The Elbert County tribune., 1903-10-08
COLORADO BRIEFS.

TO business and less to gossip.
A telephone line has been established
from the top OF the range on the Moffat
line to the companys Offices In the Ma
jestic building at Denver. The length
of the line is sixty miles.
d. II. Moffat emphatically denies the
rumor that his line is In some way to
be connected with the Western Pacific
railway project He has no thought
OF any extension beyond Salt Lake.
Allen b. Seaman. prominent attor-
ney of Denver, died of heart disease
on the night of Sept. Gath. He went
to bed apparently in his usual health
and was found dead in the morning.
Edwin J. Eaton of Colorado Springs
has been appointed by Governor Pea
body as a trustee of the State Home
for the Deaf and Blind. He takes the
place OF w. G. Rice. recently deceased.
John Crump. negro who claimed to
be 104 years old, died at the Denver
county poor farm and was buried un-
der the auspices OF the G. A. r.. octo-
ber LIST. He was in the service at Mo-
bile.
Miss Alfredo Stebbins, late of Lin
| coin. Nebraska, has been elected Ii
brarian at Fort Collins. She is an ex-
perienced librarian. having taken a
regular course in library work In Phil
adelphia.
BY the caving in of the earthen roof
of house eight miles east of Aguilar
a short time since, Elferino Aguilar
aged 13, was killed and six grown peo-
pie more or less injured. The boy
died from suffocation.
A commission appointed by Mayor
vi Ia. ~, tr.x~
eating titles to land along Cherry
creek. 1t is proposed to wall the banks
and construct boulevard along at
least one OF the walls.
Mrs. Samuel E. Ward of Boston, died
at the home of her sister, Mrs. II. IL.
Whitley. in Boulder. September 30th.
Mrs. Ward, formerly Miss Lillian Ty-
Ter. was the first woman graduate of
the University of Colorado.
C. NJ. Bader. formerly an oil pro-
moter and real estate man, was de-
clared insane by jury in the County
Court at Boulder, October I'd. At times
Bader has been SO Irrational as to
threaten to shoot people.
William F. Wallace and Lawrence
p. Korr have been appointed
rural letter carriers at Rocky Ford.
Colorado, to begin service November
2d. and Mabel Wallace and Jennie
korr are named as substitutes.
During the month of August twenty
three men were enlisted for the regu-
lar army in Denver and seventy-six
rejected. At Pueblo eight were en-
listed and forty-two rejected. and at
Trinidad three were enlisted and
twenty-three rejected.
James Hugo, foreman Of the Mar
tells & Mcdonald gang of graders on
the Moffat road, while at work about
six miles northwest of Marshall, Sep
tember 30th, was killed by falling
rock from blast, having failed to go
Tar enough away for safety.
The Live Stock Company. a corpo-
ration, has sold its ranch lands. six
miles northwest of Fort Collins, to S.
Ii. Clammer and John Schwartz. The
total embraces 1900 acres of pasture.
meadow and cultivated land. carrying
water rights for all the meadow and
cultivated land.
| Word was received a few days ago
at the Denver Office OF the Santa Fe
jine that four new 143-ton engines were
on their way to Denver for service be-
tween Denver and Palmer Lake. The
new engines will pull seven coaches
up the grade there at the rate of fifty
miles an hour.
Loyeland calls attention to the fact
that the foundations are being laid for
! two large business blocks, a new
i church building and a $1,000 residence
within the radius of less than two
blocks. The old town hall is being
torn down and plans are being pre-
pared for a new one.
The Democratic judicial district con-
vention at Colorado Springs nominated
C. l.. McKesson for district judge by
acclamation and unanimously adopted
| the report of the committee on resolu-
tions condemning Governor Peabody
for his action in sending the troops to
tho Cripple Creek district.
Ray X. jackson. employed in the
wire mill of the c. +. G /. company
at Pueblo. died September 29th. on his
nineteenth birthday. of injuries re-
ceived by contact with the machinery.
He was graduate of the Colorado
Springs high school. his father being j..
NJ. Jackson, former treasurer of Ell
.Paso county.
Father ]. II. Malone left Denver Oc-
tober I'd on a trip of investigation in
( the different penal and charitable insti-
: tutions of the state. Father Malone is
a member of the State Board of Char
tiles and Correction, and 1t is in con-
nection with this that he makes the
trip. He arranged to visit the state
penitentiary. the state reformatories
and tho insane asylum before return
ing.
The following well-known men OF
| Colorado Springs have been appointed
appraisers by Judge ]. A. Elstun to
| determine valuations in the Stratton
! estate. L. l.. Della Vergne and Ed
ward Samuel Johnson. for the mines;
1 for real estate. Charles T. Fritz and l..
I C. Perkins; street railway, w. A. Otis
Philip Benjamin Stewart: household
goods, ]. |. Franklin and c. w. Fair