The Elbert County tribune., 1908-03-12
COLORADO news


The Denver annual automobile show
has been set for April 9Th, 7th and 8th
Over fifty exhibitors have already ap-
piled for space.
Petitions are being circulated for
signers to present the question of local
option before the voters of Holyoke at
the spring election. They met with
plenty, Of signers.
An extensively signed petition has
been filed with the city clerk of George
town to submit the proposition to the
qualified voters at the spring election,
Shall the town become anti-saloon ter
ritory?"
1t has been decided by the Love
land chamber of commerce that a live
stock exhibit viii be added to the at
tractive features of the next annual
corn roast, which will be held Labor
day, as usual. t1h
The Congregationalists and Method
lists at Coal Creek have decided to
build brick union church and will
start construction this week. 1t will
cost abolr $4,000, and have a seating
capacity of 500.
A University of Colorado Alumni
Association has been organized in
Trinidad. with Rose Affolter, B. A, as
president, and Elizabeth Babcock as
vice president. This makes the tenth
alumni association organized in Colo
rado for the state university.
Madison Smith. SO years old one OF
the Oldest men in Weld county, one of
the vice presidents of the Society OF
Union Colony Pioneers, for thirty-sev-
en- years resident of Greeley. cele-
brated his birthday March LIST at the
home of his son Pitts. in Greeley.
Acting under the provisions of the
law that was passed by the last Legis-
lature, Governor Buchtel has appoint
ed George E. Kyner of CrippsSCreek
public trustee of Teller county. Mr.
Kyner is publisher of the Cripple
Creek Times and Victor Daily Record.
The Rev. R. ]. Van Valkenburg and
Cordelia Van Valkengburg, for many
years residents of Erie, celebrated
their sixty-fifth wedding anniversary
at their home in Greeley. March 1st.
Both OF them are eighty-four years of
age.
The contract for the construction OF
the new Masonic temple at Colorado
Springs, to cost $4,000, has been let
to ]. w. Atkinson Colorado Springs
contractor. Work will be started at
once. The building will be two stories
high and CT buff pressed brick.
A gang of convicts is at work at
Canon City building a scenic driveway
to Tempe canon in Grape creek, five
miles from the city. AS soon as this
drive is completed a second will be
built to the southern rim of the Royal
gorge, 2,G50 feet above the river.
A band of mountain sheep leaping
among the cliffs within the city limits
of Ouray has recently attracted much
attention. This is the first time in years
they have been seen SO near the town,
and by old residents their Appearance
is said TO denote an early spring.
Governor Buchtel h has appointed
Laura A. Beecroft of the Minnequa hos
pital at Pueblo as a member of the
State Board of Nurse Examiners. for
term of five years. Miss Beecroft has
made a most notable record during her
service as the head of the staff Of the
Minnequa hospital.
| telephone system has been in
stalled at Virgins, in Morgan county,
and through the surrounding country
by an independent company and ar
rangements have been made for con-
nection with the lines of the Colorado
company, thus giving the advantage of
! long distance service.
A new postoffice has been estab-
lished at Vallery, a small town on the
| Burlington, nine miles west of Fort
Morgan. A general merchandise store
and a lumber yard were recently
opened there and the new town prom
ises to become quite trading point
1t is located at the western edge of the
Bijou irrigation district.
The State Department at Washing
ton has recognized as Italian consul at
| Denver, GIstave Fosti, who will have
| Jurisdiction for Colorado Wyoming
Utah, Idaho, Montana, Kansas, Ne
braska, the Dakotas. Arizona and New
Mexico. The department has also rec
ognized Giuseppe Maio as Italian con
sular agent at Trinidad.
L. F. Orvis. farmer near Ridgway,
who February 9th missed three heifers,
finally found them in a deserted cabin.
where they had wandered during a
storm, and in which they became i'm
prisoned. Two of them were dead, but
one, after nearly thirty days without
food or water, was alive, and able to
rush to water when released.
At the meeting of the Western Pas
senger Association on the 18th inst.
, 1t was agreed that the summer tourist
rates to Denver ard Colorado com
mon points should be from Chicago
$50, from st. Louis S25 and from Mis-
souri, river points $3.50 This quiets
/ the apprehension OF a raise in rates
which has been worrying the Denver
| dailies.
The annual high school day at the
state university at Boulder will occur
this year on May 10th. This is q
change from the date. May 9th. as for
merly announced. The yearly inter
scholastic oratorical contest will be