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ELBERT TRIBUNE
Albert Neuman, Prep.
ELBERT - . COLORADO
COLORADO ITEMS
April 16th is Arbor Day in Colorado.
St. Paul’s M. E. churoh (South) of
Denver has raised the $50,000 building
,fund required for the erection of a new
institutional church.
The proposition to build a new high
school building at Windsor was voted
down by a majority of sixteen votes.
Only eighty-three ballots were cast.
Division Superintendent A. F. Vick
Roy has told the people of Greeley that
the Union Pacific will spend $1,000,-
000 for improvements in Greeley.
The new Christian Science church at
Florence was dedicated on Baater Sun
day. It is one of the finest church
buildings in the city and is entirely
free from debt.
Every one of the forty-five teachers
of the Greeley public schools has been
re-elected for the ensuing year. The
financial plans are being talked over in
order to build a SIOO,OOO high school
building within the coming year.
The formal transfer of the state re
formatory at Buena Vista from War
den A. C. Dutcher to Felix O’Neil of
Denver, the new appointee, was made
by the commissioners on the 7th inst.
Mr. Dutcher leaving immediately for
his home in Colorado Springs.
While Hoy Dunning, a photographer,
was attempting to take a picture of
the Penitentes in ling’s canon, six
miles west of Trinidad, he was fired
at three times by one of the guards,
but not hit. He hurried away, fell and
broke his camera.
Clarence Cleghorn. who has been in
charge of the convict state road camp
In Las Animas county for the past
eight months, has resigned and will
be ranch foreman for Col. J. A. Owen
by. His successor in charge of the
camp is W. I, Johnson of Canon City.
Mrs. James Grant of Colorado
Springs, although born In the United
States, was unable to vote at the elec
tion Tuesday because her husband, a
Scotchman, has not received hiß final
naturalization papers. The law recog
nizes the nationality of the husband as
that of the wife.
Fumigation for scarlet fever germs
nearly cost the life of N. G. Hoel, a
teacher In the University Park school
in Denver a few days since. He
walked Into a room before the sulphur,
and formaldehyde fumes had been die
aipated and was unconscious for a con
siderable time after his rescue.
Jack Brady of Colorado City, who
lost his right, leg in a train accident
while brakeman for the Colorado Mid
land eleven years ago, has received a
check for $9,400 from the company.
Brady sued for damages, and the state
Supreme Court recently sustained a
former decision giving him $5,000, also
allowing him interest, nearly doubling
the original sum.
A temporary Injunction restraining
W. W. Deggo, head of the Wellington
system, a land and mining promotion
company, with headquarters in Boul
der, from making any further use of a
list of names secured from the Mining
Investor Publishing Company by al
leged fraudulent means, was issued
on the 7th inst. by Judge George W.
Allen in Division Four of the District
Court at Denver.
The Colorado ft Southern railroad
will build an extension from its line
at Sopris to the property of the Woo
ten Land and Fuel Company, accord
ing to a statement given out at Trini
dad by Col. J. A. Owe’nby, president
of the Wooten company, who says
work will be started immediately on
the road. The distance la about twen
ty miles and the line will tap several
coal veins which are not developed.
The State Normal School board met
at Greeley and reorganized on the 9th
Inst., choosing L. W. Markham of La
mar, president; A. J. Stary, secretary;
and John Petrikin, treasurer. The oth
«r members are J. H. Thatcher and
Mrs. Thalia Rhodes, Denver; M. P.
Welch, Delta; George Houson, Gree
ley. Mrs. Grenfell not having accepted
appointment to fill the Turner va
cancy, Charles Ward of Boulder was
appointed.
» Closing a ministerial career of thir
ty-five years, twenty-seven of which
has been continuously pastor of the
First Congregational church of Colo
rado Springs, Dr. James B. Gregg has
tendered his resignation, effective on
June 15th. He will remove, with Mrs.
Gregg, to Boston, where his seven chil
dren live. His successor has not been
appointed. In point of continuous ser
vice Dr. Gregg who is sixty-seven years
old ranks second in the state, Dean
Hart of Denver ranking first.
Advices from Washington received
in Boulder state that the new tariff bill
provides for a 20 per cent, ad valorem
duty on tungsten ores on refined pro
ducts and a 15 per cent, duty on tung
sten metal. At the present time there
is no duty on either tungsten ore or
the metal and the tungsten producers
are forced to compete with the cheap
labor of Portugal, Peru and Australia.
Boulder county produces fully 75 per
cent, of the tungsten mined in the
United States and Is deeply interested
this section of the bill.
Thomas J. Tynan, the newly ap
pointed warden, took charge of the
State penitentiary at Canon City on
the Bth inst., succeeding John Cleg
born. The new board of penitentiary
commissioners has organized with
Charles Munn of Ouray as president,
and Doctor Taylor of Denver, secre
tary.
THE WORLD IN
PARAGRAPHS
BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING
EVENTS IN THIS AND
OTHER COUNTRIES.
IN UTE DISPATCHES
DOINGS AND HAPFENINQB
THAT MARK THE PROG
RESS OF THE AGE.
WEBTERN NEWS.
San Diego, Cal., defeated an anti-sa
loon ordinance by a heavy majority.
During the storm of the 7th Inst,
dozens of barns In western Michigan
were set on Are by lightning.
The committee on common carriers
of the Texas House has reported
agalnßt the passage of a 2-cent fare
law.
The Texas Legislature has passed
the Robertson-FltzHugh bill to regu
late the liquor traffic, the House con
curring In the Senate amendments.
Bishop John P. Carroll of the Catho
lic diocese at Helena, Mont., announces
that the required fund of $500,000 for
the erection of a cathedral at Helena
has been raised.
Governor Shallenberger of Nebraska
has signed the "daylight” saloon bill.
The measure forbids the sale of liquor
except between 7 a. m. and 8 p. m. The
bill goes Into effect July 6th.
The State Senate of Minnesota has
passed the bill recently passed by the
House making It a misdemeanor to
manufacture, sell or give away cigar
ettes or the "makings” of a cigarette.
Ninety-six years old, but still hale
and hearty, Peter Morrison of Mar
quette, Wyo., has taken to himself a
bride In the person of Mrs. Rachel J.
Stewart of Sheridan, aged forty-nine.
The will of the late E. J. (Lucky)
Baldwin, disposing of an estate esti
mated at $5,000,000, has been admitted
to probate in Los Angeles. An agree
ment among the heirs is said to have
averted any danger of a contest.
At the Kansas elections Toesday,
Leavenworth elected Omar Abernathy
mayor and Wichita chose Charles L.
Davidson. Both of these contests were
under the commission form of govern
ment and resulted in Its continuance.
The Wyoming state game depart
ment has decided that game licenses
expire with the year In which they are
issued, and do not run for a year from
the date of issue. The ruling is caus
ing protests from the sportsmen of the
state.
In Big Horn county, Wyo., on the
2d Inst., fifteen masked raiders entered
a sheep camp and assassinated Alle
man and Joseph Erage, prominent
sheepmen, and Joe Lazier a herder.
Twenty-five sheep were killed and 2,50 p
stampeded over the range.
The W. C. T. U. organizations of
Des Moines have lined up with the pro
hibition amendment alliance and are
flooding the state with circulars urg
ing the defeat of those senators who
voted against prohibition at the late
election in lowa.
After June Ist no woman can enter
any Baloon in the state of Washington.
The new criminal code makes it a mis
demeanor for the owner or employe of
“any drinking saloon or music hall
where liquors are sold,” to “knowing
ly permit to enter such saloon or sell
or give any intoxicating liquor to any
female person.
The conductors of all railroads en
tering Denver will be the guests of the
first complimentary excursion to be
given by the Moffat road this year,
May 29th being the date set for the
trip. A banquet will be given the con
ductors by Traffic Manager Wm. F.
Jones on the Continental Divide, and
specially engraved Invitations will be
Bent out.
By a tornado at Marion, 111., on the
6th inst., the Edwards mill was un
roofed, the ice plant damaged and the
A. F. White business college, Marlon
Stute and Trust Bank, Holliday gro
cery building and a number of offices
were partly blown down. The African
Methodist church and hall were
wrecked and the Methodißt church.
South, Copeland greenhouse, A. H. Jo
seph Clothing Company and W. H.
Bundy’s drug store were badly dam
aged. At Pittsburg the Methodist
church was blown down.
GENERAL NEWS.
A motor bus service will shortly be
established In the Yukon pass, Alaska.
William Addison MeGee, Republi
can, was Inaugurated first mayor
of Greater Pittsburg on the sth Inst.,
succeeding George W. Guthrie, Demo
crat.
The year 1908 was the most progres
sive period in the history of the Argen
tine Republic. During the year
1,000 miles of railroad were constructed
and concessions were granted for the
building of over 3,000 miles more.
A violent earthquake was experi
enced at Messina, Sicily, on the night
of the 7th inst. It w’aß accompanied
by subterranean rumblings.
Steps have been taken to carry out
the plan suggested by a number of
well-known women of New York,
among whom is the daughter of J.
Pierpont Morgan, for the establish
ment of an employes' luncheon in the
Brooklyn navy yard.
Edward Pa.vson Weston, the pedes
trian, was knocked down twice by bi
cycles while entering the city of Man
chester. Ohio, where he was not given
proper police protection.
contingent or Indiana and cow
boys from the Dakota reservation has
arrived in London to take part In the
exhibitions next summer.
A 300-ton schooner for the North
pole expedition under Walter Well
man was launched at Chrlstiansand.
Norway, on the 6th inst. It will be
taken to Spitsberger in May.
Harry Jansen of the Pastime Ath
letic Club, won a Marathon race at
Celtic park. Long Island City on the
11th inst., in which seventeen ama
teurs competed. His time was 2:47:17.
It is reported at Gloucester, Mass.,
that President Taft and family will oc
cupy a house at Manchester a part of
the time during the coming summer,
their arrival depending on the length
of the present session.
A winter wheat average of 82,2 per
cent of normal against 91.3 a year ago
and rye average of 87,2 against 89.1
c* ’ ear ago were announced In the re
port of the Department of Agricul
ture issued on the 7th Inst.
On the 6th Inst., Judge O. E. Booe,
defaulting clerk In the Kentucky state
auditor’s office, was sentenced to eight
years more In prison today In the cir
cuit Court. He had previously been
sentenced to five years' Imprisonment.
King Leopold of Belgium has decided
to grant a prize of $5,000 to the au
thor of the best work answering the
following question: “Describe the pro
gress of aerial navigation and the best
means to encourage It.”
Thomas A. Edison has been pre
sented the Adelskoid gold medal for
his Inventions in connection with the
phonograph and the incandescent light
by the Royal Academy at Stockholm.
Tho medal Is conferred only once in
ten years.
Charles E. Cook, president of the
Bank of Hawaii and head of numerous
business enterprises in Honolulu, dis
tributed $250,000 among various
churches and charities on Good Fri
day in commemoration of the religious
significance of the day.
Acting under orders from President
Roosevelt, Victor D. Brenner of New
York City, a sculptor-medallist, who
designed the Roosevelt-Panama canal
medals, has designed a head of Pres
•dent Lincoln, which will appear on
the new pennies that are to be Issued
soon.
At the celebration of the eightieth
anniversary of the birth In New York
of General William Booth, it was an
nounced by Commissioner Thomas Es
till of Chicago, that the founder of the
Salvation Army is planning another
trip throughout the United States and
Canada next fall.
As a result of frequent landing of
balloons in France, the government has
decided to collect in future a duty of
$l2O on every ballodn of the average
size coming down In French territory.
The aeronauts will he held by the au
thorities pending a satisfactory explan
ation of their presence.
Governor Gllchist’s message to the
Florida Legislature contained a recom
mendation to make the anniversary
of Lincoln’s birthday a holiday, and a
motion to table that part of the mes
sage was lost. Excitement rose to a
high pitch when Senator Broome, con
federate veteran, led the argument in
favor of observing the birthday.
A wireless telephone system, in
vented by Naval Lieutenants Colan
and Jeance, has just been tested be
tween Paris and Melun in France. The
minister of marine at Paris exchanged
conversation with operators at Melun,
thirty miles away, and declared the re
sult was a vast improvement on that
attained by the ordinary telephone.
The sound was clearer and purer.
British Inheritance taxes, drawn
from a population of 44,000,000, yields
$90,000,000 to $95,000,000 annually out
of a total internal revenue of $470,-
000,000 to $480,000,000. About 4,000,000
estates pay the bulk of these taxes.
The gross capital value of the estates
contributing to the inheritance tax in
1908 was over $1,500,000, and the net
valu-3 was a little below $1,400,000,000.
The gross value of the personalty was
$1,113,000,000 and the realty $413,000,-
000.
NEWS FROM WASHINGTON.
According 'to the figures preseated
before the ways and means committee
of the House at Washington relative to
the new tariff bill, a motor vehicle of
any kind may be made In Europe for
60 per cent, of the cost thereof in Am
erica.
The two most prominent baseball
“fans” In the United States, President
William H. Taft and Vice President
James S. Sherman, have been pre
sented by Thomas C. Noyes, president
of the Washington Baseball team, with
annual passes, good for themselves and
party on any American league ball
grounds.
The civil service commission an
nounces that difficulty has been ex
perienced In obtaining competent per
sons to fill the position of land law
clerks and In order to fill forty vacan
cies now existing, examinations will be
held generally throughout the West,
May sth and 6th. The places pay from
S9OO to $1,600 per annum. The exam
ination will be open to male and female
applicants over twenty years of age.
The famous South Carolina dispen
sary case. Involving the disposition of
about $900,000 of dispensary funds
held by the state dispensary commis
sion, has been decided by the Supreme
Court of the United States in favor
of the commission.
Representative Taylor of Colorado
has Introduced a bill appropriating
$25,000 to pay the traveling expenses
of President Taft for the fiscal year
ending January 30, 1910. If the bill
passes it will enable the President to
visit Denver and other western cities
during the coming summer.
CONSPIRACY TO
WRECK RAILWAY
CHARGES MADE BY OFFICERS OF
DENVER, LARAMIE ft NORTH
WESTERN COMPANY.
REPUTATION ATTACKED
AFFIDAVITS OF STOCKHOLDERS
INTRODUCED TO SHOW
UNDERHAND WORK.
Denver. —The Republican Tuesday
morning says: Presenting its most
damaging evidence in the form of a
solid phalanx of affidavits intended to
beat down and overpower any possibil
ity of defense, the Denver, Laramie &
Northwestern Railway Company and
its subsidiary company, the North
western Land & Iron Company, yes
terday began Its attack upon R. F.
Young, A. M. Stevenson and others
charged with conspiring to wreck the
companies and force them into the
hands of receivers.
These affidavits, fifty-seven in num
ber, presented to Judge Harry Riddle
of Division three of the District Court
sworn evidence on the part of em
ployes, agents and stockholders of the
plaintiff companies are Intended to
show that u conspiracy did exist and
that the defendants named are the per
sons most actively engaged in the
matters set forth in the depositions.
Statements alleged to have been
been made by certain of the defend
ants to the affldants, and statements
which attacked the reputations, char
acter and integrity of some of the fore
most business men of the West who
are officials of and are connected with
the complaining companies were set
forth in the affidavits.
Scores of affidavits of stockholders
having no knowledge of the actual
sttus of the alleged conspiracy, their
only knowledge being that gained by
rumors abroad for several weeks past,
were presented by the complainants’
attorneys. These affidavits have no
direct bearing upon the conspiracy
charge, but simply go to show that
hundreds of stockholders in the com
pany, alarmed by the representations
made to them, it is alleged by the de
fendants, investigated and made affi
davit that they are so well satisfied
with the conduct of the companies that
they are willing and anxious to go on
record ns being satisfied in all re
spects.
Copies of papers from various points
in Kansus, Oklahoma, Missouri and
Colorado were introduced by the plain
tiffs. The advertisement reads as fol
lows:
"Will sell or trade at a liberal dis
count SIO,OOO of stock in the North
western Laud ft Iron Company, also
several thousand shares of stock in
the Denver, Laramie & Northwestern
Railway Company, for lands in any
etate or old Mexico, or city property,
or automobiles, or live stock of any
kind. John Williams, P. O. box 813,
Denver, Colo.”
For the purpose of connecting this
evidence and making it admissible, the
plaintiffs called Manager Paul E. Rich
ter of the National Advertising Agen
cy, who told of John Williams entering
his olfice March 26th and asking to
have the advertisement Inserted In
m*ny papers throughout the country.
Mr. Richter gave a description of
“John Williams,” which, Attorney Hor
ace Phelps for the plaintiffs, declared
was exactly that of Mr. Tlllotson and
asked the defense why Mr. Tlllotson,
who was subpoenaed to be present at
the trial, was not in the court room so
he could be identified. Attorney Har
vey Riddell for the defense in answer
told Attorney Phelps that Tlllotson had
left town anc that he does not know
when he will return.
Confess Thefts of Gold.
Colorado Springs.—Confessions of
the theft of gold concentrates amount
ing to more than $5,000 from the re
duction mill of the Golden Cycle Min
ing Company at West Colorado Springs
has been wrung from a number of pres
ent and former employes of the com
pany by General Manager Hugh Me-
Garry. After a personally conducted
Investigation covering several weeks
McGarry secured the confessions and
the return of $5,200 In cash together
with jewels and securities In which
part of the proceeds of the thefts had
been Invested.
Denies Waters-Pierce Appeal.
Washington.—The Supreme Court of
the United States Monday denied the
motion for a rehearing in the case
of the Waters-Pierce Oil Companies
by which the Supreme Court affirmed a
decision by the Texas courts imposing
a fine of $1,600,000 on the capital and
ousting it from the state.
Immense Lawyers’ Fee.
Los Angeles, Cal. —Miss Lilly Ben
nett Baldwin, "Lucky” Baldwin’s wid
ow, receives $1,400,000 for herself; her
attorneys get $600,000, the largest law
fee ever paid for similar services. Mrs*
Selby, the daughter In Oakland, gets
$135,000 and land worth about $50,000.
Baldwin’s other daughters receive the
residue of the Baldwin estate, esti
mated at $25,000,000. This is a basis
of the settlement by which Baldwin’s
estate was kept out of litigation. Four
hundred thousand dollars of the fee
will go to ex-Gov. Henry T. Gage.
MINING SCHOOL
ANNOUNCEMENT
JOHN HAYS HAMMOND WILL BE
COMMENCEMENT DAY
ORATOR.
BOARD ORGANIZATION
GRADUATING CLASS TOUR IS TO
INCLUDE COLORADO, UTAH
AND MONTANA.
Golden. —John Hays Hammond, the
eminent mining engineer, who holds
the title of the highest salaried man
In the world, will be the orator at
the School of Mines commencement
His subject will be announced later.
Announcement that he had accept
ed the invitation to speak was made
at the annual meeting of the board
of trustees of the school Thursday.
The election of board officers for the
ensuing two years returned Dr. John
P. Kelly of Golden as president; Cap
tain James T. Smith of Denver, sec
retary; Harry M. Rubey, cashier of
the Woods-Rubey Bank of Golden, to
the office of treasurer. The bond of
the latter was fixed at $25,000.
The graduating class of thirty-eight
starts on its final examination tour
In a special train tendered by the
Denver & Rio Grande railroad and th«
Pullman Palace Car Company. It
leaves Denver April 26th, halts at
Colorado City, the Portland cement
works and Canon City, reaching
Leadville April 28th, where the Yak
tunnel. Little Jonny, Silver Cord and
other mines will be inspected. The
Shoshone reservoir of the Central
Colorado Power Company will be
reached May Ist and the following
Sunday will be passed at Glenwood
Springs. Salt Lake City will be
reached May 3rd, the party visiting
Garfield, Bingham and other Utah
points. They are due in Ogden May
10th and In Butte, Montana, on the
day following. The party will reach
Silver Bow and Anaconda May 18th,
leaving May 22nd for Ogden and Salt
Lake. They are due In Grand June
same date. Professors Traphagen.
tlon May 24th and In Denver the
Hoskin, Smith, Haldane and Croner
will accompany the students, while
President Alderson will arrange, If
possible, to be present w’hen the Mon
tana mines and smelters are Inspected.
Commencement Day, May 28th, the
following special prizes will be award
ed by faculty vote:
The E. G. Stoiber prize of S2OO for
the best senior thesis or theses in
volving the concentration of ores and
the separation of metals.
The D. W. Brunton prize of a Brun
ton mining transit for a senior the
sis on any subject in which survey
ing forms a necessary part.
Mining Science, through Myron G.
Brownell, manager, gives a prize of
SSO for a thesis suitable for publica
tion.
Mines and Minerals, through R. L.
Herrick, a prize of SSO for a merit
orious thesis suitable for publication
in a technical journal.
The Izard-Warren Company, a set of
drawing instruments valued at SSO,
for a thesis exhibiting excellence in
drafting.
The Eugene Dietzgen Company, a
pocket leveling instrument valued at
SSO for a thesis excelling in mine sur
veying.
Mining World, through Lyman A.
Sisley, two SSO prizes, for theses suit
able for publication in the Chicago
Mining World.
Mining and Scientific Press, San
Francisco, through T. A. Rickard, edi
itor, a prize of SSO for the best thesis
submitted by members of the senior
clasß.
Sheep Feeding Profitable.
Denver. —A Greeley dispatch says: It
is estimated that only 300 carloads of
sheep or about 76,000 head are left in
northern Colorado to be shipped to
market and these will go by May Ist.
Eaton and Greeley shippers topped the
market In Chicago last week, receiv
ing $8.40 a hundredweight for lambs
averaging eighty-two pounds in weight.
This season has been unusually favor
able to the sheep feeding Industry and
those who fed this year are planning
to double their number for the coming
season.
Easter Lilies.
Denver.—Following her custom of
twenty-five years, Mrs. W. N. Byers,
widow of the founder of the News, fur
nished the flowers and palms which on
Easter turned Grace Methodist church
into a bower of beauty. Mrs. Byers
first decorated the church with Easter
lilies a quarter of a century ago, and
she has never missed purchasing and
arranging wUh hqr own hands the flow
ers and foliage indicative of Easter
each year.
Mrs. Isabelle Churchill, formerly
president of the State Federation of
Women’s Clubß. now chairman of the
educational committee of the federa
tion and chairman of the Colorado ed
ucational band of the N. E. A., will
become a farmer, having purchased
land one mile east of Greeley to be
tilled under her personal supervision.
“L. T. Davis will build the Davis res
ervoir east of Greeley. It will have a
capacity of 4,500,000 cubic feet, draw
water from the South Platte through
the Fulton ditch and cost several thous
and dollars.
OOBDON JOXK9. President
JOHN H. JQSEa, Vloe President
W. D. REILLY. Vice President
J. E. MAYER, Cashier
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Elbert County
Bank
ELBERT, COLO.
INCORPORATED STATE
BANK
CASH CAPITAL, $10,000.00
Transacts a General Banking
Business.
Insurance Written in Old Line
Companies.
W. S. EPLER
Funeral Director
A complete line of under
dertaking goods always
on hand.
Calls Answered at Any Time of
Day or Night
H. FRITSCH
House, Sign and Carriage
Painting
Estimates furnished promptly
on demand. All work guaran
teed and prices satisfactory.
ELBERT - - - COLO.
C. B. SULLIVAN
CIU6RV. T66P
and Salt Siabk,
Special Attention Given
to the Transient Trade.
HORSES BOUGHT and SOLD.
Lots of Stall Room, Largo Corral, and
Prices Reasonable.
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Ufie ELBERT
TELEPHONE EXCHANGE
TINA GRIFFIN, Manager
First-Class Service
Prompt Repairs
Reasonable Rates
, Telephones and all kinds of
talephone supplies and con
struction material on hand.
All lines connected with this exchange
mast be of rtandnrd material. None bat
Western Electric phone* will be connected
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Barber Shop
Shave 15c
Hair Cut 25c
Whisker Trim 15c
Singe 15c
Shampoo 25c
Geo. McKimmie
ELBERT, COLO.
Taken-*.
DR. R. M. DENNEY,
Physician and
Surgeon
Office at Drug Store, ELBERT, COLO
DR. W. FOWLER,
Dentist
Gs* Administered for Extracting.
Rooms, 18 Sooth Tejon Street, between Pike's
Peak Avenue and Huerfano.
T. O. BOX 734. COLORADO SPRINGS. COLO.