The Elbert County tribune., 1906-11-15
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

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The last train for the season on the
cog road to the summit OF Pixies Peak
was run Sunday. the 4th inst.
The Denver branch of the Needle
work Guild of America will distribute
$500 garments among unfortunate and
needy families in Denver this year.
/ Thanksgiving da, concerted effort
will be made at Colorado Springs to
raise fund for the proposed 500. .00o
deaconess hospital. A general collec'
tlon will be taken In all the churches.
The Jewish Free Loan Society at
Denver, organized to lend money with
out interest to needy and worthy per
sons. has loaned over $4,000 during
the past three years without losing q
cent.
The Presbytery of Denver at re.
cent meeting adopted resolutions In
honor of the late Prof. Thomas Nelson
Haskell. the founder OF Cutler Acad-
emy and Colorado College at Colorado
Springs.
A movement is on foot to secure
the erection of $4,000 Y. NJ. G. A..
building In Canon City next summer.
A bequest OF $4,000 by the late F. A.
Reynolds will serve as nucleus for
the fund.
The Northern Colorado Poultry As.
scciatlon, which will give show at
Boulder December 18th to 18th. In
elusive, has already secured the prom
Use of twenty silver cups to be
awarded as prizes.
The Denver & Rio Grande railroad
will erect handsome new depot at
Canon City next spring at n cost of
about $4,000. The present building
will be removed to another site and
used as freight depot.
Harrison Parks, town marshal of La.
fayette committed suicide on the 7th
inst by shooting himself through the
head. Domestic trouble is supposed
to have been the cause of his action.
He was fifty-two years old and leaves
a wife and five children.
On the Sth inst Andrien Adamson, n
driver in the mine at Tertio. near Trim
idad, was killed while going out with n
train of cars. He fell off the driveway
and broke his neck. Andriccon Jar
milo, Mexican working in Tertio,
WAS killed the same day by fall OF
rock.
According to a report which has
somehow gained circulation in the Jap
anese colony at Denver, M. YalSutomi.
the Japanese leper who escaped from
quarantine near Majestic, Colorado,
and was spirited out of the United
States by his countrymen. fell or
jumped overheard while en- route to
Yokohama, and was drowned.
Frank Job. night boss at the Hast
ings mine of the Victor Fuel Company
near Trinidad, was killed on the 81
| inst by a lump OF coal crushing his
| breast He was standing fifty feet
| from the explosion of a shot, which
| has always been regarded safe dis
tance. He was thirty-eight years old
and leaves widow and two children.
An Albuquerque, New Mexico, dis
patch of the 7th inst. says A sheep.
man named Charles w. Darnell, from
| Windsor, Colorado, was run over and
killed in the Santa Fe yards at Belen,
New Mexico. this morning. He was
walking along the track with com
panion when he was knocked down by
a train and ground to death under the
wheels.
Every Coloradan awny from home
| in the state will be offered an oppor'
tunity to go home for the Christmas
holidays, through the action of the
| GdSbtubtI Aoootid'iChi
which has arranged for holiday rates
varying from one fare for the round
| trip on the mountain roads to a fare
and third for the round trip On the
prairie roads.
| Thomas Freel OF Eaton died at the
| Greeley hospital on the 4th Inst. OF
stomach trouble. He had resided In
| Weld county for thirty years and
twenty years ago he was one OF the
most daring cowboy riders OF the
range. During the last ten years OF
his life he has been in the stock
business and owned string of valu-
able running horses.
| A report was made to Governor Nc
Donald on the Sth inst. by the special
examining committee appointed TO
make a regular examination of the
state treasurer's books. The examina'
| ton extended over a period from May
LIST to October 18th. the present bal
ance on hand being s2.751. 1.76S.3S. The
committee is composed of II. b. Mul.
nix, A. S. Wilson and Richard x. Kirk.
The state fish and game department
has received notice OF one of the big
gest payments of a fine ever sent into
| the Office. The case was tried twice
in Meeker. the first jury dsagreeing,
| and the defendant, ]. d. Clark. was
| forced to pay $50 and costs, the latter
amounting to $17690. He was con
victed by jury of having Illegally in
his possession the parts of five deer
T.. X. Smith and a number OF other
Fort Lupton capitalists will build a
| big reservoir costing $4,000 in the vi.
cinity of Fort Lupton, from which
some $4,000 acres of now non-irrigable
land will be brought under cultivation
The reservoir is intended to conserve
| the surplus over appropriated waters
Of the Fulton ditch and draw on tho
flood and seepage water of the streams
in that vicinity.