The Elbert County tribune., 1907-07-11
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

starter.
A team ran away with DIR. Sol C.
Kahn at Leadville. injuring him Sc
verelv.
It's a hard matter for one who lives
in Colorado to find place away from
home where he can enjoy his vacation.
Now that 1.-The glorious Fourth" has
teeE rounded up and hog-tied for an
other year. all Colorado is back to busi-
ress.
Gold has been discovered In a Delta
orchard. but the fruit yield is so rich
the owner doesn't need the new dis
covery.
Ben b. Lindsay has finally been set
aside as county judge in Denver, and
will now have his own little juvenile
pet court all by himself.
After an illness of many months.
Mrs. +. P..Mawzey. wife of Justice of
the Peace Mawzey. at Boulder, is dead.
She was over 20 years old.
The married men of Greeley went out
on the diamond and proved to the bach
elor team that they still know how to
handle the bat.
Colorado's crop of tourists this year
shows a marked increase over former
seasons. despite the late rains and
slow trains from the East.
A new town, which has not yet been
named. is being started six miles east
of Colorado Springs II will be sup
ported by sugar beet culture.
Margaret Yont, the four-year-old
child of Bert Yont. living near Grand
Junction, was nearly burned to death
one day recently while playing with
gasoline lamp, which exploded.
Timothy Babb, aged sixty-one, COM
mander of ]. w. Anderson Post, G. a
r., at Cripple Creek, has answered 10
the final roll call. This is the third
comrade of this post tJ die in one
year
A prominent social family" living
near Platteville, gathered up their
ready cash and wrapping the cloaks of
night about them, departed for fields
more green. large circle of cred
itors mourn their departure. 1t was
SO sudden.
When his body was found IL was In
n position showing that he had tried
to fight the blaze, but had been over
come by smoke and fallen just inside
the door. Hickey had supported him
self the last few years by doing work
for neighbors. AS he had no known
TtldllNeS, lHt DOuy WAS DuTltu ut lUe
expense of the county.
A committee of forty, appointed by
the Greeley Commercial Club to solicit
funds for the building of the Empson
canning factory, is meeting with much
success, and after one days work re-
ports $4,000 subscribed. The acreage
committee is also busy solicitating L.
400 acres to be planted for the factory.
for which 500 have been pledged.
Charles Whatles. recently manager
of the Northern Colorado Power Com
pany electric light office at Greeley,
was found guilty in the District Court
| of grand larceny. Whates and Ar.
thur Robertson, foreman OF the line
gang. were charged with larceny of
a ton of copper wire, valued at 5000,
from the company. Robertson con
fessed and implicated Whatles.
Charging that his father-in-law,
George Chandler of Num-. will not
give him sufficient possession of his
two young children, although he has
been repeatedly begged to do SO, j.
Brown of Longmont, aged %, has TAX
en- legal steps to secure the children.
| The youngsters are 3 years and 8
months old, respectively. and their
mother died last November. The ia
ther says his fatherin.law has eight
| children OF his own.
Forty thousand acres In the Arkan-
| sas valley east of Pueblo and this sidS
| of the Kansas line, are covered with
| flourishing crops of sugar beets. These
| figures are given out by competent Pu-
! eblo authorities and show an increase
/ of about forty per cent. over last year.
Indications are that the average will
!, rat,t,r t.. at.d
| that there viii be enough beets to
| keep all the sugar factories in the val
| ley busy until next April.
Footsore and weary after miles of
| globe-trotting across the deserts OF
Utah. an aged Greek whose name is un-
| known, fell exhausted In front of the
home of George Anderson in Grand
| Junction. Policeman Paterson removed
| him to jail. A physician found that the
| Greek was deranged as the result of
| his experience. He speaks only
| broken English, but from his discon-
nected story 1t was believed that he
had walked several hundred miles with
scarcely any food.
A special from Durango says:
| United States Deputy Marshals Clark
and Frank arrived from Denver and
placed c. e. Herr, George w. Franklin,
w. N Bagby, Joseph Coppenger, X. e.
Sloan and William Morrison under ar
rest under indictments returned by the
| recent federal grand jury in session in
| Denver, charged with conspiracy in al
| legged timber and coal land frauds. All
| appeared before United States Commits
sioner Pingrey and furnished bond. All
are prominent residents Of the county.
They claim they will be able to prove
their innocence.
men was held at Greeley to further
consider the financing of an Empson
canning factory there. The PROPOSE
tion presented by Mr.. Empson is ia
vorably regarded by the people. Asa