The Elbert County tribune., 1907-04-04

thinking of organizing union.
Slight frost was reported In many
localities in Colorado last Thursday
night.
Willie Hollinger, aged twelve. was
| drowned in a pond near Goldfield
Monday.
The Union Pacific has put on a new
passenger train between Denver and
Cheyenne.
James H. Bruce died at Alton from
ptomaine poisoning. He ate pie made
from canned fruit.
The fremont County Sunday School
Association has been holding session
at Canon City this week.
While wrestling with his father the
other night, Jose Munez. Mexican.
had his neck broken by the fall.
Two men were arrested near Fort
Collins recently OF the charge OF steal
ing load of corn and six fat lambs.
Miss Alice Mulvaney of Loveland
was badly burned by trying to coax
the kitchen fire along with kerosene.
A runaway box car bumped into
crowded trolley car at Pueblo the other
day and reveral people were bruised.
Nimrods will be pleased to know
that sea gulls and ducks are swarming
the lakes in the neighborhood of Gree
ley.
About fifty students from the Uni
versity at Boulder will tour the state
in search of knowledge-and butter
flies.
Now that Greeley's town marshal
has bought an automobile with which
to run down the wayfaring, no guilty
man auto escape.
A Trinidad man was so considerate
of his brothers welfare that he en-
bezzled $4,000 to keep him out of
trouble, so he says.
John F. Polk, veteran of the Civil
War, was visiting in Pueblo this week,
from Denver, where he was accidently
shot and may die.
Hamlin F. Lee. aged eighty-seven, a
veteran of the Mexican and Civil wars,
is dead at Colorado Springs. He was
nephew of Gen. Robert +. Lee.
City Marshal Dave Smith and Wal
ter Wallace are both nursing diverse
gunshot wounds as result of street
duel in Durango few days ago.
Mrs. Silvia st. John, sixty years old,
won the prize in a spelling match at
I
adopt the simplified spellin' nuther.
Miss Adar Osborne was seriously
hurt in runaway near Greeley last
Monday. Her jaw was broken in two
places and her skull badly fractured.
A workmen returning from Panama
says there is a great deal of unrest
among the laborers down there, and
that there is liable to be strike any
day.
Editor Branch of the Fort Collins
Democrat has branched out in busi-
ness and has launched a daily in con-
nection with his great family weekly
newspaper.
Mrs. Lena During of Denver is SUI
ing for divorce from William During
She says ne has not been good hus-
band to her during the past three
I years.
A Victor miner by the name of Joe
Wouff, attempted suicide by lying on
the railroad track. He was arrested
and placed in jail on the charge of
obstructing the way.
1t is optional now with the towns
of the state whether they irrigate their
interiors at home or adopt the dry pro-
cess. Governor Buchtel has signed the
local option bill.
Fred Rodman of Loveland has got
the police force and another man out
searching for his wife. who. he says,
has eloped with Peter Ernst, taking
$500 and her youngest child along.
Two Greek bootblacks were fined in
Pueblo police court for paying undue
attention to young girls. Heart mash
ing isn't where the Greek shine in this
country. anyway.
Fred t. Wilson, former clerk of
the district court at Canon City, re-
Gently pleaded guilty in Los Angeles
to embezzling $4,000 and was SEN
fenced to five years in the San Quen-
tin penitentiary.
A Denver girl married soldier
from the fort at Cheyenne. and he de-
serted both her and the army next
day. II the courts don't courtmartial
that disconrtly chap for counting under
false prerense, they ought to.
The lifeless body of Preston NJ.
Gregg was found in a Larimer street,
Denver, looming house the other day,
where it had been two days. Gregg
was 40 years old and came from Bal
timore because Of lung trouble.
Homer Hot journeyed all the way
from Lucrsye, Colorado. to be married
in Cheyenne the other day. The
widow lie married wanted to know
what he vas going to do about chang
ing her name. and he made it Hot for
her.
John Seabury and William X
M8ckey, two newspaper men of 1'rlni-
dad. are planning a trip by foot of
over 10000 miles. They expect to
panhandle it through Mexico, Central
and South America TO Buenos Ayres,
and spend the Fourth OF July in that
Argentina metropolis. Their mast In.