The Elbert County tribune., 1902-05-15
COLORADO BRIEFS.


The new chapel In the State Penlten-
| tlary at Canon City was rededicnted
Sunday. April 27th Rev. Thomas ID.
uzzell OF Denver was the principal
| speaker.
The fund to pay for presents 10 tho
cruiser Denver has reached 5000. The
Daughters of the American Revolution
will present the cruiser with a silver
pitcher
J. w. Develine Of Boulder celebrated
his nineteth birthday May 1st and
was presented with handsome and
costly Masonic charm by Ills brethren
of the fraternity.
An automobile show will be held In
Denver some time this month.
April receipts of the Pueblo post
office show an increase OF thirty-one per
cent. over April of last yenr.
The summer excursion rates through
out the Rocky mountains will go into
effect on May 18th. Railroad men are
preparing for the largest mountain
travel the state has ever known.
There nre nineteen students from
Colorado In the University of Michi-
gan, divided among the departments as
follows: Literary, q; law, o; engineer
each.
There We're nine contestants at the
annual contest of the Interstate Ora
torlcal Association, held in st. Paul,
Minnesota, May ID. Loring d. Beck
with of Denver was awarded fourth
rank by the judges.
Eric johnson fell eighty feet down
raise in the Camp Bird mine at Ouray
and although he carried with him in
the fall drilling machine, no bones
were broken or internal Injuries sus-
tained, and he will recover soon from
his bruises.
Mrs. Martha A. Shute. secretary of
the Board of Agriculture, has been ap-
pointed superintendent of the horticul-
tural display at the state fair in Pu-
eblo. The premium fund for this dis
play has been increased this year from
800 to 5000.
Bishop Henry w. Warren has tele-
graphed from Chattanooga, Tennessee,
announcing the conferences over which
he will preside this summer as follows:
Wyoming, August eth; Utah, August
14th: Colorado. August 21st. He will
preside over two Ohio conferences also.
Captain Lennon, superintendent at
Teller Institute. Grand Junction, has
received word from Washington that
acetylene gns will be the system of
lighting the building and grounds
at the Indian schools in the future and
that the government will supply the
plant at once.
Mayor Robinson of Colorado Springs
has received Il letter from Jacob kils
of New York expressing his willing
ness to address the Chnutnuqua meet
ing at the Springs this summer. Pres
ident Roosevelt appointed Mr.. Iiils 10
an important position in the Danish
Islands, which he declined.
A. S. Hockett. chairman of the beet
sugqr organization of Mosca, has re-
ceived a shipment of $3.50 pounds of
sugar beet seed from the Rocky Ford
factory, and 900 acres In and around
Mosca is rapidly being seeded to sugar
beets under the direction Of II. +. Meh-
ring, ngriculturist for the American
Sugar Company.
FIVE mules were imprisoned behind n
cavein in n tunnel of the Haywood
mine, at Lafayette, and Secretary
Whitehead of the Humane Society no
tilted the mine managers TO rescue
them at once. Mr.. Whitehead received
word that the mules had been impris-
oned for three days. A miner crawled
In and gave them some feed, hut could
not take water or get them out.
The Denver weather bureau report
showed an excess of scyenty-slx de-
grees temperature for the month of
April and an accumulated excess of
POS degrees since the first OF the year.
The total precipitation for the month
was O.6o of an inch, or LA below nor
NAL, and since January LIST 1t amount
ed to LIS inches, or go inches below
normal.
There Is n movement on foot to pave
Colorado avenue from Colorado
Springs to Manitou, prominent citizens
of both towns taking the lead in the
natter. A bicycle path on either side
is talked of, and altogether the project
seems certain of unanimous support.
The city and county will each be asked
to contribute toward the enterprise, as
well as the towns of Colorado City and
Manitou.
The new reservoir OF the Grand
Junction water works has just been
completed at cost of $4,000, and the
water was turned In on the ith instant.
The reservoir is 1872 feet square. Its
average height is nine and one-half
feet, the bottom is fifteen inches in
thickness of the best Colorado Port
land cement, and the walls are support
ed by fifty-eight buttresses within and
without the reservoir. The capacity is
about ], 1,500.OO0 gallons.