The Elbert County tribune., 1907-06-13
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

III orutT 70 put on city airs.
Colorado Springs turned out forty
niae high school graduates.
Arvada Commercial Club is still
after cent street car rate to Denver.
Every teacher employed in the
Boulder graded schools has been reap
pointed for next term.
Cripple Creek will celebate the ma
tional holiday with a two-day jollifi-
cation July 4th and 5th.
Work has been started on the new
Santa Fe hospital at La Junta. The
building is to cost 100000.
shaft is being sunk on the Rock
wall coal vein in the vicinity OF Flor
ence by an independent company.
Colorado has been trying
With all her might and main
To duplicate Ohio
With mud and slush and rain.
horse( which ran away on one of
the main streets of Grand Junction the
other day, was badly injured by run
ming into bunch of tree stumps.
The infant son OF Max c. Overhult
OF Loveland swallowed safety pin.
and the child was taken to Denver to
insure the safety of the chIld's life.
j. w. Kelly. passenger agent for the
Moffat road, and Miss Eselyn Brown,
society editor OF the Denver Post,
hitched up in double blessedness re-
Gently.
Mrs. Cynthia NJ. Marshall wife OF
the money order clerk at the post
Office in Colorado Springs. died at the
family residence, 4l2 East Huerfano
street
A car containing bottled beer was
broken into at Eaton and 1T0 bottles
stolen. Today Sheriff Florence recov-
cred all but thirty bottles. Tramps are
suspected.
Major Otis Remick. pioneer OF Col
orado Springs of the West. died at
ST Francis hospital. He had been i'll
for several months. suffering from
general decline.
Louis H. Kephard of Holly shipped
1900 sheep, which brought the highest
price in the Kansas City market ever
paid for sheep. Shorn lambs brought 8
cents, and the wool lambs 10 cents.
The ladies of Eaton now use fine
stationery with their monograms EN-
bossed on It. When II comes to know
ing how TO do the proper thing Eaton
isn't SO very far behind New York,
after all.
John Peabody. half-brother of ex-
Governor James II. Peabody, died at
the Place sanitarium at Boulder. He
had been resident there for three
years and part of that time was store.
keeper.
The Pueblo City Council has side.
tracked an ordinance which was re-
Gently introduced providing that deal
ers in Colorado Fuel and Iron and
smelter scrip take out license for
5000 annually.
Acting upon the complaint OF numer-
Gus citizens of Grand junction, the
City Council instructed the chief OF
police and city attorney to arrest and
prosecute all druggists who are selling
liquor other than in original bottles or
packages.
Henry Stuart. colored, who was ar
rested at Trinidad, told the police that
he had recently killed Ben Harrison
also colored at Ration and had burned
the body In the fire box of locomo-
tive. The police are investigating the
story, but believe Stuart is not respon
sible.
Mrs. Zoa Gillespie. sixteen-year-old
bride OF John Gillespie, at Grand juno
tion. was committed by a jury in the
Juvenile Court. Mrs. Rosetta johnson
alleged that one of her dresses had
been taken by the girl when she went
to Delta to get married. The girl said
she merely meant to borrow the gar.
ment to be married in and then to re-
turn II.
Miss Flossie Moore, valedictorian of
the 1907 class of the Florence high
high school, graduates with a perfect
record. She stands highest in scolar-
ship and during the entire four years
course has never been absent or tardy
She is eighteen years old and is the
daughter Of former State Senator
Frank Moore. She was born and reared
in that section.
Two irrigation cases were settled at
Fort Collins in Judge Garrigues'
Court. In which Larimer Coun
ty No. 2 ditch is given the
right to take water from the
Poudre river through what is known
as the old city ditch. and the Arthur
ditch is allowed to change its point OF
diversion Of the river water. These
cases have been pending in the courts
here for sixteen years.
The merchants of Colorado Springs
are beginning an advertising campaign
to work up trade among the farmers
Excursions will be run to towns along
the line of railroads and other means
will be employed to interest the rancn
men living in the more isolated sec
tions. The repairing of the roads, by
the county commissioners, will. 1t is
expected, encourage the ranchmen to
do their trading in Colorado Springs
Mario Gallina. an eight-year.old
Italian boy, was instantly killed at the
Huerfano mine in Remy canon, near
Trinidad. The boy was taking a short
cut to his home and while on a small
brideg was caught by a string Of mine
cars and frightfully mangled. A six
year-old girl was the only witness to
the accident. The trip rider in charge