The Elbert County tribune., 1905-09-28
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

cute all saloonkeepers and druggists
who undertake to do business with
state licenses.
The woman's Club of Colorado
Springs has voted to donate $50 10 the
Jacob Riis settlement at As Henry
street. New York City.
The county commissioners OF Fre-
mont county have ordered a large
steam roller, crusher and other ma
chinery for road work at cost OF ST.
900.
The broad-gauge railroad from Du-
range to Pennington, New Mexico, was
finished September 18th. All fruit
shipments from Pennington now come
to Durango by rail.
Harvey w. Hawley. editor and pro-
prietor of the Denver Times from 1855
to 1894, died at Berkeley, California,
September 21st after an illness of
several years from paralysis.
President David Starr Jordan OF the
Stanford University will be one of the
lecturers at the meeting of the Colo
rado State Teachers Association in
Denver December 26th to 29th.
The baggage room of the Rio Grande
railroad at Colorado Springs handled
$4,000 pieces of baggage during the
month of August, this business far ex-
ceeding that of any previous month in
its history.
f. c. Smith, retiring general super
:ntendent Of the Cripple Creek Short.
Line. was presented with a s450 gold
watch and chain by several Of the
Short Line employees. previous to his
departure for New York
Rufus Petit, l-blooded Cherokee
Indian and a graduate of Carlisle
school, enlisted at Trinidad few days
ago in the regular army as an infantry
private. Petit graduated from Car
Isle with the highest honors.
On September 21st more than 100
Pueblans went to Canon City to at
tend the Fremont couhty fair. Each
wore a badge on which appeared a
large cluster OF grapes and the words.
Pueblo Greets Canon City Sept. q,
1905.''
Gov. Joseph w. Folk, the celebrated
reform executive of Missouri, was n
guest of the Denver Chamber of Com
merce luncheon September 21st and
made a ringing speech in behalf o:
clean government and the enforcement
of the laws
H. L. Hall, post trader for the Ute
Indians at Ignacio, Colorado, is author
ity for the statement that the name
given to Pixies Peak by the Utes was
"Acowacadee," meaning Red Top
mountain" The accent is on the sec
ond syllable, Cow"
A meeting has been called in Salida
by Marshal Herzinger for October 23d
and Gath for the organization of the
Colorado State Association of Chiefs
nf rfF 81, 4
heads of city detective departments
are eligible to membership.
Invitations have been issued by the
board of trustees and faculty of the
( Colorado School of Mines, Golden, an
nouncing Monday, October I'd, as the
date on which the cornerstone of the
Simon Guggenheim hall will be laid
The exercises will be held in tine after
noon.
The contract for the construction OF
a new high school building in district
No. 20, Pueblo (South side), has been
let for S10S,000, the structure to be
completed by October l, 1906. While
the present building will cost s10S,00
the plans call for two wings on the
ends OF the building and when these
are copleted, the cost of the building
will be 100000, but these wings will
not be constructed until there is a de-
mand for more room.
At the close of the second trial at
Durango, September goth, the jury in
, the trial of Jake Zipperian, charged
with the murder of Matt Luxsinger, af-
ter being out twelve hours, brought in
verdict of guilty of manslaughter
Zipperman was then sentenced to from
| seven TO eight years in the peniten-
tiary. The murder occurred on the 14th
of last October and was the result OF a
quarrel over some of Luxsinger's cat
tie that got into Zipperman's fields
Thre new members and one transfer
are announced in the faculty of the
Agricultural College at Fort Collins.
Royal Hawlett and Miss Florence
Stuver will be assistant professors in
mathematics and Professor S. A. Nc
/ Donaud will be acting head of the
mathematical department. Professor
E. B. House. formerly at the head of
this department, will take the position
of professor of irrigation engineering
under Director l.. G. Carpenter.
On September 22d H. ]. Williams.
Jr., of Battle Creek, Michigan, for
merly physical instructor in the sani-
tarium of that name, walked from the
summit of Pixies peak to the cog sta
tion at Manitou in one hour and 25k
minutes. Williams started with the
train. arriving at the station two and
one-half minutes ahead of the train.
This beats all records for the descend
ing of the peak, and the time is
vouched for by several passengers on
the train.
The Western Polo Association has
been organized at Denver. The repre-
sentatives Of the Glenwood Springs.
Tenth cavalry, Colorado Springs and
Denver Country Club teams met at the
Denver Country Club to form the new
association. w. B Devereaux, Sr.,
was named president, he representing