The Elbert County tribune., 1906-06-14
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

rs Jul uduuleS used 10 nave.
The State Christian Endeavor con-
vention will be held at Colorado
Springs June 14th to 18th.
Thomas McCasland, formerly agent
OF the Equitable Life at Denver, died
at 81 Louis. June 1st. of dropsy.
Ther was a big snowslide near Mon
tezunla, in Summit county. June 5th.
II leveled a considerable strip of pine
forest.
Rural Route No. 3 will be estab-
lished at Monte Vista after July 18th.
1t VIII serve 2S7 people and eighty-two
houses.
strong commercial club has been
organized at Elbert. with A. G. Corn
forth as president and ]. E. Meyer as
secretary.
Inc annual picnic of the Colorado
Pioneers Ladies' Aid society will be
held at Elitch's Gardens in Denver,
June 23d
The large cyanide mill of the Myrtle
Mining and Milling Company near
Ward was burned to the ground on
the morning of June 9th.
Twenty-Five marriage licenses were
issued at Denver in one day recently.
but this is still below the record.
which is twenty-nine for day.
The diocesan council of the Episco-
pal Church of Colorado. at its session
in Denver. voted to add 1000 to the
annual salary of Bishop Charles S.
Olmstead
John Quinn is serving sixty-day
sentence in the Pueblo county jail for
preventing his ten-year-old son from
reporting regularly at the juvenile
court as ordered by Judge Myrick.
The Moor. one Of the most famous
saddle horses of Kentucky, has been
recently purchased by Gen. w. j. Pal
mer of Colorado Springs from Mai. Da-
yid Castleman, the consideration be-
ing $500.
w. d. White, who Is grading for the
Florence electric line, has nearly 200
men employed and says that on the
next pay day $4,000 will be distrib-
uted. Mr.. White believes the road will
be finished by the middle of August.
The citizens of Kremmling are pre-
pairing TO celebrate the advent OF the
Moffat road by giving three-days' eel
ebration on July 4th 5th and 9th.
There will be horse racing. broncho
busting. baseball, a fishbake and other
| amusements.
The Colorado Fuel and Iron Com
| pany has been installing automatic
dumping cages on the Fremont coal
| mine in Fremont. The mine will re-
! sumo operations with a force of more
than 300 men.
The County Commissioners of Boul-
der county have promised $4,000 to
help the people of Boulder to build a
good road up Flagstaff HILL west of the
city. This will make accessible some
of the finest scenic attractions in the
| foothills.
The oldest and largest tree in Gree
ley is a cottonwood that was planted
in 1871 by Mrs. Abigail Dunham. who
| is now the oldest woman in Greeley
! being in her ninetieth year. The tree
is fifteen feet In circumference and
| seventy-fve feet high
The beet growers of Lone Tree, eight
miles east of Greeley, have organized
Beet Growers association. with a
| large membership for the purpose OF
| securing railroad for that section and
avoiding long and arduous hauls in
| getting beets to market.
The ninth annual meeting of the Ar.
kansas Valley Press Association was
| U. Hardy of the Canon City Record
was elected president and p. Byrne of
| the Bessemer Vindicator secretary and
| treasurer. The location of the next
| meeting was left to the executive com
mittee.
The first train into Telluride from
| Denver and Durango without transfer
| ring, arrived June 9th, the great slide
M hat r1n rai
away. One thousand feet of track was
carried away by the landslide, making
IT necessary to build new grade and
track. Freight and express have been
conveyed by wagon.
A charter has been granted by the
territorial secretary of Oklahoma to
the Pueblo, Oklahoma & New Orleans
Railroad Company, with $500. 900 cap
ital stock, and with headquarters at
Oklahoma City. The proposition is to
build line from Pueblo to New Or
leans, distance of 1,050 miles, at an
estimated cost of $21,000,000.
John Kennedy, who broke Jail at
Delta on the 9th instant, having been
confined on the charge of horse steal.
ing. overpowering Undersheriff Ham
mond and locking him in cell in the
| jail, was captured at Mesa, seventy
| miles distant, four days later. Ken
nedy had escaped once previously but
was captured before he got out OF
| town.
At Pryor, a coal camp near Walsen-
burg, on the 9th instant, e. s. Lad
dener, colored deputy sheriff, was
| shot and killed by another negro
named Harris, because he had ordered
| the htter, together with a colored wo-
man, out of saloon. After Laddener
had been shot twice and mortally
wounded he drew his revolver and shot
Harris five times. killing him on the
spot.
| In a letter to Warden Cleghorn, An
| tone Wood, or Charles Howard, as he
| has been known since his parole from