The Elbert County tribune., 1907-01-24
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

Withers, secretary.
Jeff Noonan, an old time prospector,
WAS found dead In front of his cabin
in Leadville on the 18th inst. HIS
death is attributed to heart disease
A new market has been opened to
Colorado for its onions. Five thous-
and sacks, making n total OF eighteen
carloads, were shipped last week to
New York.
A gang of convicts at the Colorado
State Penltentiary is cutting and stor
ing 400 tons of ice from the lakes In
Grape creek canon, three miles from
the prison
The Colorado G. Southern Railroad
Company will expend s150,000 in re
building and equipping its coach shops
and wood working mill in Denver
which were burned last year.
Representative Bonynge has recon-
mended the appointment of Mrs. Car
rie James as postmistress at Loveiano
She is the widow of the former incum
bent of the office, David Jones.
The Pixies Peak Cog road has aban7
doned its project OF using oil instead
of coal for fuel, and will continue the
present methods. Oil burning tests
Miss Katherine Craig, state superin
tendent of public instruction, Will ad
dress the state superintendents de
partment of the National Educational
Association, which meets in Chicago
February 26th to 2Sth.
A parrot, two squirrels and a guinea
pig were burned to death, and mon
key SO badly injured that it Will die
.xe arn inh
a monkey house belonging to DR.. A
Blaclxman at Colorado Springs.
Within the next few weeks the
Santa Fe railroad company will begin
opening coal mines on several large
veins in different parts of Fremont
county. The company has decided, II
is said, to supply its entire system
with coal from Fremont county.
Mayor Speer of Denver was thrown
from his carriage on the 14th inst,
and received some bad, but not dan
gerous bruises on his head. Mrs
Speer, who was with him, escaped
without serious injury. The mayors
spirited horses were frightened by an
automobile.
st. Mary's Academy, one OF the old
est schools in Denver, conducted by
the Sisters of Loretto, is to be re
moved from it's site at Fourteenth and
California streets to Fourteenth av
enue and Pennsylvania, where six lots
have been purchased on which to erec,
q handsome new building.
The Santa Fe railroad is completing
plans to transform it's present passen
ger depot in Colorado Springs, at the
intersection of Pixies Peak avenue
oIy Int n fraiUht aannt
and to build a $4,000 hotel and depot
two blocks further south, between Gu
oharas and Vermijo streets.
1t is stated that Pueblo's JAPANESE
colony will be depleted considerably
before spring. Sixty employed at the
Ellers smelter are said to have quit
saying they were obliged to pay com
missions to countrymen and that the
cost of living was higher than eU
pected, leaving them little at the end
of the month.
The Colorado City Chamber of Com
merce will cooperate with the Colo
RADIO Springs Chamber of Commerce In
constructing a sugar palace in Colo
RADIO Springs. The plan is to call on
the sugar factories of the state to
contribute about twenty tons of beef
waterproof mineral veneer.
1t is expected that Boggs Flat, a
large arid section of land about ten
miles southeast of Florence, will be
brought under irrigation by n system
of artesian wells which are to be
drilled at various depths within the
next few weeks. The plans for the
campaign have been finished and der
ricks and drilling machinery ordered
Arrangements have been completed
for the fifth annual bench show of the
Colorado Kennel Club, to be held al
Coliseum hall in Denver on February
26th, 27th and 2Sth. About $4,000 in
cash prizes will be given away, and
James Mortimer will ofiiciate as judge
of all breeds. The entries to the show
will close on February 18th. H. G
Bryan of 533 Seventeenth street, Den
yer, is secretai y of the club.
The members of both houses of the
General Assembly at Denver have ac
cepted the invitation of Governor
Henry A. Buchtel to a good fellow
ship" dinner at the Savoy hotel on the
night of January 31st. The invitation
also includes the justices of the Su
preme Court and the state officers, ant
the heads OF the various institutions
in the state, and of some of the com
mercial organizations of Denver.
Charles Warren Dake. founder o.
Pine Grove, Colorado, and author o.
the state game law, died on the 17tf
inst. at his ranch near Pine Grove, al
the age of sixty-eight years. Mr.. Dake
was formerly member of the state
Legislature, being elected a member o.
the lower house from jefferson county
in 1892. While in the Legislature he
framed the state game law, and die
much for the State School Of Mines al
Golden.
At last the water has been turned
into the new G. F., and 1. canal neal
Adobe station, thirty miles west o.
Pueblo. This is the canal which cost
about 100000. and was built for the
purpose of furnishing the Minnequs