The Elbert County tribune., 1905-06-08
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

FUSED TO reprieve Antoine WOOD, the
boy murderer.
A good deal Of damage was done by
| a destructive hailstorm between Ar
vada and Golden on the afternoon Of
May 9th.
Gov. Joseph Folk OF Missouri is ex-
| pected to visit Colorado this summer
on his way home from the Portland
Exposition
The five Grand Army posts Of Den
yer will unite In holding great June
Fair and Festival" at Denver June 21st
to July LIST.
Many men are going from Trinidad
to work on the construction of the new
| railroad from Durango to Pennington,
New Mexico.
Edwin Williams. formerly at the
head of the sampling works at Boul-
der. died May oath in Idaho. where he
was engaged in mining.
Many thousands acres of peat
| lands have been discovered near Toll
land on the Moffat road, and plans are
being formulated for the manufacture
Of fuel from it.
Heavy storms on May 9th caused
the breakage of the dams OF the Crater
and Dog Fish reservoirs. near Delta,
the Irwin dam near Holyoke.
Miss Nellie Donahue, ex-city treas
urer Of Victor, was acquitted by jury
Of the charge of misappropriating the
sum OF STAG. city funds. during the
time she was in office from 1900 to
1902
The six-year-old daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. John Ryan Of Pryor, Huer-
fano county, set her dress on fire while
working at the kitchen stove on the
goth ult., and was so badly burned that
she died next day.
Stephen and Charles Imprey, con-
victed of a statutory crime against
Gertrude Miller at Leadville, have
been pardoned. The girl last winter
made an affidavit that she swore
falsely against the men.
j. M. Hollands big ranch, twenty
nine miles northeast Of Pueblo has
been sold to ]. ]. Rose of Colorado
Springs for $4,000. The ranch COM
prises many acres and several thou
sand head of cattle.
The Empson Canning Company at
Longmont is increasing the capacity OF
its plant for the seasons run on peas.
When the machinery now arriving is
in place, the factory will have capac-
ity of 10000 cans of peas per hour.
May receipts with the State Land
Board show that the business of the
Office is growing gradually. The re-
ceipts last month were $25,502.25. In
May, 1903, the receipts were s20,723.11,
and in 1904 they were $23,152.34.
Colorado is entitled to twenty dele
gates to the eleventh International
Sunday School convention, which will
be held in Toronto, Canada, June 23d-
9th, and 1t is expected that many be-
sides the delegates will take the trip.
STA Tieng Ang, a Chinese graduate
of the University of Denver, and a
young man of much ability, died of con-
sumption at the Cakes Home in Den
yer. June I'd. Mr.. STA had many ac-
quaintances in Denver and was very
popular.
The United Brotherhood of Railway
Trainmen, the Eagles, the letter car
riers' union and the carpenters union
are considering the building of homes
and sanitariums in Colorado for the
benefit of their members throughout
the country.
Authority for the expenditure of s45,-
900 for the improvement of the road
bed between Boulder and Fort Col
Inns on the Colorado & Southern has
been signed by President Frank Trum-
bull. The track will be slagged for the
entire distance.
In 1908 the collection for liquor H.
censes by the state treasurer amounted
to S47S75, and in 1904 they reached the
sum of $53,575. 1t looks now as il by
the end of the fiscal present year, in
December next, the collections will
reach the sum of $65,000. This result
is due to putting out the collectors
over the state.
n. B. Cooper of the American De |
Forest Wireless Telegraph Company
las selected a site for the main receiv-
Ing station for the Cripple Creek dis
trict 1t is at point west OF the Amer
lean Eagles mine on Bull hill, at which /
point receiving station will be estab-
lished The altitude of Bull hill is
above 10000 feet.
Harry A. Mills, between twenty-five |
and twenty-eight years of age, con- |
ductor on the High Line electric road,
was Killed at s O'Clock on the morning |
of May 2Sth, at Midway. in the Cripple |
Creek district. His death was at first |
attributed to a shock of electricity, |
but later 1t became evident that he |
was caught between the cars.
The conversion of the following named |
Colorado banks into national banks has |
been approved by the comptroller of |
the currency: The Salida State Bank |
of SalIda into the Commercial National |
Bank of Sahda. with $4,000 capital: |
the Poudre Valley Bank of Fort Coz I
Inns into the Poudre Valley National |
Bank of Fort Collins, with s150,000 |
capital.
Colorado Springs and Denver are
becoming cities of national homes. A
national sanitarium for Swedes, and |
another for members of the Evangel-
ical lutheran Church, as well as a
third devoted to the order of B'nai
Birth, are located In Denver. Colorado