The Elbert County tribune., 1907-05-09
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

| A double track is being built on ths
railroad between Canon City and
Florence in order to take care Of the
heavy traffic.
Gen. William ]. Palmer has sent to
the Civic Improvement leagne o.:
Canon City several hundred shrubs for
the state park.
+. n. 3. Scott has been elected pr
ident of the North Poudre Irrigation
Company to fill vacanccy caused by
| resignation of Watson Zeigler.
The base ball season opened in Dem
yer last Saturday in a snowstorm.
| Those who couldn't see the base ball
amused themselves throwing snow
balls.
A complaint has been made against
f. E. Bequeath, at North Longmont,
charging him with killing a fine horse
by forcibly administering the water
cure.
Gold has been discovered in the vi
cinity OF Semper-'out on the plains"
Another evidence that all you've got to
do in Colorado is dig, and wealth is
yours.
The interior of the Lowell school.
Colorado Springs, is being decorat ed
with copies Of famous paintings. Busts
of famous men have also been pur-
chased
Walter Cunliffe, a director off the
Bank OF England, and private car
party. spent several days in the Pixies
Peak region. The party also visited
Cripple Creek.
1t is officially announced that In all
probability homeseekers' rates, hither-
to given only to Denver, Pueblo and
Colorado Springs, will hereafter be
given to Greeley.
r. F. Milford, the caretaker OF the
Silver Lake reservoir. telephoned the
city clerk at Boulder that eighteen feet
OF snow had fallen at that place this
winter and five feet this month.
Mrs. w. II. Miller of Gunnlson blew
her brains out with a pistol because
OF dependency over her husband los.
ing his position as station agent. She
had been an invalid for years.
The low temperature of the past two
weeks has frozen the leaves
ON the trees and there is strong
likelihood that the sugar beets will
have to be replanted in the vicinity Of
Holly.
The chared body of Henry Godfrey,
foreman of the calcination department
of the Portland cement works at
Florence was found in the white-hot
tank recently. 1t is thought he com.
miited suicide.
Colorado's unusual spring weather"
kpt the Smile and Push" Club very
busy during the waning days of April
and the front end of May, explaining
to visitors that it never happened this
way before"
Emma Goldman, the female alarm.
ist, has been in Denver for few days
and none the daily papers actually
found 1t necessary to put on an extra
keg of red ink in order TO properly
handle her warm remarks.
Sterling is too busy getting in her
spring crops and driving her COWS to
pasture to be bothered with a spring
term of court, and the few cases on the
docket may be sent to Denver where
the mills ever grind.
Boulder children between the ages
of sixteen and tweaty-one may now
play pool and billiards upon written
permission OF their papas and NAM
mas. according to revised ordinance.
And this is Better Boulderl"
An engine on the Colorado & North
western railroad overturned while
bucking snow near Ward, on Sunday,
and tumbled down the mountain side
400 feet. killing Engineer Robt Cook.
The engine was torn into pieces.
A meeting of the Ouray Development
club was held at the city hall. 1t is
proposed to raise $4,000 to be ex.
pended in advertising resources. es-
pecially mineral, during the next two
months. In addition plans are on foot
for a big tourist hotel, sanitarium and
swimming pool, which will utilize the
watsr from the natural hot springs.
At meeting of local No. 56, West
ern Federation Of Miners, at Central
City, it was unanimously decided to
ask an increase of so cents for machine
men in the mines. The present scale
Is SO. The increase is not asked to be-
come effective until the first OF June.
AS the demand is reasonable there is
no doubt that it will be granted by the
operators.
Frederic Boughton, Santa Fe engi-
neer, and his fireman, Ben Abbott, are
lying at the point of death and a score
OF passengers suffered broken bones
and other injuries as the result of
wreck of east-bound Santa Fe passen-
ger train No. s, which occurred twenty
eight miles south of La Junta May Sd.
The wreck was caused by spreading
rails. The engineer stuck to his post
until the locomotive turned over on its
side.
Miss Jane Adams of Hull house, Chi
cago, who will give the commencement
Grafton at the University of Colorado
commencement exercises, Wednesday,
June 5th, in the Chautauqua audito-
rum at Boulder, will speak on Chang
ing Ideals in Education" A new fea-
ture of the commencement exercises
this year will be the Sigma 81 exer-
cises, which will be held in the lecture
rom of the new chemistry building,