The Elbert County tribune., 1908-06-11
COLORADO NEWS

EAIutlh near 1AVClCy ~ <t-~ff--%--
ing that coyotes are becoming SO num-
erous and bold that they nightly visit
their yards and carry away poultry.
A baby lion has been born at the
Colorado Springs zoo. The cub. which
is a splendid specimen OF the African
lion, is named "Zoolita." In honor OF
its birthplace.
What is said to be the largest fish
ever taken out Of the Twin Lakes,
weighing twenty pounds and four
ounces. was caught by Edward Lay
cock OF Denver a few days since
While placing revolver in Its hol-
ster on the 3rd inst, Roy Campbell,
aged twenty-one, son OF a weli-to-uo
rnnchman near Collbran, was accident
ally shot through the heart and killed.
Reports show that for the year
1907-0S exactly 1,200 cars Of potatoes
were shipped from Eaton on the Union
Pacific and gag cars on the Great
Western. making total of 1882 cars.
Aided by their wives and daughters,
the officers and directors of the First
National Bank at Fort Collins, enter
tanned over 5000 visitors at the formal
opening OF their new building Satur
day.
Greeley men are proposing to raise
capital and finance an electric railroad
TO Pleasant valley, then to Pierce,
Severance and Windsor and westward
TO Johnstown, with Greeley as cen
ter.
Bishop William Fraser Mcdowell,
formerly chancellor of Denver Univer'
sity, has been appointed to preside at
the conference OF the Methodist church
OF this state. to be held in Longmont
next August.
Ethan A. Farnham, sheriff OF Routt
county, died at the home of friends in
Grand Junction on the 5th inst, of can
Ger of the stomach. He was serving
his third term as sheriff and expected
to be again reelected.
BY the spreading of the rails on the
Denver g. Rio Grande track near AS
pen Friday, two passenger and three
freight cars were ditched. Sixteen per-
sons were more or less injured. some
seriously. though not fatally.
The comptroller of the currency has
approved an application to organize
the First National Bank of Calhan,
capital, $4,000; r. c. Larue, H. A. La
rue, l.. K. Smith, A. T. Henbest, e. II.
Woodrlng and ID. l.. Shultz, incorpora-
tors.
AT the last meeting of the regents
of the University of Colorado gradua-
tion day was permanently set aside
as a day on which to decorate the
grare OF A. j. Mackey, in commemora-
tion Of his magnificent bequest to the
State University.
While working as a common miner
In the Portland mine at Victor, to gain
experience, Charles Fred Moore. q
young mining engineer of Denver, lost
his balance Sunday morning and was
instantly killed after forty-foot fall
TO the bottom of shaft.
d. w. Spencer who died at New Cas-
tie. Indiana. on the 9th inst, came to
Pueblo with the Santa Fe railway and
was one of the pioneer railroad men
of the west For years he was super
intendent of bridges and buildings on
the Santa Fe, with headquarters at
Pueblo.
The Denver Real Estate Exchange
wants to have Denver made "city OF
MARBLE" and has appointed commit
tee to examine and report on the mar
BILE deposits at Marble in Gunnison
county, where enough fine marble is
said to exist to last for a thousand
years.
The proposed sugar factory at Man
zanola In Otero county is an assured
fact. Bonds to the amount of $400. .00C
have been placed in Chicago. and this
with the 100000 already subscribed
by the farmers of the Arkansas val
ley, guarantees the construction of q
600-ton plant. Four contracting firms
are figuring on the job and work will
probably begin September 1st.
The hotel keepers of Colorado
Springs will entertain the members ol
the Rocky Mountain Hotel ant
the occasion of the annual out
14th A frying pan picnic" will
be held in South Cheyenne Canor
June 18th, and in the evening a dance
will be held at Stratton Park.
On the night of Commencement da,
at the State Normal School at Greeley
the annual alumni reunion of thu
school was held. The alumni numbe
1.54S and there were abont 600 at thu
reception. Addresses were made b.
Charles Lory. teacher in the State Ag
rlcultural College; Frank Latson. pres
ident of the class of 1907; Attorney V
E. Keyes Of 1901; Richard Broad an
Doctor Snyder.
What will go into history as tn
highest fight of oratory on th
part OF leading political figure in tn
country was delivered when John
Martin, sergeant-atarms for the na
tional Democratic convention. re
sponded to the appeal of a large part.
on the top of Pixies Peak and talke'
to them for twenty minutes at an alt
tude of nearly three miles above tn
sea-
Mrs. Ruth Bryan Leavitt, daughte
of the great commoner, is coming I,
Denver, guest of Mrs. Louis Spratlen
Special Significance attaches to her al