The Elbert County tribune., 1899-09-21

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J. G. Clifford, of Sidney, is
down with severe attack OF
Typhoid fever.
| Frank Woodard, our popular
county comm issioncr, was calling
on friends in Elbert Tuesday.
A fine new Sears & Roebuck
organ arrived Friday for the Sid
ncy church and Sunday School.
1t is wholly paid for.
| A fine new boy has come to bless
the home of MIR. and Mrs. Henry
AppIeby AT Goldfeld, Colorado.
Mrs. Appleby will be remembered
as Miss Hortcnse Holden.
A fine new 81 10. boy came to
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Allen
Carnahan on Tuesday. AL. was
so well pleased he was around
setting up the cigars to his friends.
Rev. Cornell. Presiding Elder
of the United Brethren church,
held quarterly meeting at Fondis
Saturday and sunday last. Crowd
ed houses greeted him at all SER
vices.
The Elizabeth Eye again made
its appearance last week under the
management of Mr. X. l.. Glow
and promises to greet its readers
in the future regularly each week.
1t is as newsy as of old.
Mrs. Thos.- Rutherford and
Miss Sarah Murray, of Santa Bar
bara, California, daughters of Mr..
and Mrs. John Murra~, are max
ing a visit of several weeks with
their parents west of town.
Tom. Harper shipped Tuesday
from Elbert to commission firm
in Denver 1000 lbs. of fresh
picked table beets, also several
sacks of Mexican beans-all raised
in the Eondis neighborhood.
DIR. Ridlon returned from Colo
RADIO Springs Tuesday and has re-
sumed his residence. and practice
in this place. His many friends
will be pleased to hear he is with
us again, and that he is gradually
improving in health.
t. A. Kelley reports many
cattle in Bijou Basin country
going blind in one eye and some
in both eyes. 1t is supposed to
be the result of poisonous weed.
A few cattle recover their sight,
but many do not.
j. Z. Hobbs & Son sold IL cars
of feeders for AIexas, ILL.,, and
four cars for Wamego, Kansas.
all at an average price of S4.95
per hundred lbs. They will be
shipped from Elbert if satisfactory
freight rates can be obtained;
otherwise from Ramah.
Mr.. b. U. Jamison, promi-
nent citizen of Elizabeth and u
leading candidate for the nomina-
ton of County Clerk before the
Democratic convention, was in
town Tuesday calling on friends.
He dropped 81. in our treasury
for the TRIBUNE for the coming
year.
The Democratic call for county
convention appears in another
column signed only by the secre-
tary of the Central Committee.
Mr.. Wallace Aux, who was 50
suddenly cut down few days ago
while in the full enjoyment of
strength and health, was the county
chairman.
The number of cattle other than
milch COWS in the country has de-
elined from 81, ,651, 239 in 1892
to 81, 1894, 225 at the beginning
of this year. These are the Agri-
cultural departments figures. AS
population has meantime increased
the rise in the price OF meat APP
pears to have very substantial
basis.
Walter Banes, wife and child,
who few days ago were all found
dead in bed at u small town in the
mountains northwest of Denver,
were former residents of Elbert
county and lived on Lower Co.
mancho. Their death is supposed
to have resulted from breathing
tho fumes of charcoal, as dead
embers were found in the stove,
and no other cause couldhe found.
Mr.. and Mrs. Banes were highly