The Elbert County tribune., 1906-05-10

the youngest states. is one of the
greatest in the Union.
1'here are eighty divorce cases on
the.District Court docket at Pueblo.
The State Land Board has appointed
w. t. Fairfax of Pueblo as timber COM
missioner.
The Helen Hunt school in Colorado
Springs won prize of s25 for the best
showing of any school in the city on
Arbor Day.
The Twin Lakes people think they
see good prospects of the building of
an electric line from Leadville to the
lakes.
j. ]. Harbeck, now at Nice. France,
recently cabled subscription of 1000
to the fund being raised for first-class
hotel at Boulder
Delta is making a determined effort
to secure the new Presbyterian Col
lege that is to be located somewhere
on the western slope.
Mrs. Laura A. Lane of Florence, who
was thought to have perished in the
San Francisco earthquake and fire,
writes that she had narrow escape
from death and lost all her household
effects.
The commissioners of Fremont
county have decided to make a re-
quest on Werden Cleghorn of the State
Penitentiary to furnish fifty more con-
victs to work on the county roads this
summer.
Fire caused by spontaneous combus-
tion destroyed the plant of the West
ern Glass Company at Denver on the
4th. The plant is total wreck, at
1ose pf f0 O00 Tho lnSS fc rd
insured. About 200 are thrown out Of
employment by the fire.
Unofficial returns from the school
census show an increase in Cripple
Creek of twenty pupils over last year.
| Victor has lost 200. The outlying
| towns have gained practically all that
Victor has lost. Total decrease from
the district, 166. Total number of
children of school age, 3,344
Plans for the entertainment OF the
Missouri Pacific Immigration Bureau
| in Denver in June provide for state
dinner to be given by the Colorado
| State Commercial Association on June
| 18th, trip over the Moffat road on the
| following day and an automobile trip
| through the city OF Denver itself on
the morning of June 18th.
Perry Beeney. George W. Ball, sher-
| III of Washington county, and Ezra
Stone appeared before Judge Robert f.
Lewis of the federal court at Denver,
| May I'd, to answer to an Indictment re-
turned by the federal grand jury
| charging the two first with gross land
| frauds, and the last with cutting tim
ber from government reserves.
Counterfeit silver dollars bearing
the mark 20" of the New Orleans
mint, and stamped with;the dates. 1898,
| 1896 or 1901. are being circulated in
| Denver. and a large number Of the
| coins have been passed on tramway
conductors in the last week. The
| coins are underweight. have scarcely
| any ring to them, and most of them
have been merely washed in silver.
1t is reported at Boulder that the
| Colorado & Southern company will
| electrify it's road between Denver and
Boulder and perhaps further north, and
will secure power from the Westing-
house company, which is backing the
Henry deal in the purchase of the Boul-
| der Electric Light & Power Company's
| plant, and which. is to put up o $1,000
| 900 electric plant at or near Lafayette.
The following new patents have
| been issued to Colorado inventors: Al
| fred L. Johnson, Denver. assignor to
| Johnson Furnace & Engineering Com
pany. Colorado Springs, furnace; Pc
| ter A. Mortensen, Sanford, whistle;
| Edwin A. Sperry. assignor, one-third to
w. G. Wilson, Denver. ore operator;
| Jean F. Webb and c. ". Frederickson
Denver, electric signaling system.
Durango is to have another tele-
| phone line to Denver, an improvement
which is much needed, as the present
10 .t-ffh h,,ei
much of the time. The link necessary
to complete the short line lies between
Bayfield,, twenty miles east of Durango,
and Del Norte. The line will run
| through Pagosa Springs. The survey
will begin as soon as ii Is possible to
cross the range and the line will be
constructed this summer.
Professor Cajori, dean OF the engin-
eering school of Colorado College. has
recently been elected member OF the
| Italian Mathematical Society, known
as the Circolo Mathematical di Pa
| lermo This society is composed of
nathematicians of Italy and other
countries. and has a membership OF
| 36G, of whom nearly one-half reside
| outside of Italy. Professor Cajori is
one of the very few Americans who
have been elected TO membership.
For second time the City Council
| OF Colorado Springs has passed a reso-
luton declaring forfeited the Jackson
franchise held by the Pixies Peak Hy-
dro-Electric Company. The first reso-
luton was rescinded. but OF further
consideration the council decided that
their contention was right and lawful.
The franchise consists of right to the
city water for power generation and
the company is claimed to have VIC
lated its agreement with the city