Idaho Springs siftings., 1903-07-18
From Here and There

! Mr.. and Mrs. B. J. Neff are entertaining Capt.
G. A. Thexton of Buchanan, w Va.
! W. A. Gable has the Gunnison gold fever, but
the attack is rather mild as yet
Reports come from England that Billy Martin IS
having good time and enjoys improved health.
A kinding factory has been started opposite the
Theobald residence Electricity drives the saw.
The accumulation of fuel and other supplies at
the Monarch tunnel indicates early resumption.
| Noble Short and some friends from Owensville,
Indiana, will picnic on the mountain tomorrow.
Mrs. Coffman is preparing beautiful operetta,
to be given in the opera house Tuesday night, 18th
Police Magistrate Grswold is a very busy man
these days and he is becoming terror to fraetur-
! ers of the peace.
R. B Thomas and wife of Des Moines Ia, are
stopping at S. NJ. Smiths. Mr.. Thomas is buyer
for mercantile establishment.
! Mack Arnold and wife came from the ranch
! Thursday to visit relatives and friends. Mrs. A.
and the little boy will ren'ain here several days.
H A. Brooks of Rockford. Ills, is in this city
for the first time and is looking after his interests.
Next year he will bring his family for the
]. w. Orvis was here Thursday and Friday and
is steadily improving. He went to Georgetown
yesterday to see about the reported strike in his
! IeaVenWOrth mountain lease.
! J. ]. Sherwin E NJ Moscript, w. G. Arkiils, w.
A. Roberts, H. S. Sands and John Stroehle visited
the Georgetown Knights Templar lodge Thursday
night and were royalty entertained.
Bob Price is rapidly recovering from the gun
shot wounds and expects to be able TO pail the
cows" by next Monday. He has fine shooting
iron for sale, cash or deferred payments.
Yesterday the widow of William Radcliffe
! paid the s. 900 insurance the life of her hus-
band by the Maccabees. This a prompt set
/ tlement as the death occurred but few weeks ago
The Centurion tunnel, in $50 feet, is making six
feet per day, with two shifts In feet will cut
the Summit, ON the famous Donaldson vein. The
tunnel has cut several lodes and the prospects
very good for steady production.
Geo E. McClelland returned Monday from
several weeks trip to Boston and other eastern
cities in the interest of his mining properties here
| ]. w. Hulse, president of the Colonial Lumber
Co. of Cleveland, Ohio returned with him.
NJ. ]. Riley of this city has commenced suit in
Denver court against Herbert George, publisher of
Georges Weekly claiming that he has sustained
| s. 1000 damages from the publication of article
in recent issue of that paper in which the plant
| ifs character was assailed.
DR.. R. J Collins, the aged pioneer practitioner
of Georgetown, died suddenly yesterday morning,
shortly after attending the Knights Templar ban
quet. DIR. Collins ranked among the foremost
physicians in the state and possessed character
istics that endeared him to all.
Messers Stroehle and Stingley, two well known
and popular young men, have secured a lease ON
the Trocadero, and will take possession tonight.
There will be no material changes in the manner
of conducting this popular resort, but the new
managers will endeavor to sustain the envable re-
putation enjoyed.
A. J. Ventress and Will Gleason departed last
evening for Denver, where today they will ioin
the Denver Elks in their journey to the national
convention at Baltimore, Md, on the 72d z3d and
24th of this month going the official train over
the Rock Island The itinerary will include east
ern points of interest. They will be gone two
weeks.
W. H. Williams up from Denver Thursday
to bid sad adeu to Johnny Trathen and other
friends before departing for a two-years' trip to
hold Hengland. Billy, who made fortune in the
Lamartine and then lost large sum by the failure
of the German National during the panic has
carefully husbanded what was left He owns two
Denver terraces and receives $500 month rent
| Win J. Morgan headed a party of Wisconsin
visitors here this week all interested in the Little
Richard group, on Lexington mountain. They
have made thorough examination of the prop
erty and are well satisfied. On Monday meeting
was held at the mine and officers and directors
chosen, as follows; Win J. Morgan president,
Robert Kickbush ce-presdent, Geo. A. West
treasurer, O.. A. Finck secretary. These with Jno.
O'Donald constitute the directorate Two Leyner
drills are at work in the main tunnel, and a cross
cut from this is also being driven. The shaft
workings not operated at present