The Elbert County tribune. [volume] (Elbert, Elbert County, Colo.) 18??-1920, 1905-07-27
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

one Of the points of registration for the
Uintah reservation opening.
James Biggs committed suicide at
Boulder on the 18th inst by hanging
himself. He leaves a widow and two
small children.
During the week ending July 18th.
1880 tourists visited the Cripple
Creek district. Most OF them were Ep-
worth League tourists.
The Denver Chamber of Commerce
is planning a big excursion over the
Moffat road when the line is completed
to Hot Sulphur Springs.
Greedy is to have a new city hall at
a cost of $4,000 and a new armory
building costing $1,000, to be rented
by the builder to the state.
Company B of the First infantry. N.
G.. c., was mustered out at Pueblo
July goth. A new company to take its
place will be organized next fall.
DR.. Charles G. Lamb, state veterin-
arian, reports that 1t was not anthrax
but bad feed and water that killed f1f-
teen head of cattle at Amity recently.
Miss Rosa M. Layton of Denver has
been appointed stenographer and type
writer. and assigned to duty in the
Denver Office of the reclamation SER
vica
Colorado Springs and eastern capt.
talists are interested in the develop
ment Of $500 acres of promising coal
land in La Plata and Archuleta coun-
| ties.
| At Brookside, Fremont county, on
the afternoon of July 18th, Felix Mos
| chetti shot and killed Camilla Yer
lengia, whom he accused of having in
suited his wife.
1-lo <11 I1o1;coJoc hoto1 H,,ppfgop
was burned on the morning of the 18th
inst. 1t was built about twenty-five
| years ago at reported cost of 100000
| and was insured for a considerable
sum.
Leroy Triplett, convicted at Denver
of the murder of Lafayette Marsh
banks on the night of June 10th, was
sentenced by Judge Booth Malone to a
| term of from twenty to twenty-five
years in the penitentiary.
| z. A. irish, senior conductor in the
! Salida division, Order of Railway Con-
| ductors, committed suicide at Salida,
| July 21st, by cutting his throat with a
razor. His wife died last October and
/ he leaves one child, a four-year-old
daughter.
The new city directory now being
printed for Florence contains the
names of 2,258 people. There are 1000
school children in addition to 1900
| young people whose names do not ap-
| pear in the directory, giving the city
a population of 4,600.
The state memorial statue to be
erected in honor of the Coloradans
who served in the Civil War, for which
$4,000 was appropriated by the last
Legislature. will be placed in front OF
the capitol building in Denver. where
the flagpole now stands.
Mrs. Ben Davis and her two-yearold
baby boy and sixteen-year-old daughter
Alga, were hurled over seventy-fve-
foot cliff to the bottom Of the gulch in
runaway, near Carbondale July 21st,
all of them being seriously, but it is
hoped not dangerously, injured.
Melvin Acorn, the eager employed in
| the 10 Dandy mine on Raven hill at
| Cripple Creek, was killed on the 10th
inst, by falling off the cage and going
down the shaft 12O feet. He had gone
| down to the fourth level to bring the
miners up to surface for dinner.
The cornerstone Of the new Simon
( Guggenheim hail. to be used as the
administration building for the State
| School of Mines at Golden, will be
laid September Both. Mr.. Guggenheims
first donation for this building was
| $4,000, which was recently raised to
/, $4,000.
! Pueblo people have purchased the
| Western League baseball franchise SO
long held by Colorado Springs. and the
fans" at the Springs will now have to
content themselves with amateur
| games. The Pueblo club begins way
| down next to the bottom, where it left
| off at Colorado Springs.
, Col C. w. Barker. for many years
| proprietor of the Barker house at Man.
tou, and widely known throughout the
! state, died of heart disease at Manitou
July 18th, at the age of sixty-six years.
| Colonel Barker was a veteran of the
! Civil War, having 1erved as comman-
| der of the First Indiana cavalry.
John w. Holes of Bradner, Ohio,
| Ohio, has written to the governor that
he is coming to the G. A. r. encamp-
ment and is bringing an excellent por-
, trait of Gen. James w. Denver, after
whom the city was named. He was a
soldier under General Denver, whom
he pronounces to have been a capable
and efficient officer.
Governor Mcdonald has appointed
| Mrs. B. F. Stickley of Leadville and
! Mrs. ]. d. Whitmore of Denver to be
members of the board in control
of the Travelling Library Association.
| The other members of the board are
Mrs. u. y. Snyder of Greeley. Mrs. A.
| M. Welles of Denver and Mrs. M. E.
/ Churchill of Greeley.
Word has been received ct the office
| of the state game and fish commits
sioner in Denver, that two prosecutions
for violation of the game laws have
L.
Paonia. Robert l.. Young was fined
$50 and costs for killing deer out of
season, and A. McAdams has been
| fined S25 for killing a beaver.