The Elbert County tribune., 1905-08-24
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

school age. OF whom 1852 are enrolled
in the schools.
Colorado Springs druggists have OBJ
tanned damages for the seizure of liq-
uors by the city officials.
The Farmers National Bank Of Ster-
ing has been authorized to begin busi-
ness with capital Of $4,000.
A new society. known as the Sons
Oh Colorado. and embracing the
younger native-born residents OF the
state. has been organized at Denver.
G. II. Ramsey, a Greeley man, has
offered to pay all the expenses of a
special election to vote on a PROPOSE
uon 10 grant him telephone tran
chise.
The widows OF three Denver fremen
who lost their lives by the deadly ef-
fects of chemicals at fire in the Post
office. have each sued the Post COM
pany for $4,000 damages.
For more than an hour Thursday
morning the entire town of st. Thomas.
a suburb of Sopris, was threatened
with destruction by fire. A bucket
brigade saved it after hard work.
The State Land Board inserted in a
deed of sale OF state lands a provision
that the people of the state should
never be debarred from fishing along
the stream that runs through the land.
Engineer G. W. Thompson was killed
on the 18th inst. by the overturning of
his engine between Red Mountain and
Silverton. The train remained OF the
track and no one else was hurt.
One hundred and sixty people at
Boulder have subscribed an aggregate
of $l4,S00 toward the erection of a Y.
NJ. c. A. building, and there are 200
more people for the committee to see.
George H. whiteley, son OF Former
Mayor NJ. S. Whiteley of Boulder, has
started for Oxford. England. to enter
the university there, he having been
granted a Rhodes scholarship last
spring.
Col. w W. Ferguson, assistant quar-
termaster general of the G.. 4. Il. at
seum in the capitol building. has had
siege of typhoid fever from which he
now seems to be recovering.
William e. Johnson. aged twenty
years. was instantly killed by the ac-
cidental discharge of a Winchester
rifle at Baxter's station, FIVE miles east
of Pueblo. on Saturday. the 21st inst
He had been shooting at mark.
On petition filed before Judge Hal.
lett in the federal court the independ-
ent Smelling and Refining Company at
Golden was adjudged bankrupt. The
request of the company for the ap-
pointment of a receiver was referred
to Referee Harrison.
With reservoir No. ] full. and Nos
and two-thirds full, the city Of Flor
ence has enough mountain water for
domestic use for q fun year. The
water is secured from the head oil
Newlin creek, distance of twenty
miles from Florence.
Sixty tons of hay, valued at 5000. was
totally destroyed by fire at the Strat
ton ranch, south of Colorado Springs
on the 18th inst, as a result of the
carelessness of some small boys who
threw the lighted stubs of their cigar
cites on the haystack.
John Egelln. workman in the roc
mill of the steel works at Pueblo. had
his left leg burned off on the 18th inst
by red hot rod that became coiled
around it in coming from the rolls
He was taken to the Minnequa hos
pital and the leg amputated
A party OF twenty-three boys and
girls bound for Hoehne on a moonlight
picnic at a late hour Thursday might
met with an accident which may cause
the death of one of the party. They
were riding on a hay rack and the
team ran away.
The Colorado starch factory at Gree
ley has been sold for $4,000 to w. ID
Boutwell, of Waupeca, Wisconsin. Mr.
Boutwell, has been engaged in the
manufacture of potato starch for the
last fifteen years in different parts o.
Wisconsin. lie will enlarge the Gree
ley plant.
Leon Lenhart. aged thirty-five years
son of one of the wealthiest residents
Of Trinidad, was found dead under {
tree at Trinidad August goth. the toI
OF his head having been blown OFF by {
bullet. All indications point to sui
eide, although no cause for such ar
act is known.
No more timber cutting VIII be per
mitted on North and South Eardscrab
BILE creeks, Fremont county. A gov
ernment ranger appeared on the
creeks recently and ordered timber
Gull'ib W utEi5A.
timber sections have been devastated
by the choppers.
Judge Cunningham. in the District
Court at Colorado Springs. has denied
the motion for a new trial in the case
of j. b. Belford VS.. the Stratton estate
and entered judgment for the plaintiff
in the sum of $4,000 An appeal was
granted to the Supreme Court. Judge
Belford's claim is for services as at
torney during Mr.. Stratton's lifetime
Seven of the twenty-one members oi
the Uintah drawing pool comprised oi
Colorado Springs and Pueblo police
men and railroad men, drew numbers
at Provo, County Commissioner j. b
Rush of Pueblo drawing No. 66. The
next number was 1896, the next S3S
and larger numbers in quick success
sion. The members of the pool, who