The Elbert County tribune., 1904-03-10
COLORADO BRIEFS.

A large and characteristic education
al exhibit is being prepared at the
University of Colorado to be displayed
at the st. Louis Exposition next sum
mer
David De Graft OF Colorado Springs
has Just celebrated his eighteenth
birthday anniversary, yet he is eighty
years old. He was born February 20.
1924.
The new $65. 900 addition to st. Fran
cis's hospital at Colorado Springs will
be formally opened with appropriate
exercises on April 14th. The equip
ment will bring the total cost to $780,
900.
Less than an inch OF snow fell at
Colorado Springs during the month of
February Last year the fall for the
same period was ten and one-half
inches. The weather was unusually
warm.
The Denver Horse Show Association
has decided not hold q horse show this
year on account of the Worlds Fair.
The finances of the association nre in
good shape, there being 1920 in the
treasury.
The option given to Pueblo parties
six weeks ago on the Colorado Springs
Western League baseball team expired
March LIST and the team will remain at
the Springs Players have been ordered
TO report on March 21st
A great wind and dust storm ragged
March End all the way from Cheyenne.
Wyoming. down to Trinidad, Colorado.
II was fearfully bad at Denver, Colo
rado Springs and Pueblo. At Colorado
Springs the wind reached a velocity
OF sixty-six miles an hour.
The big steel bridge Of the Trinidad
electric railroad across the Las Animas
river. just above Jansen has been fin-
ished and accepted from the contract
ors by the company. All of the thirty
two trestles and small bridges on the
line between Trinidad and Sopris end
Starkville have been completed.
George Bernard has purchased a
3.750-acre ranch northeast of Colorado
Springs which he will stock with fine
herd of thoroughbred Galloway cattle.
blooded horses and Berkshire hogs.
In addition he will erect a $4,000
dwelling for his I amily. He will sell
his fine residence in Colorado Springs.
Miss Jennie L. Potter and Miss Eva
Potter. twin daughters of DR.. ]. H.
Potter of Longmont, although twenty
years of age, have had but four birth
day anniversaries. They were born
February 20. 1884. At their last birth
day celebration they received several
gifts appropriate to four-year-old chill
dren.
The Overland cotton mills at Denver
were started up on the 4th inst. with
a force of twenty-five men for the pur-
pose of finishing up the cloth left in the
looms when the works closed for want
of coal last fall. When this work is
done, and it will only last few weeks, |
It is expected that the mills will be per-
manently closed.
On March End fire near Glenmore
lake, about two miles west of Pine
Grove. in the Platte canon. burned all
the buildings on the Maui ranch. in
Guiding hay, buggies. wagons and farm
implements. St. Marks church in |
Denver had an option on the ranch
for use in connection with their sum |
mer home.
1t is reported that Rev. C. w. Bride |
well. the ex-preacher who gave street |
sermons in Denver and other towns |
of Colorado since he was relieved OF
re egular charges by his church. was re-
Gently tarred and feathered at Bride |
we'll, Montana, where he was accused |
of preaching doctrines calculated to in |
duce wives to leave their husbands.
Lulu Adams. who shot and killed p. |
H. King, Jr.. few days since, was |
given a preliminary hearing at La |
Junta before Judge Clark and bound |
over to the District Court in the sum |
of 50 900. in default of which she was |
remanded to the county jail. there to |
await the convening of the District |
Court, the second Monday in June.
A Denver commission firm recently |
received a carload of cabbages import |
ed from Denmark The cabbage crop |
in the United States last season is said |
to have been the shortest ever known. |
The drouth in California has cut on |
the supply from that state, usually in |
the market about this time, and the |
Texas crop will not begin to come in |
until April.
Dallas NJ. Gurney. sixty-one years |
old. killed himself at a station twelve |
miles east of Durango February 29th |
When last seen, at $3.50 in the morn |
ing, he had one of his children in his |
lap in the barn door. At 10 O'Clock |
his wife found him dead. Coroner
Hood said he was shot with 3S-Colts,
his own gun. He leaves six children.
aged from two to twenty-five years.
The State Hospital. which is support
ed by the city and county of Boulder.
and is conducted by the medical de-
partment of the University of Colorado.
has grown to such proportions that the
regents of the university have estab-
lshed training schoo. for nurses
Miss Anna Il. Harris. graduate of the
Polytechnic hospital OF Philadelphia.
heo been appointed superintendent OF
the school.
The Colorado delegation to the an
nual conference of the Methodist |
Church at Los Angeles. California in
Nav ,pfll travail xraet in a cnacfal traf,,