The Elbert County tribune., 1904-01-14
COLORADO BRIEFS.

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block.
I The city council OF Boulder has vot-
ed TO purchase OF James p. Maxwell
what are known as the Goose Lake
reservoirs at the foot of Arapahoe
peak.
The Pentecostal Union. also known
as The Jumpers" has nearly complet-
ed a handsome four-story building in
central part of Denver at cost OF
$4,000.
George S. Phelps, a prominent attor-
uey of Denver and Leadyille, died at
his residence in Denver on the 18th
/ inst, after an illness OF ten days OF
pneumonia.
/ Helen Fisher Bagiey, aged seven
I tenn, and Lilly Power. ager seventeen.
both residents of Pueblo. were victims
OF the Iroquois theater fire in Chicago
Both girls were attending school in
Chicago
/ Representatives OF the Russian gov
ernment have contracted with the
Colorado Packing and Provision Com
pany at Denver for 100000 pounds OF
mess beef. to be delivered at the op-
tion of the purchaser.
/ On the 7th, at Central City. Ernest
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I by the explosion of a missed shot into
which they drilled while at work In
the Cook shaft on Bobtail hill. Doyle
was forty-iiye years of age and Bishop
twenty.
Mr.. and Mrs. George C. Batchelder.
aged respectively ninety and eighty-six
years. celebrated the sixty-third ami
versary of their wedding at Boulder
on tn 5th instant. four generations OF
the family being present. The aged
couple are still hale and hearty.
1 A tally-ho coach, in which a party
of Boulder young people were out rid
! ing on the night of January 9th. was
upset and several of the party injured.
Miss Velena Newman, daughter of
State Senator Newman of Durango, a
student at the university, had her left
ankle broken.
1 The house of j. NJ Crawford in Hay
gulch, fourteen miles from Durango.
was burned on the night of the 9Th
inst while Mr.. Crawford was absent.
Mrs. Crawford and her son. Allen, es-
capped, the latter with severe burns.
but Mrs. Crawford's father, Peter Nor
ris, was burned to death.
The body of Robert Green, the
twelve-year-old boy who was missed
( from his parents home in Cripple
Creek August 18th, was found on the
7th inst. 225 feet underground in the
Bob Womack tunnel at the Ell Paso
Gold King mine in Poverty gulch. He
had evidently fallen through an old
stope and mill hole.
E. A. Tulian. superintendent OF the
government fish hatchery at Leadville,
has been offered n commission by the
Argentine Republic in South America
to establish a fisheries bureau in that
country. The commission guarantees
a FIVE years contract at a large salary
Mr.. Tulian has gone to Washington to
confer with his superior about the Of
Ter.
A. c. Glenn. who has been dispatch
1 er in the Pueblo postofiice, has been
named as superintendent of station A,
which will be open for business in Bes-
semer about January goth. The force
will consist of an assistant superin-
tendent and nine mail carriers and Will
handle all the mail in Bessemer and
what is known as the Upper Mesa, in
Guiding Minnequa.
The long-pending wine rooms case
was settled January 4th in Denver by
decision of the United States Su-
l pTtlHt 1UuTls WHICH HOlub NHdl lut
maintenance of wine rooms for women
in the Denver saloons is unlawful un-
der the ordinances of the city of Dem
YER The decisions of both the Dis
trict Court and the State Supreme
Court are affirmed
An order was issued at Leadville
on the Sth inst, by Judge Overs clos
ing all poker games which are conduct
! cd In, ea (ipor OF This
follows on the heels of the courts
general crusade against gambling. The
court also ordered the deportation of
quartette of dance hall girls who had
/ been working in the hall where TEN
! perance drinks" are served.
The January term of the County
| Court at Trinidad began on the 4th
| inst. with sixty-five cases on the
| docket, consisting of sixty-five crimi-
nal, eleven divorce, one lunacy. thirty
| three civil. four delinquent children
and two deserted or neglected chill
dren. The fees collected by this
court during 1908 amounted to SS2,-
071.22.
| DIR. Florian Cajori OF the Colorado
| College has been elected a member OF
the council of the American Mathe-
matical Society. and has an exhaustive
review OF German historical work in
the December number of the Bulletin,
issued by the society. DR.. cajori is
also a member of an international
council appointed to arrange meet
ing of scientists and mathematician
in Berlin.
Walter Dale. a fourteen-yearold pu-
pill OF the Wheatridge school, two miles
swest OF Elitch's Gardens, in Denver,
committed suicide on the 9th inst. by
talking carbolic acid. He swallowed
the poison while out at recess and
walked to his seat in the school room
where he died before medical aid
could arrive. He was of a moody dis