The Elbert County tribune., 1909-08-12
STATE NEWS ITEMS

The annual conference OF the Meth
odist church OF Colorado will be held
at Pueblo the first week in Septem-
ber.
w. e. Goddard, 73 years old. and
prominent pioneer Of Montrose county
died at Montrose on the 3rd inst. as
the result OF injuries sustained in
runaway.
The comptroller of the currency has
approved the conversion of the Farm
ers' State Bank of Center. Colo. into
the First National Bank of Center,
with $4,000 capital
The Arkansas Valley Fair will open
at Rocky Ford August 31st and con
tipue through the first three days Of
September. Watermelon day will be
celebrate September I'd.
Construction work on the Orchard
Mesa ditch, begun eight weeks ago at
Palisade. is being pushed by 300 men,
which force will soon be increased.
The ditch is to be completed by April
LIST and will cost a million dollars.
The Colorado Fuel & Iron Company
Lildt ~ VIII HOl COubtTuCt
any more frame buildings in its min
ing camps but will use cement instead
1t has just completed boarding house
of twenty-four rooms at Berwind and
is constructing twenty cement houses
for miners.
The compression house at the Cal
Hope mine, three and one-half miles
from httr m nj oh of
August Sd, and although a few thou
sand dollars will cover the actual
money loss, enforced suspension OF
work in the mine and in the drainage
tunnel will entail extensive losses.
The famous Elberta peaches from
the Grand Valley will be served on
the presidential table at Beverly,
Mass. President C. E. Cherington Of
the Grand Junction chamber of com
merce recently received an order from
Thomas F. Walsh to ship box 0 FL
berta peaches to Mrs. William H. Taft
T. S. McMurray. right-of-way man
for the Burlington railroad. is quoted
as stating that on a recent visit by
prominent officers to Greeley 1t was
hSSAaCN W AiohC 1tCCiCy ihC QiNi-
sion point of the road, which will build
roundhouses and repair shops. This
will give employment to more than
400 men.
A destructive fire occurred at Hart
man, Prowers county, on the night of
the 9Th inst. entailing loss of nearly
$4,000. The fire started in a one-story
stone building occupied. jointly by 1.
II. Johnson's grocery store, and Appel
Brothers clothing store, and before
assistance could arrive both stocks
were reduced to mass of debris.
Because they were able to satisfy
the court that they were INDECENT and
unable to pay the fines assessed to
them, five of the bootleggers arrested
in sensational raid in Grand juno
tion several weeks ago, convicted and
who have served out part of their
fine in Jail, have been ordered re-
leased by District Judge Shackleford.
A Washington dispatch of the 9Th
inst. says: Senator Guggenheim left
here today for New York and Tuesday
next will sail for Europe to take about
six weeks rest. He will return to
Colorado late in September or early in
October. Senator Hughes and family
left for New York last evening and
will go from there to Colorado imme-
diately.
So large will be the exhibiting de-
partment of the American Street and
lnterurban Railway association, meet
n IN
street is to be rooted with temporary
building in order to get room for them
The building will extend the length
of the Auditorium. Temporary tracks
will be laid to transport cars and ma
chinery to the Auditorium.
The sale of 1884 acres of dry
land in Weld county from the estate
of an Illinois man to w. L. Cornett
of Denver is reported. The considera-
tion, was $4,000, and the land is fif-
teen miles east OF Greeley. 1t is un.
derstood that steps have been taken
preliminary to irrigating this land,
and 1t is expected to be the home of a
large colony of Illinois people in the
next five years.
The north heading of the Roosevelt
deep drainage tunnel in the Cripple
Creek district was advanced 319 feet
during July. When measurements
were taken by T. R. Countryman.
deputy United States mineral survey.
er, July 31st, the heading had been
carried 2.2s0 feet north of the inter.
mediate shaft, total distance from
the breast to the portal on Cripple
Creek of 1926 feet.
Seven persons were seriously hurt
and a large number of, others sus.
tained bruises in the wreck OF the
Missouri Pacific passenger train No. 2,
one mile east of Avondale, Pueblo
county ON the 9Th inst The smoking