The Elbert County tribune., 1906-11-01
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

VIII Dulu a new CuuTCu puiuihe S
| As the result of carrying revolver
and dropping it, Walter Brundage oil
Gillett, aged fourteen, suffers from
bullet wound in mis- right knee cap
| w. B. Clifford, superintendent OF
! schools at Aspen, has resigned on &C
count of i'll health and will be sue
ceeded by E. w. Cox of Portland, In
diana.
The First National Bank Of Eads
has been authorized to begin business
with $4,000 capital. ]. H. Slater Is
president, George Weisbrod, vice pres
ident, and E. M. Scheline cashier.
The liquor licenses of all Colorado
| Springs druggists expired at mid
night October goth, with one excep-
| ton. And there wac not a quorum OF
| the Council in the city to grant re-
newals.
The recent big storm closed the
Pixies Peak cog road for a week. In
clearing the road from timber line to
the summit, the men had to shovel
through snow from five to twenty-five
feet deep.
Harry ]. Macy, fruit grower at
Park Center, near Canon City. com.
mitted suicide October 25th by taking
poison The act is attributed 20 the
destruction of his fruit crop by the
late storm.
The Colorado Telephone Company
is building a line between Florence
and Greenwood, fourteen miles south.
a big farming section. 1t is the inten'
ton to make connections with farmers
houses later
BY examination of the records at
the Office of the county clerk at Grip
pie Creek, it developed that 60.013 in,
struments have been filed since April
/, 1899, the date that Teller county
was officially recognized.
Richard Ashton and Harry A. Clark
committed burglary and larceny In
Denver and were arrested, tried, CON
vlcted and sentenced to the peniten'
tiary all inside of two days. Ashton
got three to five and Clark two to
three years.
Thomas ]. Brown was arrested al
few days ago in Denver for burglariz
ing offices. He says that he isn't an
ordinary thief, but bigliomaniac who
steals books for the love of them and
other things as side line" to keep
the pot boiling.
Mark G. Woodruff, register of the
State Land Board, has resigned thai
office to enter the government forestry
service as supervisor of the Pixies
Peak reserve. This is the most i'm
portant government reserve in the
state, as it reaches into Gilpin, Park,
Teller, Jefferson and Ell Paso counties
A million-dollar beet sugar factory
is projected in the San Luis valley by
L. r. Stark and associates of Colo
RADIO Springs, with the cooperation oi
the San Luis valley farmers. An
enormous dam and reservoir is being
constructed by S. S. Bernard, it Is
said, that will irrigate 100000 acres
of land.
The United Oil Company is expend
ing several thousand dollars remodel
ing its refinery at Florence. Most oi
the old frame buildings. erected
twenty years ago, will be torn down
and replaced with steel structures
With the improvements the refinery
will be one of the most modern in tho
West, and will nearly double its ca
pacity.
Superintendent of Schools L. G
Greenlee of Denver, has received let
ter from President Nicholas Murray
Butler of Columbia University, and
Superintendent Maxwell of the New
York City schools, saying that Denver
will be one of the cities to be visited
by the Moseley party of British edu
Gators who are coming to this country
in December.
The contract has been let for the
Durango city library to Denver firm
for $1,000. In addition to this S12i
will be paid for two mantels. Andrew
Carnegie donated $12,500 for this Ii
brary, and the site, two lots valued a
about $4,000, was donated by Gen. w
j. Palmer of Colorado Springs. Du
range has maintained public library
for more than year.
DR.. A Bourquin, the French consul
has filed a suit in the District Court a
Canon City against w. II. Smith and
others who are alleged to have sold to
DIR. Bourquin lands belonging to the
Canon City Land and Cattle Company
together with horses and cattle on the
property, in consideration of $65,000
in cash and property in Denver and
| Arvada. DR.. Bourquin claims fraud
and Misrepresentation.
| The Leadville police have been re
quested by Mrs. Bertha Shepherd oil
1900 Champa street, Denver to en-
deavor to locate her father, E. S.
Luntz In her letter Mrs. Shepherd
states that she does not know whether
her father is dead or alive, but that
since he last wrote her, her brother
has died and she fears her father is
ignorant of his death. Luntz is an old
soldier and draws a pension.
The fifteen-year-old son of E. J..
Martin at Idaho Springs was killed by
"a mine accident on the Goth inst. The
young man was hoisting with a whim
and had heavy bucket near the col
lar of the shaft when the beam broke
the swing of the sweep striking him
at the base of the brain with great
force The father who was at vorL