The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1905-07-15
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS


Telegraph Company will establish
station at Trinidad.
The mountains surrounding Breck-
enridge were covered with snow on
the morning of the Sd of July.
Miss Josie f. Gibson of Missouri has
been appointed a nurse at the Grand
Junction Indian School at salary oil
5000 year.
The Colorado & Southern Railroad
Company has deposited 10000 trout
| fry in the river at Bailey, all about SIX
inches in lengt-.
The Denver Chamber of Commerce
is arranging TO offer cash prizes for ag.
ricultural products for both irrigated
and non-irrigated lands.
Alexander Gordon. foreman of Ten
/ Mile Mining Company nj Robinson.
was instantly killed on the sth inst. By
| falling down shaft.
| Hereafter the State Capitol building
! at Denver Is to be kept open on sat
urday afternoons and holidays, at least
during the summer months.
Mrs. Clida NJ Adams, wife OF Alva
/ b. Adams and daughter-in-law of for
mer Governor Adams. died at Pueblo
/ July 4th. after short Illness.
The woman's Civic Society OF Trini-
| dad proposes to enforce the Sunday
closing ordinances and to prosecute the
gambling houses and wine rooms.
The floral parade at the Boulder Fes-
| tlval on the 7th inst was one OF the
finest ever seen in the state. Both car
riages and automobiles took part in II.
AT Denver, July sth. Mrs. w. ID.
/ Schmidlap shot and killed her husband
At the place where he was roomins.
They had been separated for about a
! year.
Twenty-Five counties of Colorado are
represented In agricultural exhibits at
/ the Chamber of Commerce building In
Denver. and specimens are wanted
/ from other counties.
There were fourteen fires in Denver
on the Fourth Of July. but the loss in
each case was Small. except at Hurl-
/ butts store, where the damage may
reach nearly $4,000.
/ In the Western Baseball League Des
/ Molnes and Denver are close competi-
/ tors for first place and Colorado
| Springs and St. Joseph are nip and
[ tuck for the booby prize.
Colorado postoffice appointments
Q nave bttu Us HoAa
Park county. Charles F. Peake. vice
( Schattinger. resigned. Muriel. Huer-
fano county, Wilmer b. Kenny. vice L.
! l.. Reubendale. resigned.
The Boulder Farmers mill at Boul-
der has been burned to the ground. In.
yolving loss of about s35 200. with
t s2s 900 insurance. Previous TO the fire
the safe at the mill was broken open.
Z Lt.f 10 tot
June proved a very good month for
/ collections by the State Land Board.
and shows that the business of the of
4 fice is increasing steadily year by year.
i The June collections for the past three
years have been as follows: 1903, 500.
191: 1904. SIS .2s3; 1905. s2i.G39.02.
Pueblo has raised subscription Of
5000, pledged for the maintenance OF
the Arkansas Valley immigration Blu.
reau. The object OF the bureau Is To
run homestead excursions from east
ern farming districts and To advertise
/ the advantages OF the valley eXten.
sively.
John NJ. G. wadlln has sold to
/ Thomas |. Valentine of Peoria. Illinois.
2.10o acres OF land and the wadlin
4 reservoir fifteen miles east OF Greeley
| for $4,000. The capacity of the reser.
/ soir is $1,000 600 cubic feet and this
will be nearly doubled by the pur-
/ chaser.
The following patents have been IS
sued to Colorado inventors: Aaron VI.
Beam, Denver. ore treating furnace
John Crone. Greeley. valve cap, Bar.
/ nett Dodd. Boulder. combined door
closer and fly chaser; G. A. Seaman.
/ Independence. pipe coupling; A. \.
Smith. Paonia. brake shoe.
The Colorado Supreme Court has de-
cided that the fiat tax law passed by
the Thirteenth General Assembly Is
valid. The law places a tax Of two
cents on each 81 600 Of capital stock
In domestic corporations capitalized in
excess of $4,000. and four cents per
81 600 on foreign corporations.
Roscoe Harris. aged sixteen years.
and the only child of former Mayor
Ira Harris of Colorado Springs. WAS
| shot through the hear. and almost IN
stantly killed at Colorado Springs or
the 5th inst. by the accidental dis
charge of rifle in the hands OF Mat
thew Daily. young friend with whom
he was arranging TO go out hunting
Three hundred and sixty acres oi
| land near the Union Printers Home on
Mob hill. and $1,000 In cash for the
construction of the building has been
pledged respectively by two citizens Of
Colorado Springs for Ii National Let
ter Carriers Home. should the national
convention al Portland. Oregon, next
September. choose the Springs as the
site.
At Golden July 10th Judge Carr
CUES of Greeley. who WAS sitting In
the District Court for Judge De
France, sentenced Aubury Church to
the penitentiary for not less than five
nor more than twenty years for erin
inal assault. Church pleaded guilty.
He was a former inmate OF the State