Idaho Springs siftings., 1903-09-19

10 place naI-m1lllOn hnlckerDOCRer
Trust Company 75-year gold bonds and
pick up. In a very short time the U. S.
tunnel will be working at both ends"
John Mallalieu is carrying bis left hand
in sling, the result of that useful men,
Der coming between hammer head and
a nail. The victim declares that it was
not altogether carelessness, but arises
from the fact that he was working on
Sunday and that it was the 18th day of
the month.
Among the new interpretations licensed
to do business by the Secretary of State
last Wednesday was the Butler Mountain
Mining company; capital stock, 81, ,ooo,-
600; directors, L. NJ Goddard, E. M
Moscript, George A. Webb, ]. l. Snyder,
Samuel Stro =sse, Jessie R. Butler, J. H.
Robeson; principal Office, Denver; place
of business, Clear Creek county.
Marshall O'Rouke has been driven to
music by the strenuous life he has been
compelled to lead since the advent of
Judge Overs into Clear Creek county.
He has adopted the banj o as his instrument
of torture, and is daily to be seen in the
office of Sheriff Sandberg, energetically
humping the instrument in the endeavor
to persuade citizens TO come in and be ar
rested.
w. F. Kavanaugh and P. H. Knowlton
publisher of Seeing Cripple Creek" a
magazine devoted to advertising the bust
ness of the greatest gold camp on earth
visited Idaho Springs the first of the
week for look at the possibilities of an
edition at this place early in the spring.
Both the gentlemen are old hands at the
newspaper business and certainly issue
neat publication.
The fall enrolment IN the schools of
Idaho Springs during the last five years
has been as follows: 1899, 554; 1900, 524;
1901, 63o; 1901, 62S; 1908. 635. The
High school enrolment has been as fol-
lows: 1900, IS; 1901, S.; 1902, SO; 1908,
IS. The increase for the present term is
most satisfactory to the board and in
structors, and it is to be hoped that the
daily average will keep close up to the
figures.
w. A. Lamb, who has recently been at
Cripple creek. Telluride and different
points in the San Juan country for his
machinery firm, states that Clear Creek
and Gilpin counties are more active and
purchase more machinery at the present
time than any other mining section in
the state. In fact, since the labor diff
culties all orders received by him from
Cripple Creek and Telluride have been
countermanded.
The funeral services of John Ryan,
held Sunday last, called out quite rep
resentative number of his oldtime lodge
brothers and other friends. The services
at the house and cemetery, in accordance
with the previously expressed request of
deceased, were according to the ritual of
the order to which he had been so faith
full and which in turn had striven to
render his last days as comfortable as
possible.
Chief of Police Armstrong of Denver
is offering $50 reward for the arrest of
one Frank Stevens, charged with steal
ing horse and buggy in that city, and
is presumed to be accompanied by his
mother. The criminal IS but youth, ii
years of age, but this is not his first Of
fense. He lived with his parents in East
Idaho and last week disappeared,-SI2 so
of his fathers money accompanying him
He is said to be a graduate of the state
reform school.
A joint session of The T. 7. 7. Sorority
duu uG ~ ~. II. ObClGlJ was uGlu al
the home of the Misses Williamson,
last Saturday evening and one the most
enjoyable times in the history of either
club was spent. Business matters of the
clubs were attended to in a very short
time andmusic and games afforded amuse
ment until a late hour. Those present
were. The Misses Nellie Ballinger, Flor
ence Bond, Bella Weinberger, Julia Reed.
Mayme Freestone, Florence and Marga-
ret Williamson, and Messrs Kenneth
Moscript, Arthur Edwards, Herman and
Alex Weinberger, Henry McClelland,
Arthur Java and Robert White.
Chris. King, of the postoffice force, is
recipient of neat present, and he is at
loss to know who among his numerous
young lady friends he is thus placed
under obligations to, as the donor failed
to enclose a card or other token of ident-
fcation. 1t consists of neat pin cush-
ion fashioned into the form of a female
limb, neatly encased in pink hose, and
bore the injunction for the recipient to
find its mate. Girls possesses wonderful
perceptive talent, acquired by his long
service at the general delivery window,
and if ne doesn't solve the mystry in
shot order it will be of no use to call for
assistance.
The latest kink in local society circles
is the organIz alton of a bachelors club,
which will open its membership roll for
signatures on the 5lh prox. The princi-
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