The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1905-10-28
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

The grand lodge of Odd Fellows will
meet at Florence next year
The Greeley Starch and Potato Com
pany has been incorporated 70 manu-
facture starch from potatoes
A sea gull, measuring more than
four feet from tip To tip of its wings,
was recently shot near Florence
The new sugar factory at Holly has
begun operations and il is expected TO
handle over $4,000 tons of beets this
season.
A remarkably large number of peo-
pie attended the harvest festival at
Ault. Governor Mcdonald was among
. the visitors
a postoffce will be established at the
west portal of the Gunnison tunnel, to
be called Lujane, with X. +. McCollum
as postmaster.
The widow of the late Willard Teller
/ brother of Senator II. NJ Teller, will
inherit his entire fortune, estimated at
/ sl2i,000, there being no children.
Simon Guggenheim has given 81 900
to'the West Side Neighborhood house
in Denver, 1t will be made the nucleus
fora fund to erect a new building.
Uhat troubles the Greeley starch
ihStb7 10 tidl lHtlt are Suldli
potatoes this year; or at least the
farmers can't spare the time to handle
/ them.
Fred L. PaGdleford has resigned as
member of the board of control of the
State Industrial School for Girls. In
doing so he did not make his reasons
public.
Abe Williamson. aged fifty-five years.
70 l;,.tv
house, about six miles east of Boulder,
committed suicide few days since by
taking strychnine.
A civil service examination will be
held in Denver, November 22d. for a
saddler in the quartermaster's depart
ment at large. The salary in the posi-
tion is $545 year.
A Settlers Forest Reserve conven-
tion. under the auspices of the Roaring
Fork and Eagle River Stockgrowers'
Association has been called to meet at
Glenwood Springs, December 1st.
Ninety-three acres of ground located
east of Santa Fe avenue and north to
the Riverview cemetery road in Pueblo
have been purchased by the Rio
Grande as a site for new shops.
W. A. Gibbs. chauffeur for c. A.
Baldwin, was held up and robbed in the
suburbs of Colorado Springs on the
night of October 22d. The holdups got
$3.50 in cash. watch, ring and pin.
The first annual cowboy tournament
was held in Salida October 21st. Cat
t1emen were present from Chaffee, Sa-
guathe, Park and Fremont counties.
In the parade Saturday there were
fully 100 visiting cattlemen.
In the District Court at Denver,
Judge Carpenter has decided that
RRph E. Esteb's contract to look up
I'd ssessed property in the city and
co.nty of Denver is binding upon the
present authorities of the county.
Thomas G. Clayton believes he has a
good prospect for placer mining on
some land the state owns near Castle
Rock. The State Land Board ha.
leased him 100 acres on the terms of a
ten per cent. royalty on the gross out.
put.
Fifty dollars reward is offered by
State Game and Fish Commissioner J.
W. Woodward for information leading
to the conviction of the person or per
sons who killed two fine elk on Sleepy
Cat mountain in Rio Blanco county re-
Gently.
The business men of Manitou, with a
nucleus of 100000 each from Gen. w. j.
Palmer and DR.. w. A. Bell, have deter
mined TO construct the $4,000 bath
house projected several months ago,
and work probably will be begun this
winter.
Ex-Mayor H. C. Watson OF Greeley,
accompanied by his wife, has started
for trip around the world. A crowd
of friends met at his house the even
ing before his departure and presented
him with a valuable pair of field
glasses.
w. S. Alexander, the former Colo
RADIO newspaper man who was fatally
injured by fall from his horse In the
Goldfield district, Nevada, died Octo
ber 22d, without having regained con
sciousness. He was buried at Beatty,
Nevada.
Judge Moses Hallett. OF the Federal
Court, has refused to modify an in
nction recently issued restraining
tn Ute Coal & Coke Company, OF
Durango, from trespassing on govern
ment land from which the company has
been mining coal.
Colorado captured twenty-nine gold
eighteen silver and eleven bronze med.
ais in the mining exhibit, and received
103 honorable mentions at the Lewis
and Clark Exposition at Portland. In
cluding its agricultural exhibit, the
state received a total of 40 awards at
the Exposition, which seems very good
for an expenditure Of $4,000.
Oscar Telling, district secretary Of
the United States Civil Service Com
mission, announces that on November
23d an examination will be held In Den
yer for physicians In the Indian SER
vice. There are five vacancies to be
filled. The salary is 1900 year with
excellent opportunity for promotion.
The age limit is from twenty-five to
NV