The Elbert County tribune., 1909-04-01
STATE NEWS ITEMS

The congregation OF st. Paul's NJ. e.
church at Colorado Springs has pur-
chased a 5000 site. on which to erect
a $4,000 church.
The Pueblo Manufacturers Associa-
tion has made arrangements to pre-
pare an exhibit Of Pueblo made goods
in a centrally located storeroom, to be
kept up several weeks In a campaign to
have the people support home indus
tries
Colorado Springs delegates to the
annual convention Of the American
Federation of Musicians In Mime
apol1s May 10th to 10th, will en1eavor
to secure the projected national home
OF that organization for Colorado
Springs.
The suit for water rights on Pixies
Peak between the city OF Victor and
Colorado Springs will be tried at Pu-
eblo June LIST. This case has been in
the courts over five years and has at
tracted much attention in the district
securing its water supply from the
Fixes Peak shed.
At a recent meeting In Denver the
Rocky Mountain Baseball league was
organized for the coming season. The
league comprises the following clubs:
Denver Gas & Electric Co., Colorado &
Southern. Continental Oil Co., Colo
RADIO Telephone Co., First National
Bank. Sechrist Manufacturing Co.
Articles of Incorporation have been
hx,f bn Uya frx. lie
Company of Grand Junction capital
lied at $4,000. 1t is composed of
prominent Grand Junction property
owners who will Immediately install
water system which may subsequently
be taken over by the municipality.
The poultry raisers of the Grand
valley met at. Grand Junction few
days since and found local organiza-
tion with G. A. Smith president. w.
X. Dow vice president, and c. H. Bur
CESS secretary. 1t is planned to con-
struct cold storage plant at Grand
Junction for poultry and eggs to avoid
shipping them across the range next
summer.
The Pueblo state fair directors have
decided to change the dates of the fair
from September 1918 to September
POPS, by request of fruit growers of
the Western slope, who believe they
can make better showing at the later
dates. They ask that one day of the
fair be known as Peach day, and one
grower has agreed to donate three car
loads Of peaches to be given away to
visitors that day.
1t is stated that Frank Shercliffe,
alias Morris, now In the .penitentiary
at Canon City, has employed lawyer
to appeal his case to the Supreme
Court. Shercliffe was convicted ON a
charge OF numbering Leadyille sa-
1oonkeeper, fifteen years ago. On his
way to state prison he escaped from
Sheriff Bonner of Leadville, and was
few weeks ago brought back from
Minnesota, where he was acquitted OF
a charge Of train robbing.
The stockholders of the Grand Val
ley Water Users Association have
voted to ratify the contract recently
signed by former Secretary Garfield
for the construction of the High Line
canal. A call will be issued at once
scribed by members of the association
and 1t is expected that work on the
extensive project which is to bring un-
der irrigation thousands OF acres OF
rich fruit land will begin at once.
Warden Cleghorn of the penitentiary
gave complimentary dinner few
days since to Chaplain Blake and twen-
ty- txur foo rt xryHn
ducting the prison school successfully
for the last two years. All the teach
ers are convicts. some of them being
college graduates, and all the common
branches are taught The enrolment
of the school number 125, among them
being those who have attended col
lege, while there are others who can
not read nor write.
Farmers reservoir No. 1, the first
of several to be built by Theodore
Jones in southeastern Weld county.
east of Platteville, will provide irriga-
tion for several thousand acres now
cultivated. The capacity of the Farm
ers' reservoir No. l will be 714,435, ,421
cubic feet of water and the cost will be
$41,577. Ranch Draw reservoir is also
one of the irrigation enterprises to be
built. 1t will he located about twenty
miles northeast of Fort Lupton. will
have capacity of 900.O00,000 cubic
feet of water. and cost $4,000.
When any person achieves notoriety,
good or bad. his or her name is i'm
mediately associated with Denver. A
Denver paper prints the following
Sharon. Pa, special: James H. Boyle,
kidnapper OF Willie Whitla. was mar
ried about a year ago to Hiss Helen
Faulkner of Denver. The pair came
to Sharon a year ago and were roy
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