The Elbert County tribune., 1906-09-27
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

| Win the plum crop.
Judge Overs has been rsnominated
by the Leadville Democrats.
On the 18th Pixies Peak was COW
cred with four feet OF snow.
Mrs Carrie Nation has been inves-
tigating conditions at Cripple Creek
Heavy rains about Sunday may have
have a bad effect upon the sugar beet
! crop.
Denver Elks have bought four lots
| at cost of $51 900, on which they will
erect a fine club house,
A congress of those Interested in
| dry farming will be held in Denver,
November 23d, oath and 25th.
Denver business men spent last
| week in visiting many of the towns in
the southwestern part of the state TO
| pick up business.
The Fremont county fair opened au-
| spicionsly at Canon City on the 18th
| The displays were fine and good
weather insures good attendance.
Frederick E. Hagen, B. A, Univers-
| ity of Colorado, and a junior in the
| Colorado School of Law, has been ap-
pointed secretary of the university 10
| fill the vacancy caused by the resigna-
ton of Harry Kessner.
The Fremont County Fair closed on
| the 21st, and was the most successful
event in the history of the association,
and the directors rejoiced tonight
over the fact of the large surplus in
the treasury after paying all the bills.
Plans for the approaching conven-
ton of the American Mining Congress
are now being completed by that Or
ganization, and it is their aim to bring
oil and visitors
than were ever attracted at any pre-
vious gathering.
The new Pueblo directory has just
been issued and contains about 1000
more names than last year. The esti-
mate of the actual population, includ-
ing one or two small suburbs not
enumerated in the directory, makes
the population $4,000.
Mrs. Florence D. Richards of Ohio, a
temperance orator of national reputa-
ton, will tour the state of Colorado in
the interest of the State Anti-Saloon
League. The watchword of these
meetings will be local option or home
rule on the saloon question for Colo
rado.
Agents Of the General Land Office
are waging an energetic campaign
against locators of mining claims on
forest reservations where there is no
evidence Of mineral on the land. In
number Of instances contest proceed
ings have been brought In a local
land office against holders of such
claims.
One of the exhibits which is attract
ing great attention Is that made by the
United States reclamation service,
which is carrying on the construction
- too
of maps and views of the entire work.
The relief maps were on exhibition at
the Lewis and Clark exposition at
Portland, Oregon.
County clerks all over the state have
issued large number of hunting IL
censes since January list, last. At that
time 10000 blanks were distributed
among them by the state game and
fish commissioner. Many of the clerks
are now without the blanks. Several
thousand additional blanks have just
been sent out from the office.
Miss Ethlyn Feger, graduate of
| the Greeley high school and of Colo
RADIO College and daughter of ]. F.
| Feger at Greeley, passed successfully
| the state examination for pharmacist
| in Denver last week and is now en-
titled to be known as a registered
| uTuRRlSL. MlSS EeStl 10 tWChty-Aoui
years old, fine chemist and will as
| sist her father in the store.
The fame of Colorado fruit is to be
| spread to Boston this month, because
| Mrs. Martha A. Shute of the State Hor
ticultural Board will leave for a
months trip in Massachusetts,. New
| Hampshire and Canada. And she has
| packed one trunk to the limit with
| choice specimens of Colorado apples
with which to astonish the owners of
| New England and Canadian orchards.
The Baer Brothers Mercantile Com
| pany of Leadyille, associated with the
| Lemp Brewing Company of st. Louis
| have brought suit in the United States
District Court to recover damages
| against the Rio Grande and Missouri
| Pacific railroads for over-charges. The
| well known discriminatory rates in eff
feet from the Mississippi to Leadville
are cited as the ground for the action.
For the third time the Denver Board
of Public Works will advertise for bids
for the construction of the proposed
auditorium The bids received last
week brought the cost of the proposed
building up to more than 100000
above the amount available. Only To-
| cal bidders have bid on the work, and
| in the next advertisement an effort will
be made to get outside contractors to
bid.
Thirty farmers of Sunflower valley,
fifteen miles east of Trinidad, have
decided to plant 800 acres in sugar
| beets as an experiment next spring.
George Osborn, representative of the
American Sugar Beet Company, has
met with the farmers and promises to
pay $5 ton for the crop. If the ex-
pertinent is success 5000 acres in
the valley will be planted in beets. as
the sugar company has guaranteed to