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

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Approximately 100 Texas girls who
Will spend two months in Colorado
Springs and vicinity have rented
Hagerman hall OF Colorado College for
the season.
Campbell Summers. aged about
twenty years. was killed by the break
Ing OF a pole in sort OF merry go
round Arrangement at Swedish pic
nic near Pueblo June 25th.
President Lee De Forest of the wire
less telegraph company of that name
will be in Colorado Springs TO per
sonally superintend the construction
of the system on the summit OF Pixies
Peak
The application of Edmund Kelley
Of Pagoda. Colorado. for permission TO
construct an irrigation ditch In the
White River forest reserve has been
approved by the Forest Service at
Washington.
II is stated that next month will see
an addition OF $50 Japanese laborers
In various departments of the Mime
qua steel plant. This will increase the
number of Japs on the payroll to more
than 800.
The premium list OF the Colorado
State Fair. beginning at Pueblo. Sep
| tember lst. has been printed. There
| are a large number of premiums in
all departments, calculated to bring
| out fine display.
Mrs. C. ID. Fitch. who formerly CON
Quoted a private sanitarium In Denver.
has been convicted in the United
States Court OF sending obscene and
indecent matter through the mails.
Her attorney filed q motion for a new
trial
The advertising committee Of the
Pueblo Business Mems Association is
preparing to issue 90 0o9 booklets on
| the advantage OF Pueblo for circulation
largely among the delegates TO the G.
| A. Il. encampment which is TO meet
in Denver.
The application of NJ. l.. Moore. l.. j.
Smith. II. p. Forsythe. X. NJ Handy
and ]. II. Rosdiger to organize the Nor
gan County National Bank of Fcrt
Morgan. Colorado. with s5e.0o0 capi-
! tai. has been approved by the corp
troller OF the currency.
The trade excursion of the Pueblo
Business Mems Association will mus
ter about 100 business men and n
brass band. They Will leave Pueblo
August 7th and return August 18th.
including Durango. Montrose and
other western slope towns.
Mrs. Lena Livingston, co,ored
woman who says she Is l0i years old
and claims to have been slave in the
J family OF Jefferson Davis. the leader
Of the Confederacy. was dangerously
hurt by fall on the court house steps
at Denver a few days ago.
Bids were opened June Goth In the
1 ofilee of the supervising architect at
| Washington for the construction OF the
new peblic building at Colorado
Springs. There were thirteen bidders.
he loves. being Dieter & Menzel. Jop.
in. Missouri. at s96.lss.
Several members OF tho religious or
Eanizafion known as the Jumpers"
| have been imprisoned and set to work
| sn the rock pile at Colorado Springs
| Tor too noisy demonstrations on the
streets. Their attorney In defending
them said: If Christ were in Colo
rado Springs to-day he would annoy
| some people. The logic which put
these Jumpers in jail would place
Jesus Christ on the rock pile If he
we're here"
Eight miles Of the new beet railway
owned by the Greeley. Eaton and
Windsor sugar factories. connecting
Windsor and vicinity with the Eaton
tountry. were completed June cath.
Seyenty-ive men and teams are still
working on the road, which Will be
fourteen miles long. This road will
ppen up the country to the north of
| Windsor and west of Eaton, which
| heretofore has had to contend with
iong hauls In getting farm produce to
market.
On June 25th the body OF man be
tween sixty and seventy years of age
was found In the sand in the Arkansas
river about half mile below the stock
yards at Pueblo. The body has not
been identified and some are OF the
| opinion that 1t IL that OF one of the
Eden wreck victims. The man had
gray hair and gray chin whiskers. He
was of medium height and wore
black suit. flannel shirt, and caifskln
shoes with leather laces.
At Elitch's Gardens In Denver the
Bellows company has been presenting
"A japanese Nightingale and open
ing Sunday night. June 25th. the play
for the week is "The Maneuvefs of
Jane" one of the cleveyest Of Clyde
Fftch's comedies. in which Mary Man
| nering starred last winter These
standard plays that have added mate
rally to the popularity OF the gardens,
and which promise this season to in
crease the popularity of Denyer's IA
nsous resort.
T. II. Wolyerton, who had been
| working for County Treasurer c. f.
Black at Hot Sulphur Springs for more
than q year, recently got on a pro
tracted spree and at New Chicago.
near Arrowhead, June 23d he terror
lied a number of people with a re-
volver. Deputy Sheriff Charles Gibbs
of Arrowhead was sent for and when