Idaho Springs siftings., 1903-10-03
COLORADO BRIEFS.

tO1 Will DC 9t0lC1sSN N~S
Bishop Matz-
In an attemp. to loop the loop on :
bicycle al Pueblo. few Gays
Frank Byers. young Bessener iAN'
fell and received some bsd pruiso
The Santa Fe has taken on It's Coo
RADIO and Missouri riyr myers -
closing the most successful season
experienced. These trains are run "
accommodate summer travel
Acting Secretary Ryan OF the inter-
OF department has approved the seiec-
,ion of the Union Pacific Land ooln
pany's list No. 81 10 li4,4ls aefes "a
land in the Denver land district
Allen b. Seaman. prominent at'of-
ney OF Denver. died of heart disease
on the night OF Sept. 24th. he wen1
TO bed apparently in his usual heaisn
and was found dead in the morning.
Miss Alfreda Stebbins. late OF Lin
coin. Nebraska. has been elected II
hrarian at Fort Collins. She Is an eA-
perieneed librarian. having taken d
regular course in library work IL fhii-
adelphia.
G. w. Wells, engineer In charge Oh
fhe state wagon road TO be buiit rom
Durango to orc Fiuo. has estabhshed
his camp midway between and mas oseh
exploring the section to determine
upon a route.
The postoffices az Hotchkiss and Pa
onia. Colorado. are among those or
dered TO be advanced 20 the presiaeh-
tial grade October 1st. the postnlas
I ters' salaries being fixed at slslOo ana
$1,000 respectively.
BY the eaying in Of the earthen rooi
OF a house eight miles east OF ASuitar'
short time since. Elferino Agaiiar'
aged IS. was killed and six grown peo-
pie more or less injured The DO!
died from sufioeation-
The march Of Improvement at Den
yer has driven the Volunteers OF Amer
sca out OF their headquarters on Lam
mer street. which the owners wish 10
remodel, and the Volunteers are no"
searching for 4 new location.
In Justice Rnby's court at Colorado
/ Springs. William Roberts was nned %
and costs on each Of three charges OF
Z selling tobacco TO children under SIX
I teen years of age. Roberts pleaded
/ guilty % all charges and paid total OF
I s3375.
The Pueblo City Council has voted to
I spend each year an additional si,oVO
{ for the maintenance OF the new Carne-
I gle library. Carnegie having agreed TO
+ increase his donation OF $50, O,0ov TO ssu.-
| GOO il the council would make this IN
crease
The International onyx and Marble
/ Company. composed OF Denver and
I English capitalists. has purchased the
Z Big Bug onyx fields for sl50,o0U. The
[ beds are extensive and furnish the
translucent sea-green onyx They are
located near Mayer. Arizona.
In the District Court al Durango. on
I September 2ist. Judge Russell SEN
fenced n negro named Peryis to not
less thar four nor more than six years
at hard labor. and Ralph Smalley TO
fourteen TO sixteen months for shoot
ing Ed Lazarus In the ankle.
Rocky Ford is soon to have a new
bank known as the First National
Bank OF Rocky Ford. The charter has
been applied for to the Washington
authorities and the bank will probably
be In operation inside OF thirty days.
/ II will have capital of $4,000.
/ General Frank ID. Baldwin. COM
mander OF the Department of the Col
orado. has just returned from attend
/ ing a reunion OF the Nineteenth Mich
4 igan infantry at Otsego. Michigan.
I General Baldwin has been for twenty
years president OF the resimental asso-
citation.
/ The registers and receivers at Lead
I Vile and Gunnison have been ordered
+ to withdraw from all forms OF entry
the following described lands. on ac-
I count of irrigation projects: Lead
yille-Sections q, IS. 80 and "a. town
ship Il. range So: Gunnison-Sections
7. s. II. IS. - and 20. township IA
south. range So: and sections q. IS
/ 80 and "a, township Il south. range So
AT Leadville few days ago. In a
quarrel over a matter involving $775
Joseph Coplin. white. emptied his re.
yolyer at John Ragland. coiored. but
1 failed to hit him or any OF the people
on the street. who ran in all directions
TO escape the bullets. Ragland had
Coplin arrested on the charge of as
sauIt with a deadly weapon. and Cop
! lin swore out warrant charging the
negro with robbery
Patents have recently been granted
/ TO residents of Colorado as follows.
| Eugene II. Grubb. Carbondale. as.
| signor to G. w Bowen. Pueblo, com
bined land roller and corrugator; John
| G. Leyner, Denver. rock drilling sys.
TEN: Harvey c. Lowrie. Denver, means
for securing circular doors or eovers
TO castings; Edmund II. Lunken, Den.
yer. window: Philip X Morcom and
w G. Schaffer. Denver. seif-cleanins
oil burner.
On the night OF September Goth Oil.
yer Creswell. clerk in Barnum & Girls.
wold's hardware store at Trinidad, was
| awakened by two burglars who had
broken into the store, where he was
sleeping. He shot and killed one oI
them with a shotgun and wounded the
other. who escaped. A file and some
steel saws were found on the person
of the dead burglar. but he was not
identified.