The Elbert County tribune., 1907-12-26
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

planned FOR Greeley next summer.
All the San Juan county officials
have moved into the new court house
at Silverton.
The Eton Town Council has passed
an ordinance to provide for the grad
ing and graveling OF several miles of
streets.
The Longmont sugar factory sliced
l,7O2 tons of beets in a twenty-four
hours run. ending the morning of De-
cember 18th.
Pullman porters who live in Colo
rado have organized themselves into
an association to be known as the
Pullman Porters' Club.
The following fourth class postof-
fees will be changed to presidential
January LIST: Cheyenne Wells, salary.
$1,000; Manzanola, $1,000.
Fifteen recruits for the army and
navy were secured at Trinidad from
the list to the goth of December, with
six others awaiting examination.
The city council of Boulder passed
q resolution of thanks to the county
commissioners because they refused
to renew the saloon license at Downer,
the coal camp near Marshall.
The decline in the price of silver,
lead and zinc Is causing a good many
mines to close down. Among the latest
are the Smuggler and Durant mines at
Aspen, affecting about 200 men.
The preliminary survey for the An
telope and Bijou reservoirs near Fort
Morgan has been finished. This will
bring under irrigation another 5000
acres of land in Morgan county.
A physical culture wave has swept
Greeley, embracing both women and
men. Notwithstanding the pressure of
the holiday trade large classes of both
sexes are studying physical culture.
There is talk of establishing five
new independent packing plants in
the San Luis valley, the hog raisers
complaining of the arbitrary meas
ures of the packing trust in keeping
down prices.
The Beaver Land G. Irrigation Com
pany- which intends to irrigate 16.-
900 acres near Florence, and will place
1000 acres under water next spring.
reports that it has sold more than
1000 acres. Inquiries are being re-
ceived from Alaska to Florida.
A new school house to accommodate
fifty pupils, the salary of teacher for
six months and all fuel needed is the
gift of the Dacona Townsite Company
to the new school district No. 76. just
organized in southwestern Weld coun-
ty, adjoining the town of Dacona.
Mrs. John Rommel, Russian, liv-
ing northeast of Fort Collins, was ac-
cidentally shot and killed few days
ago by Jake Rommel, cousin of her
husband. Rommel was cleaning a
shotgun when it was accidentally dis
charged, striking Mrs. Rommel in the
face.
The people living on Gunbarrel hill,
seven miles northeast of Boulder, are
delighted over the fact that Willard
Williamson, who lives at the highest
point on the hill, has struck flow of
water in well at a depth of ISL feet
and for forty feet further went into a
vein of water.
The cities along the Arkansas river
are cooperating to put stop to the
soiling of the water by earth washed
into it by the placer operations above
Granite A fund will be raised to carry
on an injunction suit. Pueblo, Canon
City and Salida are the principal
places interested.
Prosecution of the two men on sim
liar charges in Baca county having
been abandoned by the county author
tiles, Governor Buchtel honored re-
quisition papers for the return of Hen
ry Haley and w. S. McCash to Ration,
New Mexico, where they are wanted
for horse stealing.
While vainly looking for employ
rcent near Parker, James Brown was
forced to spend the night in a barn
and had his feet badly frozen. He
managed to get to farmhouse and
was taken to Denver and placed in the
county hospital, where his condition
was considered serious.
Silver half dollars are being coined
in the Denver mint at the rate of 60,
900 per day. The mint is working full
force, but the only money being coined
at the present time is the silver hall
dollar. This accounts for the great
number of new coins of that denomi
nation seen in circulation.
A most unusual case of animal sur
gerry was performed at Greeley recent
I ly when DR.. Bird reduced the fracture
of a horses jaw. The animal was val
liable. The surgeon applied a local an
aesthetic, bo! cd holes in the jaw
wired the fractured bones, and the an
imal Is able to masticate as well as
ever.
Hon. d. E. Severance, after whom
the town of Severance was named
has offered two lots in the new city
without any cost, to any one who will
erect a $4,000 hotel on them. The
town has doubled its population within
six months, has added bank and com
pleted two-story six-room bricl
school house.
Governor Buchtel will hold a New
Years reception. To assist him in re
ceiving guests he will have the lieu
tenant governor, state officers, mem
bers of the Supreme Court. aides dc
camp and Brigadier General C. L
Cooper. United States Army, retired