The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1905-09-30
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

/ recruiting Office for the navy vii
| BE- maintained in Denver from Octo-
| ber 9Th to 14th.
The Methodist ministers OF Denver
are said TO be planning extensive re
yivaI meetings for next winter
The Colorado Telephone Company
| has commenced the work OF placing all
its wires in Pueblo underground.
Ebert Hubbard. founder Of the Roy
croft artindustry colony, win lecture
ct Colorado Springs October 18th.
| 1t is estimated that the sugar beet
crop on the old English ranch Of .7G
acres near Fort Collins will average
eighteen tons 10 the acre and bring
| s2i.300
At Monument. September 24th. Rob
ert Boyard, Jr.. the little son OF Rab.
ert goyard. was thrown from a wagon
and had his right arm broken abog (
the elbow.
The broad gauge railroad from D.
range 10 Pennington, New Mexico. xas
finished September 18th All fruit
shipments from Pennington now eoie
to Durango By rail.
Harvey w Hawley. editor and pro
prietor OF the Denver Times from lsss
10 1894. died at Berkeley. Californa.
September 21st after an Illness o.
several years from paralysis.
President David Starr Jordan OF the
Stanford University will be one OF the
lecturers at the meeting OF the Colo
RADIO State Teachers Association IN
Denver December 2sth 10 Goth
Il has been found that John Duncan
who was run over and killed by
4 I.at1 y. . As
of September 18th. was an empio
at the Albany stables in Denver.
Dr. Aston Ellis. president Of the
Ohio university at Athens. Ohio. who
was president OF the Agricultural Co
Iege OF Colorado from 1892 10 1899. Is
spending a short vacation In Colorado
II. ". Campbell Of Lincoln. y
hraska, whose experiments in d.
farming In the semi-arid regions hase
made him world-famous. will speak Or
the Chamber Of Commerce luncheon
Denver October igth.
F. c. Smith, retiring general Bup.T
infendent OF the Cripple Creek Sh0f
Line. Was presented with a $3.50 gotl
watch and chain by several Of the
Short Line employees. previous to iis
departure for New York.
Rufus PcttIi. fuil-blooded cherokan
Indian and n graduate OF CaFlis
school. enlisted At Trinidad few daY
ago in the regular army as an infantry
private. Petilf graduated from Car
Isle with the highest houors.
On September 2ist more than l.i1a
Pueblans went to Canon City to at
tend the Fremont county fair. Eacn
wore a badge on which appeared a
large cluster OF grapes and the word
Pueblo Grcets Canon City Sept. q
1895"
Gov Joseph " Folk. the ceiebratet
reform executive of Missouri. WAS
guest 81 the Denver Chamber of Con
merce luncheon September 2tst an
made a ringing speech In behalf -
clean government and the enforcemenf
Of the laws.
H. l.. Hall. post trader for the Tie
.acians az Ignaeio. Colorado. Is author
ify for the statement that the name
given 10 Pixies Peak by the Utes vas
"Acowacadee." meaning Red Top
mountain" The accent Is on the sec
ond syllable. Gov. q
A meeting has been called In Saiida
by Marshal Herzingcr fdO October I'D
and cath for the organization OF The
Colorado State Association OF Chiefs
Of Police. Mayors. city marshals and
heads OF city detective departme ats
are eligible to membership.
4 meeting will be held In Denykr Oc-
tober goth TO organize an association
for the purpose of promoting dry farm
ing In the semi-arid regions on the pan
known as the Campbell system Il Is
proposed To call the organization The
Campbell System Farming Assoels-
tion"
The county commits sioners ~ FifAln
county have awarded the contract for
building the state road up Lincoln
gulch to the Florence CONSTRUCTION
Company Their bid was s. 500 Il is
TO be built from \ point called he
Junction up the Roaring Fork 20 he
mine located at Difficult. distance Of
twelve miles.
Over log, eco trout are 20 be placed
in the streams Of the StoneWall valley.
Las Animas county in the near future.
Fifty thousand go to the Sionew all
Country Club of Trinidad for the as
animas river: $4,000 for Russ ell
brothers Of the Sionewail. and ahsut
$4,000 more are to be distributed In
other places in the valley.
The Northern Telephone Company
has fled articles Of Incorporation In
the Office Of the secretary cf state II
is Incorporated for s350.o0U by e II.
Ramsay. :. II. Soufhard and II c.
Bennett. The company proposes 10 OPP
crate in the counties OF Denver t.art-
mer. Boulder. Weld. Adams and Logan.
and will maintain headquarters in The
county seats OF all these counties.
Fifteen great church bells for the
chimes Of 81. Johns cathedral in nen-
yer were landed at New Orleans a few
days ago. having been brought over
from Germany by the steamship Bos.
MIA. The sizes Of the bells range from
the smallest. which is about foot and