The Elbert County tribune., 1899-09-28

NtlE -A0uUIl tIfIa iit ttt'lt tftfttt' f%"t*-
Grant, Colorado. Suicide due to poy-
crfy and Ill health was tile cause
II Is estimated that fully 5000 cars
OF potatoes will be shipped from Gree
ley district this scnson. Some OF the
freight agents plnce the output ns hign
MS 1000 cars.
The Pacific Express Company mas
forwarded TO Governor Richards OF
Wyoming n check for 81 900 ns Its con.
tribution to the relief fund being raised
for the family OF Sheriff Hazen, the
Wyoming officer who was killed whlie
In pursuit OF the Union Pacific train
robbers.
While there are 100 nrtcsinn wells In
the town OF Roswell. New Mexico, IT
is but recently that efforts have been
made to secure them upon fnrms. On
the ChIsum farm. the pioneer ranch OF
the valley, n sponter was obtained re-
Gently that flows 200 gallons per-min-
ute.
In the District Court Mt Fort Collins,
before Judge Broughton. Marie Lafitte
was convicted OF selling liquor In yio-
lation OF the prohlbiitory laws OF the
city, and wns fined the sum OF $500
and costs OF suit. The accused was
committed to Jail In default OF the
amount OF the fine.
On the Burlington n-AIlinnce-Hartville
line now being constructed. 115 miles
OF rails are being laid Mt the rate Of
5000 feet per day, the steel gang now
being about eighteen miles from ALI
ancc. When the Platte valley is reach
ed. which Will be in few weeks. the
town of bridgeport will be established.
and the rond that far will be used for
commercial purposes as well as for
construction.
II was pandemonlum of color
rather than n confusion OF noises that
greeted the returning cnmpaigners
from the Philippines Wednesday after
noon ms they took possession OF Colo
rndo Springs and enjoyed the festlvI-
ties of the carnival Flowers were the
reignIng element and they vied among
themselves with the weapons OF beauty
for the honor OF being cast beneath the
revcrcd feet OF the volunteers.
Arrangements have been made and
Longinont will celebrate October 9Th
ns Pumpkin Pie Day. II will occur
on the first dny OF the Agricultural
Fair and race meeting. Mammoth ta-
blcs will be spread In the City park,
and the people will be regaled on
pumpkin Dlt, uDDlt tlutE ubu
wIches. The railroads will make lib
cral rates from nll points in northern
Colorado and arrange schedule 80 all
can return home on the day of the
feast.
Thursday, the third of the Peach day
celebration ut Grand Junction, was the
greatest OF all la point OF numbers and
entertainment. The business houses
oil x.lr N rIfu 4nrnpb
over to the visitors, who seemed TO
make full use OF the privilege. The
main thoroughfarcs In the afternoon
were one surglng mass OF people, fully
eight thousand people enjoying Grand
functions hospitality. The event of
the day was the mnsque carnival, In
which fully 1000 people participated.
There is more trouble between the
cnttle men and sheep men OF Logan
county. A courier reached Sterling
Monday morning from the northern
part of the county with the report that
sixty sheep, the property OF the War
rcn Live Stock Company OF Cheyenne,
Ind been killed Sunday evening, the
hcrders being seriously beaten and
other damage done. Sheriff Ayrcs left
for the scene of the trouble with war
rants for the arrest OF Hunter Smith.
WIN Reagan and two McIndnffer boys,
nll said to have been implicated In the
killing. The complaint was filed by c.
c. Lemm, foreman for the Warren COM
pany In Logan county. More trouble
Is expected to grow out Of this.
l.. F. Littlefield Of Slater. Routt coun-
ty, says the assessor of the county has
taxed his domesticated elk as cattle,
and when Andrew Jackson, chief game
warden Of district No Q, wanted him
to take out license for game park, he
refused under the contention that his
animals cannot be taxed twice. State
Game Commissioner johnson has been
appealed to and will decide whether or
not Mr.. Littleheld is entitled TO keep
elk confined on his premises without
taking out a license for park. The
law Is SO CONSTRUCTED that park may
be construed to mean place where
even one game animal Is kept. Mr.. Lit
tlefield has written to the commission
er that he is acting upon the advice of
an attorney In declining to take out n
license.
Information has been received of an
accident that occurred five miles from
Mora resulting In Manuel Cordova, his
wife and six children being crushed to
death by the falling OF house, caused
.
past II has been raining necessarily in
the vicinity of where the accident oc-
Cured. Cordova's house was small
adobe structure, with q dirt roof The
dirt which usually covers the roof of
this class OF houses to the depth OF
foot or eighteen inches, 1t Is thought
became saturated with water and fell
In, crushing the inmates. The accident
occurred about o o'clock In the night.
Only one boy, n lad OF 10. escaped. He
was outside when the house fell and
walked couple OF miles to get assist
ance.
1t Is almost a certainty that by Octo-
bcr 1, 1900, sugar beet factory will
be In operation In the Arkansas valley
few miles west of Rocky Ford. The
new enterprise will have a capacity OF
1000 tons of sugar beets per day, and
will cost upwards OF S60O,OO0. Fifteen
hundred acres will be planted in sugar
beets us soon as the deal is consum-
mated. Henry 4. Oxnard, president of
the American Sugar Beet Company of
New York, one of the largest corpora
tions OF its kind In the United States,
and which controls four immense su-
gar beet factories, proposes to put up
the factory. Mr.. Oxnard is quite enthu-
siastlc over the prospects Of this sec
tion becoming great sugar beet pro-
ducing country. He says that the lnnd
embraces every condition for the cult
walton of the sugar beet, and that he
considers 1t superior 10 the beet pro-
ducing districts Of Oxnard. California
He believes that enough beets can be
grown in the Arkansas valley TO sup
ply several large factories.
The Indian police win endeavor to
persuade the Indians who are playing
havoc with the game resources of
Western Rio Blanco county 10 return