Idaho Springs siftings. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1900-1905, 1903-07-04

in Pueblo.
Attorney John T. Adams has moved his
family here from Denver and they are
comfortably housed in the Simmons cot
tage in Sunnysde.
| Miss May Edwards, a niece of Mrs
| William Morgan and who has for some
years, passed her summers here, is visit
ing in Pennsylvania.
We see by the Georgetown papers that
Mrs. David Dewey has been visiting at the
county seat Her husband is attending
to his placer interests in the northwest.
Through the efforts of City Marshal
O'Rourke and other friends of Blind
Smith, the locomotive engineer, who was
one of the contestants for the News
Times prizes given to patrons of the two
papers, 1892 votes were secured here on
last Saturday and forwarded to Denver
@. Carlson, who has erected quite a
number of houses upon his lots in Sunny
side, has been putting up a handsome
iron fence in front of the same this week
| and is having some painting done. The
improvement is noticeable and we look
for others to follow his example in due
time.
Lon Stanley and Alex Cameron, of
Butler, and Gustave Bennert, of SPRING
field, all Missourians and engaged in bus
mess in that state, passed over the loop
last Sunday. They were afterward en-
tertained by young Wykoff of this city,
an old time friend and an expert at loop
ing the loop.
An auction of fancy goods was held at
the Swedish Lutheran church last Satur-
day night for the benefit of the minister.
The proceeds from the sale of fancy work
and coffee amounted to something over
$50. The church was crowded with MEM
bers and their friends. Claus Anderson
filled the post of auctioneer very satisfac-
torilly.
We see that M. T. Morrill,, formerly a
deputy mineral surveyor of this district
but for some years engaged in electric
lighting at Golden, is given credit for the
satisfactory settling of the strike that tied
up the Carpenter smelter at that place.
He acted as a representative of the citizens
alliance and succeeded in getting both
sides to recede a trife from their position.
" We heard some time since that l. n.
Smith, who left Georgetown last year to
Join his son in manila, had stopped over
in Oregon and lost his eyesight. Since
then comes the information that the above
is untrue, as the corporal is living in
Washington, having taken up a home
stead near Seattle, dividing his time be-
tween the practice of the law and raising
spuds. - SASsLtNas9
Deacon Raleigh w. Chinn, an old timer
of this county and for years resident of
Dumont. was visiting in Golden last week.
He is now 76, and through an accident of
some years since and his age, is not as
spry as he might be, but the Globe says
it found him a young old man. That
paper adds: "He is Baptist by faith,
and is therefore grounded upon the rock
and expects to reach heaven"
Assessor George Myers, while in the
city last week, informed us that he is
very much interested in the resources
of the country surrounding Grand juno
ton, and we shall not be very much sur
prised if in the course of human events he
will not be found raising fruit for the
market, AS it is, he is interested with a
real estate firm of Grand Junction and
has made one or two important deals.
We see by the Golden Globe that DIR.
Willis Hamilton, who at one time stopped
on Chicago creek and was known to quite