The Elbert County tribune., 1902-10-09
COLORADO BRIEFS.

The telephone wires in Pueblo are be-
ing placed underground,
Tho late rains had the effect OF de-
laying the opening OF the Greeley beet
sugar refinery
Montclair, suburb Of Denver. viii
raise $4,000 and construct water
plant Of It's own
-Four new letter carriers and ak
clerks were added 20 the Denver post
office force October LIST.
The City Council OF Boulder has
adopted resolution providing for the
purchase OF 100 acres of ground TO be
added to the Chautauqua tract
Mrs. Helen l.. Grcnfcr. state super
intendent OF public Instruction, who
has been seriously III FOR some time
In Denver, is reported to be on the
way TO recovery.
There are giants in these days. The
lightest man In the University OF Ne
braska eleven, who defeated the Uni
vcrsity OF Colorado In the football
game at Boulder. weighed lS5 pounds.
The All.Amerlcan and All-Nauonal
baseball teams viii play n series OF
exhibition games in Denver October
25th aud 2Gih. Many OF the stars OF
the two great leagues win take part
AtAAAlktI A7NthIIh VI lAt Af'hfNt
baseball team of the Western league
says TINT he will retain the Denver
franchise and put the strongest team
lie eau secure in the ficld next year.
The colleges and high schools OF Col
orado are going in for football this sea-
son as never before and the crop OF
broken limbs from this most strenuous
OF sports promises to be large one
Tourists arriving In sight OF the COL
orado mountain ranges during tho past
week have been surprised to ind then.
as white as II the season were mldwin-
ter. An Immense amount OF snow has
fallen.
H. Il. Mulnix. of the Worlds Fair
board, is making tour OF the state to
visit the county commissioners and
urge them TO mako adequate appropria-
lions for creditable display at st.
Louis In 1904.
on October LIST another oil producer
in the Boulder field was announced,
being that owned by the Anderson OIL
Company on the Gooding ranch, half
mile east of the Arnold. A good dow
was struck at 1900 feet
John NJ Houls. Denver grocer, COM
mitted suicide on the 9TH inst, by swal-
lowing carbolic acid. Tho act was due
TO i'll health and dependency. Houk
is said TO have been a member OF tho
A. o. U. w. and z. o. S. of A.
At the special election October 1st
the people of Fort Morgan voted to
erect water works aud bond the town
for $4,000. Great interest was takcn
In the election and the proposition car
ried by u vote OF over two to one.
Denver Is in no further danger OF a
water famine. The recent rains have
filled the Platte river from the noun
talna and the Denver Union Water
Company has ordered that no more
storage water be drawn from the rcser-
volrs.
In trying to shoot rattlcsnake. VIII
| liam Charwood of Lafayette hit his leg
near the thigh, innlctinB a dangerous
wound. from which the surgeons at the
State University extracted forty shot.
two f0-cent pieces and part OF
penny.
II seems as II the Denver divorce
mill must be run by steam or electrici-
ty. In Judge Mullins division of the
I District Court a few days ago. seven
/ divorce cases were heard and DEGREES
entered in Just thlrty-two minutes.
/ Nexti
DR.. +. C. Nichols has purchased lots
tion of hospital in Craig. The build
Ing will contain rooms and accommo-
datIons for twenty patients. 1t will be
the first institution of its kind in
northwestern Colorado.
r.. r. Taylor. tried at Colorado
| Springs for the murder of Frank II.
Shader last August. was acquitted.
| Taylor's plea was self-defense and eyi-
dence wns submitted TO show that Sha-
der had threatened to kill him and was
In the act of reaching for a revolver
when Taylor shot.
President Aaron sonnebor OF the
State Fair Association thinks that the
| last fair lust closed at Pueblo dem
onstrates that successful state fair
can be held In Colorado and that
'the fair has shown that Colorado's
resources are mere varied than most
OF its citizens believed"
The Colorado Springs Street Car
Company has just inaugurated its
transfer system, the privilege being al
lowed on all intersecting lines whose
general trend is not parallel. W. S.
Stratton was responsible for tho
change. which he decided upon after
purchasing control and merging the
two companies.
Ed OKelly. the slayer of Bob Ford
at Creede ten years ago, Ford being the
man who killed Jesse James. was re-
leased from the penitentiary at Canon
City October 2. He at once started for
Pueblo. his former home. O'Kelly was
sent up from Creede for life, but his
sentence was commuted early this year
to twenty-five years imprisonment
With good time. the sentence has just
now expired.