The Elbert County tribune., 1906-07-05
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

Las Animas county.
Mrs. 2. x. Snyder. wife OF President
Snyder OF the State Normal School.
has been re-appointed by Governor NC
Donald as member of the State Trav-
cling Library Commission.
Prof f. w. Cragin, formerly OF the
faculty of Colorado College. is compil-
Ing history OF the Rocky Mountain
region, to be published this fall, and
later Professor Cragin will issue an his
torical dictionary OF the West
The new railroad passenger rate OF
| 3 cents a mile in Colorado. recently es-
| tablished by the Western Passenger
| Association, went into effect July 1st-
| 1t is expected that the increase In
travel will fully compensate the rail-
roads.
| Because he thought 1t was q dis
grace to a labor organization, Antoine
Langroti, an Italian at Trinidad, tried
| to commit suicide but was unsuccess-
full. He was tried In the County Court
on a charge of insanity and sent to
the state asylum.
The cornerstone of the new building
| OF the First Avenue Presbyterian
church at Denver OF which the Rev. W..
| A. Hunter is pastor, was laid Sunday.
July 1st. 1t is designed to seat about
800 people. the present building being
used for Sunday school purposes.
Judge Ben B. Lindsey OF Denver
| says that he has never refused Ave
million dollars, or any other sum of
money, from John ID. Rockefeller for
juvenile reform work. One good reas
son is that Mr.. Rockefeller has made
| no offer of money.
L. G. Dana, commander-in-chief OF
the Department of Colorado and Wy.
oming. G. A. r., has been formally ac-
credited by Governor Mcdonald as
.ex-officio member of the board of trus-
tees of the Colorado Soldiers and Sail
ors' Home at Monte Vista.
The Rev. David Utter, pastor OF
Unity church In Denver, and the Rev.
James B. Gregg, pastor OF the First
Congregational church at Colorado
Springs, were both honored by Har-
ward University with the degree of doc
tor of divinity at it's recent commence
ment.
The people OF Colorado Springs are
making a vigorous protest against the
action of the Senate committee in re-
ducing the additional postoffice build
ing appropriation from 100000 to
$4,000. If the special appropriation
is not cut Colorado Springs will get In
all $275,000 for its new federal build
ing.
G. E. Hale, Silverton miner. was
recently committed to the county jail
at Denver on complaint of Humane.
Agent Tuft, who alleges that Hale has
failed to pay the sum of $50 month,
as agreed upon by him, for the support
of his son, a boy of ten, who is under
treatment at the Denver county hos
pital for curvature of the spine.
The forty-second grand lodge meet
| ing and twentieth annual reunion of
the Benevolent and Protective Order
of Elks will be held at Denver July
10th to goth. The gathering will not
be restricted to Elks alone-the dears
are coming with them, and the Colo
RADIO game laws have been abrogated
| for the occasion.
The body of Henry Rudy, prospect
or, who was swept down the mountain
by a Snowslide last winter at the head
| of Junction Creek, sixteen miles above
Durango, was found in snowbank on
the Both of June by his brother, who
had been looking for him since early
Spring. He had been struck by slide
while going from his mine to his cabin.
In the Cripple Creek District on
July list, B. F. Wildman, en-
| gineer at the Cameron power house,
was struck by bolt of lightning and
paralyzed. He was walking to the door
after oiling his machinery, when the
flash came, knocking him down. He
was removed to the Red Cross hospital
for treatment with little chance of saw
ing his life.
DIR. Louis NJ. Strauss, former Mayor
of Aurora. suburb of Denver, died
suddenly at his desk in the Exchange
building in Denver on the morning of
the 30th of June. Dr. Strauss was six
ty years old and leaves widow and
five children. He was president of the
school board of Aurora, and secretary
and treasurer of the Crystal River
Marble company.
Clayton Daniels, a well knnwn miner
of Gilman. Tas instantly killed by q
Denver & Rio Grande freight train or
July LIST. Daniels, with companion
was fishing in Eagle river canon and
undertook to board moving train fol
Red Cliff He missed his hold and fel
underneathgthek train being terribly
mangled He leaves a widow and g
young child, and was a member of the
A. o. U. w.
w. A. Conant. pioneer resident ol
Colorado Springs, in response to a let
ter written to President Roosevelt ask
ing him If he intended to run for Office
another term, has received a reply
from Secretary Loeb which says: "Yot
will have to vote for some other Re
publican next time.' Conant was ;
delegate from New York to the frs
national Republican convention. NOR,
than fifty years ago.
William A. Otis and associates. in
cluding G. A. Taff. president of thu
Pixies Peak Hydro Electric Company
have organized the Empire Water
Power Company and announce tina
they will soon begin the erection of |
new electric power plant at Manitou