The Elbert County tribune., 1905-03-02
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

pdny Is preparing 10 lutrOuuCe duto
mobiles in its service.
The canning factory at New Castle
has been completed and turned over to
the company by the contractor.
Extensive beds of gypsum have been
located eighteen miles west of Pueblo
and 1t is proposed TO put up mill
A Colorado bureau is to be estab-
lished at the Lewis & Clark EXPOSE
ton at Portland. Oregon, this sum
mer.
1t is now stated that the Manitou &
Pixies Peak cog road viii not be cleo
trified this year as has been contem-
plated.
The male triplets born to Mr. and
Mrs. Freeburg at Louisville in Boulder
county only lived for a few days. They
We're very small
Senator Patterson has sent 1000
packages of vegetable seeds to the
State Bureau of Horticulture at Den
yer for free distribution.
Sixty-five carloads of hogs in one
shipment arrived at the Denver stock.
yards February 21st. There were
$500 hogs in the consignment
Fire destroyed the East Side school
building at Loveland February 21st.
1t was a six room building and the loss
is almost total, only the walls remain
ing.
The Colorado Springs Municipal
League has been formed by leading
citizens to investigate the manage
ment of city affairs. A paid secretary
will be employed.
Edward o'Mailia, one of the con
victed Denver election officials, was
granted parole by the Supreme
Court to permit his attendance at the
bedside of his sick wife.
Nearly 200 horsemen gathered at the
coyote roundup near Berthoud Febru-
airy 22d, but only few coyotes were
sighted aB] they were all smart
enough to get away.
Z. G. Erickson, prominent farmer
Of Nj Wot in Boulder county, was
killed in a runaway accident February
25th while returning home from Long
mont with loaded wagon.
Former State Senator w b. FELTON,
of Canon City has presented the state
historical department with two vol
umes of the SGguachc Chronicle, ex-
tending from 1876 TO 1880. He was ed
itor of the paper at the time.
Several members of band OF gyp-
sizes were arrested for vagrancy at
Denver a few days ago. The gypsies
have been travelling through the coun
try, supported mostly by the earnings
of the women as fortune tellers.
The Gettysburg building in Denver,
where the panorama of the battle of
Gettysburg used to be exhibited, and
which was at one time used for the
postoffice. was badly damaged by fire
on the night of February 25th.
Henry NJ. Robertson has brought suit
in the District Court at Cripple Greek
against Edward Bell to secure posses
sion of the Office of sheriff of Teller
county from which Mr.. Robertson
claims that he was forcibly and unlaw-
fully deposed. The case has been set
for March 9Th.
An order has been issued by the
State Supreme Court transferring ia
cob Zipperian from the penitentiary at
Canon City to the county jail of La
Plata county zipperian had entered
upon a sentence for murder but the
Supreme Court reversed the judgment
of the District Court and ordered a
new trial
The Kansas House has passed a bill
calling for an appropriation of $4,000
for the erection of monument at
Beecher Island, in Yuma county. Colo
RADIO, the scene OF General Forsyth's
remarkable fight against Indians in
1868. This appropriation is contingent
on like appropriation by the Colo
. RADIO Legislature.
The second annual convention of the
first district association, knights of
Pythias, at La Junta, February goth.
was largely attended and in every way
a success. The following officers were
elected: President, A. b. Wallis of La
Junta; secretary, G. H. Winchell of
La Junta; treasurer, William Welles
of Manzanola.
A joint committee has been appoint
ed by the James w. Anderson post of
Cripple Creek and Victor post No. 100
of Victor, department of Colorado and
Wyoming G. A. r., to make all neces-
sary arrangements for attendance and
quarters for members of the two posts
who desire to attend the national en-.
campment to be held in Denver next
September.
The following recent patents have
Eeen issued to Colorado inventors:
Charles G. Foote. Denver, rock drill;
Will Kincaid, Hooper. line adjuster;
Oliver F. Rhodes. Denver, acetylene
gas generator; James F. Robertson.
Pueblo, stand stamp; Thos. II. Pray
Ter, Denver. electric signaling appa-
ratls for railways; Arthur R. Wiley.
Denver. actuating mechanism for con-
centrators.
Preparations are being made by Col
orado Springs capitalists who, with
prominent Fasteners, are heavily in
terested in the Grand Valley beet
sugar factory at Grand Junction, to
double the capacity of the plant. the
output of which for the last year more
than doubled the combined totals for
the three previous years. Thirty thou
sand tons of beets were treated. the
value of the gross production approx
mi ting 100000.