The Elbert County tribune., 1906-10-04
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

The University of Colorado has be.
come member of the United States
National Amateur Athletic Association.
A cabbage exhibited by w. S. Brown
at Florence is five feet in circumfer-
ence and weighs nearly forty-five
pounds.
Col. James w. Penrose, for many
years special agent for the Union Pa
cific, and = veteran of the Civil War.
died at Denver on the 26th ult.
Paul Hentchel, saloon keeper OF
Evans, has been found guilty on two
counts OF violating the state law
against selling liquor on Sunday.
The director of the mint at Washing.
ton on the 26th ult., purchased 2O0.-
900 ounces of fine silver at 6S.76 cents,
to be delivered at the Denver mint.
The girl students at the State Nor
NAL School at Greeley still quite gen.
orally keep up the custom. inaugurated
some two years ago. of going without
hats.
L. N. Zalinger, formerly publisher of
the Denver Eye, has started a new
weekly paper in Denver. the South
Denver Sun, which will advocate Re
publican politics.
A good many cases of typhoid fever
have been reported in Denver during
the past month. Diphtheria and scar
let fever have been less prevalent than
usual at this season of the year.
The application of w. A. Merriell, X.
F. Shelley, A. A. Belts. Il. ]. Dalton
and o. d. Belts, to organize the First
National Bank of Fruita, with $4,000
capital, has been approved by the
comptroller of the currency.
Walter l.. Barnes. for four years IL
brarinn at Albany, New York, has been
appointed assistant librarian at the
Buckingham library, University of Col.
who has rendered her resignation after
serving three hears as assistant
On complaint of the State Bureau of
Child and Animal Protection Harry
Mulholland of Denver, was fined SIS
and costs for restricting his horse to a
diet of six quarts of oats a day with
out any hay or other "roughness"
Mrs. Rebecca Eaton. wife of the late
ex-Gov. b. II. Eaton, will give $4,000
pipe organ to the Park Congregational
Church at Greeley. to commemorate
the life and character of her daughter
Mrs. Jennie Eaton-Petrikin, who died
recently.
Supervising Architect Taylor, of the
Treasury Department, is expected to
arrive in Denver December 1st to ex
anime the sites that have been offered
for the new Denver postoffice building
Congress has appropriated $500,000 for
the purchase of a site.
BY the use of team of forty-eight
oxen, Senator Clayton has constructed
bitches on marshy land north of Gree
ley, whereby $50 acres of land has
been drained. This land will now be
valuable for garden purposes and will
be plated in fiye-acre tracts.
William Dalton, the 16.year-old boy
accused of the murder of his uncle, J
NJ. Gard, in a quarrel at Palmer Lake
was Convicted of Involuntary man
slaughter in the District Court at Colo
RADIO Springs. Sentence, which was
deferred, may be from one day to one
year in the county jail.
Mrs. Emma Craig, wife of the Rev
William Bayard Craig, pastor of the
Central Christian Church at Denver
died at Denver September 26th after
an illness of more than year. She
was the victim of stomach trouble and
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dertaken as a last resort.
The Carbon Coal & Coke Company
which is opening extensive mines In
Riley canon near Trinidad, has let a
contract for construction of fifty cot
tages for miners. Cement blocks will
be used in construction, but instead oi
gravel being ground for the manufac
ture of the blocks, coke e;aze Will be
used.
Leonard Imbcden and James A. Hill
convicted of wrecking the Denver Sav
ings Bank, and now serving time in
the penitentiary at Canon City, have
through their attorney, l.. S. Smith
filed brief in the Supreme Court sup
Elementary to those already filed In
support of their motion for a super
sedeas
The Henry Baab and Baab Brothers
ranch in Beebe Draw dist.ict, fifteen
miles south OF Greeley, l,7G0 acres
with all live stock and fai ming imple-
ments has been sold to II. u Martyr, g
retired banker of Columbus, Ne
braska. for $4,000. Mr.. Martyr owns
a big cattle and sheep ranch neai
Deer Trail.
Through orders of Director of the
Mint Roberts from Washington, tho
output of subsidiary coin will be
doubled at the Denver mint, necessi
tating an Increased capacity and work
ing force. frank NJ. Downer, super
intendent of the Denver i1int, is ex
pecting instructions to cease his coin
age of silver dollars but to double his
capacity for smaller coins.
At the annual meeting of the Cripple
Creek Central Railway Company, helt
at Portland. Maine, September 25th
Spencer Penrose of Colorado SPRING.
was elected a director TO fill a va
cancy in the board. All of the retiring
directors were reelected. Quarterly
dividends Of ~ per cent. on the com
mon stock. and l per cent on the pre-
ferred were declared, payable October
goth.
J. c. Lawrence. aged slxty-eight. 6