The Elbert County tribune., 1908-04-16
COLORADO NEWS


the month OF March this year showed
the same month last year.
The secretary of the interior has ap-
proved a Colorado school Indemnity
school land selection list for 1853
acres OF land In the Sterling district
One OF the most important features
OF the religious and ethical confer
ence which is to be held at Colorado
College May 11th-14th. is the "organ-
cial program has been carefully pre-
pared.
The assessed valuation OF Fremont
county property is s6.C51. .734 The
schedule shows tnat eighteen resi-
dents have property valued at 1896, ,635
and that seventy-five people pay taxes
on 1884 .050, while 4.925 Others are
assessed on only S2,S17,GS4.
1t is stated that the great army of
sheep which passed through Grand
Junction a few months ago under
guard OF sixty armed men, en- route
for the ranges OF Utah. will return to
the spring grazing ground in Mont
rose county with the same protection.
After two months search Herman
who fell heir TO sixth part of
large estate in Germany some three
months ago. has been located in San
Francisco. where he is employed as q
bookkeeper with the telephone com
pany.
One of the largest shipments OF live
stock ever made from Colorado left
Pueblo on the llth inst. for Kansas
City. There were fifty-onc cars of cat
tie and sheep from the feeding ranches
near Fowler, Manzanola Rocky Ford
and Swink. There were twenty-six
cars of steers and twenty-five cars OF
spring lambs. The shipment was val
ued at sS1 900.
The first steel ties to be used in lay
ing any extensive section of street
railway in Denver are now being put
down along Arapahoe street. from
Thirteenth to Twenty-third, BY the
Tramway Company in completing the
Denver AZ Interurban electric line
from Denver to Boulder for the Colo
RADIO & Southern railway. The ties
are shaped like rails. but are not so
heavy. They will last much longer
than wood.
Mrs. Mary e. Price. one of the old.
est pioneers of Jefferson county. died
at the home of her son in.law. vii.
liam c.. Carroll, at Ralston Crossing
on the 18th inst, aged eighty-fiye
years. Mrs. Price was born in Ohio
and came TO Colorado in 1853. She
leaves three children. Mrs Alfred
Hurst. Mrs. Carroll and Mrs. e. j.
Doyler. Prior TO her death there were
five generations of her family living
on Ralston creek.
w D. Kaessner. who has been en-
ployed for the last year by the Colo
RADIO Springs Electric Company at its
power plant. left Colorado Springs on
the Ith inst for San Francisco. where
he Will join the American fleet on its
trip around the world. He will be as
signed TO Admiral Evans flagship. the
Connecticut. as assistant tosihe chief
engineer. He has already served four
years in the navy and has been in
every European harbor.
The annual encampment of the
Department of Colorado and Wyom-
ing. Grand Army of the Republic. at
Fort Collins. May goth. 2lst and 22nd.
will be enlivened by the attendance
of the members of Custer Post No. |
of Laramie, Wyoming, in ii body.
They will come in wagons, carriages
and automobiles and will be accom-
| panied by many of the ladies' of the
Woman's Relief Corps. At Fort Col
Inns they will camp in the field.
Arrangements have been completed
| for the tour of Inspection of the senior
School of Mines class, the finishing
touch to the four years course at the
| state mining school. In charge of a
number of professors, the class of 1908,
numbering fifty-two men, will leave
Golden Tuesday, April 2lst. The tin
erary includes all the principal smell
ter cities of Colorado. Utah and Mon
tana. with stop OF five days at Butte.
| They will return May 18th, one week
| before commencement.
The business men of Walden have
| organized chamber OF commerce to
take up the matter of advancing the
agricultural interests of western Lari-
mer county and twenty acres have
| been donated for model farm 1t is
purposed to put in charge of this a
practical and experienced farmer. one
who is acquainted with the climatic
conditions and soil of the section. 1t
is. planned to raise specimen grain,
grasses, forage crops and small
fruits best adapted to the altitude of
North Park.
With the opening of the new Hotel
Boulderado. which has just been COM
pleted. the city of Boulder believes il
will be entitled TO prominent mention
among Coiorados summer resorts. The
new hostelry contains 100 rooms and
is located in the heart of the city, just
opposite the postoffice and Elks club.
The hotel proper cost Sl50.00O and
z 20 fs l.,. to-. (.
Denver hotel men who are expected
10 open H. The hotel was constructed
by the Business Mems League of
Boulder and has 200 stockholders.
numbering many very prominent citi-
zens of Boulder. 1t will probably be
operated ON both American and E,l-
| ropean plan and has many balconies.