The Elbert County tribune., 1906-05-31
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

l. @sA- y. a Dulldfng In Denver.
The commencement exercises OF the
state University at Boulder will be
held In the Chautauqua auditorium this
year.
Whiie out hunting near Wellington
In Larimer county. Rudolph Leader.
aged niteen, was accidentally shot and
killed.
Ine next annual meeting OF the
Colorado Funeral Directors Associa-
tion vii be held at Boulder July 18th,
18th and l4th.
Prof P. NJ. Condit. for four years
principal of the Central school at Flor
ence, Will become superintendent of
the Delta schools.
Tne park commissioners of Denver
are hitting up outdoor Fairgrounds for
children in which suitable gymnastic
apparatus will be placed.
The Loveland Chamber of Commerce
has inaugurated series OF luncheons
like those so popular in Denver, and is
increasing its membership.
A civil service examination will be
held at the postoffice In Denver July
2Sd for those applying for positions OF
stenographer and typewriter.
The old mint building and site a;
Denver is among the properties that
the secretary OF the treasury has
asked permission of Congress TO sell.
The Knights of Columbus conferred
the fourth degree upon 161 candidates
at Denver Sunday The order is a
Catholic one and is becoming very
prosperous in Colorado.
The Rocky Mountain National Bank
at Central City has received certih-
cate from the comptroller of currency
extending its charter for another
twenty years. The bank was organized
in May, 1866.
The city of Denver has subscribed
for 100000 of it's own auditorium
bonds. They will be purchased for In
vestment of the Firemen's Relief and
Sinking funds, and will pay four per
cent. interest
John McEachren. a well-known
hotel man of Golden died May 22d
from stroke of apoplexy, having
previously been in good health. He
was sixty-four years of age and vet
eran of the Civil war
I The preliminary hearing at Greeley
of Tom O'Neill. Sam Scoville and Fred
Meter, charged with completely in the
murder of Jack Boyle, the Chalk Bluff
July 18th, at the request of the defense.
Work has begun on a drainage sys-
TEN for the bottom land of the Saliva
ton Army colony at Amity. This
| ground has been worthless on account
of seepage from the Little Buffalo ca
nal and from irrigation of higher land.
Representative Bonynge has recon
| mended for appointment as postmaster
o. to
| ceed Maud c. Olmstead, whose term is
about to expire. Couzzins is a pioneer
of Colorado and a veteran of the Civil
War.
The Central of Georgia Railroad
Company has decided to open western
headquarters in Denver and will close
| the commercial agency at Oklahoma
| City. Col. A. II. Stevens has been
transferred from Oklahoma City to
| take charge of the agency in Denver.
Colonel Robert s. Moore, a veteran
| of both the Mexican and the Civil wars.
| died at Denver May 23d at the age OF
| eighty-five years. He was colonel of
| the Eighth Illinois and was wounded at
Stone River, Pennington. Corinth and
Perryville. During the Mexican War
| he was captain in the Fourth Ken
| lucky.
The Denver Fresh Air Fund camp
will be established this year at Glen
| more lake, forty-five miles from Den
yer in the Platte canon. Sick and en-
| feebled children will be taken to the
camp for rest and recuperation under
| the care of the Juvenile improvement
Association and the Visiting Nurses
| Association.
On May 23d during a small thunder
| shower Fred Brown was killed by a
stroke of lightning while working on
| reservoir at the foot of Mt. Lamborn.
near Paonia. Five other men were
with him at the time and they were all
| shocked, but none killed. Mr.. Brown
was an old settler and well known in
the county. He leaves a wife and two
| children.
| \ An extraordinary large tourist
| travel from Louisiana, Texae and
other Gulf states is anticipated by the
roads between Colorado and the
| South, and several large excursions
have been planned Various newspaper
| contest Trips to Colorado" are being
| Instituted, similar to those which
brought so many parties to the state
| last summer.
Send a dollar" is the new slogan
| adopted by the silver service commit
| tee that has In charge the work of col
| lecting money to purchase gift for
| the new cruiser Colorado. Governor
Mcdonald, as chairman of the commit
| tee, has issued an appeal to every man,
woman and child in the state. Gifts
from the children of from 10 cents up
| ward are solicited.
The body of Ed. Fridez. who was
| killed oy a farmer near La Sale Fri
day night, while trying to break into
| his house, was taken to Pueblo for
burial. The mother and sister of Fridez,
and also his late employers, state that
| he for some time had been addicted to
| the use of liuuor and opium, and 1t Is