The Elbert County tribune., 1907-02-28
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

hHfotiutul WIN tue fttupalu LyCeum
Bureau for Cnautauqua course to be
had In July.
A seventy-nve-thousand dollar addi-
ton will be commenced within two
weeks at the Glockner sanitarium at
Colorado Springs.
New paving. new she6s and a new
hote. are among the improvements
which will be put in at tho Denver un-
ion stock yards this year.
The contract has been let for the
new San Juan county courthouse at
Silverton. When completed the struc-
ture will cost about 100000
Expert oil well driliers from Flor
enee will drill number of wells near
Mcntrose for company in which Ere
mont county men are interested.
The postal authorities have agreed
tc the proposition to execute 10-year
lease on new building to be erected
In Manitou to cost $4,000 which win
be used for postoiice.
John Gonas Of Colorado Springs on
the 18th inst, shot near Fountain
monster gray eagle weighing twelve
pounds and measuring seven and one
nalf feet from tip to tip.
While striking at wounded rabbit
Elmer Bethel of Pueblo, aged eighteen
years, was killed by the accidental
discharge of the weapon.
DR.. John G. Keith, for the past eight
cen years one OF the leading physicians
of Leadyille. died at st. Louis on the
10th inst. of paralysis. DIR. Keith was
Civil War veteran and thirty-sec-
ond degree Mason.
The First Congregational Church So
clety of Denver. formerly Myron
Reeds church. after selling It's old
building on Glonarm street, is about
TO erect a new church at the corner of
| Tenth avenue and Clarkson street.
Tho Woman's club of Grand Junction
recently gave the annual banquet to
husbands of members. Mrs. L. C.
Hedges was toastmistress. Fully $50
guests were present The responses to
the toasts were eloquent and witty.
The Society OF the Order of the
Philippines. which has been in exist.
ence at Colorado Springs since 1890.
was reorganized a few days since by
the election of officers and the adop-
tion Of the regular national secret
ritual.
The locomotive OF a Colorado Mid.
| land passenger train on the night of the
| 18th inst. struck and killed a large
buck deer near Woodland Park The
train was stopped and the carcass of
the deer carried to Colorado Springs In
the baggage car.
More than $4,000 has already been
subscribed In Colorado Springs toward
the construction of a Deaconess hos
pital, which is TO cost 100000. Tho
institution will be run by the Dea.
| ~
Missionary Society.
Il. b. Mitchell, chief train dispatcher
for the Rio Grande at Pueblo left Feb.
ruary 22I for Seattle, where he takes
a similar position with the Northern
Pacific. Before he left his associates.
from trainmen down to coral boys,
presented him with $3.50 Elk charm.
The Boulder City Council has de.
cided to submit to the taxpayers the
proposition of Issuing $4,000 in bonds
! for new city hall The city owns 100
| feet on Pearl street and 1t is intended
to build on this ground II the bonds
are voted.
The Longmont Library and Lecture
Association has Just closed It's third
| year with flattering results. The asso-
| citation conducts a lecture course and
maintains a public library, using the
| proceeds Of the lectures to purchase
books. The City Council has just
added $500 to the book fund.
The State University Glee and Man.
| dolin clubs will begin their fifteenth
annual tour of the state March 9Th and
| will give concerts in Longmont, Den
yer. Colorado Springs. Victor. Cripple
| Creek, Pueblo, Trinidad, Canon City,
Salida, Leadville. Aspen. Glenwood
Springs and possibly Golden.
The Portland Cement Company will
soon begin construction of 27 frame
| and concrete residences on the north
side of the river at Florence. The
town is growing rapidly and at least
| 90 houses will be needed within 20
| days. The big addition to the mill
will be started April list.
| A party of 15 Hollanders, represent
ing 40 families, the vanguard of hun.
| dreds who will colonize Fountain val
| ley, south of Colorado Springs. arrived
| February 22d, preparatory to founding
homes in the valley. The scheme is
| backed by the Fountain Valley Land
| & Irrigation Company. an interest of
| the Castlewood Dam Company of
| Denver.
| In the absence OF United States DIS
trlct Attorney Earl Cranston of Den
yer. who left Monday for Japan. Robert
j. Pitkin, his law partner. has Seen MP
| ointed special assistant In the Office.
Mr.. Gre has been granted a
ninety days leave of absence by Presl-
dent Roosevelt He will visit his
father, Bishop Cranston. who is sta
toned in Japan.
At the annual meeting OF the stock
| holders of the Montrose National bank
II was announced that NJ ID. Thatcher,
n Pueblo and Denver banker. and M. ID.
10y. cashier OF the First National bank
OF Florence have purchased a controll-
ing interest in the bank and would
establish it among the chain of banks
throughout the state controlled by tho
| Thatcher brothers