The Elbert County tribune., 1907-04-25
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

ing house.
William Youst, pioneer miner OF
Goldfeld. recently died. and was bur
led at Victor.
= V. McCleliand, of Glenwood Springs.
accidentally fell into the Frying Pan
river Tuesday and was drowned.
Idaho Springs has taken on renewed
mining activity this spring. and the
camp claims to be the best in the
West.
Denver Is to have no festival of
Mountain and Plain this year. The
Greater Colorado movement now has
the floor
The Trinidad Trades and Labor AS
sembly, which has been out of com
mission for four months, has been re-
juvenated.
The Baptist church on Seventh and
Macon avenues, Canon City. will be en-
larged by the addition of a two-story
20x30 wing.
The Erie Boosters are pushing their
old uncle. Success, right up the tree.
and he. is reaching right out for the
apple OF reward.
Governor Buchtel has vetoed the
anti.fusion bill passed by the Sixteenth
Assembly, 70 Just go right on and fuse
as much as you like.
Thomas Miller student in Colo
RADIO College at Colorado Springs. was
arrested for cruelty lashing a horse he
had hired at livery stable.
!. A worlimen returning from Panama
says there is a great deal of unrest
among the laborers down there. and
that there is liable to be a strike any
day.
Napoleon Stone, an aged farmer
from Washington. has disappeared in
Denver and the police are looking for
him. He had considerable money with
him.
John Jolly overtanied with liquid
joy at Golden one day this week, and
is charged with carrying off several
gallons outside of his hide. He viii
have to answer to the District Court.
The Rev. ]. p. Lucas, who has heen
chaplain of the penitentiary for four
years. has been succeeded by Rev. j.
G. Blake of Silverton. The Rev. Mr..
Lucas will go to Colorado Springs. his
former home, to rest
NJ. b. Tomblin. George w. Williams
and w. w. Degge, of Boulder. have
purchased. the townsite of Nederland
and will Immediately exploit the prop
| erty with a view of increasing the pop
| ulation of the town.
Headquarters have been opened at
| Trinidad by ID. Il. Fitton for the pur-
| pose of patrolling and conserving the
| new Las Animas forest reserve in this
and Huerfano counties. Three rang.
ers will be assigned to the district.
| Scientists tell us that, on an average,
the earths crust is only fifteen miles
| deep and the inside is boiling, seeth.
ing mass of lava. Someone ought to
| speak to these Colorado schoolmarma
about walking too hard on the ground.
Word has been received that pro
| cession OF fifty covered wagons left
Grand Island, Nebraska, and vicinity,
| this week, and tnat their objective
| point Is the Arkansas valley. A great
many of these immigrants have the
means to purchase small farms.
| Frank B. Yockey. ex-police Judge.
who failed of re-appontment when the
| new City Council assumed the reins of
municipal government, threatens to APP
peal to the state authorities 10 test the
| constitutionality of the law passed by
the Sixteenth Assembly. making here
| tofore elective officers appointiye.
County commissioners at Fort Col.
| Inns have decided to bridge the Poudre
| river, ten miles from Fort Collins. This
decision was reached while the county
commissioners and three members Of
1 the City Council were marooned an
hour and twenty minutes in the mid
| ole of the river by a baking team.
John Nolon. well known as the pro-
| prietor of several large gambling
| houses during the palmy days of Grip
| pie Creek, is planning to invest 500 900
| in improving his property in Manitou.
| He also will build business block on
| the main street. Nolon has maintained
residence at Manitou for a number OF
| years.
| The Denver Marble and Granite Com.
| pany has just completed magnificent
| granite monument to be placed over
| the grave of the late Ex-Governor Davis
| II. Waite. The monument is the gift
| OF tine Western Federation of Miners
| and will be unveiled by that organiza-
| tion with proper ceremonies at the
| cemetery in Aspen on Decoration Day.
company is being formed at Steam
boat Springs by Clinton Bivens and
! Claude II. Rowlette for the piping OF
| natural gas to that city from the
| Charles Helzey ranch, where there is
strong flow Of gas out of the earth
| The Helzey ranch Is four miles north
| of Steamboat Springs, and within half
a mile of the Republican mine on Cop
| per range.
Charles Scherard. Santa Fe freight
| train brakeman, while walking on the
| train to the caboose in a stiff wind,
at La Junta, was blown from the top
of one of the cars and fell between
| two others. He was dragged 600 feet
and was found on the track uncon-
scious with one leg broken. He was
taken to the Santa Fe hospital and
probably will not recover.
Judge w. II. Thompson of Greeley.
Colorado, died at sanitarium in Lin.
coin. Nebraska, Tuesday Death was