basis Miss
Katherine L. Craig, state superinten
dent of public instruction, apportioned
a total of $361,148.18 to the sixty
three couuties of the state. Of this
surn, Denver receives $72,959.85, the
largest single amount apportioned.
This was the semi-annual apportion
ment of the state school fund. The
amount distributed represents a total
of $1.39 for each pupil, as compared
with $1.73 given out last July. Miss
Craig announced the sum of $1,733.73
withheld from the State Teachers’ col
lege by mistake last July was allotted
this time. El Paso and Weld counties
were the second and third Jargest
beneficiaries from the fund, receiving
$15,760.48 and $22,396.18, respectively.
Howard G. Wade, chairman of the
Denver branch of the Military Train
ing Association, has been advised, by
telegraphic communication from New
York that the Congressional committee
on military affairs has assured the ap
propriation of adequate funds to pro
vide for the establishment of eighteen
summer training camps during 1921. A
Joint committee of the Training Camp*
Association and the American Legion
appeared before the Congressional
body and outlined the needs, which in
clude the establishment of two camps
in the Ninth corps area, in which Den
ver Is included. An effort is being
made to establish one of the camps
near Denver, Fort Logan having been
suggested as a suitable location.
Upward of 1,500 shopmen and traek
men living in Denver and nearly 200
others on the Colorado division of the
Union Pacific are affected by a re
duction in working hours which has
been announced. The shopmen are to
have a five-day week instead of a flve
and one-half day week, while trackmen
will work five days instead of six.
This method Is taken in preference to
cutting the force.
Two thousand carloads of choice
Greeley potatoes will be ruined in the
dugouts unless unexpected relief is ob
tained for the fanners. Potatoes are
now selling at less than 50 per cent of
the cost of the crop and apparently
available markets will take only a
very small percentage of the 3,000
carloads of sound potatoes in the
hands of dealers and farmers.
R. B. McDermott, one of the best
known country newspaper men in the
state, has bought a half interest in the
Fort Lupton Booster from the present
publisher, F. M. Walling, and the firm
name will he Walling A McDermott.
Mr. McDermott will be the editor of
the paper.
Two hundred thousand rainbow
trout eggs have been received from
Oregou at the Fort Collins fish hatch
ery, to be hatched and put into the
streams of the county. The hatchery
already lias on hand 400,000 fry about
thirty days old. R. G. Havilaml, sup
erintendent of the hatchery, an
nounces that within thirty days he will
begin the construction of a fish nurs
ery pond in front of the hatchery 200
by 50 feet, and that the fish from the
hatchery will be grown in tills pond
until they are finger length before
they will be released In the streams.
Hunters aud fishermen of Boulder
county are to meet in Boulder to or
ganize a fish and game club and to dis
cuss protective legislation now before
the State Legislature. All of the local
clubs ia the county are to be affiliated
in this organization, though they will
retain their Identity.
Notices* of reductions in wages ef
fective March X have been filed by fif
teen Colorado concerns with the State
Industrial Commission. Included In the
number ure the famous Carlton group
of mines in the Cripple Creek district,
which announced a cut of 50 cents per
day.
Following the recovery of travelers’
checks negotiable for an amount In ex
cess of $2,000, stolen from the malls
near Sedgwick, Colo., on Christmas
day. federal authorities arrested W. E.
Gifford, 41 year old, employed as a
section hand near that point, after ha
asked the station agent, it is alleged.
If he would be paid a reward for the
recovery of the money. Immediately
after the theft of the mail pouches
containing the checks federal agents
and Union Pacific inspectors were dis
patched to the scene, and two Mexi
can* were placed under arre*r.
Prominent Western
Man Praises Tanlac
G. W. Logan, Peabody, Kansas
“Tanlac has completely restored my
health and I feel finer than In years,”
was the straightforward statement
made recently b/ Mr. George W.
Logan of Peabody. Kansas, one of
the most prominent stock-dealers in
the Middle West.
“It has not only made a new man
of me but I have actually gained
thirty-five pounds In weight and feel
as well as I ever did in my life. I am
telling all of my friends about Tanlac,
but they can see for themselves what
it has done In my case.
“When I began taking Tanlac I was
In an awfully run-down condition. I
was away off In weight, felt weak and
nervous all of the time and couldn’t
take any Interest In my work or any
@ ENDORSED BY HORSEMEN UNIVERSALLY
SPOHN’S DISTEMPER COMPOUND
enjoys * reputation equalled by no other veterinary remedy. For
twenty-elx years It has been used and recommended by the
leading horsemen and stockmen of For twenty-sli
years Its use under trying conditions has won for It tba highest
esteem of veteran trainers and drivers. SPOHN’S should ba Is
•very stable to prevent contagion, whether INFLUENZA, PINK
EYE. DISTEMPER, COUOH or COLD.
Buy of your druggist. - 60 centa and |LII par bottia.
SPOHX MEDICAL CO.. Goahen. ImL. V. 8. A.
What to Do for
SICK HEADACHE
Take a good dose of Carter’s little liver
p— —.. Pills—then take 2 or 3 for a few nights after.
CARTERS A few doses restore your organs to their
|"le proper functions and the Headache and the
H iVER causes of it pass away. In the same manner
A Brills They regulate the Bowels and prevent Constipation.
IhwbM— s~D ra ; s—n D-: s—n r*N
Many a Pretty Face
Spoiled by Pimples
Not only are these pimples and 1
splotches disfiguring, but they lead i
to serious skin diseases that spread 1
and cause the most discomforting i
irritation and pain. Sometimes they 1
foretell Eczema, boils, blisters, scaly <
eruptions and other annoyances that <
burn like flames of fire, and make ;
you feel that your skin is ablaze. 3
If you are afflicted with this ;
form of skin disease do not expect !
Rough on Men.
The other day an elderly colored
woman was admiring a North side
woman’s children, telling her that they
were angels.
“Thoy’s nothin’ hut babies.*’ she
said. “When they do anything it’s
’cause they don’t know no better. I
loves children, but I’m mighty rough
on men."
Chronic kickers soon develop a
whine that won’t wear off.
Kill That Cold With
CASCARA QUININE
F°K AND
C«IJ«, Coafbs L» Gripp.
Neglected Colds are Dangerous
Tak* no chancm. Keep this standard remedy handy for tho fir*t iiwma
Breaks up a cold in 24 hours Relieves
Grippe in 3 days—Excellent for Headache
% Quinine in this form does not affect the bead—Cascara ia best Tonic
Laxative—No Opiate in Hill's.
ALL DRUGGISTS SELL IT
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thing else. My main trouble was In
digestion. Nothing seemed to agree
with me. At times I would have dizzy
spells and at other times my back
would ache so bad that I could hardlj|
get up and down In my chair. Thia
is Jnst the condition I was In when
I started to take this medicine. It I
took Just six bottles to make a well
man of me. I now have a fine appei
tlte, everything tastes good and my b
digestion is perfect
“My wife was also troubled with
Indigestion at times and it relieved '
her the same way. You may pub
lish my statement wherever you lika
and if anyone donbts it Just tell them
to see me.”
Tanlac is sold by leading druggist*
everywhere.
to be cured by lotions, ointment*,
salves and other local remedies, a*
they can not possibly reach the
source of the trouble, which is in
the blood. Begin taking &&S. to
day, and write a complete history
of your case to our chief medical
adviser who will give you special
instructions, without charge. Write
at once to Medical Director, 151
Swift Laboratory, Atlanta, Ga.
From Rags to Rags.
“Mr. Baker will now oblige with ■
recitation entitled ‘Ragtime.’ "
Rags make paper.
Paper makes money.
Money makes banks.
Hanks make loans.
Ixians make poverty.
Poverty makes rags.—Cincinnati
Enquirer.
If it Is a "rare treat” It shows a
limited descriptive vocabulary.