The Elbert County tribune., 1903-12-17
COLORADO BRIEFS.

5ixty-eight children were on exhibi-
lion at the recent baby show in Colo
rado Springs.
The Senate confirmed the nomina-
tion OF John p. Dickinson to be receiv-
or Of public moneys at Hugo.
The secretary of the treasury In his
annual report recommends an appro-
priation of s33. $50 for the public build
Ing At Colorado Springs.
The new Palmer hall at Colorado
College In Colorado Springs Is now
in actual use but the formal opening
will not take place until January.
Tho State University football team
beat the State School of Mines team In
. post-season game at Denver Decem-
Der 9th. by n score of 23 to 3.
The pulp silo at the Loveland sugar
factory Is already filled to overnowing.
The demand for the product OF the fac-
tory Is not, SO far. SO great as In Tor
mer years.
II is stated that the Colorado rail-
roads have adopted the western pass
agreement and will, after January LIST.
cut off all passes to shippers OF freight
and TO politicians.
Two immense sheet iron tanks are
oCinB Sitlltu dL lnt Oit SoAsA%As "~o---
factory for the storage Of molasses.
which will be converted into sugar by
the Steffens process.
Colorado took seven prizes for car
load lots of cattle at the international
Live Stock Exhibition in Chicago on
the 9Th inst, the prizes going to Den
yer. Montrose and Trinidad.
The first collection OF the Denver
Saturday and Sunday Hospital Asso-
citation, organized to take up collec-
tion in all parts of the city two days
in each year in aid of the city hoepi-
tails, netted the sum OF $524.76.
1t is said to be practically decided by
the directors that no state fair Will be
held in Pueblo in 1904 on account of
the Worlds Fair at st. Louis, which
will largely take up the attention OF
those interested in the state fair.
The Denver Union Water Company
has purchased the Du Bois ranch of
600 acres in the Platte valley, twenty
two miles above Denver. for the sake OF
its valuable water rights. which are
said to amount to 100000 gallons
day.
William w. Pickett has been ap-
pointed postmaster at Deep Creek.
Routt county, vice @. w. May. resigned.
Percy l.. Woodgate has been appointed
regular and Melville b. Woodgate sub
stitute rural free delivery carriers at
Dalta.
Trellis Ward. or Nellie Cummins. the
young woman who has gained consid-
cradle notoriety by her unfortunate
habit of falling off street cars, was
declared sane by the County Court at
Pueblo, and at once left for Texas,
where she has relations.
Governor Ferguson of Oklahoma has
honored the requisition from Governor
Peabody of Colorado for the return to
Prowers county OF Jesse Tanner, ac-
cused of larceny of live stock commit
ted In June. 1903. Tanner was under
arrest at Kenton, Oklahoma.
e. X. Whitehead. secretary Of the
Humane Society, has invited the Den
yer Wholesale Produce Association to
cooperate with the society to prevent
thesshipment OF poultry by express in
crates that do not permit the fowls to
stand erect while in transit.
An organization was formed at
Glenwood Springs on the 9th inst. to
work for the development of the natu-
raj resources of the valleys OF the
Grand, White, Eagle and Roaring Fork
rivers. w. S. Parkinson of Glenwood
Springs was elected president.
Paul Richter. proprietor of the Rich
ter Iron Works in Denver. while on
hunting excursion near Brush, was ac-
cidentally shot and killed on the 18th
inst. by the discharge of a gun in the
hands of a companion while both were
engaged In examining their weapons.
Miss Elizabeth Ryan of Michigan.
a graduate of Pratt Institute. New
York, has been selected to fill the po-
sition of first assistant in the Depart
ment of Domestic Science in the State
Agricultural College at Fort Collins.
Miss Ryan comes highly recommended.
The members of the Denver police
force have formed a civil service club
An executive committee was appointed.
with Instructions to walt upon the
charter convention when it convenes
and advance the civil service idea and
insist upon 1t being embodied in the
charter.
Five dollars a ton for beets delivered
at the Greeley sugar factory and $475
a ton for all beets delivered on the
cars, are the prices that are announced
by the company for the next years
crop. Unrestricted delivery of beets
that are up to the standard may be-
gin October Both.
The Jury in the case of A. ]. ELI
son at Cripple Creek. who brought suit
against Stratton's Cripple Creek Min
ing and Development Company for in
juries received on one Of the properties
on August 2. 1902. found verdict for
the plaintiff. damages being awarded
to the amount of $4,000.
S. s. Stewart of Colorado Springs
81. ~
eral Walker. who figured In the Mic
araguan war in 1857, and he iron cof-
fin the general took with him to Mic
aragua. at the Louisiana Puschase Ex-