The Elbert County tribune., 1908-12-31
COLORADO NEWS

The new Grand Junction directory
estimates the population at 1912.
Gen. w. ]. Palmer of Colorado
Springs is reported to be improving in
health
There was 2.5G0 marriages in Den
yer during the past year and 5Ss d.
vorces.
Merry Christmas" in Denver re-
suited in forty-six cases on the Police
Court docket the next day.
At the starch factory in Greeley. B.
ID. Fisher fell head first into a big
vat of ice-cold potato juice and mar
rowly escaped drowning.
The football team of the Longmont
high school defeated the Englewood
high school team OF Chicago at Den
yer ON Christmas Day by score of
10 to 0
In his county poor report to the sec
retary of state Clerk Konkel of Baca
county fills out the blank as follows:
I'VE have no paupers. How many
counties can say as much?"
At the December meeting of the ex-
ecutive committee of the Modern
Woodmen OF America, 1t was decided
to admit free of charge to the recently
established sanitarium in Colorado
Springs all members afflicted with tu-
berculosis whose cases are curable.
The Rogers Canning Company OF
Rogers, Ark, has offered to establish
a canning factory at Fort Morgan. II
the farmers win plant 1000 acres OF
vegetables suitable for canning. the
city to donate site of two or three
acres and give bonus of $4,000.
Arrangements have been about com
pleted by Secretary Watrous of the
Boulder Commercial Association. with
Springfield, ILL.,. parties to bring a col
ony from that section to settle on
small farms and fruit tracts near Boul-
der and along the Interurban and I'm
ion Pacific lines.
The theater at Manhattan Beach in
Denver was entirely destroyed by fire
on the night of December 26th. 1t was
the property of the Southern Invest
ment Company, who, 1t is stated will
build a new theater in its place. The
old building cost $4,000 and was par
TALLY insured.
The town of Kersey held its first
municipal election December 22nd.
with only one ticket in the field.
named by the Boosters" club. Fred
James was elected mayor and Len
Flint. W. f. Spaulding. w. r. Morti-
mer, j. II. Howe. B. p. Brooks and G..
S. Gardner. trustees.
<rax,a -, tfn,g t,axa baop oornpIatad
for the biggest short course in domes-
tic science at the Agricultural College,
Fort Collins, ever held in the history
OF the institution. The course will be-
gin Jan. 1lth and run until Jan. 18th.
Applications have come in from all
over the state for enrolment.
The assessment of Morgan county
shows that horses, mules, cattle and
hogs have made decided increase
during the last year, but that sheep
dropped far below the normal. That is
because there are only few feeders
this year. owing to the high prices of
hay and grain. There are 44,567 horses,
21y mules. 13.144 cattle. 3S,034 sheep
and 3,3SS swine In the county.
Arrangements are being made to use
the new Nationa. amphitheatre at the
Denver stock yards for the first time
on January 9Th. when Denver school
than 1900 children are expected to
take | art in the exercises. The new
is now practically com
plete, and is the largest of its kind in
the country. 1t will seat 5000.
Examinations have been announced
to be held for the positions of printer.
pressman and press feeder in the gov
ernment printing office by United
States civil service commission. Per-
sons desiring to take these examina-
tions should apply to Werner w. Camp
bell, secretary. room 1SA. Federal
building. Denver. for an application
blank
Herbert T. Herr, who. some time ago
went from superintendency on the
Denver q Rio Grande railway to the
Westinghouse company in Pittsburg,
has been promoted to general manager
OF the entire mechanical engineering
department of the Westinghouse con
cern. Mr.. Herr and his wife, who was
Irene Viancourt. are both graduates
OF the East Denver high school,
A Christmas pardon was granted
this wear to Mile Mandai'ich, convict
No. 492, for three years in the Canon
City penitentiary, with life sentence
hanging over him for the alleged muir
der of saloon-keeper in Lake county
in 1906. Mandarich Is an Austrian,
aged ,wenty-eight years. He has a few
acquaintances in this country and his
pardon was given on recommendation
of Warden Cleghorn.
The United States Sugar and Land
Company of Colorado Springs. with ex-
tensive properties at Garden City. Kan
sns, viii issue $4,000 in bonds for