Idaho Springs siftings., 1905-02-25
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

summer.
Extensive beds of gypsum have been
! located eighteen miles west Of Pueblo
and 1t is proposed to put up mill.
Rock breaking has been commenced
on the harrington railroad south OF
Durango.
Il is now stated that the Manitou &
Pikes Peak cog road viii not be cleo
trihed this year as has been contem-
plated.
Isaac Rosskam. who died al Phila-
delphia recently. left 81 GOO for the Ma
uonal Jewish Hospital for Consump-
uTes at Denver
William F. Jones. auditor OF the Moi
tat road, who has recently returned
from the East. states positively that
the road has not been sold.
1t is said that creamery men
throughout the state propose to take
active steps to enforce the law in re-
lation TO oleomargarine and butterine.
The name, San Cristobal." as ap-
piled to a body of water in Hinsdale
county. has received the approval of
the United States Board on Geograph-
ical Names.
Chris Lab OF Longmont was badly
frozen while trying to walk from Ned
eriand to Caribou on the 12th inst. and
II may be necessary to amputate some
Of his limbs.
The Colorado Springs Municipal
League has been formed by leading
citizens TO investigate the manage
ment of city affairs. \ paid secretary
will be employed
Boulder county N looking up. 4 few
days ago Mrs. John Freeburg OF Louis
Vile gave birth to three healthy boys.
The father is coal miner and both
parents are natives of Sweden.
The Fruit and Produce Association
Of Colorado Springs has induced the
express companies TO deduct twenty
five per cent. from the gross weight of
poultry shipments as an allowance for
ice.
Numerous robins aud meaaow larks
made their appearance In many parts
of Colorado previous to the recent eS-
tremely cold weather and IL is feared
that some CT them may have been
killed by 1t.
Oscar c. Reitze former president OF
the Reitze Wall Paper and Paint Com
pany at Denver, committed suicide by
shooting himself through the head In
his room at the Baltimore hotel AT Vic
tor February 18th
Mrs. Jennie Peabody. widow OF the
late Jesse Peabody. and sister-in-law
, of Gov. James II. Peabody died at her
home in Canon City February iIth.
eight days after having suffered a
stroke Of paralysis.
Several members of band of gyp-
sizes were arrested for vagrancy at
Denver few days ago. The gypsies
have been travelling through the coun-
try. supported mostly by the earnings
of the women as fortune tellers.
The late f. A. Falkenburg will be
! succeeded as head consul OF the Wood
men OF the World by John II. Foley.
head adviser OF the order. until a meet
ing OF the head board of managers
can be held to make a permanent Sc
lection.
Mrs. Elizabeth Sopris. widow of
Richard Sopris. former mayor of Den
yer, celebrated her 30th birthday ami
yersary at Denver on the 18th inst.
Richard Sopris. was the first represen.
tatiye of the Pixies Peak country" in
the Kansas Legislature.
Fifty-fva carloads of lambs. num-
bering $4,000 head. left the depot at
Greeley for Omaha, st. Joseph and
Chicago February 10th. IL is estimated
that about onehalf OF the sheep being
fattened for market in northern Colo
RADIO have been sold.
President Sells of the Naintou &
Pixies Peak cog road, who has Just
returned from an eastern trip, says
that everybody in the East is headed
f.r t~sx
the largest number of Colorado tour
lists in the history of the state.
Miss Margaret Prendergast. first as
sistant in the Department Of Domestic
Art at the Colorado Agricultural Col
lego. has ben elected to the professor
ship OF domestic science and art at the
Wyoming Agricultural College and will
begin her duties there next Septem.
ger.
The second annual convention of the
first district association. knights of
Pythias, at La Junta February 20th
was largely attended and in every way
success. The following officers We're
elected: President, A. b. Wallis of La
Junta. secretary, G. H. Winchell of
La Junta: treasurer. William Welies
of Manzanola.
The trial Of Charles Wynn, alleged
to be Wellington Llewe,lyn. for the
murder OF Policemen Thomas Clifford
and William Grifiiths. will be held at
Denver during the second week In
March. II is claimed that many wit
nesses will swear to the identity OF
Wynn and Llewell-n, which the de-
Tense will deny.
Thirty members of the senior and
junior classes of the engineering
school OF the University Of Colorado
will visit the big smelter and reduction
plants at Colorado City and Pueblo and
the mines at Cripple Greek. during the
week beginning March 9Th. This is
part of the required course, and all
sfudeufs in the denartmenf must at