Idaho Springs siftings., 1905-01-07
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS


has been authorized to begin business
with $25, 1000 capital.
Father Thomas II. Malone OF Den
yer was given a private audience with
the Pope on Christmas Day
The Colorado National Life Insur-
ance Company has been organized At
Denver BY number OF local capita
lists
The sixteenth annual convention o,
the Colorado State Horticultural So
ciety will be held in Denver January
i1th to 18th.
There was only one business failure
In Cripple Creek last year. and that
mercantile concern which will pay out
dollar for dollar.
Gen. William J. Palmer has con
structed public bride path TO Crystal
park, on the southeast slope OF Pike ;
peak, above Nanitou-
The number OF sheep now being fed
In Larimer county. including those at
Windsor. is estimated at HAZE. as
compared with ss.001 last year.
Mrs. Carrie Freeman. colored
woman. was burned TO death Deeem-
ber 3ist at Salida by her clothing tak.
Ing FIRE while she was engaged in COOK
ing.
DR.. Bancrofts plan for a consump
tiyes' home at Salida is meeting with
some opposition by physicians and
others. who are afraid il might result
In contagion.
I Foul air In the Conundrum shaft on
Gold hill in the Cripple Greek dis
trict, occasioned the death of Wiliam
/ Phillips, a machinist In the mine, on
December 2ath.
! Merrill Green. an empioye Of the
Longmont sugar factory. fell into the
washing vat on the night of January
ist and was very dangerously injured
b. the revolving paddles.
! The Rev. A. y. Danieison died at bis
home at Nepesta. Pueblo county. De
cember 28th. at the age OF s4 years
Mr. Danielson was a Methodist min
lster and well known all over southern
Colorado.
Three hundred new buildings. pIin-
ripally dwellings. have been erectrd
In Fort Collins during the year 1873.
the total cost OF buildings and IN
proyements being estimated at Over
$500. 900
The Denver Hotel and Restaurant
Keepers Association has been organ
lied and viii include all the principal
hotels and restaurants In the city.
e. II. Morse is president and 5. r
Dution secretary.
I Mrs. John Drcyer. a prominent so
eiety and lodge woman of Silyerton.
committed suicide January LIST bS
shooting herself through the heart
with a revolver. The act is attributed
TO mental depression and Ill health.
A party of Denver capitalists AZ
planning to erect a 100000 bath house
In Manitou On the site of the Norfls
house. which recently burned. The
hav. asked Manitou for bonus of s..
900, s. coo of which has already been
raised.
RI Sprague, chief clerk OF the state
fish and game commissioner, sent no.
tees TO game wardens over the so ls.
asking them TO notify hunters that all
hunting licenses expire the last day
of December. without regard 20 when
they were issued
Statistics of the University OF Colo
RADIO at Boulder show a gain Of an
even 100 students for the year ispf-o5
over the year ls03-04. This Is IN the
college proper. which includes a few
over. coo. The attendance al the state
Preparatory School Is over 400.
j. H. Inquinton of the reclamation
service has been detailed to act as su-
peryising engineer for Colorado. Ne
braska and the North Platte river
basin. HE will take general charge of
all government irrigation work In this
district, and will have headquarters at
Denver
Reservoirs Nos and Of the Colo
RADIO Springs water system. located in
the Seven Lakes basin. have been
completed. and upon the completion
OF the ST. John tunnel through Bald
mountain next month will more than
double the present water supply OF
the city.
f Fire on December esth destroyed
the big coal tipple and engine house
at the Citizens mine OF the CONT
mental Coal Company at Mount Car
bon, eighteen miles north Of Gunni-
son. The loss is estimated al $4,000
and i25 men were thrown out Of en-
I ployment
/ Governor Peabody Informed the
commissioners OF FL Paso county. who
asked him to offer a reward for the
arrest and conviction of the murderer
/ OF the woman recently found on
Mount Cutler that he could not COM
ply with their request because there
/ Is no money in the state reward fund.
County Surveyor II. s. Fuller Of Pu-
eblo county. who has served in that
capacity for eleven years. will retire
from ONCE on January 10th and start
+ for Honduras. Central America, at
once. where he has accepted the posi-
/ ton Of irrigation engineer of the Bos-
+ ton and Canadian Colonization Com
j pany of Toronto and Boston
| Four handsome rocking chairs. lux
uriously. cushioned. were the Christ
mas gift Of Denver Circle No. /. La