The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1905-11-04
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

JdpdueS" tea house with imported
Geisha girls 10 dispense the beverage.
The Leadville Herald Democrat has
Just installed a modern Duplex press
ana Is now strictly in the swim as
metropolitan newspaper.
The Colorado Fuel and Iron football
team OF Pueblo does its practicine by
electric light and is said TO be deve1-
upinS some lightning plays.
\ check of 5000 in payment for the
last of the court house bonds, given by
the county commissioners October
18th. left Boulder county entirely free
from debt.
\ new ditch will be bull from Black
hollow district in Larimer county,
distance of fourteen miles. The ditch
will irrigate 100 eighty-acre tracts in
the vicinity of Pierce.
Joseph 5. Swan, game and fish com
missioner under Governor Adams, and
one of The best known men in the
western part of the state. died at De
beque October 29th from diabetes.
A drug company has been incorpor-
ated al Des Moines, Iowa. with $500,
900 capital and will conduct a chain OF
drug stores along the Moffat road. c.
E Gray of Denver will handle the west
ern business.
The first annual cowboy tournament
was held in Salida October 21st. Cat
tlemen were present from Chaffee, Sa-
suache. Park and Fremont counties
In the parade Saturday there We're
fully 100 visiting cattlemen.
The new home for nurses at the
Oakes' sanatorium in Denver. erected
at cost of $25,000. was dedicated
October 26th. The money for the
home was contributed by William ID.
Sloane OF New York
Judge Dixon's injunction issued some
time ago against the ticket brokers
and restraining them from tratficking
in G.. y. X. encampment tickets, has
been sustained by the Supreme Court
in decision rendered by Judge Steele.
The Palisades National Bank of Pal
isades has been organized, with paid
up capital of $25,000 Werner Il. Reed
of Colorado Springs and several Grand
Junction and Palisades citizens are of
ncars and directors.
The board of capitol managers has
let contract for altering the north
entrance of the state house in Denver,
putting in wider flight of steps and
The work will cost $4,750.
The Idaho Springs Sanitarium Com
pany has been incorporated by n. c.
Merrill. A. s. HaZen and H. c. Mayer,
who have acquired the soda springs
from the Big Five company. 1t is pro-
posed to erect a large sanitarium.
Sheriff w J. Thompson of La Plata
county has announced that he is unable
to grant the petition of seventy taxpay-
ers who requested him to allow gam
bling 10 be resumed in the county.
Many business men of Durango signed
the petition.
The Colorado Springs members OF
the international Typographical Union
have decided in favor of an assess
ment of 80 cents per week per mem
Der TO support the fight of the union
throughout the country for an eight
hour day.
Deputy Sheriff A. f. Butler of Lar
inner county has offered a reward of
500 for information leading to the ar
rest and conviction of the woman who,
on the evening of October 9th. set fire
to the grass on the Kermode ranch,
near Walden.
Attorney General Mills says that he
has received calls from the assessors
of Morgan and Logan counties and
that they have agreed to levy assess
ments according to the increased valu
ations ordered by the state board OF
equalization.
The Holly Sugar Company has been
incorporated with a capital of $780,.
900. The directors are: Platt Rogers,
w. n Wiley. Harry c. James, Ken
meth B. Schley, Michael Gavin, Grant
B. Schley, Dennis Sullivan and viii
liam r. Ryan.
In the District Court at st. Louis
Frank Willis Card, formerly of Como,
Colorado, pleaded guilty to the charge
of numbering Mrs. Beulah Craft. for
whom he had forsaken his wife, and
was sentenced by Judge Reynolds to
ninety nine years imprisonment.
The proposed monument at Denver
to the pioneers of Denver and Colo
RADIO is now practically assured, within
much shorter time than anticipated
More than $4,000 of the $4,000
needed has been secured by the COM
mittee of prominent men. headed by
John S. Flower, which is in charge OF
the work of obtaining subscriptions.
Bishop Earl Cranston of the Meth
dist church, who is sixty-five years OF
age and a widower, will be married at
| Cincinnati, November 18th, to Miss
| Lucy Mason Parker. The bishop is a
| former Coloradoan and well known In
all parts of the state. His son, Earl
| NJ. Cranston, is United States district
attorney at Denver.
A committee from the Fort Morgan
Improvement Association Company, G.
s. Redfield, s. n. Shields and J. p.
Curry. returned from Denver with the
assurance that Fort Morgan is to have
a sugar factory. This agreement was
| reached after a conference between {.
| : Morev of the Great Western Sugar
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