The Elbert County tribune., 1904-03-03
COLORADO BRIEFS.

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14th and continue until July 22d.
The new Protestant hospital at Colo
rado Springs will be called the Deacon's
hospital. 1t was formerly the Bellevue
sanitarium.
A company has been formed to pros
pect for mineral in Yuma county and
work will be carried on with a dia-
mond drill.
The annual golf tournament of Colo
rado clubs will be held at Overland
park. In Denver, beginning May 11th
and continuing four days.
A new hotel, $35, 900 opera house, a
Carnegie library and possibly a new city
hall. are among the buildings that
Trinidad expects to see finished this
year.
The careful enforcement of the game
laws during the last few years is grad
ually making Colorado a great quail
state, whereas formerly there were but
few quail here.
The Colorado Springs Y NJ. C. A.
has received a check for S2.500 from
Rev. ID. Stewart Dodge. a New York
minister to be applied on the $4,000
Indebtedness of the organization.
DR.. Sol Ringolsky OF Denver has ac-
cepted the terms of the Salida City
Council and has agreed to install rub
Der plant in the Salida creamery build
Ing. The plant is to be ready for ope-
ration within thirty days.
Under the direction of DR.. Wallace
X. Struble of Chicago. international
lecturer of the American Anti-Cigarette
League, crusade has been inaugurated
in Colorado against the smoking of ci-
garettes by school children.
The plan adopted last fall by an or
sanization OF Denver wholesale dealers
OF giving free transportation to all
merchants purchasing certain
amount Of goods from members Of the
organization, will be tried again this
spring.
In the District Court at Walsenburg
February 18th Judge Northcutt SEN
fenced Henry Crumbley to the peniten-
tiary for from two to five years for
arson. Last October Crumbley set fire
to a barn at La Veta belonging TO
Charles Martin
The Pueblo City Council has added
$500 to the $500 already given by the
county commissioners for the purpose
of defraying the expense of construct-
ing relief map of the Arkansas val
ley, which will be shown at the st.
Louis exposition.
According to an agent OF the United
States secret service who recently re-
turned from foreign service, yelling
ton c. Llewellyn. the soldier who
killed Policemen William Griffiths and
Thomas Clifford at Denver. is now in
the Philippines.
The Board of County Commissioners
of Chaffee county are making a strong
effort to place a big collection of min
erals on exhibition at the Worlds Fair.
Thomas France of Salida has been ap-
pointed to visit all parts of the county
in interest of the work.
Herbert E. Salee, operator and agent
for the Colorado & Southern at hoko-
mo. was caught in a cut between a
train and snow bank near the depot
on the night of February 23rd, and had
his upper jaw broken besides receiv-
ing other serious injuries.
C. E. Wood. proprietor and manag-
ing editor of the Evening Star at Grip
pie Creek for the last year, will as
sumo the management u the Evening
Telegraph of Colorado Springs. His in
terest in the Star has been acquired by
w. Robert Karr OF Idaho.
An examination of the registration
books at the University of Colorado
shows that there are 1870 students from
Denver now attending the state univer-
sity. In other words, little more than
twenty per cent. of the students now in
the university come from the capitol
city.
r. w. Cline, one of the best known
and most popular Grand Army men of
Denver and past commander of Wash
ington post, died a few days ago at the
arrtfa a-ft Nd bttrf ffI
from his home in Denver February
2sth. He had been sick for FIVE or six
weeks.
District registration will open on
March Sth and continue until March
18th. Those who are not registered.
and the number is very large in the res
ident parts of the state. will have an
opportunity to do so before the rush to
register for the presidential election
begins.
Charles Kresham, proprietor of the
Southern hotel at Pueblo. died Febru-
ary 25th at the age of sixty-eight years.
Mr.. Kresham formerly conducted a no
tel at Alamosa and had been stage
driver on the old Santa Fe trail also
pony express rider for the Wells
Fargo Express Company.
F1eeler, Saxon & Co. have been
awarded a contract to construct two
reservoirs near Twin Lakes and build
canal from Twin Lakes to the Ar
kansas river below Leadville. for the
purpose of draining Twin Lakes water
into the river. The water will be
brought down the Arkansas river to
the Portland cement works. where an
other large canal is to be built to con-
vey the water to the steel works at
Pueblo.
The Denver & Northwestern railway
has been given permission to place a
crossing in the Denver, Lakewood &