The Elbert County tribune., 1903-09-03
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Western Israellte." will be started in
Denver September 5th.
The cantaloupe season is now on in
the Arkansas Valley and large ship
ments are made daily.
Two companies of the Fourteenth
cavalry started from Denver for the
Philippines. August 23d
The annual Peach Day celebration
will be held at Grand Junction Sept
ember Sth. 9th and. 10th.
An agreement having been effected
with the strikers the Portland mine at
Victor resumed operations August &c
The coming charter election in Den
yer is arousing great interest and
promises to be one of the closest
fought contests ever held in the city.
The fall meeting OF the Canon City
Driving Association will take place
September 9th. 10th ami 11th- Prizes
amounting to $1,000 will be offered.
The Denver Democratic city central
committee has placed itself on record
as opposed to the proposed new city
charter by a vote of 173 to Z. Twenty
three members declined to vote.
A joint survey OF the line between
Gilpin and Boulder counties from Bea-
Yer creek to the main range above Rol-
Inns pass, gives Gilpin strip about fif-
ty feet wide for nearly the entire dis
tance.
At the Silver Bell mine at Ophir on
the night of August 21st Steve Greig
fell straight down a timber chute
distance of Jog feet and escaped with
only broken thumb and a slight scalp
wound.
Fred Wild. well known boiler-set-
ter, and inventor of Wlld's patent
Bmokeless furnace, was found dead in
his room at Denver August 25th. He
was n mechanic of great ability. but
addicted to drinking.
Thirty leading manufacturers and
wholesalers of Denver have Joined an
association which offer free railroad
fares to merchants who come to Den
yer to purchase stocks of them to the
amount of $1,000 or over.
There have been n large number of
cases of typhoid fever in Denver re-
Gently. and the health officers think it
due in part to the poor quality of milk
sold by many dealers and the use of
formaldehyde as milk preservative.
The animal reunion of the early set
tiers OF Trinidad. August 9th. was
largely attended. Dr. NJ. Beshoar, who
has been president since the organiza-
tion of the society, was reelected.
There were twenty-one deaths among
the pioneers during the past year.
The annual poultry show of the Col
orado Poultry Association will be held
at Coliseum hall In Denver the week
beginning January IS. 1904. The COM
mittee of the association is now at
work upon the premium list. which Will
be larger than at any previous show.
A meeting of business men was held
at Boulder August eth to discuss the
increased freight rates on the railroads
between Boulder and Denver. estimated
to average about fifty per cent. 1t was
decided to take vigorous action, and il
necessary haul freight by wagon.
Tho Paseo, the sixty-foot boulevard
running two miles from Colorado
Springs to Palmer Lake, has just been
completed by Gen. w. j. Palmer. and
is now open to the public. The road is
pronounced to be one of the finest and
most picturesque in the West
President Moffat of the Denver.
Northwestern & Pacific is said to be
considering an opportunity to purchase
terminal facilities at San Francisco.
The franchise is that of the Bay &
Coast Railway Company, which runs
from San Francisco to Monterey.
The Denver Dairymen's Association
has raised prices the schedule now be
ing: To all customers using less than
seven quarts per week, ten quarts for
81; to all customers using seven quarts
and over, fourteen quarts for 81. The
wholesale price is 20 cents gallon.
The United States Civil Service Com
mission announces that an examination
for clerks and carriers in the postoffice
will be held in Denver November 21,
1908. Persons who desire to compete
should at once apply to H C. Hefner,
secretary, at the Denver postoffice, for
application blanks.
1t is reported that the Denver, Lake
wood & Golden Railway Company will
reopen its Ralston branch to Tindale
and extend the line to handle the pro-
duct of the Carbon Fuel Company's
mines. and also that 1t is probable that
the entire Lakewood system will be
operated by electricity, giving Golden
two electric lines into Denver.
Locomotive Engineer James NJ.
Hotchkiss of Denver lost his life in
collision of the Union Pacific Frontier
Day excursion train between Cheyenne
and Denver with runaway lumber
car on the night of August 27th. He
stayed on the engine to shut OFF the
steam and apply the emergency air
pressure, and saved the lives of the
excursionists at the cost of his own.
c. s. Harrison, president of the State
Park and Forestry Association of Ne
braska, and noted horticulturist. has
been in Pueblo making negotiations
with the Beulah Railroad Company and
Interesting the citizens in n project to
create national park west of Beulah
in the heart of the Greenhorn range
He thinks that region surpasses the
Yellnwstnne National mark in many re-