The Elbert County tribune., 1907-05-02


school oratorical contest at Colorado
Springs, and will represent the school
at the interscholastic contest TO be
held in Boulder, May 10th.
After being confined in the county
jail at Grand Junction for nearly a
week. James f. Goddard, a prominent
contractor whose arrest on the charge
of robbery caused sensation here,
was liberated.
Mrs. Mary Quisenberry of Trinidad,
40 years old. has gone to Oregon to
be married to the sweetheart of her
youth. Obstinate parents had side
tracked the match many years ago, but
now the barriers are buried away.
christianity has wasted much
time and energy in justifying God and
making the devil responsible for evil,
declared a Denver preacher and some
of his listeners are wondering who he
was 'ludlng to.
Little packs of garden seed.
Little plats of ground,
little early rising.
And little scratching round
VIII supply a hungry family
And overflow their cup
In this land of Colorado
II the hens don't scratch 1t up.
cheap and delightful way in which
to spend ones vacation is entertain
ingly described in booklet, Camping
iii the Rocky Mountains Just issued
by the Passenger Department of the
Denver G. Rio Grande railroad. This
little book tells where to go, what to
wear, what to take and what 1t will
cost.
While attempting to arrest four men
whom he had detected stealing wire
from the traction company's barn, at
Pueblo Thomas Self, a private watch
man, was struck with a stone, and
deep cash inflicted in the right side of
his head. Self succeeded in capturing
one Of the trio. who gave the name OF
Peter Doyle.
The Boulder Oil Refining Company
will build a refinery on Dabney place,
east of town. The plant will cost S1O,-
900. The stills and other machinery
have already been purchased. d. B.
Burton of Denver will be the superin-
tendent. The main object of the com.
pany is to make by-products of oil
rather than paraffin.
The Pioneers Society of Colorado
raises vigorous protest against the
design for the proposed monument to
be erected in their honor at Denver.
The artist suggests the statue of a
vicious Indian poised on top of the
pedestal. and the pioneers object to
having such prominence given the
enemy they had to conquer.
After ten years of patient waiting
the widow of the late II. A. W. Tabor
expects TO realize her dream of wealth
which has occupied her mind since her
husbands death. In the Matchless
mine, near Leadyille, the one asset
which Mr.. Tabor valued more than
anything else, q rich body of ore has
been discovered during the last week.
Several hundred lives were endan-
gered and property valued at 100000
threatened when fire broke out in the
basement of the First Baptist church,
corner of Ninth street and Grant ave
nue., at Pueblo. Several fire companies
responded to the alarm and the blaze
was extinguished with small loss. The
church was crowded and several were
slightly bruised in their hurry to get
out.
William Dunno, after whom the town
OF Dunneville was named, died at the
county hospital. Death resulted from
heart disease, superinduced by alco-
holism. Dunno was sixty-one years
old, single, and lived at Adelaide. He
was employed on the section by the
Florence &c Cripple Creek road. In
1904, just before the battle of Dunno
vile, several section men christened
the town after their fellow workman.
A fortune estimated at $4,000 has
been hunting Tom Thomas, a former
resident of Grand Junction, for six
Postmaster Price received a
letter recently from Joseph Neuville OF
New Zealand, urging him
10 make an effort to find Thomas. Neu-
vile said he was grubstaked by
Thomas and thus enabled to make a
rich strike in Goldfield, Nevada. He
says he sold his claim for $4,000 and
wants to share this wealth with his
friend.
The wool growers in the vicinity Of
Montrose say they will raise $4,000
to be used for the purpose of ferret
ing out the men who murdered Peter
Swenson, the sheepman who was driv-
ing flock of 5000 sheep between
Grand Junction and Delta to the sum-
mer range on the Cimmaron river.
Grover Cornett, who was with the
sheep at the time Swanson was killed,
and who was tied by the attacking
party, says he was able to recognize at
least three members OF the party. He
believes 1t will be an easy matter to
locate the murderers and says that no
expense will be shared by the sheep
men to see that they have right to
pass through the country without mo-
estation. City Marshal Tillery,
noted man-hunter OF this section, win
likely be sent to White Water to col
eot eYidenca.