The Elbert County tribune., 1900-07-12
COLORADO NOTES.

great mlnluH Doom.
Pueblo people are talking of holding
state fair this fall.
Governor Roosevelt promises to visit
Colorado during the campaign.
Il. A. Barrackman, OF Brighton. was
shot by tramp last Saturday.
With the exception OF 1881 last
month was the hottest June on record
The deepest mining shaft in Colorado
Is the Geyscr ut Silver Clin-2,6JO feet.
The town OF Nederland in Boulder
county had n disastrous firc few days
ago.
General John Pierce, the man who
built the first house in Denver. died
last week
Cattle are said to be dying rapidly
in yuma county Of disease much like
hydrophobla.
Some Colorado Springs people are
planning to organize company to bore
for gas ard OIL
A Colorado Springs boy died of ny
drophobia the other day, the result OF
the bite of a dog.
The next reunion Of Rough Riders
will be held at Colorado Springs next
year, June 9th to 27th.
The Texas-C Colorado Chautauqua has
opened at Boulder under the most hap
py auspices. A list of attractions has
been secured that will doubtless draw
immense crowds.
The slopes OF Pixies Peak near the
summit are said to be covered with
billions of caterpillars. which make
walking almost impossible and choke
up the mountain streams.
Professor Charles s. Crandall of the
department of botany and horticulture
at the State Agricultural College, has
resigned to accept n position In the sec.
tion OF forestry department of agri-
culture at Washington. ID. @.
Mrs. Elizabeth @. Goddard of Colo
RADIO Springs has donated $4,000 in
cash to Brown university. II Is her
subscription to the John ID. Rockefeller
milllon-dollar fund. which the friends
of the university began to raise nearly
year ago.
All OF the coal miners at the Union
mine, sixteen miles above Glenwood on
the Cardiff branch of the Midland,
went on strike Monday. The cause APP
pears to he the ungrantcd demand for
an increase of twenty cents per car for
digging and minor grievances. Fifty
men are involved.
The Union Pacific has opened a
gravelpit near Granger, making three
pits In opera ation-the other two being
on Sherman hill One steam shovel
has been placed and the gravel will be
used In bnllasting the cut-offs between
Green River and Ogden. There Is no
limit to the supply of gravel, and the
pit will be operated all summer.
A whole shift employed on the Santa
Rita mine has been discharged be-
cause of the disappearance OF some
high grade ore. The management was
unable TO detect the thieves, and there
fore made the wholesale discharge,
hoping to include the guilty parties In
the lot. 1t Is said that the ore has been
traced to an assay office in Victor Fur
ther developments are expected.
The potato crop. which is an import
ant one IN Lariiner county. is coming
on finely. Onions and cabbages, both
of which are largely cultivated in the
Poudrc valley, are showing line
growth and promise n large yield
Strawberries and other small fruits
siit btuilhE iAtiht t-tof' a.
strawberries have been on the market
for the past two weeks and are large
and luscious. Cherries will be ripe
na~t .ss~.i- ....d ,sriii i,,a.t-aa hsaviis.--
The people enst OF Berthoud are re-
Joicing over the fact That they are to
have rural free delivery of mail. For
some time they have been clamoring
for the establishment of n mail route,
and their efforts to secure the same
have been rewarded. The route covers
the territory east of Berthoud only. ex-
tending about nine miles east and COW
ering distance OF about twenty-six
miles. To establish the route 100
names-10O families had to be secured,
but the service will benefit perhaps 500
people.
The State Board of Charities and
Corrections. through Its secretary, G. l..
Stonaker. has prepared report of the
population of the various state institu-
lions. In the State Home for Depend
ent Children are fifty-two males and
twenty-eight females; in the Boys In
dustrial School at Golden. 161: in the
State Home and Industrial School for
Girls, forty three: in the School for
Deaf Mutes at Colorado Springs. 121 F.;
in the State Reformatory, 10; in the
Insane Asylum, 312 males and 1872 fe-
males; In the penitentiary three females
and 525 males.
The board of directors of the Denver
Chamber of Commerce have endorsed
the plan to have a mining bureau and
mineral exhibit under the auspices OF
the chamber as permanent part of its
work. This project was suggested in
the report of the committee on
mines and mining, made last March.
1t was proposed then that a bureau of
mines be opened. at which all informa-
tion possible regarding the districts of
the state, together with specimens of
ore, should be kept for the benefit of
intending investors, and that this be
made headquarters for mining men,
The board of directors after adopting
the report, sent 1t back to the commit
tee, with the request that 1t consider
the matter further, and make recon-
mendations regarding the carrying out
of the plan.
The executive committee of the Colo
RADIO Editorial Association has chosen
Ouray as the place of its midsummer
meeting. and has fixed on the dates
July 18th to Goth. inclusive. A bust.
ness meeting will be held on the even.
ing of the 18th, to hear and discuss the
report of the Legislative committee
Thursday morning there will be n meet
ing In the Ouray opera house, with an
address of welcome by the mayor of
Ouray, n poem by w. Il. Pabor, and
address by DIR. b. o. Aylesworth and
other features. Friday morning the ed.
itors VIA discuss the various topics
and that night reception and ball will
be given the visiting editors by the
Ouray Press Club. The afternoons
" i'll be spent seeing the sights, for
which every facility will be given the