The Elbert County tribune., 1906-08-09
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS


The Arapahoe County Fair Associa-
ton will hold its annual fair at Little
ton, October Sd. 4th and 5th.
Santa Fe officials have approved the
plans for new $25.000 hospital to be
built at La Junta. and work will be
commenced Immediately.
The State Fair. to be held at Pueblo
on the week OF September 10th, prom
ises to bring together an unusually
large display Of live stock.
A. G. Teachout. proprietor of the
Egerton House at Gunnison and one
of the pioneers Of Gunnison county.
died July 3lst after short Illness
Former Iowa people had reunion
at Eldorado Springs. in the canon
above Boulder on Saturday, August
4th. Several hundred were present.
A horse valued at 5000 and owned
by j. l.. Afford, Trinidad real estate
man, was stung to death in five min
utes by swarm OF bees that alighted
OIL its head
1t is estimated that on recent
pleasant Sunday the railroads carried
as many as 5000 Denver people on
excursions into the mountains and to
other out-of-town resorts.
Work of completing blast furnace F
of the Minnequa plant at Pueblo will
soon be started again. Work on this
furnace was commenced about four
years ago, but was stopped when the
plant closed down.
The State School for the Deaf and
Blind will purchase 100 acres OF land
adjoining the Printers Home, near
Colorado Springs at $40 per acre. The
purchase will be made from the state.
through the Land Board.
While l.. r. Warren was attending
the band concert at Colorado Springs
on the night OF the Both ult. his home
at 231 North Wahsatch avenue was
robbed Of 5000 in diamonds and jew
elry, SEQ in cash being overlooked.
II is stated that the two hundred
houses to be built at Riley gulch, near
Trinidad for the men employed by
the Carbon Coal and Coke Company,
an auxiliary of the American Smelling
and Refining Company, will all be of
brick.
The corporate life of the Society Of
Colorado Pioneers has been made per
petual through the filing of renewal
papers in the office of the secretary OF
state at Denver. The papers are signed
by President N. s. Hurd and Secretary
Michael Storms.
While attempting to light a fire with
gasoline, Mrs. Frank Lubb, an Aus
trian woman thirty years old, was
burned to death at her home in Pu-
eblo. Her little child, eleven months
old, was so badly burned that it died
an hour after being removed to the
hospital.
Mr.. ]. K. Mullen has sued Tyson 8.
! Dimes for $4,000 damages for injuries
| to his person and feelings by reason
of Mr.. Dimes assault upon him at his
home in Denver. This is the sequel to
the telephone alteration in which
Dimes accused Mullen of insulting
! Dimes daughter.
The business Of the Pueblo Land Of
| flee for July shows a slight increase over
| that of the corresponding month last
| year. The filings cover 25,777 acres OF
| land and consist of twenty-four cash
entries, eighteen desert claim entries,
| 107 homestead entries and fifty mis-
oellaneous entries.
Charles Serbaugh OF Ault, who was
| shot about two months ago through the
right lung while returning home with
l
pectations recovered from the wound,
| has had a relapse and was recently
taken to the hospital at Greeley for
| further treatment.
With the exception of the letters
'A-V," tattooed on his right arm, there
was no identification marks upon the
| body of the tramp who was killed by
| q Rio Grande train at Fountain July
| ho haNnnH
| recognition. and no papers or cards on
the body served to identify the un-
| known victim.
After a years restless wandering,
Harry Smith, who escaped from the
| State Reformatory at Buena Vista,
| March s, 1905, wher he was impris.
oned for highway robbery, was cap
tured at Denver on the 5th inst. He
had become enfeebled and exhausted
and made his way to Denver to obtain
relief from his parents.
The twelfth annual banquet OF the
| Teachers Institute of Huerfano and
| Las Animas counties was held in the
high school building at Trinidad on
| the night of August 1st, as a climax to
the session. Nearly 200 were present.
| Among the speakers were Prof. j. b.
| Treat. County Commissioner j. b. Ma
] drid and Rev b. S. Lawler.
Governor Mcdonald attended the pic
mic of the Caledonian Club at Military
Park. near Denver, on the 4th inst. and
watched with great interest the numer-
Gus Scotch games and diversions. He
also donated a gold medal for putting
the sixteen-pound shot, which was
awarded to Thomas Mccall. There
were several other medals and yalu-
able prizes.
Thomas Mcneil. who was deported
from Victor and dumped on the Kan
sas plains two years ago, claims to
have struck 1t rich in the new gold
| fields of Nevada. In a letter to his
wife at Victor, he states he has opened
up five-foot vein in the Pixies Peak