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

" N4ll iSttdn
at fIorSnee has been completed.
Irrigation Of land by artesian wells
promises TO prove successful in Ere
mont county.
A SPECIAL train will carry Denver
business men to the State Fair at
Pueblo, September 18th.
Twenty men enlisted in the United
states army at the recruiting station
In Pue6l9 during the month of August
Goyernor Mcdonald has made an
order that the state house offices may
be closel at noon every Saturday dur
ing the year.
GilbeTt McClurg has been employed
by Denver business men to give
twenty lectures on Colorado at the
Poniand exposition.
Judge Lindsey Of the Denver County
Court has decided that the ordinance
prohibiting brickyards inside the city
limits OF Denver is unconstitutional.
Prize have been awarded to chill
dren, schools and organizations for
successlli competition in raising flow
ers anG vegetables the past summer.
John Walker OF Columbus. Nebraska,
who is seyeutynine years of age, re-
Gently walked from Manitou Springs
TO the summit OF Pixies Peak and back.
Burg-ars blew open the safe in the
postoiiice at Falcon in FL Paso county
on the night of August 29th and Sc
cuerd about $500 in stamps and money.
The Convention Amusement Com
pany has been organized in Denver to
give euttr'alnments and exhibitions
during The conventions held in the
city.
Forest Inspector Smith Riley. who
has ben temporarily placed in charge
of the Holy Cross forest reserve in Col
orado. has established headquarters at
Gienwoud Springs.
Mrs. Emma Herey- Meyer has roti.ed
from q office OF county supcrintcnd-
ent of schools in Denver. Judge Palmer
having decided that Miss Lillian Field
is the lawful incumbent.
Maior + r Foote. a G, a. Il, veteran
and pioneer resident OF Fl Paso county,
fell down an elevator shaft.at Colorado
Spring en- the "a inst. and suffered a
fracture of the left thigh.
The court has authorized the re-
celver or ne demnct Denver Savings
bank to pay first dividend TO deposit
tors. IL is now hoped that the bank
will pay nearly or quite in full.
The harvest festival parade At Gree
icy on sHe Goth ult was twenty-fuur
blocks long and consisted Of decorated
automCl.'es. carriages. bicycles and
floats. Tie festival drew an immense
crowd.
A pastv Of hunters from Iowa a few
days aEa paid the game warden at
Denver 1895 for hunting licenses. They
propos e5 10 enter the mountains from
.Buford ROutt county. for a thirty
days hunt.
Miss Ruby L. Carstens Of Longmont.
gradHate OF the University Of Colo
RADIO last June. has received an ap.
I noiHtnsnt Of a fellowship In the de-
partn. NJ OF mathematics in the State
University.
i.lshtning struck the engine room OF
tho Pueblo Chicftan On the morning o.
/ the & inst. and Allied the composing
and EDITORIAL rooms with smoke from
burning fuses. but the blaze was soon
cNtiH guished.
Tho Denver q Rio Grande railroad
vii fuild a new machine shop. 63X29i
/ feet a size. al its shops in Denver. to
Eethcr with large addition TO the
4 blaea mith shop. The whole is to cost
about $4,000.
The general committee Of ,he Boul-
l der Commercial Association has de-
cided TO make a safer passagcway to
Bou Ter falls. one OF the scenic at
trar ms in the foothills above the city
~ B5alder canon.
Attorney General Miller has an
nouHeed an opinion TO the effect that
Z the e8emption of $500 of personal prop
! ertg from taxation under the law
Z pas 4 last winter does not apply TO
non fesidents.
A. Pueblo, on the 3lst ult.. Mrs
Maud Finch Hayer. wife OF Z. B.
| Haver. & real estate dealer. droTned
| herse i and five-yearold son In the Bes-
semer ditch. The act is attributed TO
/ I'll hsalth and dependency.
owing to tie threatened epidemic
Of seariet fever at Leadville. the State
/ Board Of Health has notified the local
authorities that the city must be thor
/ nushiy cleaned. Otherwise the State
I Beard will take the matter in hand.
There will be an examination for
graphers and typewriters in the
| federal building at Denver October
10Th For departmental stenographers
I the salaries range from $500 TO 81 LOO
a year. but for the Philippine service
they run from 81 200 TO $1,000.
The seventh annual reunion of the
suFs iyors Of the fight al Beecher Is
land near Wray. will be held Septem-
ber 9Th to 18th. 1t will be the occa-
sion Of the erection of a $1,000 monu-
meul. paid for by money appropriated
by ihe Legislatures OF Colorado and
Kan as.
The officials in charge OF the fair
TO He held at Aztec. New Mexico. from
September 18th to 21st. have arranged
TO st aside one day to be known as
Eagies' Day. The Denver & Rio Grande
will run special train over its new
Pennington branch and Durango Elks
l. l.. -. 4. IL.