The Elbert County tribune., 1899-07-06

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| well-known Temperance worker Vi
Colombo. died on the 2Ith-
The President has appointed Louis
| A. Knackstedt OF Colorado to De hsen'
! of the Southern Ute Indians
The Buckeye mill. located near Mag,
nolIn, Boulder county, was destroyee
by FIRE last week. The loss Is estimated
nf 10000. ifttt
Boulder celebrated strawberry Day
| on the oath. and also the compieuon
of the new electric road to the Chau'
tauqua grounds
Clarence F. Johnstone OF Cheyenne
has been appointed an assistant In tnt
Irrigation department OF the Agricut
tural Bureau ut a salary OF $1,JoO year
ly.
The pIpe organ presented TO the First
| Presbyterian church OF Boulder by An
drew Carnegie, the iron king, has ar.
rived. The organ is the only instrument
OF It's kind In the city.
Rural free delivery postal service has
been established at Morrison. Jener'
son county, with one carrier. George
G. Strickland, to take effect July oth.
The service Will cover m area oil
Giknt iniitt uliti rti " TV' pess''---'
As an experiment the Santa Fe rail-
road is employing Navajo Indians ns
section men on Its road near Gallup
About 100 men have been employed,
md thus far the experiment has been
pronounced n success by the railroad.
which will probably engage several
| hundred more of them.
Officers of the Western Slope Hunt
| Ing Association are arranging elabo-
rate plans for their second annual Hon
hunt. to be held at DeBequc, and they
have called upon General Passenger
Agent Bailey OF the Colorado Midland
to announce that the hunt Will be held
October 25th this year, instead OF In
December, as In 1898.
Jesse NJ. Smith of Layton. Utah,
president OF the Utah Wool Growers
Association. and Senator Arthur
Brown of Salt Lake City are on their
wny to Washington, where they ex-
pect to protest to the Interior Depart
ment against the recent order OF the
government forbidding the pasturing
OF sheep on the forest reserve OF the
Uintah reservation. N
Thomas Tobin, one of the most efii-
Client guards ever employed at the
Colorado penitentiary, was fatally
wounded at 12.15 o'clock "Wednesday
morning, in most unfortunate en-
counter, with two officers from Flor
ence, all parties being In search OF
Charles Nichols, the escaped convict,
who was captured by still another par
ty and is now safe in his old cell.
The second annual Strn wberry Day
for Glenwood was one of the happlest
events in the history of the place. The
weather was perfect and the attend
nnce at least 1000 ahead of the most
sanguine expectations. Four thousand
people ate strawberries. cream and cake
to repletion. Three-fourths Of this
number spent an hour or more In the
mammoth pool.
The police report that there is more
petty stealing going on In the hills
around Cripple Greek and even In the
city itself than ever before in the his
tory of the present administration, says
the Star. The depredations consist.
In the hills. of n general breaking into
cabins during the absence of the OWN
ers. the Invasion of subterranenn
places of storage and the theft of pow
der. steel and miners implements.
t,Ohtttnfnk PtCulluE III tnt AuOutnly
report Of the Board of Health. which
will be issued In few days. is the
fnct that for June the number of
deaths Of women about cquaied those
OF men. This ls very unusual. as n
glnnce through the records OF the
Health Department VIII show. In
May elghty-four males and fifty-one
females composed the deaths, and In
April the ratio was III TO sixty-six.
The workings OF the Vulcan mine nj
Newcastle are becoming SO hot that
work Is almost impossible. The i'm.
mcnse fans nre running at full speed
to drive out the grent volumes OF gas
thrown on. The fire in the vein Is
liable to break out at any moment.
The management is rushing the work
men In m attempt to get out all the
coal possible. but the danger Is very
great and shutdown must come
soon.
The Salvation Army colony near
GRANADA has been the center, of attrac
tion for several days, owing to the
presence there of Commander Booth.
Tucker. The commander found mat.
ters at the colony in n very satisfactory
condition The people are doing well
and making the experiment a success
Fifty more families will be sent to the
colony this summer. The commander
expects to visit the colony at no dis
tant date. fra s5.i-.'' .-..i- ~
1t now seems possible that the strick.
Ter tunnel, to supply water for Colorado
Springs, may be completed by the
time snow flies. 1t is announced thai
the work on the west end, which was
abandoned last fall. will be commenced
again. 1t Is thought that the water
now In the tunnel can be pumped oui
In about ten days. The present short.
ige Of city water Is considered by many
as n proof that the tunnel should be
finished without delay because OF
financial Observation-Disclosures or any
other cause. lr ff
Train No. on the Midland Terminal
which left Colorado Springs at 100
Monday morning. was brought to \
complete stnndstill by caterpillars. II
was on steep grade n few miles from
cripple Creek The train was moving
slowly. the engine putting great clouds
Of black smoke out upon the mountain
mir, when suddenly the wheels began
to revolve with great rapidity. The
train stopped. and the engineer and
fireman discovered that Immense cater,
pillars covered the rails completely for
a distance of about 100 yards.
F. S. Trew, Z. NJ. Blachley and VIII.
lam Galpin have returned home from
an exploration trip to the Chaco coun.
try, in the Navajo desert. They were
about hundred miles south Of Aztec
In the San Juan valley. In two weeks
they unearthed about 200 pieces OF
quaint pottery. besides many other Gu
rios, beads and turquoises. A white
mans skull was discovered The party
will resume Its explorations In the neal
future, the next trip being to the mys