The Elbert County tribune., 1904-10-20
COLORADO NEWS. ITEMS

A SNOWFALL bush in bloom is an
nounced az a remarkable freak at
Greeley. Snowballs will soon be in
bloom all over the state.
The members OF the Cripple Creek
Mine Owners association have issued
. positive denial OF the charge that
tney intend to reduce wages.
A new banking institution. the
United States National bank. has
been opened in Denver. w. A. Ho-
yer, Wholesale druggist, is president
The First National Bank of Meeker
has been author5Artsto begin business
with 10000 capi6tHlC. c. Parks. pres
1dent; r. Oldland. VICE president, and
=. E. Fordham. cashier.
F. NJ. Grogan ofsPueblo is reported
TO have found gold within or near the
city limits and has shown one pan
OF earth containing five colors. mug
get and several rubies.
Minnie" Hudson, a Pueblo colored
man, known as a successful gambler
End a professional politician. died on
the 18th from the effects OF wounds re-
ceived in a fight in Kansas City several
years ago.
The directors of the State Fair at
Pueblo will endeavor to have the Leg
isiature come to the aid of the annual
exhibition. The organization is heavily
In debt because OF bad weather, which
cut down the attendance.
Roy E. Dixon. Il school boy eleven
years old, saved the Durango-Silverton
passenger train from being wrecked by
tagging it in time to prevent it from
striking rock slide near Durango. The
passengers made up purse for him.
The sugar factory at Fort Collins
began operations October 10th. 1t
will keep at work until 1t has con-
verted the entire seasons crop of
beets tributary TO the factory. esti-
mated at 100000 tons, into granuia-
ted sugar.
Judge Ben B. Lindsey has been re-
nominated county judge for the long
term by the Denver Democratic execu-
tive committee. His name will also be
on the Republican ticket. The judges
work In the juvenile court Is held to
place the position outside OF politics.
1t is stated that Mrs. Ella Perkins,
wife of steel worker at Pueblo, is
one of nine heirs to an estate in Pitts
burg. Pennsylvania. valued at s1S.000.-
900, left by an uncle, Colonel Jacob Ba-
kerr of whom she and the other heirs
had lost sight, who died fifteen years
ago.
The bonds of Frank NJ. Downey. SUI
perintendent Joseph f. Nilsson. melter
and reiiner. and A. B. Hodgson, as
sayer of the new mint at Denver, have
been received at the Treasury Depart
ment and approyed. 1t is expected that
the coinage of gold will begin some
!, time next spring.
County seat contests are being car
ried on in Eagle county and Arapahoe
county. In the former the fight is be-
tween Eagle and Red Cliff, the present
county seat, and In the latter Littleton
which become county seat when the
city and county of Denver was formed
has numerous competitors.
Jackson Solomon, who broke out oil
the penitentiary at Canon City Sep
TENDER 23rd, was captured on the 18th
inst. at Thatcher, in Las Animas
county, by Dave Brighton, Santa Fe
switchman, who was looking for car
thieves. Before Solomon surrendered
he shot Brighton In the arm.
The roads of the Western Passenger
Association have decided to make the
Colorado common points aii-the-year-
round points instead of summer tourist
points only. Tourist rates will apply
all the year hereafter to Denver, Colo.
RADIO Springs and Pueblo. instead OF
only during the GUNNER months as
heretofore.
Ladderman Frank B. Lunt died al
Denver on the 18th inst, being the
third member of the Denver Fire De-
partment to lose his life from the ef-
fects of nitric acid fumes inhaled al
the fire in the office of the Denver Post
September goth. Lunt had been dis
charged from the hospital as cured. but
was attacked by pneumonia.
For the first time in the history Of
the Colorado Springs postofice. the
amount of money order business fol
the fiscal year ending September 80
1904, exceeded the $1,000.000 mark
The amount was $1.010, 786.27, las,
years figures being S908.446.05. sc
that a gain for the tweleve months
past was $102.340.22.
/ Fred w. Kohler. a prominent Boul.
der county farmer. who had only two
years ago taken up his residence in the
CITY OF BOULDER, commltteu SUICIDE OF
the 18th inst. by cutting his throat. Mr.
Kohler was seventy-ty0 years Of age
and in prosperous circumstances. His
family relations were also pleasant, sc
that no reason is known why he should
kill himself
George G.. Bachelor. aged ninety
two years. is believed to be the Oldest
truck gardener in Colorado. During
the summer he did all the work nee
essary on his little patch in Boulder
doing the digging. seeding. cultivatine
and irrigating without any assistance
Aside from the early vegetables he
has harvested a liberal supply of to
matoes and 700 head OF cabbage.
The Juvenile Court and Detention
House" exhibition. made by Judge Ber
B. Lindsey and his associates In DEN