The Elbert County tribune., 1907-10-10
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

Eaton is to have new electrical
company.
Pueblo is to have big cold stor-
age plant.
Greeley cowboy roped coyote
and lead it into town.
The Gunnison tunnel is within 10.-
600 feet of completion.
Grand Junction peaches were sold
for $23711 box in Boston.
Telluride, Ouray and Silverton-that
great mining triangle-are beating
best records.
Land in Palisade. bought three years
ago for $40 an acre. was sold. recent
ly, for s1,050 an acre.
Forty-fiye carloads of fruit netted
Grand Junction gro-ers sec, 1920.
This is world record
Grand Junction fruit growers say
that good crop OF high-class pears is
better than gold mine.
Claim is SET up by indicted drug
gists at Fort Collins. that the grand
jury was Illegally serving.
Pueblo hopes to add a nailless horse
shoe factory to its already long list
OF manufacturing industries.
Robert E. Cunningham shot and
killed himself on the grave of his wife
at Leadville because of dependency.
mentally deranged Slav at Trini-
dad cleared a rooming house of its
inmates and smashed up the furniture.
He was finally subdued.
o. Hall, who was in business at one
time at Idaho Springs and well known,
died at Stamford, Connecticut. His
brother, Albert Hall. is a prominent
mine operator.
II. w. Moore near Brush, harvested
fifteen acres of potatoes which went
10 sacks to the acre. weighing 110
pounds to the sack. This is the record
for this vicinity.
A petition signed by Postmaster
Walpole and officers of the Pueblo
Business Mems Association was for
warded to Washington requesting that
railway mail service be established on
Santa Fe trains No. Col and COZ be-
tween Denver and La Junta.
Peter Sprohesa, rancher, and for
twenty-five years resident of Las
Animas county. died at his home near
Johns lake, east OF Trinidad. De-
ceased was seventy years old aud
native Of England. He is survived by
his widow and three sons.
Mrs. Augusta Cuthbertson of Oak
land, California, seventy nine years
old, died on board Denver G. Rio
Grande train No. 2 while the train
was passing De Beque, of hemorrhage
of the brain. With her daughter, Mrs.
Kate c. Black. she was on her way
TO visit relatives in the east. The body
will be taken back to California by
Mrs. Black.
Robert II. Gore, city editor of the
Chronicle-News of Trinidad. and Miss
Lorena Haury of Owensboro, Ken
lucky, were married in the chapel of
the Catholic church by the Rev.
Father Brunner The bridegroom
went to Trinidad five months ago from
Kentucky. where he was engaged in
newspaper work. The bride arrived
from Kentucky later.
Old timers are predicting an un-
usually early and nard winter owing
to the fact that so many porcupines
are seeking civilization. Not in many
years have so many OF these little ami
mails made their appearance in Golden
numbering along through the street.
One was so bold as to venture out on
Washington avenue in front of the
business houses, where it was quickly
killed.
The Portland Gold Mining Com
pany, 1t is expected, will declare a
four-cent dividend at the regular quar-
terly meeting to be held Saturday
The amount will be 100000, payable
October 18th to stockholders of record
October 9th. Oficials of the company
are reticent about divnlging their
plans. but from outside sources 1t was
learned that they contemplate making
the dividend four cents. The disburse-
ment Will be one of the largest OF the
year in mining circles.
VIII c. Ferrill, curator, State His
torical and Natural History Society of
Colorado, gave a lecture last week be-
fore the Julesburg high school on
Colorado Birds" which he illustrated
with large number of bird skins
from the museum of the society at
the state house. In addition to hay-
ing lectured to about 1900 Denver
school children on historical and sci
entific subjects free of charge, he
sometimes gives his services also to
the schools in other parts of the state.
DR.. Amos Bourquin Of Denver. who
owns valuable grazing and agricul-
tural land and water rights in Web
ster park and Copper gulch canon,
which he acquired from the Canon
Cattle Company. few months ago,
has secured from the District Court an
injunction against Antoine Adamic pre-
venting Adamic from developing a
water right from the underfiow of
Copper gulch and conducting the
water across Bourquin's land to
1GO-acre tract on which Adamic pro-
posed locating an Austrian settlement
Bourquin alleged that the natural and
underfiow water OF Copper gulch had
ura