The Elbert County tribune., 1909-07-01
STATE News items

More ore is being shipped from Ou-
ray at the present time than for sew
eral years before.
Mr. Allen OF Colorado City il ar
ranging to establish an auto service
between Steamboat Springs and Craig.
fifty miles. Two large touring cars
VIII be kept In service.
The Stratton estate contemplates
improvements OF about 100000 on the
Brown Palace hotel in Denver, which
will begin next fall. after the summer
season.
Milo McGowan, 4 young real estate
dealer at Limon, was struck by light
ming June 25th and instantly killed.
while working at his homestead twelve
miles from town.
K. G. johnson, representing the Kan
sAs-C Colorado Construction Company, Is
settling the accounts of creditors at
Pueblo after which 1t is said that
work on the road will be rushed.
A promising gold discovery has
been made in Routt county on Rock
creek near Whitley in the Rabbit Ear
range which is said to be an extern
sion Of veins running through the Gore
range.
1t is now DR.. Shafroth. The Uni
versity of Michigan on June 24th con-
ferred the honorary degree OF L. l.. D.
upon Gov. John. F. Shafroth OF Colo
RADIO, a graduate of the law school in
1876.
Upon the requisltion. OF Gov. B. B.
Brooks of Wyoming. Lieut. Gov. Fitz-
garrald issued extradition papers for
Oscar Berg. wanted for horse stealing.
Berg was found working in the mines
It Lake City.
C. b. Nix sold his farm of 100 acres
near Eaton few days since to Chris
Nelson for 321 900. Nix bought It last
TALL for $16s500. He retains two-thirds
Of this years crop and estimates his
profit at $500.
Work has begun on the new bath
pool Of the Steamboat Springs Town
site Company. 1t will be fed by nat
ural hot springs, is to be 100 by $50
feet and Will be similar to the large
pool at Glenwood Springs.
A stock company has been organ
lied at Akron with capital of $500
to buy forty-acre tract near town for
. baseball park. racing course and fair
grounds. also for old settlers re-
unions.
The new $125.000 building Of the
Denver Chamber Of Commerce will be
erected on Champa street between
Seventeenth and Eighteenth streets,
according to the decision Of the board
Of directors.
While @. W. Gilbert. proprietor Of
the Gilbert drug store at Loveland,
and his assistant. Mr.. Brown. were
charging Z soda fountain tank, 1t ex-
ploded, and the upper portion was
thrown across the room, knocking
Brown down and breaking Mr.. GIL
bert's left forearm near the elbow.
The following Colorado patents have
tcen granted: J. Eckert. Denver, hot
air forming and feeding device, for
heating apparatus: v. v. Fits. Denver.
ore feeder; A. Huyser. Colorado
Springs. campers bake pan or oven;
D. r. Long. Weldona. hay stacker; E.
E. Talliaferro, Colorado Springs. type
bar.
chapter of the Daughters OF the
Confederacy will be organized in Den
yer within the next few weeks. At a
meeting of fifteen women OF Denver.
All former residents Of southern states.
held at the Albany hotel. petition for
charter was signed. The meeting
was called by Mrs. A. J. Emerson Of
Berkeley. formerly Of Virginia.
George Easton, wealthy lumber
st Fraser In Grand county, confessed
judgment In the Federal Court In Den
yer, and gave the court his check for
$673.50 and costs. The amount paid Is
at the. rate OF IS per 1000 feet for the
timber. which he was charged with cut
ting from government land.
Prof. Abram Gideon of the State
Normal School, has been appointed on
the advisory council OF the simplified
spelling board OF the United States.
Two other Colorado men are on the
board-President Anderson Of the
School Of Mines, and Doctor Pershing
of Denver. Their are twenty lecturers
on the board. Of which Doctor Gideon
Is one.
About 10 o'clock on the night Of
June 25th, two masked men entered
the store of James A. Fenlon at I'm
compnhgre and. after severely beating
Fenlon and leaving him tied and help
less. looted the store. taking s25 in
cash. knives and tobac 20. Eenlon put
up a lively fight but was knocked
down with a revolver and over
powered.
Ambrose s. Everett. before his re-
tirement from practice a prominent
nhxsician of Denver. died suddenly OF