The Elbert County tribune., 1908-11-12
COLORADO NEWS

December 1st.
The new Auditorium has been chos-
en- by the Denver Motor Club for the
automobile show to be held under the
auspices of the club this winter.
The Midland railroad has let a con-
tract for eighty-pound rails to relay its
track between Hartsel and Wild Horse,
thirty-five miles. Three new baggage
cars have also been ordered
The contract has been let for the
building Of q $4,000 theater for Grand
Junction. 1t will be on one OF the
prominent vaudeville circuits. A local
syndicate secured the contract
Gypsy" Smith, the noted English
evangelist, will conduct revival In
Denver March End to Sth, according to
cablegram received by DR.. G. F. Reis-
ner DR.. Reisner will try to secure
the auditorium for the services.
At Greeley John Aagesen paid his
wager to Ike Oppenheimer because of
the defeat OF Bryan, by rolling pea
nut down the sidewalk for block on
the main street. A large crowd lined
the sidewalk, watching and cheering
him.
The first tract laying force on the
way has spiked down the rails to
within one mile of Clear Creek and is
pushing the work with all possible en-
ergy towards the end OF the completed
grade, forty miles from Denver.
The total assessed valuation of Pu-
eblo county as reported by County
Assessor Graham. is $26,S23,639, show
in ga gain of 100000 over last year.
The greatest gain was in farm lands,
the assessed valuation of which was
$5,s94,449, gain of almost 100000.
The commission appointed by Presi-
dent Roosevelt to investigate the So
cial, sanitary and economic conditions
of farm life and make recommends
tions for Improvement will be at Fort
Collins early next month and give a
hearing at the Agricultural college.
The Greeley schools have introduced
the school savings bank system. The
teachers act as bankers and the chill
dren deposit their pennies until each
has saved dollar, when the money is
deposited in the local savings bank
and the pupil receives a pass-book.
Beginning on the Sth inst. the Union
Pacific has put line of new motor
cars on the Boulder Valley road run
ming between Brighton and Boulder.
These cars are the same as those used
between Denver and Greeley. The SER
vice is additional to that previously
established.
Governor Buchtel has appointed Bert
H. Martin county commissioner for the
Third district of Denver to succeed the
late Eugene Mccarthy. The unexpired
term in the Third district will end jan
uary 12th when Mr.. Martin will be sue
ceeded by Thomas Young, elected to
on the Democratic ticket.
The Denver board of park commits
sioners has decided in favor of the Nc
Monnies plans for a civic center at
the state house, the cost being esti-
mated at million dollars. Before
they can proceed with the work: the
proposition must be submitted to the
voters of the East Side Park district.
The Inauguration of gasoline motor
car service into Boulder over the
Union Pacific makes twenty-eight pas
senger trains each way, entering and
leaving Boulder every twenty-four
hours. This includes steam, electric
an dmotor cars, and twenty-six OF
which run between Boulder and Den
yer and two between Boulder and the
mountain mining camps.
Mrs. Alfred Valdez of Majestic,
coal camp near Trinidad, a few days
since gave birth to what is probably
the largest baby ever born in Colora-
do. 1t weighed twenty-three pounds.
The mother, under normal conditions,
weighes' 1875 pounds, while the father
of the child is an ordinary sized Mexi-
can, and miner. They will name
the baby William Howard Taft.
w. ]. Farr of Eaton, lessee of the
| Northern Colorado Power Company
for light for all the towns including
Eaton north to Pierce, has made ar
rangements with his company to build
over 100 miles Of electric line radiat-
ing from these towns into farming
districts. Farmers will receive light
for the same price as townspeople, and
electricity for motive power at reduced
| rates.
The Denver Chamber of Commerce
has sold its building at the corner OF
Lawrence and Fourteenth streets to
the Davis-Brihaham Drug Company for
$4,000. The company will remodel
the building and occupy it for it's own
business. The new building for the
| Chamber of Commerce and other in
dustrial bodies proposed by the Colo
RADIO Income Realty association is
planned to be ten stories high, with
the Colorado Traffic club occupying
the top two floors. the Colorado State
Commercial association the grount
floor and the Chamber of Commerce