The Elbert County tribune., 1905-06-15
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

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Greeley is to lave a wireless tele-
graph station.
Pueblo Pushers" is the name of an
organization that has been organized
to boost Pueblo.
Adjt- Gen. Buckley Wells left Denver
June 9th for short visit to California.
He will be away a week or ten days.
Gilpin county has thirteen school
districts and 1,677 children of school
age, decrease of eighty as compared
with last year.
BY the action Of the Salt Lake con-
vention permanent headquarters of the
Western Federation of Miners will be
continued at Denver.
The Tivoli-Union brewery In Denver
was set on fire by stroke of lightning
June I'd and burned to the ground. The
loss of buil5ing and contents is esti-
mated at about 100000.
In the Western Baseball League the
Denevr team manages to hold pretty
steadily to third place, while Colorado
Springs seems tG be safely anchored
at the bottom of the list
George w. Beardslee of Pyramid,
Colorado, has been granted permission
by the Forestry Bureau to construct
three small reservoirs within the limits
of the White River forest reserve.
Money is being raised for the con-
struction of a woman's pavilion at the
National Jewish Home for Consump-
tives. The sum of $4,000 is wanted.
over $4,000 of which has already been
subscribed.
Pueblo cackles as follows in a tele-
graphic dispatch: r. C. WEIGH of East
Second street has hen which yester-
day produced an egg measuring nine
and three-fourths inches at its greatest
circumference and eight inches around
the center.
At conference between Director of
the Mint Roberts and Superintendent
Downer of Denver, the appointment of
| Fred H. Chafin as cashier of the Den
yer mint was decided upon and his
commission was made out to take eff
feet July LIST.
Charles Swaney. who was sentenced
to sixty-days' term in the county
| Jail at Grand Junction for assaultiHg
Judge w. A. Marsh in the office of the
latter. has been pardoned by Governor
Mcdonald. He had served one-half of
his sentence.
The Philippine veterans of Colorado
Will hold their annual reunion at Colo
RADIO Springs July 22d and 23d. There
are large number of the boys in the
state who belonged to the First Colo
RADIO. 1hirty-fourth volunteers and
other organizations.
During the last sixty days twenty
two cases of violent deaths have been
handled by the coroner of Las Animas
county and this number does not in
clude the numerous persons killed in
the mines. Murder, suicide and the
railroads contribute to the list.
Forest Supervisor ]. II. Clark is in
Colorado Springs preparatory to in
auguarating the work of planting 50,-
900 Nebraska seedlings in the Pixies
Peak forest reserve. Approximately
100000 feet of dead timber will be
sold off the south reserve this year.
The Board of County Commissioners
of Pueblo county has formally &C.
cepted the offer of Orman & Crook.
bondsmen. to pay to the county treas.
urer the sum of s3,312.90, which is the
amount Pueblo county actually lost by
| the failure of the Bank of Pueblo in
1893.
Mike Hanak, the four-year-old son OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Clyde Hanak of Marshall,
in Boulder county, while picking flow.
| ers for the commencement exercises
on hill near Marshall, was fatally bit
| ten by a rattlesnake. He was bitten
about IL O'Clock Saturday morning.
June Sd, and died at o'clock the same
evening.
A contribution of $500 has been
made jointly by the Denver &c Rio
Grande, the Colorado & Southern and
the Colorado Midland railroads to the
Grand Army general executive COM
mittee for the fund to be used in the
/ ant IT,, Of tba IaIa IN 10
National G. A. r. encampment at Den
yer next September.
The following Colorado postmasters
have been appointed: Richard T.
Shockley, Haswell, Kiowa county, vice
J. c. Allen, resigned; James F. Jones.
Howbert, Pitkin county. vice A. B.
Hale, removed; Ira B. Hutch, Sanborn,
| Lincoln county, vice G. Harrison, re-
| moved; Matte Mott, Watkins. Adams
county, vice M. A. O'Reilly, resigned.
Chief Game Warden F. A. Gordon To-
Gated at Glenwood Springs, has writ
ten to Commissioner Woodland that he
has caused the arrest of A. F. Koehler
on charge of polluting the Frying
Pan river by dumping lime into it at
his lime kilns. Koehler was taken be-
fore justice at Meredith and fined s25
and costs, amounting to s36.75.
Carl Chamberlain, one of the execu-
tors of the Stratton estate, was Sc
verely but not dangerously injured in
an automobile accident two miles north
of Sedalia. He was on his way home
from Denver when bolt of lightning
stunned him and before he could stop
the machine it went off a bridge and
landed upon its side in the creek nine
feet below.
May Wood and Ethel Robinson, two
girls nineteen and twenty years of age
respectively, who escaped from the In
dustrial school near Denver during the
recent fracas, were caught by Sheriff