The Elbert County tribune., 1904-01-21
COLORADO BRIEFS.

added to the force at the Denver post
office.
The Agricultural College has been
admitted to the State oratorical Asso-
citation.
Quite a colony of beavers has just
been discovered on the Arkansas river
close TO Florence.
Justice Ruby OF Colorado Springs has
sentenced George Whitfield. coal
miner. TO six months In jail for beating
his wife.
Alderman John omera OF Black
the Pet shaft up Silver creek. on the
9th inst. and died the next day.
The officers OF the cadet company Of
the West Denver High School have
resigned because the school board re-
fused to permit them to hold a cadets
ball.
The Longmont postofiice receipts for
1903 reached the $40, 600 mark, and free
mail delivery will be inaugurated after
July /. 1904. when the government fis-
cal year commences.
A big well at Galien. on the Burling
ton road. caved in on the 10Th inst. and
the entire pump house and engine dis
appeared The well was twelve feet
square and 800 feet deep.
John Peterson was killed and Charles
Benson dangerously injured by an ex-
plosion of dynamite which they were
thawing out at the Grant smelter dump
in Denver on the 18th inst.
j. c. Craig was reelected president
Of the Denver Citizens Alliance at the
recent annual meeting. The Alliance
has now 5000 working members be-
sides many associate members.
The postofiice at University Park. in
the suburbs Of Denver, near the Uni
versity OF Denver. has been discontin-
ued and the Park people will hereafter
get their letters from the Denver Office
by carrier.
The second smallest baby born in
this state arrived at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. James w. Graham of Coal
Creek few days ago 1t weighs just
two pounds, but apparently is strong
and healthy.
John f. Shafroth, Jr.. son of Con-
gressman Shafroth, is about to enter
the preparatory school of the United
States Naval Academy at Annapolis.
He has been student in the East Den
yer high school.
DIR. I. j. Mason, the Denver physi
clan who was found wandering about
the streets of Julesburg in an uncon-
scious condition last month. was still
unconscious in St. Joseph's hospital at
Denver on the 11th inst.
Henry Frey, Denver tailor. likes to
be in Jail. Whenever he is discharged
he smashes a window somewhere, so
as to be sent back. His last feat was
to break a $3.50 plate glass window in
/ the Joslin dry goods store.
The Farmer Club of Longmont has
asked the City Council for a franchise
TO run the apparatus for an independ-
ent telephone company in the streets
OF the city. An exchange covering the
city and a large farming territory is
proposed.
Arrangements are being made for a
big coyote roundup in the neighbor-
hood of Evans January 27th. 1t is ex-
pected that upwards of thousand peo-
pie will cover an area of some fifteen
square miles in section where coy
otes abound.
| Denver newsboys have several times
assaulted congregations of the Pente-
costal Union, called Jumpers" The
| boys allege that these religionists
prayed for the death of Policeman As
/ kew. who. had arrested them, and who
died recently.
| In quarrel over a question of rent.
, George A. Morrison. owner of Ell Jebel
farm, shot and killed Harvey White at
the ranch owned by Morrison and
/ leased by White, near Basalt. on the
11th inst. II is reported that White had
threatened to kill Morrison.
Jake Zipperian, tried at Durango for
the murder of Matt Luxsinger at Pine
River last November, was found guilty
and sertenced to the penitentiary for
life. Motion for a new trial was de-
MED. Fifty days time was allowed the
4 defense to file bill of exceptions
| William A. Ellis, formerly night cap
tain at the Canon City penitentiary,
under Governor James b. Orman's ad-
ministration, and recently a member of
the fire department at Pueblo. commit
ted suicide by taking carbolic acid at
Denver rooming house on the 18th
, inst.
| j. Rogers, who was arrested at Red
Cliff under the belief that he was
{ George Seigrist, wanted in Clear Creek
, county as one of the defendants in the
Sun and Moon conspiracy case. estab-
lished his identity and was discharged
from custody with many apologies for
/ the mistake.
! The Denver Real Estate Exchange
has ratified the action of Its advertising
/ committee in merging the Colorado
J Press Bureau of Information with the
newly-formed Colorado Bureau of Pub
licity, which is raising fund OF s25.-
900 to advertise the state at the St.
Louis Exposition.
r The supervising architect OF the
Treasury Department expects that the
Denver Mint will be turned over to the
department about July 1st, when the
present government ASSAY office in