The Elbert County tribune., 1905-09-07
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

at the state Fair at Pueblo
The new Christian Science church
at Florence has been completed.
Twenty men enlisted In the United
States army at the recruiting station
in Pueblo during the month of August.
Judge Lindsey OF the Denver County
Court has decided that the ordinance
prohibiting brickyards inside the city
limits Of Denver Is unconstitutional.
John Walker Of Columbus. Nebraska.
who Is seventy-n.ne years of age, re-
Gently walked from Manitou Springs
to the summit of Pixies Peak and back.
Burglars blew open the safe in the
postofiice at Falcon in Ell Paso county
on the night OF August 29th and Sc
.cuerd about 5000 in stamps and money.
The Convention Amusement Com
pany has been organized in Denver to
give entertainments and exhibitions
during the conventions held in the
city.
Forest Inspector Smith Riley, who
has been temporarily placed in charge
of the Holy Cross forest reserve In Col
orado, has established headquarters at
Glenwood Springs.
Mrs. Emma Herey-Meyer has retired
from the Office Of county superintend-
ent of schools in Denver. Judge Palmer
having decided that Miss Lillian Field
is the lawful incumbent.
The harvest festival parade at Gree
ley on the both ult. was twentyfour
blocks long and consisted OF decorated
automobiles, carriages. bicycles and
floats. The festival drew an immense
crowd.
A party of hunters from Iowa few
days ago paid the game warden at
Denver sl25 for hunting licenses. They
proposed to enter the mountains from
Buford. Routt county, for a thirty
days hunt.
Miss Ruby L. Cars tens of Longmont,
a graduate OF the University of Colo
RADIO last June, has received an ap.
pointment of a fellowship in the de-
partment of mathematics IN the State
University
The Denver G. Rio Grande railroad
will build a new machine shop, 63x297
feet in size. at its shops in Denver, to
gether with a large addition 20 the
blacksmith shop. The whole is to cos,
about $4,000.
The general committee of the Boul
der Commercial Association has de
cided to make safer passageway to
Boulder falls, one os the scenic at
fractions in the foothills above the city
up Boulder canon.
Attorney General Miller has an
nounced an opinion to the effect that
the exemption of 5000 of personal prop
erty from taxation under the law
passed last winter does not apply to
non-residents
At Pueblo, on the 31st ult., Mrs.
Maud Finch Haver. wife of E. B.
Haver. real estate dealer, drowned
herself and five-year-old son in the Bes-
lsemer ditch The act is attributed to
Ill health and dependency.
When finished, the reservoir of the
San Luis Land, Irrigation and Power
Company on the Alamosa river above
Monte Vista will be four miles long
and half mile wide and the dam will
be 800 feet long and 1856 feet high.
Owing to the threatened epidemic
of scarlet fever at Leadville. the State
Board Of Health has notified the local
authorities that the city must be thor
oughly cleaned. Otherwise the State
Board will take the matter in hand.
The comptroller of the currency has
Bank of Salida, Colorado, to begin bus.
mess with a capital of 1000 ]. w.
Calhoun is president. s. w. Sandusky.
vice president, and C. w. Erdleh, cash.
| ier.
There will be an examination for
stenographers and typewriters in the
| federal building at Denver October
10th. For departmental stenographers
/ 4 hn IL,
| year. but for the Philippine service
they run from 1900 to $1,000.
A contract has been let to Francis
Pastorus of Colorado Springs for the
construction of an irrigation storage
reservoir on Florida mesa, near Du-
range, designed to irrigate 1000 acres
of land in the G. M. Williams estate.
c. M. Williams died few months ago
will hold 1000 acre feet of water
The State Land Board has acted ia
vorably upon the request of the Colo
RADIO Springs Merchants Association
and the chamber of commerce, seeking
to purchase 100 acres of state land
near the Union Printers Home, to be
| offered to the National Letter Car.
! riers' Association, soon to convene at
Portland, as a site for the national
| home.
The State Land Board has issued a
| deed to the land recently granted the
| Beecher Island Memorial Association.
The land comprises 16O acres in Yuma
county, and covers the site of the fam
Gus Indian fight between Colonel For
syth and the hordes Under Roman
Nose. in September. 1868. The Legis-
latures of Colorado and Kansas ap-
propriated $4,000 each last winter to
| build monument on the site, where
| Lieutenant Beecher and the other he
roes who died there lie buried.
Dave Parks, an employe of the Clyde
| Lumber Company, at Clyde, on the