The Elbert County tribune., 1907-12-05
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

The Coal Creek Lodge of Odd Eel
lows has decided to postpone the cree
ton of lodge home and opera house.
The cases of Mason and Wander
weide for killing ]. A. Walker. the gov
ernment inspector, have been set for
trial at Durango. February 10th.
The entire switchboard capacity of
the Florence telephone office is now oc-
cupied and the company is planning to
expend $25,000 to enlarge the equip
ment.
The PIatteville board of trade has ap-
pointed committee to look into the
matter of providing a waterworks 5ys-
tenn for the town using the same plant
to generate electricity for light.
The following postoffice appoint
ments have been made for Colorado
Arrfba, Lincoln county, Bessie E.
Graves, vice G. s. Graves, removed:
Larkspur, Douglas county, Philip Rue
boil. vice F. A. Murphy, resigned.
The state board of health has ap-
pointed Charles l.. Walker of Pueblo as
food inspector of district that will lie
known as the Pueblo district, his in
cumbency dating from December 1st.
His territory will include all of south
ern Colorado.
Deputy Sheriff Robert Meldrum,
who is charged with killing David
Lambert at the Tom Boy mine, after
the latter had fatally wounded Thomas
Sullivan, was given a preliminary
hearing at Telluride Saturday and his
bond fixed at $500.
December usually shows the highest
shipments of potatoes of the season
from Greeley, but this year they prom
Use to be larger, say dealers Texas.
the Southwest and near East are the
heaviest buyers. Farmers are now 1e-
ceiving sixty-five cents.
A large alfalfa sugar meal factory
will be built at Brush for the manu-
facture of alfalfa meal for feeding.
1t will handle the output of the Ster-
ling and Fort Morgan factories. The
Great Western Sugar Company is now
feeding 600 head of cattle at Brush.
H. e. Bald of Denver, who has been
drilling for artesian water near Ora
Junta, five miles north of Florence, re-
Gently struck a big flow at depth OF
105 feet. The we'll will pump 141a gal
Ions a minute. Mr.. Bald owns 120
acres which will be irrigated by it.
Three union meetings of all Loveland
churches have been held during the
last two weeks in the interest OF the
Anti-Saloon League. At these meet.
ings $4,000 has been pledged for the
work of the league and for the prosecu
dons of Illegal liquor selling.
According to a report from D. +.
Murphy, treasurer of the Woodmen's
National Home Building Association,
over 100000 has been contributed by
local camps for the national home in
Colorado Springs and it is expected
that this sum will be doubled when all
the camps are heard from.
Alphonse A. DeRome, conductor of
switch train on the Denver & Rio
Grande railroad, was killed at Walsen
burg November 25th by rear end col
lision between his train and freight
train, being thrown against the engine
Of the freight train and dreadfully
mangled. He was thirty-nine years of
age and married leaving a wife in
Pueblo.
The Colorado Agricultural College
held during the year ending Novem-
Der Is, 1907, 113 Farmers Institutes
with total attendance of 1890 per-
sons. Fifteen stops were made on the
Santa Fe Institute train with an at
tendance of 1,705. Through the Farm
ers' Institutes and the Institute train
the college force has met during the
year 81, ,495 people.
Whort H. Pigg, owner of the Stirrup
ranch at Black Mountain, brought
three deer into Canon City from his
private game preserve, which were
placed on sale at the markets for the
Thanksgiving trade. Mr.. Pigg has ever
700 acres enclosed in an eight-foot wire
l.,
deer and elk. He says that he finds the
raising of deer and elk more profitable
than cattle.
Game Warden Charles Purinton o.
Meeker has notified David Farr, state
game commissioner, that the Utes Nic
found their way into the state ir
search of game have been driven back
across the state line. No more trouble
with the Indians is anticipated and 1t
is said that this season they have
killed very little game; perhaps
dozen deer, according to the state
game commissioner.
August Ricetti, coal miner in the
Acme mine at Louisville, was instant
ly killed on the 26th ult. He was
into the open mouth of the shaft, fall
ing 1870 feet. His body was crushed
beyond recognition and SO great was
the force of his fall that the hood OF
the cage, which was in the bottom of
the shaft, was broken in two, although
1t was constructed of quarter-inch steel.
George Drummond who has been
chief chemist at the Windsor sugar
factory, has been made chemist for the
factories at Greeley, Eaton and Wind
SOr with Headquarters at Gree1ev The
Windsor factory recently ground 903
tons of beets in day, breaking the
record of any factory of like capacity,
heretofore held by Eaton, which
ground $50 tons of beets in twenty
four hours. Both factories have an
average capacity of 700 tons.
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