The Elbert County tribune., 1906-09-20
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

The Arapahoe County Fair will be |
held at Littleton October 4tb to 9Th
The Mesa County Fair will be held |
at Grand Junction September 26th to
2sth.
county. takes place September 26th to |
2Sth.
G. c. Bachelor, a pioneer of Boul- |
der. died at his home in Boulder on the
9Th inst. at the great age of ninety
three years.
Jacob Rush, father of State Senator
John A. Rush, died at his home in Den
yer on the 9th inst. at the age of sew
enty-two years.
II. w. Ward. prominent Canon
City contractor and builder. has beea
adjudged insane and placed in the
state asylum at Pueblo.
The Flint Automobile Company. or
ganized by eastern capitalists. contem
plates building large factory in Den
yer at a cost of 100000.
While walking on the tracks of the
Colorado & Southern at Trinidad on
the 18th inst, Robert Wilson. aged fif-
ty-two years, was run over and killed.
He leaves widow.
During the last twelve months in
Weld county 156 marriage licenses
were issued, eleven divorces granted
and thirty-six persons convicted, sew
enteen of whom were juvenile delin-
Quents under sixteen years of age.
At Durango on the 9th inst. Sam
Nichols. aged fifty years, a ranchman,
suffering from cancer of the throat,
blew the top of his head off in liv-
nt.tr ct n Ia nj 10
a widow. son and two grown daugh-
ters.
General Agent j. p. Hall of the
Santa Fe. on his return to Denver from
the Arkansas Valley Fair and Water
melon Day at Rocky Ford. stated that
the fair was the most successful and
most largely attended of the nineteen
that he has visited.
A report just figured out concerning
marriages and divorces in Pueblo
county during the last twelve months
shows that there were 305 marriages
and 10S divorces. The number of juven.
lie court cases has also decreased
more than one-half this year over last.
While temporarily insane from men
tai and stomach trouble, James IL
Arkush, a Denver insurance man, be-
longing to the firm of Lehman, Stew
art & Arkush, committed suicide on
the 11th inst. by shooting himself
through the head. He is said to have
attempted suicide several times be-
fore.
The Greeley sugar factory began op-
erations on the 18th inst. Eight thou
sand acres of beets were planted for
the Greeley factory and will give an
average yield of twelve tons to the
acre. Eighty thousand tons of this
yield will be handled by the Greeley
factory and the remainder sent else.
where.
| In a quarrel over his refusal to pay
for f5-cent drink of whisky, Roy Has
kin, TWEEN. y-one-year-old vagrant, shot
and killed Andy Carlson, a cripple.
who was porter in the saloon. at No
lans saloon In Denver, on the 18th
inst. Haskin was arrested by Police
man Green and will be tried for the
crime.
Agent II. b. Kerr of the State Bu-
reau of Child and Animal Protection
has filed complaint against Contractors
Orman e. Crook, charging cruelty to
animals. At camp No. 10. near Topo-
mas, Colorado, Kerr found fifty horses
that were suffering from sore should
ers. The animals were in charge Of
Foreman II. Davis.
The Teller county commissioners
have voted to Gilbert McClurg, secre-
tary to the chamber of commerce at
Colorado Springs, $500 for a stereopti-
con lecture on the Cripple Creek dis
trict, to be delivered in the East Grip
pie Creek and Victor, by their respect
i've City Councils, have each appropri-
uta hn
Helen Thomas. daughter OF Calvin
Thomas of Greeley, has been appointed
assistan librarian in the reference and
cataloguing department of the library
of the state University of Michigan,
located at Ann Arbor. Miss Thomas is
graduate of the Greeley High school,
State Normal School, Wellesley, and
Albany, New York. Library School.
Bert Mollen, sentenced to five years
in the penitentiary for embezzlemept
from the International Trust Company
at Denver, died of typhoid fever in the
prison hospital at Canon City on the
14th inst. A plea for his liberation was
made before the State Board of Par
dons at its last meeting, but not acted
upon. reports seeming to indicate that
his illness was not dangerous.
Following are the neviy-elected Off
GERS of the Denver Live Stock Ex-
change: President, A. A. Blakely;
vice president, J. P. Adams board of
directors for two years. Richard Brack-
enbury, G. j. Mann and Ben Kemper:
for one year, James Mckee and Clyde
B. Stevens; board of arbitration,
Henry Gebhard, d. ]. A. Ritchie and
NJ. l.. Mack; board Of appeals. A. J.
Campion, A. Bosserman and Paul Hen
derson.
The Christian Assembly Ranch
Company, an Incorporation not for
profit, has been formed by members Of
the Christian Assembly to establish
ranches near Denver for the purpose
of WrnafnrInD fa llnn man nd urarn OF, .