The Elbert County tribune., 1906-11-22
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

nS Aewiy cicCttu BoNtIuoI hdihc |
is pronounced as II 1t were spelled
Booktle. with the accent on the book"
"Buck-telp and "Buchtle" are both in
correct
A sugar beet recently brought to
the Greeley factory by Gordie McMil |
Ian Of La Sale weighed twenty-one
pounds when trimmed and ready for
grinding.
A reduction of twenty-five per cent
on telephone charges will become eff
fective at Florence December list, and
the rate on Canon City conversations
will be reduced.
The Grand Junction sugar factory
recently turned out 1893 bags OF
sugar in one day and the seasons pro
duction is expected to exceed 100000
bags, as against $4,000 last year.
A colonization syndicate Of Geneseo,
Illinois. has bought $500 acres OF land
in the San Luis valley. the price being
stated at about $4,000. 1t is planned
to settle the tract with Sandinavians.
Paymaster U. G. Amman, retired.
United States navy, has been ordered
to duty as pay officer, purchasing pay
officer and general storekeeper at the
naval hospital at New Fort Lyon
Colorado.
The Buckhorn plaster mill, about six
miles west of Loveland, was burned
before daylight on the morning of the
10th inst. being total loss. The loss
on mill and stock is estimated at $24,-
900, with $500 insurance.
Levi Balm. aged twenty-three, while
oiling machinery at the Fort Collins
sugar factory, was caught by belt
h. I ln- tot, hot hn
died the same day. One arm was torn
from his body and one leg fractured.
Most OF the apparatus for the new
Trojan powder works at Overton,
eight miles north of Pueblo, has ar
rived. The buildings are almost COM
pleted and It is thought the manufac-
ture of powder will be started before
December LIST.
James Mitchell was found on the
11tn inst in starving condition in his
cabin at Picton, near Walsenburg, and
died after being taken to a hospital at
Pueblo. He was but little known and
had not been seen for eleven days be-
fore his death.
Mrs. Annie Duncan has brought suit
against the Denver e. Rio Grande rail-
road, in the District Court at Colorado
of her son, Leslie r. Duncan, who was
killed November 10. 1905, while en-
ployed as a switchman.
David Matthias. Of the freshman
class of the State Agricultural College
at Fort Collins, lost all the fingers of
his left hand at the second joint on
the 14th inst, while at work with n
buzz-saw in the college shops. Ma,
thias is from Monte Vista.
Thomas Metcalf was found dead on
Mount Hayden, near Ouray, on the 11th
inst. He was at work alone on a min
ing claim and is believed to have fallen
from tie dump on account of heart
disease. Metcalf was about sixty years
of age and had lived in Ouray for ten
years.
Mrs James Weste, seventy years of
age, was robbed of $50 on the road
between Victor and Goldfield on the
night of the 10th inst Two brutal foot
| pads led her away from the road and
roughly searched her person. finding
the money which she had secreted in
one of her stockings.
The applications Of b. N Freeman
| OF Durango, w. C. Chapman, Frank
Eldredge, L. M. Hampton, B. G. Hamp-
ize the First National Bank of Pagosa
Springs, with a capital of $4,000, has
been approved by the comptroller OF
the currency.
Charles Irvine, sixty years old and
an employe of the Greeley sugar fac
tory, who had been arrested on the
charge of assaulting an eight-year-old
| girl, committed suicide on the 18th
i tuat bv cbnoffuU him Golf throuph the
head few minutes before the prelim-
mary hearing was to have begun.
Patsey Butler, the nineteen-year-old
son Of Adam Butler, pioneer of the
Cripple Creek district, now located at
Goldfield, Nevada, is said to have
cleaned up $4,000 in a stock deal in
the Nevada camp on an original in
vestment of few hundred dollars he
had saved. Butler left the district
about nine months ago.
| Governor Mcdonald has appointed
Hon. H. G. Stimson on the board OF
control Of the State Industrial School
for Girls, to succeed Attorney Freder-
ich S. Ellsworth, resigned. Mr.. Tits
worth was a Democratic appointee,
and his successor, Judge Stimson, was
candidate for governor on the Demo
cratic ticket several years ago.
State Game and Fish Commissioner
Woodard has been informed that GER
tain hunters in Gunnison county mis-
construe the law and propose to kill
I mountain sheep after January 1st. He
| says that section one Of division b of
the new law expressly forbids the kill
ing of mountain sheep at any time, and
that it will be enforced.
John c. Canute, a ranchman, was
killed at Calnan on the 18th inst.
/ Canute was feeding his team and was
standing in front of the animals, when
they became frightened. The horses
] knocked him down and trampled his
PROSTATE body, also drawing a heavy
| wagon over him. He died almost in
| s.t. .,f int ir,t,