The Elbert County tribune., 1902-06-26
COLORADO BRIEFS.


age in the vicinity OF Fowler on the
10th instant.
A postofiice at sellar. Pitkin county,
has been established. with Otto u. Kill
patrick ms postmaster.
The Colorado & Southern Is meeting
with success in its efforts TO attract
visitors to the Platte canon this sum
mer.
Roy Bourquin. boy OF II. had both
hands blown OF while playing with
powder ut Cripple Creek on the 18th
inst.
The Grand Junction School Board
has purchased sites for two new school
buildings and will erect handsome
structures.
The Denver base ball team by repeat
edly defeating Omaha has reached sec
ond place In the Western League and
is crowdlng Kansas City for first.
President Benjamin f.. Andrews of
the University of Nebraska delivered
the address on the occasion OF the
graduating exercises OF the Leadville
high school.
The property OF the Jarvis Hall
school for boys at Denver has been
sold by the Episcopal Church author
tiles and no attempt VIII be made TO
revive the institution.
President Frank Adams of the Den
yer Fire and Police Board, who has
been dangerously sick for a long time,
Is reported to be much improved and
in a fair way TO recover.
There will be no more electric light
competition In Denver. The managers
OF the Denver Gas and Electric Com
pany have purchased majority OF the
stock OF its rival, the Lacombe Elec-
tric Company.
At Colorado Springs June 18th James
Walsh, n barber, was killed by stab
from a pair OF scissors in the hands of
Joe Scott. Walsh had interfered to pro-
tect SCOTS wife from an assault by
her husband.
Rev. Canon Bywater OF Grace Cathe-
dral, Topeka, and member of the fac
ulty OF Kansas Theological Institute.
has been appointed by Bishop Olmsted
archdeacon OF the Denver diocese OF
the Episcopal Church.
James Il. Secrest. formerly banker
of South Side Camp No. II, Woodmen
of the World. in Denver was arrested
on the 18th inst. on warrant charg-
ing him with embezzling $1,5O4.45 of
the funds OF the camp.
A Chicago dispatch says that mem
bers of the Interstate Commerce Com
mission will go TO Leadville, Colorado,
where an inquiry will be made con-
cerning charges filed by the Board Of
Trade OF that city against the trans
continental lines.
Former Sheriff Joseph Yates and
William Mott, two well known mining
men OF Boulder County, have returned
from the Thunder Mountain country
In Idaho and report that 1t has been
greatly overestimated and has no at.
fractions for prospectors.
The Denver 4 Rio Grande has re,
ceived FIVE Of ten new passenger loco
motives 1t has ordered. They are the
largest ever placed in service on Col
orado road. and can make sixty miles
an hour on the heavy grade between
Denver and Palmer Lake.
John Brisben Walker. editor and
publisher of the Cosmopolitan maya
zine. has been elected president, and
Mortimer F. Taylor, formerly OF the
law firm OF Wells, Taylor & Taylor of
Denver. secretary, OF the Colorado So
ciety recently organized in New York.
Supervising Architect Taylor has re-
jected the bids Of the Congress Con-
structlon Company for the interior fin
ish OF the Denver mint. This bid.
amounting to S219,326. was the only
one furnished in response to the adver-
tisement. New bids will be called for
This is the old. old story told again.
Mrs. Martha A. Shute, secretary Of
the State Horticultural Society calls
upon the people Of Denver to spray
their trees, especially the maple and
locust trees, which have been attacked
by what is known as the maple scale.
The scale is Of an oval shape and
yellow or brownish tint. and contains
thousands Of insects that eat their
way to the heart of the tree and de-
stroy Its life.
At the recent meeting of the Colo
rado State Dental Association in Colo
RADIO Springs an artificial palate was
inserted in the mouth of Mr.. Burk-
head of Denver. who was born with
soft palate and could not eat well or
articulate distinctly. DIR. +. l.. Smith
of Denver performed the delicate op-
Grafton, witnessed by room full Of
dentists. Burk head can now talk and
eat normally.
Rural free delivery service to COM
mence August LIST has been ordered for
the route from Eaton. Weld county,
length twenty-four miles. area forty
square miles, population 500. number
OF houses. 100; carrier, VIII Lowry.
Also for the route from Fort Morgan.
Morgan county, twenty-five miles, area
thir1y-six square miles, population 475.