Idaho Springs siftings., 1904-07-02
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

| Wallace Colby. fifty-four years of age
and one Of the pioneer mining men OF
the district, was killed in runaway
accident at Leadyille. June 2lth.
The heavy rain in Prowers county
on the night of June 21st did consider
able damage TO bitches and fumes in
some places, but ii wet the ground
thoroughly.
| The d. & r. G. railway eating house,
round house and machine shop at saf-
gents. in Saguaehe county. We're burned
June 24th. Two locomotives in the ma
chine shop were ruined.
The Colorado Springs City Council
passed an ordinance making 1t mis-
/ demeanor to use. sell or give away toy
/ pistols or giant crackers. The penalty
+ is a fine OF from S. to $40.
/ The annual death rate per thousand
for the month Of May. as reported by
the State Board of Health was sixteen
and one-third. or 500 cut of an esti-
mated population of 5e1,136,
/ The Santa Fe Railway Company is
making plans TO relay its tracks be-
tween Pueblo and Florence, The pres
cnt fifty-two--pound rails. laid fifteen
years ago, will be replaced with eighty
/ five-pound steel rails.
/ Mrs A L. Clark and daughter. Flor
+ ence. aged sixteen. drove into the Lari-
rner and Weld canal near Fort Collins,
June 23rd, and we're both drowned. Mr..
/ Clark was in Ohio at the time. Two
! children are left motherless.
/ A movement is on foot to hold a
northern Colorado fair in Fort Collins
next fail and a temporary organization,
Of which Professor Carlyle of the AZ
ricultural College is president. has
been effected for this purpose.
I The saw mill industry has been re-
vived In the vicinity Of Monument Ell
lott and Danks have contract to saw
1.ooo. 900 feet of lumber for the Highly
Mercantile Company, which has bought
several thousand acres OF timber.
The cottony maple tree scale is doing
great damage to the shade trees in cer-
tain parts of Denver. Mrs. Shute, sec
retary of the State Board of Horticul-
ture. says they can only be saved by
thorough spraying at least once year.
The report reached Wray June 23rd
that Ira Lamb. a ranehman residing
just over the line in Nebraska, lost
thirty-one head of cattle by lightning
in a thunder storm the day before
From appearances all We're killed by
one bolt.
Russell Boles, convicted OF the muir
der of Harold Fridbdrn at Denver. Is
now in the penitentiary- Unless some
outside force interferes or Boles Is re-
prieyed or pardoned he is doomed to
remain behind prison bars for the rest
CT his natural life.
pert Hughes. Roy Reeves and Will
lard FELTON,. three lads who found the
fsYh In
the Royal Gorge June 2ith. are entitled
to the $50 reward offered by the salida
City Council shortly after the accident
on Memorial Day.
Charles Hell Is in jail at Denver
charged with having killed James Hen
~ in a fist fight. heating in the face and
kicking him until he died. Henry was
employed as fireman at the Globe
smelter and Hell was engaged as clerk
In the smelter store.
Canon City is entering upon street
improvements on a large scale. 1t is
proposed to lay about twenty-five miles
of artificial stone sidewalks The work
is to be paid for In ten annual Install
nlents. bonds bearing i've per cent. in
terest being issued on that account
r. A Leigh. general superintendent
OF the American Crude Rubber Com
pany, states that work Will soon be
commenced on the water power and
factory Of the company at Buena Wis
ia and that he expects to have 100 men
at work In the factory by October lst
Patents issued to Colorado residents
June 21st are as follows: John w.
Bodge. Denver, wire fence clip; Erik
Johanson, Ouray. chalk holder; Algot
johnson, Denver. non-refillable bottle.
Phillip II. Kohler Denver. jar closure.
Ira F. Monell Boulder. ore sinner;
Lewen r. Nelson, Boulder. hose coup
ling.
The will Of Charles NJ. Stebbins of
Denver, who died in Berlin. Gerr any,
June 10th, practically disinher.is his
three children and leaves the bulk OF
an estate estimated at $500. 600 for the
erection near Denver of an orphanage
for dependtn white children. II II
expected that a contest will he insti-
I tuted.
! Delos F. Powell cemetery superintend-
] ent of Colorado Springs. former
+ member OF the City Council and a
prominent figure in local politics. COM
Eitted suicide at the cemetery Juno
23rd, rather than face the Disgrace re-
sulting from the charge of padding of
/ cemetery pay rolls. He shot himself
+ through the head with revolver.
| Work has begun on the new $1,000
! 600 cemetery and crematory to be con-
structed by Philadelphia capitalists
t near Monument park, north of Colo
RADIO Springs. II. ID. Patton sent from
Philadelphia to supervise the work, has
a corps of surveyors plating and sur
veying the ground. The enterprise
1 probably will be completed by fall
The Florence correspondent o. tie
Denver News says that the strawberry
/ crop In Fremont county is the largest
in its history. Over 80, 900 crates have
already been picked and contracted for