The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1905-07-22
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

Investigations are being made at
Amity in regard TO the reported out
break OF anthrax among the cattle.
The canning factory OF the Barlow
Consolidated Canning Company at
Loyeland has begun operations on
raspberries.
During the week ending July 18th,
$500 tourists visited the Cripple
Creek district. Most OF them were Ep-
worth League tourists.
James +. Maloney, prominent To-
cal politician and alderman of the
Third ward in Denver, died of heart
disease on the 10th inst.
Miss Rosa NJ. Layton of Denver has
been appointed stenographer and type
writer and assigned to duty in the
Denver office of the reclamation ser
vice.
Attorney General N c. Miller has
gone to Chicago and will be away two
or three weeks. He will spend his va
cation visiting with his brothers and
sisters in Illinois.
Michael Dowd and Peter Miller, SEN
fenced to the penitentiary from Denver
convicted of election Irregularities. ar
rived at the penitentiary at Canon City
on the 18th inst.
A dispatch from Oyster Bay July
18th says. William G. Lewis of Colo
rado to-day was appointed to be sur
yeyor general OF Colorado under the
General Land Office.
In the Western Baseball League Des
Moines and Denver are close competi-
tors for first place and Colorado
Springs and St. Joseph are nip and
tuck for the booby prize.
o The fourteen-months-ol baby son OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Hal Baird of Goldfield
managed 10 get hold OF some strych-
nine tablets on the 10th inst. and ate
enough to cause It's death.
c. A. Coryell has been granted a
lease on 160 acres OF state land in
Arapahoe county for placer mining
purposes. The state shares in the pro
duetion at the rate of twenty per cent
The old Palisades hotel at Gunnison
was burned on the morning of the I'm
inst II was built about twenty-five
years ago at n reported cost of $4,000
and was insured for considerable
sum.
The Morgan County National Bank
OF Fort Morgan has been authorized TO
begin business with a capital OF $780,
600. NJ. l.. More is president. r. VI.
Mandy. vice president. aud j. II. Roed-
iger. cashier.
The grading of the Pennington line
of the Denver a. Rio Grande has been
completed as far as Aztec and track
laid for fifteen miles below Durango,
Several of the grading contractors are
preparing to move to other fields.
The next convention to swoop down
on Colorado will be that of the Fra
ternal Order of Eagles. which will
meet at Denver August 14th. An i'm
mense gathering is anticipated and
they propose to soar all over the state
The Pueblo steel works are receiy-
ing more than 500 tons of iron ore per
day from the iron deposits In Mime
sofa. This, II is said. will continue
until the new deposits in Wyoming are
opened up to the satisfaction OF the
company.
The state convention of the Ameri-
can Order OF Protection will be held at
Florence July 27th. when delegates to
the supreme convention 10 be held In
Lincoln In September. will be elected.
Twenty-Five delegates are expected
from outside lodges.
The state memorial statue 10 be
erected in honor OF the Coloradans
who served in the Civil War. for which
$4,000 was appropriated by the last
Legislature. will be placed In front OF
the capitol building in Denver, where
the fagpole now stands.
Melvin Acorn. the eager employed in
the Jo Dandy mine on Raven hill at
Cripple Creek. was killed on the 10th
inst, by falling on the cage and going
down the shaft 12o feet He had gone
down to the fourth level to bring the
miners up to surface for dinner.
June proved a very good month for
collections by the State Land Board,
and shows that the business of the Of
flee is increasing steadily year by year.
The June collections for the past three
years have been as follows: 1908, 500.
l91; 1904. sis.293: 1905. $21.639.o2.
Miss Maude Fealy opens her second
week at Elitch's gardens, Denver.
Sunday night. August 22nd. in the title
role of the stirring drama of Queen
Elizabeth's time. Dorothy Vernon of
Haddon Hall" Miss Fealy's popu-
larity in Colorado is demonstrated by
crowded houses at every performance.
Pueblo people have purchased the
Western League baseball franchise SO
long held by Colorado Springs. and the
fans" at the Springs will now have to
content themselves with amateur
games. The Pueblo club begins way
down next to the bottom. where it left
on at Colorado Springs.
VIII c. Ferril. curator at the State
Museum. kept a record Of the visitors
90 the department during the week the
Epworth League delegates were In
Denver. Beginning July 5th and end.
ing Monday night. July 10th, emitting
Sunday, the total was 1897. The
largest day was on Saturday, when g..
619 visited the rooms.
Simon Guggenheim has increased his
$4,000 donation to the State School
OF Mines to $4,000. The additional