The Elbert County tribune., 1905-07-20
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

An1ty IN regard 10 the reported OUT
break of anthrax among the cattle.
The canning factory of the Barlow
Consolidated Canning Company at
Loveland has begun operations on
raspberries.
The Colorado & Southern Railroad
Company has deposited 10000 trout
Try in the river at Bailey. all about six
inches in length.
James f. Maloney. a prominent To-
cal politician and alderman of the
Third ward in Denver. died of heart
disease on the 10th inst.
Attorney General N. c. Miller has
gone to Chicago and will be away two
or three weeks. He will spend his va.
cation visiting with his brothers and
sisters in Illinois.
Michael Dowd and Peter Miller. SEN
fenced to the penitentiary from Denver
convicted of election Irregularities. ar
rived at the penitentiary at Canon City
On the 18th inst.
Twenty-Five counties of Colorado are
represented in agricultural exhibits at
the Chamber of Commerce building In
Denver, and specimens are wanted
from other counties.
A dispatch from Oyster Bay July
".
RADIO to-day was appointed to be sur
veyor general of Colorado under the
General Land Office.
In the Western Baseball League Des
Moines and Denver are close competi-
tors for first place and Colorado
Springs and st. Joseph are nip and
tuck for the BOBBY prize.
The fourteen-months-old baby son of.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hal Baird of Goldfield
managed to get hold of some strych-
nine tablets on the 10th inst, and ate
enough to cause its death.
c. A. Coryell has been granted a
lease on 100 acres of state land in
Arapahoe county for placer mining
purposes. The state shares in the pro
AUCTION at the rate of twenty per cent.
The Morgan County National Bank
Of Fort Morgan has been authorized to
begin business with a capital of $780,
300. NJ. l.. More is president. r. NJ.
Mandy, vice president, and j. II. Roed-
iger, cashier.
Colorado postofice appointments
have been made as follows Jefferson,
Park county, Charles F. Peake, vice
Bchattinger. resigned; Muriel. Huer-
tano county, Wilmer b. Kenny. vice E.
l.. Reubendale, resigned.
The grading of the Pennington line
Of the Denver & Rio Grande has been
completed as far as Aztec and track
laid for fifteen miles below Durango.
Several of the grading contractors are
preparing to move to other fields.
The next convention to swoop down
on Colorado viii be that of the Fra
ternal Order of Eagles, which will
meet at Denver August 14th. An i'm
mense gathering is anticipated and
they propose to soar all over the state.
The Pueblo steel works are receiv-
Ing more than 500 tons of iron ore per
day from the iron deposits in Mime
sota This, 1t is said. will continue
until the new deposits in Wyoming are
opened up to the satisfaction OF the
company.
The state convention of the Ameri-
can Order of Protection will be held at
Florence July 27th, when delegates to
the supreme convention to be held in
Lincoln in September, will be elected.
Twenty-Five delegates are expected
from outside locges.
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 fiagpole now stands.
June proved very good month for
collections by the State Land Board,
and shows that the business of the of
fee is increasing steadily year by year.
The June collections for the past three
years have been as follows: 1903, $40.
1911; 1904, $1S,293; 1905. s21. 639.O2.
An old man was robbed and brutally
beaten over the head at La Sale on
the 14th inst. by two tramps. On his
being taken TO the Weld county hospi-
tai 1t was found that his skull was frac-
tured in thirteen different places. He
has been identified as Frank Geron.
Will C. Ferril, curator at the State
Museum, kept a record of the visitors
to the department during the week the
Epworth League delegates were in
Denver. Beginning July 9Th and end
ing Monday night, July 10th, emitting
Sunday, the total was 1897. The
largest day was on Saturday. when 81
619 visited the rooms.
More foreigners are settling in Col
orado this year than ever before, ac-
cording to the reports of the immigra.
ton commissioners of the various rail
roads coming into the state. Hundreds
are attracted by the work in the sugar
beet fields and other agricultural dis
tricts, while the mining camps also are
the mecca of many foreigners.
At Golden July 10th Judge CARR
CUES of Greeley, who was sitting in
the District Court for Judge De
France, sentenced Aubury Church to
the penitentiary for not less than five
nor more than twenty years for Grim
inal assault. Church pleaded guilty.
He was a former inmate OF the State
Industrial School for Boys. His term
expired about the first of the year.