The Elbert County tribune., 1907-04-18
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

threedays' Fourth of July celebra-
ton.
Charles L. Cunningham, of Colorado
City, committed suicide owing to Ill
health.
A. R. Chaffee. aged eighty. died at
Fort Collins Sunday. He came to Colo
RADIO in 1860.
Greeley is planning an alfalfa palace
for the Harvest Festival August 18th.
18th and 10th.
Denver is out after the national po-
litical conventions. and Denver usually
gets what it goes after.
Gresley has a big irrigation merger
on that promises to fill the eyes of the
big spuds with tears of joy.
Junior week at University OF Colo
RADIO. at Boulder. beginning April 10th,
will be big affair this year
A course in veterinary science is to
be given in the State Agricultural Col
lege. There's some horsesense in this.
Rodney Rodenbach of Ottumwa.
Iowa, is temporarily insane at Pueblo
because of his great love for his dogs.
Two miners, Barney McSwee and
Robert Brown, were instantly killed in
Trinidad mine by the fall of q large
rock.
The grain plant mouse is doing dam
| age to winter wheat in the Niwot and
Gunbarrel Hill districts in Boulder
county
The Trinidad Trades and Labor AS
sembly, which has been out of COM
mission for four months, has been re-
iuvenated.
| Henry b. Mccoy, formerly clerk of
, the District Court at Pueblo, has
struck it rich in gold mines in the
Philippines.
| A Fort Collins druggist has been
convicted and fined 800 for selling liq-
uor. Did the jury expect him to drink
it all himself?
The Erie Boosters are pushing their
old uncle. Success, right up the tree,
and he is reaching right out for the
apple of reward.
Search is still being made for Den
yer Boggs, a magazine writer who dis
appeared from Pueblo year ago.
Foul play is suspected.
The School of Mines strike is of,
and the hazy atmosphere has lifted
from the stately brow of Lookout
mountain. and all is forgiven.
John Mindecelli, who killed Antoine
Sofore at Pueblo some weeks ago, Will
claim that he had brainstorm on and
his windmill was out of gear.
At noon Sunday fire destroyed the
Douglas zinc mill in California gulch.
Leadville. II has been abandoned for
several years. The loss is $4,000.
]. H. Hood sustained a fracture of
one of his legs, caused by the fall of a
rock while he was working in mine
near Lafayette, Monday morning.
| A workmen returning from Panama
| says there is great deal of unrest
among the laborers down there, and
| that there is liable to be a strike any
| day.
Roy Hency, a negro, is accused OF
| trying to cremate his wife alive, at his
home near 1ercio, few nights ago.
| The woman escaped and had him ar
rested.
The Grand River stockgrowers look
| upon the grazing tax law as a NAV
erick, and there may be some dusty
roundups before the branding season
| is over.
Rev. Hiram Bulls, rector of st.
Barnabas Episcopal Church at Glen
wood Springs. has received call from
Evanston. Wyoming, and has gone
| thither.
Ole Thompson wants $4,000 from
| the owners of a mine near Ohio City,
Gunnison county. because the roof OF
tunnel caved in and caused him to
lose one foot.
| District Court is in session at Canon
City, and dispatch says "the docket
is full OF liquor cases" The docket
will, perhaps, be tried under the new
local option law.
| Some good Samaritan, who purposely
| conceals his identity, has presented
Greeley with drinking fountain. And
| it wasn't long ago that Greeley voted
on the local option law.
Fred Lombard has filed suit In the
District Court at Colorado Springs
against the Colorado Springs & Inter
urban Railway Company for $4,000
damages for personal injuries.
The Colorado editor who says he
will take wood or anything else he
can eat on subscription" will run
across an elm knot one of these days
and break the teeth in his buzz-saw.
The Portland Gold Mining Company
| on the 18th paid its regular quarterly
dividend of 100000, which will bring
the total disbursement of profits of
the company to date close to $780, 900.
Miss Grace Harrison of Colorado
Springs has learned that there is more
undisputed room back of a moving
steam engine than there is in front of
it; but the engine tore the rear of her
runabout off in demonstrating the fact.
Margaret Fink, five years old, ar
rived in Colorado Springs from New
York City, having made the journey
west by herself. She is an orphan,
and was taken in charge by a Cripple
Creek family who wish to adopt her.
President r. r. Burke of the Den
yer Base Ball Club is well pleased with