The Elbert County tribune., 1905-09-14
c0LoaADo NEWS ITEMS

Great crowds of excursionists are
visiting Cripple Creek.
governor Mcdonald has made an
order that the state hbuse Offices may
be closed at noon every Saturday dur
ing the year.
Rev. Henry J. c. Gerland. pastor OF
the German Evangelical Lutheran
cnurch on Evans avenue, died ON the
w. Van Austen OF Crested Butte,
VINO marched in the Grand Army pa
rade at Denver. is past eighty-three
years Of age.
Victor was pretty badly flooded by
an electric storm on the night OF the
9Th inst. There was a heavy fall OF
both rain and hail.
Gilbert McClurg has been employed
by Denver business men to give
twenty lectures on Colorado at the
Portland exposition.
The success of the recent Harvest
Day festival at Greeley has resulted
in the formation of an organization to
make 1t an annual AFFAIR
Mayor Connor OF Cripple Creek ap-
| pointed committee of 500 citizens to
entertain the visiting members of the
Grand Army of the Republic.
James Alyord. a miner working the
Mammoth shaft at Leadville. was
killed on the 9th inst. by the falling of
rock from car above him.
The City Council OF Colorado Springs
appropriated $500 for the entertain
ment of visiting G. A r. veterans and
the citizens raised $1,000 more.
Prizes have been awarded to chill
dren, schools and organizations for
successful competition in raising flow
ers and vegetables the past summer
Major +. F Foote, a G. A. r. veteran
and pioneer resident of El Paso county.
fell down an elevator shaft at Colorado
Springs on the I'd inst. and suffered
fracture of the left thigh.
Dean Richardson of the Harvard
Medical school has notified the author
tiles of Colorado college that work
done in the college will be accepted in
the Harvard Medical school.
Walter G. Bradshaw, who was en-
ployed at the j. G. Reynolds livery.
was struck by lightning and killed on
the 9th inst. while walking on East
Moreno street in Colorado Springs
w H. Tabor, for several years head
of the police department at Florence,
died at Folsom. New Mexico, on the
9th inst. OF strangulgtion OF the gall
duct. He was forty-four years of age.
Gen. A. ]. Sampson, formerly of
Colorado and now envoy extraordinary
and minister plenipotentiary for the
/ United States to Ecuador, was present
at the Grand Army encampment in
Denver.
I G hn or OH lf
the Pueblo Chleftan on the morning of
/ the LIST inst. and filled the composing
and editorial rooms with smoke from
i burning fuses. but the blaze was soon
extinguished.
The South Cheyenne Canon com
pany at Colorado Springs offers to re-
duce its admission charges from so
cents to 25 cents II the city will grant
franchise for a trolley line TO the
entrance gate.
A run of the Denver fire department
on Fourteenth street, with red fire and.
Roman candle accomplishments. was
one of the most striking features OF
the entertainments offered to the
Grand Army visitors at Denver.
/ The annual report of Commissioner
of Pensions Warner shows that on
D
sion rolls S,4S4 residents of Colorado.
who, during the fiscal year ended June
30th. drew pensions aggregating ST.
1874, ,402.
The application of o. II. Shoup of
/ Colorado Springs, Max Buchanan, j..
} l.. Warren, ]. r McKinnie, A. j. Ben
die and V. z. Reed to organize the
American National Bank of Alamosa.
/ Colorado, with $50, 900 capital. has been
approved by the comptroller of the
currency and the bank authorized to
commence business.
/ At Durango on the 9Th inst. Judge
Russell sentenced Robert Taylor to
not less than three years nor more
than five years in the penitentiary and
Mrs. May Wilson to not less than two
years nor more than three for the
crime of robbery. Taylor and Mrs.
Wilson last June held up +. j. Parker
and took $25 from him.
The second annual fair of Mesa
county, September 18th to 22d inclu-
sive, promises TO surpass all other
events of similar. nature held al
Grand Junction. There will be horse
and bicycle races, baseball and trap
shooting. There will be increased
prizes on fruits, farm products and
stock.
The first section of Santa Fe west
bound passenger train was wrecked
one-half mile east of Boone, twenty
miles east OF Pueblo, Monday after
noon. Eight or nine persons were in
jured, but the railway officials claim
that their injuries were slight in every
case exceDt two, and those will soon
recover.
When Wilford Howard was dis
charged from Jail at Trinidad on the
Sth inst. after thirty DAYS connne-