The Elbert County tribune., 1904-06-30
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

Mrs. Julia C. Roberts, wife OF State
Senator II. l. Roberts. died at Idaho
Springs June 18th.
The Postoffice Department has auth
cried two mounted carriers for Den
vsr to begin service July 1st
The school census Just completed IN
Pueblo county shows 14.Ts9 persons of
school age. being 451 less than last
year.
An immense cinnamon bear from
Pagosa Springs is one of the Colorado
exhibits at the ST. Louis Exposition.
Bruin weighs over 500 pounds.
Subscriptions TO the Gunnison tunnel
have been coming in rapidly and the
full 10000 acres VIII. it is confidently
expected. be pledged in few days.
The labor unions of Denver are ar
ranging for picnic on July I'd. for the
benefit OF the wives and children Of the
deported miners OF the Cripple Creek
district.
Strawberries and cream for all and
free swim in the big pool at the hot
springs were the great attractions at
Glenwood Springs on strawberry Day,
June 18th.
The heavy rain in Prowers county
on the night of June 21st did consider
able damage to bitches and fumes in
some places, but it wet the ground
thoroughly.
The d. & r. G. railway eating house.
round house and machine shop at Sar-
gents, in Saguache county. were burned
June gath. Two locomotives in the ma
cline shop were ruined.
The annual death rate per thousand
for the month of May, as reported by
Cfof Of IIaa1fb uiyfQAp
and one-third, or 500 out of an esti-
mated population OF 561,136.
A large excursion of Denver printers
With their families and friends visited
the printers home at Colorado Springs
on Sunday the 18th inst. 1t was great
event in the history of the institution.
The Santa Fe Railway Company is
making plans to relay its tracks be-
tween Pueblo and Florence. The pres
ont fifty-two--pound rails, laid fifteen
years ago, will be replaced with eighty
five-pound steel rails.
Airs. A. L. Clark and daughter. Flor
ence, aged sixteen. drove into the Lari-
Iner and Weld canal near Fort Collins.
June 23rd, and were both drowned. Mr..
Clark was in Ohio at the time. Two
children are left motherless.
A movement is on foot to hold
northern Colorado fair in Fort Collins
next fall and a temporary organization,
of which Professor Carlyle of the Ag-
ricultural College is president, has
been effected for this purpose.
The saw mill industry has been re-
vived In the vicinity of Monument. Ell
liott and banks have contract to saw
| 1000 900 feet of lumber for the Highly
Mercantile Company. which has bought
several thousand acres of timber.
The report reached Wray June 23rd
that Ira Lamb, ranchman residing
Just over the line in Nebraska, lost
thirty-one head of cattle by lightning
in thunder storm the day before.
From appearances all were killed by
one bolt.
Russell Boles. convicted of the muir
der Of Harold Fridborn ut Denver. is
now in the penitentiary. Unless some
outside force interferes or Boles Is re-
prieved or pardoned he is doomed to
remain behind prison bars for the rest
CT his natural life.
Canon City is entering upon street
improvements on a large scale. 1t Is
proposed to lay about twenty-five miles
OF artificial stone sidewalks. The work
is to be paid for in ten annual Install
ments. bonds bearing five per cent. in
terest being issued on that account.
r. A. Leigh. general superintendent
| OF the American Crude Rubber Com
pany. states that work will soon be
| commenced on the water power and
| factory of the company at Buena Wis
ia and that he expects TO have 100 men
at work in the factory by October LIST.
Requests for the special literature be-
ing issued by the Colorado Promotion
and Publicity Committee in its efforts
to make the resources. attractions and
| industries of the Centennial State bet
ter known are being received from all
over the United States, and even from
Europe.
Delos F. Powell cemetery superintend-
ent of Colorado Springs, former
member of the City Council and a
prominent figure in local politics. com
initted suicide at the cemetery Juno
,23rd, rather than face the disgrace re-
sulting from the charge of padding of
cemetery pay rolls. He shot himself
through the head with revolver.
Musser and Toogood, who were re-
Gently sentenced by County Judge Orr
of Ell Paso county to the Golden Re
form School for burglary and forgery,
were returned to Colorado Springs be-
cause they are over the age limit of
sixteen years. Both boys are nineteen
years old. The refusal to accept them
| was under an opinion by Attorney Cen
eral Miller.
Bowerman has organized a Chamber
OF Commerce with p. L. Snow of Dem
yer as its president. Mr.. Snow is e
business man OF Bowerman and Den
yer. Mayor Thomas j. Kane is vice
president; f. b. Morris. treasurer; Ar
thur Beymer. secretary. and p. J. Bar
on, financial secretary. An anniversary
L. !.