La Junta tribune., 1900-12-08
COLORADO NOTES.

Fort Collins IL having 4 eF'ai many
cases Of typhoid fever
Extensive improvements are being
made ON the Monument dam
The Colorado Telephone Company
has completed its line between Grand
Junction and Delta
The receipts of the Pueblo Demo
cratic county committee We're S"'-"l-e"'
OF which amount the candidates con
tribmed S5,G9s..5.
The trial Of the State School OF
Mines students at Golden, charged
with Illegal voting at the last election,
has been postponed.
Parson Thomas Uzzell of The l'eo-
pies tabernacle in Denver VIII hoiu
his ninth annual rabbit hunt ut Lamar
December 18th and 10th,
The legislative appropriation biii as
reported To the House carries an IN
crease Of the appropriation for the con
tIngent expenses at the Denver mint to
5000.
The Lincoln county report To the sec
retary of state shows that only three
people received assistance from lhe
county IN the past twelve months, cost
ing the commissioners S24s.@9.
Augustus Anderson. a bridge car
penter employed on "A Denver X Rio
Grunde construction gang. was almost
instantly killed on the 22ud by a piece
of rock hurled by a blast.
Engineer John H. McCune of Denver
WAS knocked on the cab of the Colo
RADIO Special, a fast Union Pacihc tram,
near Atwood, December 4th, by a man
-
likely TO prove fatal.
Charles Green, who was shot III the
election day riot at Denver whlie ACT
ing as a special policeman. has peeh
released from the county hospital. nav
ing entirely recovered. Policeman Car
pcnter is improving.
II. ii. Shepard. the veteran travel
ing agent of the Chicago X Alton road,
WAS made general agent OF the Al
ton Mt Denver December lst IL Is
thought there will be no other changes
in the local force. Mr.. Shepard Tor
thirteen years has been i'll Denver.
The Missourians of Georgetown held
n cider banquet on the night OF De
cember Isl. A barrel of cider. just IN
from Missouri, was tapped and served
with gingerbread. When the oah'i
played ON the Old Missouri Shore
the audience went wild.
The Colorado Supreme Court has de
cided against the legality of the bond
issue of the city OF Denver for the pur-
pose of building an auditorium. Inc
court holds that eleven distinct purpos-
es were set forth in the proposition 10
be voted for which is unconstitutional.
The stomach and other digestive or
gans of George A. Barber. who died
mt Pagosa Springs with symptoms OF
virulent poison, have been received by
DIR. j. \. Sewall. of Denver, for analy-
sis. 1t is feared that Barber was pois-
oned to obtain his insurance, amount
ing TO $500
The Denver X Rio Grande railroad
will send a stockmens special train 10
the National Cattiemen's convention in
Salt Lake. The train will leave Den
yer at 0:30 the morning of Jantiary
18th. and will arrive in Salt Lake at
] 30 O'Clock the next afternoon. The
fare will be SIS for the round trip.
General Passenger Agent Eustis of
the Chicago, Burlington u Quincy
railroad. who was in Denver few
days ago. says that he is personally i'll
orado for the q. a. X. national en-
campmeut next summer, and thinks 1t
is likely 10 be granted.
Within three years Colorado and
Denver will each have "A namesake i'll
the United States navy. The Denver
viii be projected cruiser, costing over
Sl,0OOp0 and the Colorado Will be
an armored cruiser, costing over 81
nj t.i, mott hnr th.. Rio
Grande, the Arkansas, the Platte or
the Grand is deep enough to bring eth
er of them into the state.
The Kiowa county court house ut
Sheridan Lake. Il large two-story frame
building, was burned on the evening of
December Bird. The fire began in the
upper story and is supposed to have
caught from defective tiue. y part
of the records were in three large safes
but many valuable books and papers
Were burned. The building cost 5000
and was insured for $1,000.
Mrs. Sarah Bennett Walker of Castle
Rock. who won first prize n, the
Worlds Fair for her collection of wild
flowers, and who is considered an au-
thority on the flora of Colorado, is en-
gagged now in asserting and cata-
loguing the results of her work during
the past summer season. She trayerses
mountains and plains and has searched
Pixies peak, Gray's peak and the 9TH
er mountains where specimens of wild
flowers are 10 be gathered
Mrs. Ann Hunt. the only woman
member of the directorate of the Colo
rado Humane Society. resigned from
the board at n recent meeting. The res
ignation was accepted and George l..
Greer was chosen in her place. The
matter of bills 10 be introduced in the
next General Assembly has been re-
ferred to Il special legislative commit
tee. consisting of w. y. Byers, J. j.
Elliott and George +. Dunklee. The