The Elbert County tribune., 1906-04-12
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

The water bond eleclon az RoSh,
Ford April I'd resulted in the defeat o.
the proposition to issue bonds Dy
majority OF IA.
George B. Walker, a well known min
eral surveyor, died suddenly of near
disease at his home in breckenridge
on the night OF April 3D.
Ell. Phillips OF Longmont, has peen
awarded the contract for grading tne
new Colorado & Southern branch IRON
Piummer's beet dump 10 Black Hollow
nine miles.
| Attorney James d. Merwin, who was
candidate for governor OF Coioraoo
on the Populist ticket in 1904, died al
his residence in Denver April 5th, oil
acute pneumonia.
The Las Animas County Bar Asso-
citation gave banquet March slst 10
Judge Jesse c. Northcutt, who mas re-
signed TO his successor. Henry Hunter
of Walsenburg.
At a recent meeting at COLORADO
Springs the executive committee OF the
Pixies Peak Centennial celebration
elected Thomas F. Walsh director gen
eral of the celebration
d. Carolus Duran has finished paint
ing his portrait of the Pope, wnich e1-
Empress Eugenia will present as a
wedding gift to Princess Ena, nance Oh
| King Alfonso of Spain.
On the night of April LIST the safe In
the Union Pacific depot at Fort Lup,
ton was blown open by dynamite and
robbed of $50 Railway tickets and
other valuable papers we're unmo-
| Tested.
Lieutenant General Miles. formerly
| commander-in-chief of the United
States army, will make the commence
ment address at the University OF Col
orado June 9th Of commencement
week.
Bills raised from the denomination
of 81 to $40 have been circulated at
Trinidad and officers of the secret ser
vice in Denver were notified. Many OF
these bills have also been circulated
In Las Vegas and Ration
Five extraordinary candidate were
initiated by the Florence aerie OF
Eagles one night recently. Each was
six feet or more in height, their aggre-
gate length being thirty-one feet one
inch, and their aggregate weight LOO
pounds.
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I.ippe died of heart failure April 4th,
at his castle at Nachod, Bohemia. His
daughter-in-law, Princess Louise, a
daughter of the King of Denmark.
died fiye hours later of meningitis at
the same castle.
A record automobile run from Pu'
eblo and Colorado Springs to Denver is
one of the features planned by the au-
tomobile enthusiasts of these cities,
who will visit Denver for the annual
automobile show to be held at Coli
scum hall April 18th to 21st.
Vienna dispatches state that peace
between the crown and the Hungar-
ians has been concluded and the par
liamentary crisis is over. Premier
Fejervary has resigned and Alexander
Wekerle has been appointed premier
with mandate TO form conciliatory
Cabinet for Hungary.
Denver has legally Incorporated So
ciety for psychical research. 1t is
called the Psychical Research Society
of Denver, and is organized to promote
religion and morality in the state. 1t
will work in connection with the ma
tional association of spiritualistic So
cieties. and will also carry on psy-
chical research.
Miss Maude Heinze of Creede com
mitted suicide by shooting herself
through the heart in room at the
Windsor hotel in Del Norte, April I'd
Miss Heinze, who was twenty-three
years of age, was a somewhat noted
violinist. A broken marriage engage
ment and accompanying despondency
is believed to have been the cause ot
her suicide.
That hen can live twenty-five days
without food was proven by the liber
ating of two Plymouth Rock chicken.
entombed in big snowdrift in the
storm OF March LIST, to which success
sive storms had added. When released
| they Immediately began eating ant
seemed none the worse for their i'm
| prisonment, save that they were re
duced almost to skeletons.
| Governor Stokes of New Jersey ha.
signed the bill passed by the Legisla
ture to substitute electrocution TO
hanging. The measure takes effec
March II, 1907. At the instance o
Prison Keeper Osborne, who declared
he would resign rather than take hu
man life, the bill was so amended :,
enable the principal keeper to emplo.
n deputy.
A. d. Jones died at Colorado Spring
April Sd of paralysis. Mr.. Jones wa
one of the locators of the famous Phar
macist mine in Cripple Creek and wa
prominent in its management until hi
death. He was one of the best know
Democratic politicians of COLORADO
Springs and was well known amoni
the Masons and knights Templar. wit
whome he was affiliated.
| Virgil G. Bogue, chief engineer O
the Western Pacific railway. has is
sued a circular letter. asking contrac
tors throughout the United States t
submit bids for the immediate cor
struction of 110 miles of road bed an
track. This section is to begin at tn
point where Nevada and Utah join an
run to Deeth, a small settlement o
the Humboldt river.