The Elbert County tribune., 1908-04-02
COLORADO NEWS

William J. Bryan viii address the
students of the University of Denver
Monday. April 9Th.
are organizing 4 golf club and will lay
out links on the Country club grounds.
c. E. Granger, manager of the Gree
ley, Eaton and Windsor sugar factor
les, has gone to Europe to get treat
ment for failing sight
$4,000 apartment house is to be
built at Greeley within the next three
months and nifty new residences are In
process OF construction.
Indications are that the summer
school which will open June 18th at
the state university will be the larg-
est and most successful in the history
Of the institution.
Mayor Rose. of Leadville, took
prompt steps to quarantine the city
against the immoral hordes driven out
Of Market street. Denver. by the ac-
tien Of Sheriff Nisbet.
Salvatro Camille, the nineteen-year-
old boy injured In the mine 1T Catoino
near Trinidad. Saturday. died Monday.
His father was one OF the twenty-five
victims OF the Tercio disaster Of two
years ago.
s. B. Scholz Of Colorado Springs,
and associates have purchased $50
lots in Alamosa, and will, it is said,
erect fifty modern cottages at a cost
of more than 100000, during the
spring and summer.
Governor Henry A. Buchtel has ap-
pointed a committee of three experts
to examine the books and accounts Of
the state treasurer and the board OF
land commissioners. They are John
L. Fetzer. G. F. Allen and J. NJ. Wood.
Two large bears have been added to
the geological collection of the city at
Eineral Park palace in Pueblo. The
bears are part of collection which the
commissioners say they will in time
make one Of the best in the West.
In the District Court at Colorado
Springs Clarence Massey pleaded
guilty to the charge of grand larceny,
confessins to the theft of seven bi.
cycles and two saddles. He has served
a term In the industrial school at
Golden.
Lewis Shaw. Herman Crutz and ].
Leo Fleming, all under age, have been
sentenced to the reformatory by Judge
w. s. Morris at Colorado Springs.
They were convicted of setting fire
to several buildings in Colorado City
"just for fun"
The Ohio Society of Boulder will
send invitations to all Ohioans who at.
tend the Democratic national conven.
tion in Denver to be present at an
"Ohio Day" at the Chautauqua grounds
Immediately after adjournment OF the
convention.
The interstate debate between the
universities of Colorado and Missouri
Will be held in Boulder April Gath. The
question is: Resolved. That All Elec.
tive, State. District County and City
officers Should Be Nominated BY the
Direct Primary"
Patrick McEwen, a miner, forty-five
years of age, was caught In a rock.
slide in the Stratton Independence
mine at Victor Sunday morning and
had his right leg SO badly crushed that
omputation was necessary. He is mar
ried and lives at Victor
On his way from Trinidad to Ii
Junta, with his wife and baby inside
the passenger coach, James Hunter, be.
ing unable to pay his own passage,
stole ride on the top of the car. At
La Junta he missed his footing, fell
from the car and was killed.
The United States Geographic Board,
which some time ago undertook to
change the photography OF Canon City,
Colorado. to Canyon City," has re-
vcrsed its former decision and Colora
dams can now write it Canon City, as
they have always done, without con
dicting with Uncle Sans edict.
An invitation has been extended to
he OF To NJ CoIn In IN AIc
gate to the International Wo
mans Suffrage congress which meets
this summer at Amsterdam, Hol.
land, and at which prominent suf
fragists from all the European coun.
tries as we'll as America Will be pres
ent
Alleging defamation of character
w. w. Degge of the Wellington AZ
sociation, has filed suit In the district
court against the publishers of the
Daily Mining Record of Denver. ask
ing $25,000 actual and $4,000 exem
plary damages. The suit is the result
of accusations alleged to have been
made in the Defendants paper.
Work on the irrigation system of the
Montezuma Valley Irrigation district
has been resumed and is being pushed
rapidly. 1t is now believed by the con
tractors in charge that the system will
be ready for operation May1s Tho
lien suits which tied up the project last
fall will be disposed of at special
term of the District Court to be held
April 25th.
A challenge has been issued today
to all the miners of Fremont county
by John DeSlavo, a Coal Creek Italian,
inviting them to participate in coal
mining contest with him, and he of.
fers purse of $1,000 for the winner
He claims to be the best coal digger
in the county and during his seven.
teen years residence has averaged be-
tween Sc and 81 day
Harry B. Kerr of Denver has been