The Elbert County tribune., 1906-11-08
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

hucher' uieu at Denver November LIST.
after several months suffering from
cancer.
Stephen Frazier was killed by fall
ing rock in stone quarry near Viii
liamsburg, in Fremont county. on the
30th ult.
On the night OF November 1st rob-
bers dynamited the safe of the Ber-
hens Grocery Company at Pueblo and
escaped with $500 in money
The new First Methodist church at
Rocky Ford. costing $4,000, was for.
naily dedicated on Sunday. the 2Sth
ult. The seating capacity is 500.
E H. Dorsey, first secretary of the
election commission and formerly re-
gister of the United States land Office
at Del Norte, died at his home in
Denver October 2Sth after short i'll
ness from peritonitis.
Suffering from locomotor ataxia.
which he believed to be incurable. Pc
ter Cuaz, miner at Aspen, deliber-
ately blew off his head with stick of
giant powder. which also blew of both
his hands and mangled his body.
The state convention of the Retail
Butchers and Grocers' Association
w III bt htiu at utDiO JduudIl lDtn
and 10th. 1t is expected that 200 dele
gates will be present and they will be
Hospitality entertained.
Charles E. Ward. prominent Den
Yer druggist. committed suicide in his
store on the morning OF October 2sth.
He suffered from an abscess on the
brain and the pain had become un-
bearable; so he took cyanide of potas-
SUM to end it.
The cornerstone Sf the new Twenty
third Avenue Presbyterian church in
Denver, which is to replace the old,
historic, once removed building that
was burned six months ago. was laid
Sunday, October 29th The new build
ing is to cost $4,000
Mae than $500 people who came to
Colorado last summer with return
tickets, and left them at the Union
depot in Denver to be validated before
starting back. failed to call for the
tickets, having concluded to remain in
the state.
According to report which has
somehow gained circulation in the Jap
anese colony at Denver, NJ. Yakutomi.
the Japanese leper who escaped from
quarantine near Majestic, Colorado.
and was spirited out OF the United
States by his countrymen, fell or
jumped overheard while en- route to
Yokohama, and was drowned.
Because he thought his sweetheart
in Italy did not want to marry n
cripple, Tony Cancto. an Italian, COM
mitted suicide and was found dead at
his lodging house at Trinidad. He had
deformed leg, occasioned by an ac-
cident two years ago.
While playing with revolver that
he didn't know was loaded Bert
Sutton, son of the mayor of Engle-
wood. just south Of Denver, shot and
killed fourteen-year-ol Frank Ritt.
man while out hunting near Engle.
wood Sunday, October 2Sth.
While on their way home on bi
cycles, Henry Roth and Philip Lauck
car repairers for the Colorado &
Southern Railroad. living In Globe
vile, were run down by Union Pa
cific switch engine at Twenty-first and
Wewatta streets in Denver and fatally
injured
As the result of dispute over a
pick and shovel at the farm of E. Fl.
Day near Trinidad. Dominic Cesorio
is alleged to have shot Raphael Ce-
sorio. his brother-in-law. through the
neck with a thirty-eight caliber revol-
yer and also shot Raphael's wife
through the arm.
While engaged in switching cars al
the Burlington terminal in Denver
Martin Phillips. thirty-three years old,
n nephew of Thomas Phillips. super
intendent of the city street cleaning
department, was knocked under the
wheels Of car and instantly killed.
He leaves a widow and two children.
The annual report of the Pueblo ju-
venile court, just issued, shows that
during the year fifty-four children
were before the court, six being girls.
Fifteen boys were excused from fur.
ther reporting to the court, they hay-
ing made good their promises. Six
teen boys were sent to the industrial
school and three girls to the state In
stitution for girls.
While the family OF ]. ]. Henry
vice president of the Northern Colo
Iadc Power Company, was at dinner
at his home in Denver Saturday night.
clever thief scaled the front porch
and looted three rooms upstairs of all
the valuables they contained, consist.
ing of watches and jewelry and de
post box, jewels worth $1,000 and
bonds and stocks worth several hun
dred thousand were taken. most of the
stocks and bonds being later found in
vacant house by two boys, who re
turned them.
Rev. James Stanton, one Of the old
est settlers in the vicinity of Platte
vile, died October 31st of consump.
ton, aged fifty-nine. Mr.. Stanton
came to Platteville in the early seven
ties and was one of the incorporators
of the town, where he lived for over
thirty years, with the exception of a
few years spent in Eaton as pastor OF
the Congregational Church there. He
is survived by widow, two sons and