The Elbert County tribune., 1905-10-26
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

The Greeley Starch and Potato Com
pany has been Incorporated to manu-
facture starch from potatoes.
A sea gull, measuring more uhan
four feet from tip to tip of its wings,
was recently shot near Florence.
The new sugar factory at Holly has
begun operations and it is expected to
handle over $4,000 tons OF beets this
season.
A remarkably large number of peo-
pie attended the harvest festival at
Ault. Governor Mcdonald was among
the visitors.
A postoffice will be established at the
west portal of the Gunnison tunnel. TO
be called Lujane, with r. E. McCollum
as postmaster.
The Denver Republican says that
Joel F. Vale will be a candidate be-
fore the next Legislature for election
to the United States Senate.
Simon Guggenheim has given $1,000
to the West Side Neighborhood house
in Denver. 1t will be msde the nucleus
for fund to erect a new building.
What troubles the Greeley starch
factories is that there are no small
potatoes this year; or at least the
farmers can't spare the time to handle
them
Fred L. Paddleford has resigned as
a member of the board of control of the
State Industrial School for Girls. In
doing so he did not make his reasons
public.
A Settlers Forest Reserve conven-
tion, under the auspices of the Roaring
Fork and Eagle River Stockgrowers
Association has been called to meet at
Glenwood Springs, December 1st
John Doyle. employed in the rail
mill at the Bessemer steel works. was
drawn into the machinery and in
stantly killed. He was twenty-five
years of age, unmarried. and had for
merly lived in Denver.
The first annual cowboy tournament
was held in Salida October 2ist. Cat
1 tlemen were present from Chaffee, Sa-
guache, Park and Fremont counties.
In the parade Saturday there were
fully 100 visiting cattlemen.
Thomas C. Clayton believes he has a
| good prospect for placer mining on
some land the state owns near Castle
| Rock The State Land Board has
leased him 100 acres on the terms of a
ten per cent. royalty on the gross out
| put.
! The first report of the new Weather
/ Bureau station at Lake Moraine, on
Pixies Peak. 10000 feet above sea
level, was issued October 18th. The
Instruments were imported from
France through the generosity of Gen.
w. J. Palmer.
Fifty dollars reward is offered by
/ State Game and Fish Commissioner j.
w. Woodward for information leading
to the conviction of the person or per
sons who killed two fine elk on Sleepy
Cat mountain in Rio Blanco county re-
Gently.
Ex-Mayor H. C. Wat5on of Greeley,
accompanied by his wife, has started
for trip around the world. crowd
of friends met at his house the even
ing before his departure and presented
him with a valuable pair of field
glasses.
Judge Moses Hallett, of the Federal
Court, has refused TO modify an in
junction recently issued restraining
the Ute Coal & Coke Company, .oi
Durango, from trespassing on govern
ment land from which the company has
been mining coal.
The law firm of Goudy G. Twitchell
at Denver, in behalf of the relatives
of Abe Schiller, the missing Alamosa
banker, advertises reward of $500 for
information which will lead to discov-
cry of his whereabouts il alive, or the
recovery of his body if dead.
Through the generosity of Simon
Guggenheim the State University has
acquired an important set of plants
from Routt county-a region hitherto
little known to botanists. He re-
Gently placed sum of money at the
disposal of the regents for the pur-
chase of museum specimens and the
collection OF plants.
A badger belonging to Prof. John
Crone, curator of the State Normal
School at Greeley, was recently shot
by a neighbor because the badger stole
chickens from him. This badger was
a familiar object at the teachers insti
tutes throughout the state this sum
mer, where Prof. Crone taught nature
study. illustrating many of his talks
by displaying the badger.
The favorite rife of Daniel Boone
carried by him during his hunting and
trapping excursions in Kentucky, is In
possession of Mrs. C.. F. Perkins OF
Florence. She secured it through heI
father, Daniel Pruitt, who was a part
ner of the famous hunter. On the rife
stock is engraved the name of Boone
The gun is an old muzzle loader. car
and ball weapon, and is highly pol
ished.
This is the way Fremont county
cackles in the Denver Republican
III A. Tennis of Florence has the most
productive hens ever raised in Ere
mont county. He has one hen that has
brought off three settings of young
ones this year, four that laid every day
during the summer, spring chicken
that is not five months old that is the
mother of thirteen young chickens, and
three that are not four months old
that have begun to lay"
Typhoid fever was responsible fol