The Elbert County tribune., 1908-10-29
COLORADO ITEMS


Greeley voted to hold its next annual
session at Pueblo.
The Rev. M. b. Williams of Chicago,
a noted evangelist, is to head four
weeks series of revival meetings in
Denver.
Miss Adele Fowle, Denver stenog
rapher. was sixth in the international
and third in the amateur typewritine
contest held recently in New York
The sample ballots for Weld county
for the general election have been
prepared in the English, Swedish, Rus
sian. Spanish and Italian languages.
On the 21st inst, for the first time
in the history of Pueblo, there was not
case of contagion registered with the
board of health, nor was there case
in quarantine.
The community of Mennonites. -four
miles west of La Junta dedicated their
new sanitarium Sunday. There were
about 500 people at the services, which
lasted through the entire day.
Florian Cajori. head professor OF
mathematics in Colorado college. and
dean of the engineering school. has
reconsidered his decision made last
term that he would resign as dean of
the school, and will again take up his
work.
Paul Frazier, who cached whisky in
an alley and an irrigation ditch and
sold it, was fined $500 in the police
court at Greeley, and on the same day
charges were preferred against him in
the county court and he was fined 800
and costs there.
One hundred and ten tons of dried
brewery grain was shipped from Trim
idad few days since for London, Eng
land. by way of Galveston. The grain
was purchased by King Edward VII.
through Sir Charles Willoughby and
will be used in the private stables of
his majesty.
According to reports reaching d. E.
Farr, state game and fish commission
er, the flight of ducks this year is the
greatest ever known. Wild geese are
also said to be uncommonly numerous.
Denver hunters, some five hundred of
them, are going out to the lakes in the
vicinity every day and bringing in i'm
mense numbers of ducks.
Ground was broken at Greeley Mon
day for Catholic church building to
cost $4,000. 1t VIII be one of the
finest in northern Colorado and will
be of gray brick and stone. The tow
er will be 145 feet high. The church
was established four years ago as reg
ular parish under Father Casey, and
has 300 members.
rlt hoa
in Denver by people who want to keep
pace with the latest developments in
the art of flying. One of its most
prominent members is Walter M. Cage,
who has recently attracted consider
able attention throughout the country
by his invention of submarine and
his present work upon flying ma
chine.
In notices sent around to nearly ev-
cry business man in Denver, Secret
Service Agent Goddard warns all
against two men who are reported to
be examining cash drawers under pre-
tense of belonging to the secret SER
vice. The men have been caught, it
is said, in the act of removing money
several times, but have each time es-
capped.
Charles H. Mcclure, engineer at the
Denver mint. stood highest in the ex-
animation given by the United States
civil service commission to applicants
chanical and electrical engineering in
the supervising architects office in
Washington. He has been ordered to
report at Washington to assume the
position.
Sixty young women of Colorado ex-
ecuted one of the most complicated and
best managed drills ever attempted by
women on the stage of the auditorium
in Denver Saturday night, when the
driii team of the Denver Young
Women's Christian Temperance Union
formed the letters Y. w. C. T. U. while
5000 spectators broke forth in ap-
plause that sounded and resounded
through the vast hall filled with dele
gates of the nation to the w. C. T. U.
The Moffat road will put on a pas
senger car dining service after Novem-
ber 1st. This will continue for the win
ter months only. In the spring the
regular dining station service at Toll
land and Arrow will be resumed. The
meals in the passenger car dining SER
vice are prepared in kitchen car and
then served in the regular passenger
cars on tables fastened between the
seats. These tables are removed again
when the meal is over.
Deeds filed transferring the lungs
ten properties known as the Boulder
County mines, from c. F. Lake of Boul-
der and T. N. Barnsdall, Pittsburg
millionaire oil operator, to the Primos
Mining Company, the consideration be-
ing 100000. The property is one of
the largest producers of tungsten ore
In Rnulder county Tho pri.,aa- Nil.