The Elbert County tribune., 1908-12-17
COLORADO NEWS

ganize new mining stock exchange in
Denver.
The Crystal Theatre Company, cap
itaIized at $4,000. has been incorpor-
ated to conduct a vaudeville theater
at Grseley.
On january 2sth Leadville viii cele-
brate its tnirtieth anniversary by a
home coming OF Leadville pioneers.
There will be high old times"-about
two miles high.
A congress Of Colorado Sunday
school associations will be held at
Pueblo Dec. z7th-29th. This will be the
first time the congress has been held
outside of Denver
The thirty-eighth annual session OF
the Colorado State Teachers Assocla-
tion will be held in the East Side high
school at Denver, Dec. 2Sth, 29th, Both
and 31st.
Manager A. b. Hulit of the Kansas
Colorado Power and Transmission
Company. expects the road to be com
pleted from Pueblo to the top Of the
Royal Gorge by May LIST next.
On the night of the sth inst fire
destroyed the shaft house and build
ings Of tho Mesa Mining & Milling
Company at Unaweep, entailing loss
of $4,000. There was no insurance.
Another s per cent. dividend has
been declared by Richard II. Malone,
receiver OF the defunct Fidelity Saw
ings Association of Denver. This divi-
dend means the disbursing of $41,000,
and makes total of 40 per cent. paid
to depositors.
Stephen N. Bennett, a pioneer
nearly eighty-three years old, and
brother-in-law OF ex-Lieut Gov.
Brush, died at Greeley on the 10tb
inst. of diseaSe incident to old age. Mr..
Bennett came to Greeley over thirty
years ago.
John Il. Godding. late president OF
the State Bank of Rocky Ford, con-
victed of receiving deposits after the
bank was insolyent and sentenced to
eight to ten years In the penitentiary
at Canon City, was received into that
institution on the 18th inst.
Railway mail service to Walden.
Colo from Laramie, Wyo., Will soon be
turned over to Laramie, Hahn's Peak
4 Pacific railway. going by train to
within thirty-five miles OF Walden and
then by star route. At present seventy
miles is covered by stage.
The scientific students and members
of the University Scientific Society
OF the State University are cooperat-
ing with the office Of state dairy COM
missioner for the purpose of purifying
the milk and milk products which
are produced in Boulder county.
There is still talk at Fort Collins of
Secretary of Agriculture James Wilson
becoming president of Colorado Agri-
cultural college. While it has not been
definitely decided who will succeed DR..
u. Q. Aylesworth, and probably will not
for several weeks. there are rumors
that Mr.. Wilson will be chosen.
The new town of Kuner. nine miles
east Of Greeley, has notified G. s. Nor
ey president Of the Great Western
Sugar Company. that it will donate
eighty acres fof a building and furnish
water II he will establish sugar fac
tory there. Kuner town has large
cultivated area tributary to 1t.
The Denver Reservoir Irrigation
Company has Just let a contract for the
completion OF the Stanley Lake dam,
one OF the chief works of the project.
five miles north OF the city limits Of
Denver. KenefIck & Quigley, Of Kan
sas CITY, have undertaken the work
for $4xG,0 ,000 To date on dams, canals
and tunnels for the system, the irriga-
tion ,mpany has let contracts calling
for an expen 1iture Of about $1.620,000
At Cripple Creek Tuesday William
Campicn, a brother of Andy j. Cam.
pion, commission man OF Denver. sat
down in chair In the lobby of the Ma.
tionai hotel and went to sleep. A few
minutes later a porter discovered that
Campion was dead The coroner's au
topsy disclosed the fact that death was
due to blod clot near the heart.
Campion was butcher. thirty-four
years old He leaves Widow.
DR.. Ben Beshoar Of Trinidad. Demo
cratic nominee for the state Senate at
the last election, has served notice OF
election contest upon Senator Cashmere
Barela, who has just received his GER
tificate of election from the secretary
of state. Notice OF contest was also
served upon W. W. Boyles and Isaac
Amador. the Republican represents
tives-elect. by ]. v. Cordova and Max
Tafoya, their Democratic opponents
A sad feature of the meeting of the
board OF control OF the State Agri
culture' College at Fort Collins was
the absence of James l.. Chatfield. OF
Gypsum, Colorado. Mr.. Chatfield has
been member Of the board sixteen
years, and has never missed a regu
lar meeting until this one, which would
have been his last. his term expiring
with the clos, of this year. Mr. Chat