Idaho Springs siftings., 1903-12-19
COLORADO BRIEFS.

The Senate confirmed the nomina-
ton OF John P Dickinson TO be receis-
er OF public moneys at Hugo.
The secretary OF the treasury In his
annual report recommends an appro-
priation of s33. $50 for the public build
Ing at Colorado Springs.
The new Palmer hall at Colorado
College in Colorado Springs is now
In actual use but the formal opening
Will not take place until January
The State University football team
beat the State School of Mines team IN
post-sesson game at Denver Decem-
Der 9Th, by a score of % TO D.
The pulp silo at the Loyeland sugar
factory is already filled TO overlooking
The demand for the product OF the fac
tory is not. so far. 50 great as IN Tor
mer years.
L, is stated that the Colorado rail-
roads have adopted the western pass
agreement and Will after January LIST,
cut off all passes 20 shippers of freight
| and to politicians.
Two immense sheet iron tanks are
being erected at the Fort Collins sugar
factory for the storage OF molasses.
| which will be converted into sugar py
the Steffens process.
| Colorado took seven prizes for car
| load lots of cattle at the International
Live Stock Exhibition in Chicago on
/ the 9Th inst. the prizes going TO Den
yer. Montrose and Trinidad
The first collection of the Denver
| Saturday and Sunday Hospital Asso-
citation. organized 10 take up coliec-
tion in all parts OF the city two days
J In, atA ftf ia fffV hos
tails, netted the sum Of s52i1o.
| II is said 10 be practically decided by
| the directors that no state fair Will be
| held In Pueblo in 1904 on account of
the Worlds Fair at St. Louis, which
will largely take up the attention OF
those interested In the state fair.
The Denver Union Water Company
has purchased the Du Bois ranch of
| GOO acres in the Platte valley, twenty
two miles above Denver. for the sake of
I its valuable water rights, which are
said to amount TO l0.o00.V00 gallons
day.
William W. Pickett has been ap-
pointed postmaster at Deep Creek
! Routt county. vice q. W. May, resigned.
Percy l.. woodgate has been appointed
regular and Melville Il. Woodgate sub
stitute rural free delivery carriers at
Delta
Trellis Ward, or Nellie Cur-mins. the
! young woman who has gained consid-
cradle notoriety by her unfortunate
habit of falling off street cars. was
declared sane by the County Court at
Pueblo. and at once left for Texas
where she has relations.
| Governor Ferguson OF Oklahoma has
l frTr f.nNArnnr
Peabody of Colorado for the return to
Prowers county OF Jesse Tanner, ac'
cused OF larceny of live stock commit
ted in June. 1903. Tanner was under
arrest at kenton. Oklahoma.
T.. X. Whitehead. secretary OF tn
Humane Society. has invited the Den
Yer wholesale Produce Association 4
cooperate with the society TO preven
the shipment OF poultry by express il
crates that do not permit the fowls u
stand erect while in transit.
An organization was formed a
Glenwood Springs on the 9Th inst. Il
work for the development OF the natu
raj resources of the valleys of th'
Grand, White. Eagle and Roaring Fori
rivers. w S. Parkinson of Glenwoot
Springs was elected president.
4 Pdll ptbpIltios Va NfF A~+N-
ter Iron Works In Denver, while on
hunting excursion near Brush. was ac
cfdeutaiIy shot and killed on the l2fl
inst. by the discharge of gun In III
hands of a companion while both wer
engaged in examining their weapons.
Miss Elizabeth Ryan of Michigan
a graduate OF Pratt Institute, New
York. has been selected TO fill the po
sition of first assistant in the Depart
ment of Domestic Science in the Stat
Agricultural College at Fort Collins
Miss Ryan comes highly recommended
The members of the Denver polio
force have formed civil service clui
An executive committee was appointed
with instructions to wait upon IN
charter convention when 1t convene
and advance the civil service idea an
insist upon it being embodied in III
| charter.
Five dollars a ton for beets delivere
at the Greeley sugar factory and $i.1
a ton for all beets delivered on tn
cars. are the prices that are announce
by the company for the next year
crop. Unrestricted delivery OF beet
that are up to the standard may be
: gin October 30th.
The jury in the case of A. J. Eli
| son at Cripple Creek. who brought sui
against STATIONS Cripple Creek Min
ing and Development Company for in
iuries received on one of the propertie
on August 2, 1902. found verdict 70
. the plaintiff. damages being awarde
. to the amount of $1,000.
, 8. S. Stewart of Colorado Spring
: wants to exhibit the remains OF Gen
! eral Walker, who figured In the Me
araruan war in 1857, and he iron cot
: fin the general took with him to Mic
arapua. at the Louisiana Pusehase ES
, position. next year. He has write