The Elbert County tribune., 1905-01-12
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS


Cripple Creek district
Father Thomas H. Malone of Den
yer was given private audience with
the Pope On Christmas Day.
The oil company organized by Sa-
Ida business men proposes TO sink a
well in the oil belt south of town
There was only one business failure
In Cripple Creek last year. and that n
mercantile concern which will pay out
dollar for dollar.
The Salida and Chaffee County Pio-
neers' Association has been organized
to preserve the memory of the early
days.
Denver has 226 miles OF regular sew
erage. besides fifty-one miles OF storm
sewers. The aggregate cost was nearly
$1,000. 900.
The town of Arrowhead. on the
Moffat road. in Grand county, has filed
Its articles of Incorporation with the
secretary of state.
The annual meeting OF the Colorado
Editorial Association will be held in
Denver January 23rd. which is week
earlier than the date first set for it.
Gen. William J. Palmer has con-
structed public bride path to Crystal
park, on the southeast slope OF Pixies
peak, above Manitou.
Capt. Levy Ethan Allen OF the Weld
County Abstract Company ut Greeley,
a veteran of the Civil War. died at
Long Beach, California. January 3rd.
A fashionable hotel and club room
vii soon be erected in Denver by the
United Commercial Travellers of Amer
lea. One of its features will be a roo:
garden.
Union revival meetings under the di-
rection of Rev. Wilbur Chapman be-
gan in Denver January 4th. Daily
meetings will be held In n large num-
ber of churches.
Foul air in the conundrum shaft on
Gold hill. in the Cripple Creek dis
trict. occasioned the death of William
Phillips n machlnist in the mine, on
December 29th.
William NICHOLAS. foreman of the
Hawley- mine near Nevada
vile, in Gilpin county was caught In
the betting at the shaft house and
killed on the 9Th inst.
The physicians of La lunta have in
corporated the La Junta Sanitarium
association with capitalization of
$4,000. 1t is proposed 10 begin work
soon on a general hospital.
Superintendent John Dietrich of the
Colorado Springs schools has received
from the board of directors of the In
ternational Anti-Cigarettc League
certificate of appointment as state
president for Colorado.
Mrs. John Dreyer, a prominent So
ciety and lodge woman of Silverton,
committed suicide January 1st by
shooting herself through the heart
with a revolver. The act is attributed
TO mental depression and i'll health.
The game warden is having trouble
with persons who have been shooting
qua.S rear Florence in violation of the
law, which allows no open season for
quail until 1907. One man was recently
fined $50 and costs for this offense.
A party of Denver capitalists are
planning to erect 100000 bath house
in Manitou on the site of the Norris
house, which recently burned. They
have asked Manitou for bonus of SS,-
900, $4,000 of which has already been
raised.
r. l.. Sprague, chief clerk of the state
fish and game commissioner, sent no
tices to game wardens over the state,
asking them to notify hunters that all
hunting licenses expire the last day
of December. without regard to when
they were issued.
Statistics of the University of Colo
RADIO at Boulder show a gain of an
even 100 students for the year 1904-05
over the year 10000. This is in the
college proper, which includes few
over GOO. The attendance at the State
Preparatory School is over 400.
The journeymen BARRIERS of Denver
have had a bill drafted for licensing
of all BARRIERS working in Colorado and
will ask the Legislature to make it
law The bill is similar to the one
presented unsuccesfully to the Legis-
lature at its last term.
]. II. Inquinton of the reclamation
service has been detailed to act as su-
pervising engineer for Colorado, Ne
braska and the North Platte river
basin. He will take general charge of
all government irrigation work in this
district, and will have headquarters at
Denver.
r. G.. Elliott, pioneer attorney of
Monument, died on the 9Th inst. Mr..
Elliott was law partner of Joseph III.
Choate in New York before coming to
Colorado and received his certificate
of membership in the New York Bar
Association from President Roosevelt's
grandfather.
Work has begun on a $4,000 water
and electric light plant at Evans.
soft water well 100 feet deep in the
center of the town, supposed to be
supplied directly from an underflow
from the mountains, will supply the
water works. A gasoline pumping
plant will be used.
John Delaney. twenty-five years Of
age, committed suicide at George
town January 5th. He left home about
2:30 p. m. telling his mother he was