The Elbert County tribune., 1906-12-20
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

r. l.. Chambers OF Colorado Springs
has secured 2S4. 900 acres OF mahogany
timber in Tabasco. Mexico, for Den
yer and other Colorado capitalists.
Two dozen Japanese, lately arrived,
have been put to work at Eiler smelter
at Pueblo. These are the first Asiatics
given employment by the smelling
company.
Kansas City papers announce that
F. G. Bonfils of the Denver Post is
preparing to build twenty-story Office
building In that city, to be fireproof
and cost from 100000 to 100000.
DR.. l.. f. Ingersoll. pioneer physi-
clan of Grand Junction, and one of the
most prominent doctors in western
Colorado, died suddenly in his Office
on the Sth inst. of heart disease.
The colored orphanage at the Old
Folks Home in Pueblo was formally
dedicated with elaborate ceremonies
on Sunday, the 9th inst. A number
of prominent colored people from Den
yer and other cities of the state were
present.
Harry Lee of Colorado Springs. who
has made considerable reputation by
photographing wild animals in their
native haunts. has gone to the Pacific
coast and proposes before he returns to
attempt the ascent of Mount McKin-
ley in Alaska.
The Denver Chamber of Commerce
has appointed a committee consisting
OF James T. Callbreath, Jr., George
1rltch, Charles f. Onderdonk and ii.
A. Lindsey to confer with other com,
mittees In regard to a celebration OF
Denver's semi-centennial in 1908.
Boulder is ready to maintain its
own high school free from connection
with the State Preparatory School and
an effort will be made to have the in
coming Legislature do away with the
State Preparatory School altogether
as the university no longer needs it.
Ten years Imprisonment and fine Of
81 1,500 was the sentence imposed in the
federal court at Denver by Judge Rob
ert e. Lewis on DIR. James Denslow Eg.
gleston, son of President Eggleston OF
the Pacific Express Company, who was
convicted of counterfeiting and max
ing Photographic negatives of $40
bill.
T. S. McMurray of Denver, vice pres
ideHt and general manager Of the
Fort Collins Electric Street Railway
Company, and G. j. Hartman, superin-
tendent af the electrical department OF
the Colorado &c Southern, have been at
Fort Collins outlining plans for start
ing work on the Fort Collins street
railway.
A number of eastern physicians,
with d. A. Garfield and Greeley busi-
ness men, are planning to build $780,
600 sanitarium on the hill south of
Greeley If the project succeeds DIR.
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long and successful experience in the
charge of the institution.
Frank Miller. a fifteen-year-old or.
phan boy, living with H. E. Keller, on
a ranch three miles northwest OF
Brighton, was found dead, on the Sth
inst. He is believed to have swallowed
strychnine because he feared he
was alleged that he broke into a
satchel belonging to workman and
took clothes.
Fifty Japanese arrived at the Pueblo
steel works a few days ago in charge
of one of the Japanese employment
agents who have been bringing Asiat
les recently from Pacific coast points
Most of these men are common labor
ers, but few are skilled in certain
ways and command fairly good wages
This makes a total of nearly 600 Japs
in the Bessemer colony.
David Babb, who is charged with tho
murder of his wife's cousin, Bennett
Burleson, at Earl. thirty miles east OF
Trinidad, was arraigned before Justice
of the Peace Coney at Trinidad, where
he entered plea of not guilty and
waived preliminary hearing. He waa
removed back to the county jail and
his bond was fixed at $4,000, which he
was not able to furnish.
Word has been received of the es
cape from the Jackson. Missouri, jail
in Kansas City, of Henry Hurley, alias
Ed. Foley, the notorious lone high
who terrorized scores of drug
stores In Denver three years ago, and
who was sentenced last spring by the
Kansas City authorities to serve six
years for highway robbery. A reward
of $100 is offered for his arrest.
A few days ago what is known aa
the W. e. Pabor house, on Seventh
street near Ninth avenue, one of tho
Oldest landmarks in Greeley, wan
moved from where it had stood for
thirty-six years by the use of trac.
tion engine. The house, which is a
two-story frame, was the handsomest
residence in Greeley when built by w.
e. Pabor. secretary of Union Colony,
now of Florida, in 1871. 1t has lately
been used as blacksmith shop.
The Colorado-Yale Association VIII
hold its twenty-sixth annual meetins
at the University Club in Denver, De
cember 29th. The officers of the club
are anxious to obtain the names and
addresses of all Yale men who have
come to Colorado recently and are not
members of the club, as it was desired
to have all those who have attended
Yale present at the banquet. Theron
r. Field of the Colorado National Bank
is president of the club and Frederick
H. Morley is secretary.