The Elbert County tribune., 1904-07-21
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

convention in Denver In 1905.
Active preparations are being made
for the opening OF the Railway Meu's
Cooperative store at Salida-
The farmers clubs of Garfield coun-
| ty have fixed the date for the county
fair at September 2ed. Esd and 24th.
United States Senator Carmack of
Tennessee will deliver an address at
the Boulder Chautauqua on Democrat
ic Day.
A relief fund has been started for
the benefit OF the victims of the indie
pcndence depot explosion in the Grip
| pie Creek district.
Peter Bloom. an old proprietor liv-
ing at Empire station. committed sui
eide at Idaho Springs on the 18th inst
by taking carbolic acid
Four white women and fourteen
colored women confined in the county
! Jail at Denver are reported 10 be nurs-
ing race feud.
The Rocky Mountain Chautauqua at
| Glen Park began it, summer session
July 18th Rev b. T. Vincent. DID,
presided and made the principal adj
dress.
! The Denver team OF the Western
Baseball League has been playing well
in the lead for some time. vita Colo
RADIO Springs second. Colorado is In
it this year.
The people OF Greeley have started
a crusade against the cotton-bearing
cottonwood trees and are marking a
! great number OF them TO be cut down
at a later date.
Lawrence Federico one of the lnrg-
est maccaroni manufacturers in the.
SouIn, talks of esta..-s--.ng a branch
factory in Colorado and has been IA
yorably impressed with Pueblo.
DIR. Ellsworth Gage Lancaster. as
sistant professor of philosophy and
pedagogy at Colorado College, has for
mally accepted the presidency OF Oil
vet College at Olivet Michigan.
The body OF John owens, who was
drowned in the Cache la Poudre food
OF May 21st. was found near Fort Col
inns July 18th. Owens. who was sew
enty-three years of age. lived in dug
out on the river bank.
Secretary Henry Russell wray of
the Colorado Springs Chamber OF Conn
merce has inaugurated movement to
celebrate the centennial anniversary
of the discovery OF Pixies Peak in 1906
by Lieutenant zebulon Pike.
rhe relief fund for the benefit II the
| families of victims of the fndepend-
ence dynamite outrage. Is increasing
rapidly. Already $685. has been do
mated in cash. The picnic for the re-
lief fund will be held August LIST.
On the evening of the 18th inst.
fire in the sulphide fiber plant of the
| Rocky Mountain Paper Company at
! Denver caused damages estimated at
about $40 1000. The plant was insured
and Will be rebuilt at once.
/
| eighty-four other former Democrats OF
Las Animas county have Issued
/ statement telling why they have trans
ferred their allegiance from the Dem
ocratic to the Republican party.
notable gathering OF workers will
, meet in Denver September 29th, wnen
the general board Of managers OF the
| Womans Home Missionary Society OF
the Methodist Episcopal Church opens
| in Trinity Church its twenty-third an
nual convention.
President J. E. Topping or the State
| Fair Association at Pueblo is fpaking
tour of the western part of the state
| for the purpose of securing live stock
entries for the fair AT present the
entries are coming in as rapidly as
they can be cared for.
! Prof. c. Juday, who has been acting
biologist of the University of Colorado
| during the absence of DIR. Ramaley in
| India. has been asked to make a spe-
| cial study of the food and feeding hab-
| its of the famous golden trout of
Mount Whitney. California.
Mayor Speer OF Denver has appoint
| ed an art commission of six members
who will have control of all public
monuments and decorations. Hereafter
the city cannot become the owner OF
any such work of art until II has
been approved by the commission.
A small run was begun on the Bank
| of Victor on the 18th inst, it being re-
I ported that David H. Moffat. the prin-
cipal stakeholder was about to with
draw his support. He settled the mat
ter by telegraphing that he was the
sole owner and II necessary would
send money to pay all depositors.
Probably the Oldest book of records
existing in Weld county has been un-
covered from heap OF books and rub
Dish in the court house at Greeley. The
| book records the meeting OF the set
tiers OF the st. Vrain country at old
| Fort st. Vrain. October 6, 1859 for the
| purpose of founding a claim club.
The jury in the condemnation suit
at Greeley, brought by the Boulder
and Weld Reservoir Company to Sc
cure right Of way for the outlet
ditch of the reservoir from John God
ding, a banker Of Rocky Ford, who
wanted $4,000 damages. returned ver-
dict giving the defendant $1,000 dam
| ages.
One hundred machinists. brick ma
sons and lahorers have been put to
work getting the finishing end of the
steel works rail mill at Pueblo ready
for operation. The building for this de-