The Elbert County tribune., 1908-11-05
COLORADO ITEMS

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building the new Denver public library
1t will be finished and ready for use
early next spring.
The Denver Mining Exchange is to be
transformed into a general stock ex-
change, modelled after the New York
Consolidated exchange.
S. J. Peterson of Dunlap, Iowa, will
build the Parva ditch and reservoir,
north of Windsor, to irrigate several
hundred acres.
One hundred and ten tons of dried
brewery grain was shipped from Trim
idad few days since for London, Eng
land, By way of Galveston. The grain
was purchased by King Edward VII.
through Sir Charles Willoughby and
will be used III the private stables Of
his majesty.
r. X. Potter has filed plans with the
county clerk of Pueblo county for an
extensive irrigating system in the
northwestern part of the county, in
the Turkey Creek region. The pro-
iected reservoir will have a capacity of
425,000,000 cubic feet. Preliminary
work has already been commenced.
The removal of Dean w. L. Carlyle
and Professor w. H. Olin from the
State Agricultural college was made
against the urgent protest of Governor
Buchtel, who wrote a circular letter,
expressing his opinions very strongly
in answer to the appeals of prominent
citizens and organizations, but stating
that he was powerless to prevent the
action of the state board
John Whitemore's livery barn, con-
Quoted by Dode Wykert at Severance
in Weld county, burned October 30th.
entailing a loss of $4,000 with insur-
ance of only $500. All animals were
taken from the barn and corral ex-
cept colt. which was burned. Men,
women and children turned out and
fought the flames. thus saving the lum-
ber yard of George Schillig of Greeley.
To furnish electric power to indus
trial centers and towns within a ra-
dius of twenty TO forty miles on all
sides of Trinidad, Colorado, and prac-
tically Danish stationery steam engines
from the district, is the object of the
Southern Colorado Power & Railway
Company. Following out enlargement
plans the money has been raised to in
stall generators to furnish a total of
10000 horsepower.
On the 2nd inst. the county commits
sioners of Pueblo county signed the
first section of the S44S. 900 court house
contract with Frank Taylor of Pueblo.
This contract is for the excavating,
foundation and all first floor steel
beams for $54,540. The contract also
contains proposals by the contractor
for building and erecting the remain
der of the structure in stages at stated
prices within fixed periods of time
should the proposition be hereafter ac-
cepted.
At Colorado Springs on the End inst.
Miss Ellen r. Brinley was elected pres
ident OF the Young Women's Chris
tian Association to succeed Mrs. Mary
t. Hatch, who was retired at her
own request, to succeed Mrs. Elizabeth
Cass Goddard as vice president. Mrs.
Goddard also asked leave to retire.
and was made second vice president.
Mrs. w. +. Slocum and Mrs. Noble
were made third and fourth vice pres
idents; Mrs. w. c. Robinson, secre-
tary, and hrs. William Strieby, treas
urer.
The body of John Lynch was found
lying beside the state road five miles
west of Tin Cup. Taylor Park district,
( few days since. by Mail Carrier Haw-
kins, who took it into Tin Cup. 1t is
reported that Lynch fell or was thrown
from his buggy and his neck broken.
He came to the district in 1879 and
had been prominently identified with
the development of the mineral re-
sources of Taylor Park, two large min
ing companies having been organized
by him. He leaves a widow and a
son.
Civil service examination will be
held at the Federal building in Den
yer, December End and 3rd, for the po-
sitions of junior engineer and junior
chemist in the technologic branch of
the Geological Survey. The salaries
range from $S40 to $1,000 year. All
men twenty-one years old or more are
eligible to apply for this examination
and may secure application blanks
from Werner W. Campbell, secretary of
the United States Civil Service Com
mission, federal building.
Denver.-Dr. Hugh Taylor. secretary
of the State Board of Health, has an
nounced that the typhoid epidemic is
now on the wane. He is of the opinion
that the agitation in the newspapers
recently has done much to compel a
stricter compliance with the law in the
matter of reporting cases of typhoid,
and also has aroused the public to the
necessity Of taking sanitary precau-
tions which will prevent the growth