The Elbert County tribune., 1905-10-05
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS


vival meetings for next winter.
The Colorado Telephone Company
has commenced the work OF placing all
its wires in Pueblo underground.
Ebert Hubbard, founder Of the Roy
croft art-industry colony. will lecture
at Colorado Springs October 18th.
William II. Henry has been APP
pointed regular, and d. F. Henry. sub
stitute rural free delivery carrier OF
route No. l, at Colbran.
Gen. William j. Palmer has contrib
uted $1,000 TO the prosecution of the
Colorado Springs druggists who have
violated the liquor ordinances.
1t Is estimated that the sugar beet
crop on the old English ranch of 270
acres near Fort Collins Will average
eighteen tons to the acre and bring
S24 800. -.
The orders of the district judges
seem to have put ut least a temporary
quietus on gambling in Denver 1t Is
claimed that even the policy shops are
closed.
At Monument, September 2ith. Rob
ert Bovard Jr.. the little son of Rob
ert Bovard, was thrown from n wagon
and had his right arm broken above
the elbow
phere are six black walnut trees on
the state capitol grounds at Denver
that We're raised from walnuts grown
! on the farm on which Abraham Lin
coin was born.
Colorado farmers are at work Gig
ging the greatest crop OF sugar beets
! ever grown in the West. The factories
are all commencing work and things
/ viii be lively for the next two months.
4 The body OF Clarence V. Clay. for
| merly OF Denver, was found on Straub
mountain near Victor September 27th
with a bullet wound over the heart. 1t
| is supposed to have been u case of sui
eide.
Longmont's pumpkin pie festival
| Thursday, September 2Sth. was n great
success. Four thousand pies were cut.
/ Fifty floats appeared in the paraue.
along with many other interesting fea-
lures.
II. W. Campbell of Lincoln Ne
| braska. whose experiments in dry
farming In the semiarid regions have
made him world-famous. will speak at
the Chamber of Commerce luncheon in
Der yer October 18th
Sarah Jean Taylor. Colorado
Springs nurse, has brought suit to re-
cover 100000 damages from the Rock
Island road for personal injuries al
legged TO have been received in the Ii
mon Junction wreck on June 26th.
Ora Haley a cattleman OF Wyoming,
has engaged cars ON the Moffat road
for the shipment OF 1900 head of fat
cattle from Sulphur Springs to Den
yer. He has started his drives, which
viii come in lunches of 900 or 600
cattle.
The county commissioners of Pitkin
J county have awarded the contract for
building the state road up Lincoln
guleh to the Florence Construction
Company. Their bid was $4,000. 1t is
to be built from a point called the
Junction up The Roaring Fork to the
mine located at Difficult. distance OF
twelve miles.
/ Brooks Irione and the other men,
bers of the home committee of the Ma
tional Letter Carriers Association will
ask Congress for an appropriation OF
from $780, 900 TO 100000 to aid them in
erecting the National Letter Carriers
Home in Colorado Springs. Should
they get It, the building plans will be
expanded and provision made for a
$3.50, 900 home.
At the recent examination for en-
| balmers and undertakers held in the
office of the State Board of Health the
following were successful: H. e. Rog-
ers Paonia; ID. II. Mickey, Del Norte;
G. j. Meyer, Denver: II. l.. McHan.
Central City: G. NJ Hunt, Victor: w.
! C. Ketching. Florence; George w.
: Powell. Las Aniinas; Clarence Adams.
Gunnison; William Teppett, Central
City; Frank c. Warren, Denver.
A gathering OF citizens at Hakn's
peak, after discussing the proposal of
Hamlin Garland that national park
be made out of portion OF the White
River forest reserve, adopted resolu-
tions that the creation OF national
park. as proposed, would be hurtful to
the interests OF the people of Routt,
1 Rio Blanco, Garfield and Eagle coun-
ties. and that the damage would
greatly exceed any possible benefit.
State Coal Mine Inspector John d.
Jones is Of the opinion that the output
of coal In 1905 will equal that of 1903.
/ Up 10 date it is equal to the same per-
| iod IN that year. Comparisons are
made with that year, because the pro-
duction of 1904 was affected by the
great strikes In both the coal and min
| eral mining camps, and fell off over n
million tons. The production in 1908
was approximately 100000 tons and
in 1904 it was about 100000 tons.
The war relics department at the
state house at Denver has had its col
! lection enriched by the addition 90 n
| Boer flag. II was carried through the
! Boer war By an Irish brigade. James
| Connolly. member of the brigade.
| gave 1t to Richard w Watson, one of
| the Supreme Court bailifrs, by whom it
! was presented to Col W. w. Ferguson.
custodian of the department. The flag
is composed Of three stripes OF red.
white and blue. running horizontally.
while running vertically at one end is