The Elbert County tribune., 1908-04-30
COLORADO ITEMS

Monahan as postmaster.
Lewis E. Webber and Ben MCGEE,
trustees. who escaped from the peniten-
tiary April 23rd, were. captured next
day at Skaguay and taken back to
Canon City.
The strike of the $50 marble cut
ters employed by the Colorado Yule
Marble Company has been settled. the
men to work nine hours instead of
eight, and to receive an increase of SO
cents a day in wages.
Henry Van Kleeck has been ap-
pointed as delegate to represent the
Denver Chamber of Commerce at the
National Conference of Peace Arbitra-
ton which will meet. as 1t annually
does, at Mohonk Lake. New York.
May 21st.
The town of Craig. one of the prin-
cipal places along the line of the Moi
fat road IN Routt county. has decided
to incorporate by vote of eighty to
forty-nine. This is the elimination Of
an agitation that has covered the past
two years.
Effective May LIST l.. d. Knowles.
general agent In Milwaukee for several
years OF the Missouri Pacific system.
has been appointed general western
agent OF the same system, with head
quarters at Denver. Mr.. Knowles has
been in the railroad business twenty
five years.
The forest service has announced
the following appointments In Colorado
reserves: Charley C. White, forest
guard, Wet Mountain reserve; George
Fleischman, assistant forest ranger,
San Juan reserve; Thomas W. Rob
inc ct
Cross reserve.
Mayor Green of Greeley issued
proclamation April 23rd, ordering that
all dogs In the city must be either
muzzled or temporarily confined by
their owners. because many dogs
have recently been bitten by Or ex-
posed to biting by dog suffering with
hydrophobia. Every dog not muzzled
or confined was ordered to be killed
by the marshal.
In the District Court at Canon City
the United States Reduction and Re-
filming Company was granted a judg
ment against the Denver & Rio Grande
Railway Company for 100000 for the
burning of the Union mill at Florence
two years ago. The reduction com
pany brought suit for $250.000, claim
ing that the fire started from a spark
from a passing Rio Grande engine.
A committee from the State Bar AS
sociation. headed by Halsted l.. Ritter,
held memorial services in the Federal
Court at Denver, April 23rd, passing
appropriate resolutions on the death
of various members during the past
year. The members who passed away
were Charles W. Tankersley. Herman
H. Durham. Albert G. Grier. John H
Murphy. Charles l. Thomson and
Charles M. Brown.
At Glenwood Springs on the night of
April 22nd. John l.. Taylor. convicted
of second degree murder for killing
his wife, and sentenced to not less than
twenty years in the penitentiary.
cheated the court by hanging himself
in his cell at the city jail He used a
rope male of strips of mis- bedding. He
was found shortly after midnight and
had evidently been dead for several
hours. The crime of which he was con-
victed was killing his wife at Coal
Basin last July. His attorneys tried
to prove that his wife committed sui
eide.
A. B. Hulit of the Northern Electri-
cal Company, who is behind the
movement to put in a $15,000,000 cleo
kansas valley from Canon City to
Dodge City, Kansas. addressed a mass
meeting at Pueblo, April 23rd. He
explained the project at length and 1t
was enthusiastically endorsed by those
present Another meeting will be held
May 14th at La Junta and business
representatives from every city in the
valley interested will be present. At
this time it is thought that decisive
steps will be taken toward the fulfill
ment of the scheme.
Governor H. A. Buchtel has been
asked to give $4,000 from some state
fund for the construction of a topo-
graphical map, 16x11 feet, from which
copies may be made for exhibition at
the International Congress of Tuber-
culosis to be held at Washington next
September A committee from the
Chamber of Commerce and the Dem
yer Medical Society called upon the
governor with this request. Those on
the committee were E. L. Scholtz, w.
F. r. Mills and Drs. w. N. Beggs. w.
w. Grant, G. w. Holden, H. B. Whit
ney, Charles Dennison and George H.
Stover. The governor may possibly
be able to appropriate the sum asked
for from the building rund.
At the annual meeting of the State
Board Of Charities and Corrections at
Denver April 23rd. Rabbi w. S. Fried
man was reelected president Of the
board. All the members were present,
including DR.. D. H. Dougan, Mrs. James
Williams, Father Malone. Mrs. Caspar
and Judge Thomas of Breckenridge.
Mrs. Stanley M. Caspar was elected
vice president and Father Malone was
ad IN Oft
vention of charitable organizations in
Richmond this year. REPORTS from the
various institutions controlled by the
board were received and found To be
encouraging. A resolution was adopted
col Hing for tho