The Elbert County tribune., 1900-01-18
eoLoEApo ITEMS.

A voter has been arrested ut uo'ue'
for showing his ballot. .,,,,a
bv the oyerturning Of n truck wnie
going TO a fire recently.
Three Leadville firemen were inJnreu
I. Ii. Orman. who has the contrH,'
for building the Crystal river raii.oa";
says that the road will be completeh
to Marble this year
The State Federation of Lahor mas
placed Itself on record in the hsn'
which has been commenced by the or
der of teIegraphers against the !pio-
RADIO & Southern railway. The ieuera-
tion upholds the telegraphers ID their
contention, and calls upon all union
labor bodies to aid In making the hght
effective by boycotting the road
A disastrous FIRE broke out Friday
morning In the heart of Coloraao
Springs, and before the flames couin
be checked about S140,OOO worth OF
property was destroyed. The greatest
sufferers were the May Clothing Com
pany, w. S. Nichols & Co.. wholesale
gracers, and A ii. Whaite * Co,
clothiers. The losses are covered to
great extent by insurance.
A. b. Humphrey, Superintendent of
motive power OF the Colorado Midland
Railway, is in Paterson, New Jersey. to
inspect the $4,000 rotary snow plow
ordered several months ago. The ma
chine IL now completed and VIII be
delivered as soon as approved by MI.
Humphrey. II will be the biggest
snow plow in the West. having
sweep two feet greater In width than
those now In use In the mountains
BY the agreement of the telegraph
ers and the Rio Grande, a new office
is created, that of manager OF the
main telegraph office. at a salary OF
S95 a month. J. T. Fegan has been In
charge of the Rio Grande telegraph of
fee for ten years, but without official
position. Now that the position is de-
fined, II Is to go to the man who Is
oldest In line of promotion, who Is j.
W. Brunton OF Pueblo. now wire
chief, with headquarters at Pueblo.
Secretary Martha A. Shute OF the
State Horticultural Society has been In
consultation with the National Paris
Commission as to the display of Colo
RADIO fruit at the Paris Exposition. II
was the Intention of the commission to
have fine fruit display In Paris from
Colorado, but the fruit growers of the
state have responded coolly to the ap-
peals In this behalf Mrs. Shute now
fears that the state will not have any
fruit exhibit at Paris, as the growers OF
Colorado do not seem to think that the
effort will bring a fair return for the
expense involved.
The four days from the 18th to the
10th of February are to be gala days
at Colorado College. Preparations have
already been largely completed for a
double celebration-in honor of the
opening OF the new Pickens Fine Arts
building, and In commemoration of the
twenty fifth anniversary of the found
ing OF the college. The exact anniver-
sary date came last May. but 1t was
decided to postpone its celebration un-
til the Perkins building should be fin
ished. and then make the joint cele
bration the most Notable occasion of
Its sort in the history of the college.
The body of man recently found
hanging In the woods near Florence
has been Identified MS that of Joe
Graindarge, n Frenchman. Holes in
the clothing indicated that he was
shot. Two people. suspected of
numbering him have been arrested nj
Rockvale. Their names are Joe Chevie
and Mrs. Devivers. Both are French.
Relations known to have existed be-
tween the victim and his alleged
murderers support the murder theory
and furnish the motives of cupidity
and jealousy. 1t develops now that
Graindarge was not n bachelor. He
left a wife and two children In Bel
gium hut lived with the woman Devil
vers. About three years ago Joe
Chevie appeared upon the scene and
In time won the affections Of the
woman Grnindarge was living with
Intense jealousy sprung up between
the two men, and Il is now alleged
that the woman and her present para
mour shot Graindarge, carried the
body to the desolate spot in the noun
tains and there suspended 1t from n
tree. The house which belonged to
Graindarge was torn down and the
lumber hauled away and appropriated
by Chevie. Deputy Sheriff Mooney
found Graindarge's horses. harness
and wagon on the premises of the
woman and man. Mr.. Mooney is
highly commended for his work in
this case.
The application OF the Midland Ter
minal railway, the Florence & Cripple
Creek railway, the Metallic Extraction
Company, and the other companies
that were enjoined by Judge Steven
son In November from perfecting their
alleged sale and reorganization at the
suit of the attorney general. by direc-
tion of Governor Thomas, for the disso-
luton of the injunction, came on In
the District Court before Judge n. Wal
ter Dixon of Pueblo, who was called in
to hear the application. After presenta.
ton of evidence and argument by the
T.,Ia
state had wholly failed to sustain the
practically without contradiction that
there was no purpose whatever to con.
solidate the lines of the two railway
companies, but that the intention was
to maintain an organization by the sew.
eral corporations distinct and to oper.
ate each under Its separate and dis
tinct boards of directors and officers
He further held that the sales of the
stock and securities of the several cor
porations were actual and bona fide
and that he knew OF no law that pro
hibited either an individual or a com
pany from purchasing the stocke OF
corporations and owning them and us
ing them in legitimate manner. H,
further said that the facts of the cas-,
as established did not bring the trans
action under the head either of n trust
or monopoly, and there was nothing {,
show that 1t was violation of tn,
constitution or laws of the state.
Word has been received by Majo,
Silas Grove, former state nrmorer, thnf
his son. Lieutenant Colonel William II
Grove Of the Thirty-slxth infantry, U
S. ", has been promoted to the col
onelcy of the regiment. Colonel Grov,
is In the Philippine islands, where h,
has been ever since he went out as ,
captain of the Colorado volunteers
Colonel William X. Grove is the young
est colonel In the service. having beer
only 2! years old the 18th of May last
mil