Idaho Springs siftings., 1904-02-27
COLORADO BRIEF S.

According TO the report of Orchard
Inspector Smith, Larimer county last
year produced $3.50, ,000 worth OF fruit.
The new Protestant hospital at Colo
rado Springs will be called the Deacon
hospital. 1t was formerly the Bellevue
sanitarium
George Waybright. deputy city mar
shal at Hastings, was assaulted and
badly injured by striking Italian min
ers at Aguilar February goth.
An attempt to change the date of
the meeting OF the Republican State
Central Committee did not succeed. 1t
viii be April I'd, as at first announced.
Two hundred lawyers were present
at the annual banquet OF the Denver
Bar Association on the night of Feb
ruary 10th at the Brown Palace hotel.
\ new hotel. $4,000 opera house.
Carnegie library and possibly a new city
hail. are among the buildings that
Trinidad expects to see finished this
year
The careful enforcement Of the game
laws during the last few years is grad
ualIy making Colorado q great quail
state, whereas formerly there were but
few quail here.
Pueblo is to have an open air am
phitheater at the corner OF Sixth and
Main streets that will seat 1000 people.
It is proposed to complete the structure
by June LIST.
The Colorado Springs Y NJ. c. A.
fas received a check for $500 from
Rev. ID. Stewart Dodge. a New York
minister to be applied on the $4,000
Indebtedness of the organization.
Dr. Sol Ringolsky of Denver has ae-
ccpted the terms of the Salida City
Council and has agreed 10 install rub
Der plant in the Salida creamery build
ing. The plant Is to be ready for ope-
ration within thirty days.
Samuel Raugh. one of the principal
ranch and horse owners of the Platte
valley. died at Brush. February nth.
He was the owner of the NH brand
and had been a resident of this valley
for over thirty-fye years.
Under the direction OF DR.. Wallace
r. Suuble OF Chicago. International
lecturer OF the American Anti-Cigarette
League. crusade has been inaugurated
in Colorado against the smoking OF ci-
garettes by school children.
Mabel Joseph, three-year-old daugh.
ter OF Mr.. and Mrs. |. w. Joseph of
Pueblo. died February 18th as the re
suit OF burns received few days be
fore. Her clothing caught fire while
playing near a fire In an alley.
In tho District Court at Walsenburg
February 18th Judge NoTihcutt SEN
fenced Henry Crumbley to the peniten-
tiary for from two To five years for
arson. Last October Crumbley set fire
To a barn at La Veta belonging To
Charles Martin.
The Pueblo City Council has added
$500 to the 5000 already given by the
county commissioners for the purpose
of defraying the expense of construct
ing a relief map of the Arkansas val
ley. which will be shown at the st.
Louis exposition.
Judge Voorhees,. in the District
Court at Pueblo. condemned attaches
OF the sherif's Office and police de.
partment for permitting the Increase
of houses OF i'll repute ana saloons of
a questionable character in certain dis
tricts OF the city.
w. A. Saville. United States mechan-
zeal engineer. has come TO Denver to
assume charge OF the mechanical equip
ment of the new mint Under his di-
rection the placing of the machinery
for the electric lighting. heating. etc.
OF the building will begin at once.
Tunnel No on the Moffat line is
about completed. II is thirty miles
from Denver and is 722 feet In length.
being one of the first long tunnels on
the road. This will make the eighth
tunnel finished. the track having al
ready been laid through seven OF them.
An examination of the registration
books at the University of Colorado
shows that there are 1870 students from
Denver now attending the state univer-
sity. In other words, little more than
twenty per cent of the students now in
the university come from the capitol
city.
Two Methodist ministers who for
merly lived In Denver and who have
many friends in Colorado, are now In
Korea and some concern is felt as to
their safety They are Rev. Phillip
Gillette and Rev. w. b. McGill. the lat
ter a graduate of the llif School OF
Theology.
Pat Dermott. one of the pioneers of
Cripple Creek. who was credited with
having been the locator of the Last
Dollar mine, was found dead In his
cabin at Independence on Tuesday, the
10Th inst. He had not been seen since
Saturday and 1t is supposed that he
died Sunday.
BY the report of the committee ap-
pointed to audit the Pueblo county
treasurer's books it was shown that
William b. Moore. clerk in the treas
urer's Office, was 81 800 short in his ac-
,1..l
that no prosecution be made, as the
friends of Mr.. Moore will make good
the amount.
Jean Mignolet, the Belgium consul in
Denver. has been notified by bis gov
ernment TO request the mine owners
and the state of Colorado to make an
extensive exhibit at worlds exposi-
ton to be held at Liege, Belgium. in
1905. Belgian capitalists have a good