The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1906-11-24
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

years. dropped dead in front of her
home in Durango few days ago
David James. postmaster at Love
lard. died November 18th after an Ill
ness of several months from Brigh.s
disease
The two year-old son OF John Hanna
OF Durango fell and struck on his head
SO hard as to cause his death a day or
Two later.
The new l,ce0-ton sugar beet factory
at Swink was opened November Goth.
tie formal celebration and barbecue
being set for Thanksgiving day.
The Santa Fe Railroad Company will
spend $6p, 900 on the yards Of the com
raLy in Trinidad. The freight depot
VIII be moved up near the passenger
depot AMI enlarged.
A sugar beet recently brought 10
the Greeley factory by Gordie McMil-
Ian of La Sale weighed twenty-one
pounds when trimmed and ready for
grinding.
A reduction OF twenty-five per cent
on telephone charges will become eff
fective at Florence December LIST, ana
the rate on Canon City conversation 5
Will be reduced.
The Grand Junction sugar factory
recently turned out 1,529 bags OF
sugar in one day and the seasons pro
Guction is expected to exceed 100, 900
bags. as against 10000 last year.
Paymaster L. G.. Amman, retired.
United States navy, has been ordered
to duty as pay officer. purchasing pay
officer and general storekeeper at the
naval hospital at New Fort Lyon
Colorado.
Six thousand eight hundred and
siSty-seven books have been added to
the library of the University of Colo
redo during the last year. Two wings
arc to be added to the present library
building.
Chancellor Buchtel. governor elect
made the principal address at the dei},
cation of the new Methodist church al
Greeley on Sunday. the 18th inst. The
building is fine one and will seat a
thousand people
The Denver Fire and Police Board
has passed resolution that there shall
be no increase of the number OF s1
looms in the city. New licenses will be
granted only as old ones are relin
Quished OF revoked.
DIR. Duren Ward, anthropologist in
the State University of Iowa, will move
to Boulder next winter, to continue his
Investigations of the American Indian
He will DC affiliated with the Unitarian
movement near Boulder.
The Durango alleged horse and cat
tie thieves. Red Satriano and Edward
Dusgan. who were trailed by the Du
rango sheriff into New Mexico, went tt
Gallup. The sheriff at Gallup captured
the horses and camping outfit. but the
men got away.
Most OF the apparatus for the new
Trojan powaer works at Overton
eight miles north of Pueblo, has ar
rived. The buildings are almost com
pleted and It is thought the manufac
ture Of powder will be started before
December Isl.
David Matthias. of the freshman
class of the State Agricultural Colleg'
at Fort Collins, lost all the fingers o
his left hand at the second Joint OF
the l4th inst. while at work with
buzz-saw in the college shops. Ma
thias is from Monte Vista.
The applications of B. n. Freeman
Of Durango, w c. Chapman, Franl
Eldredge. F. N. Hampton, B. G. Hamp
| ton and A. T. Sullenberger to organ
| ize the First National Bank of Pages;
| Springs, with a capital OF $25, 900. ha.
been approved by the comptroller o
| the currency.
Charles Irvine. sixty years old ant
an employe Of the Greeley sugar fac
| tory, who had been arrested on th'
| charge Of assaulting an eightyear-ol,
Tirl, committed suicide on the 15tl
| inst by shooting himself through tn,
| head a few minutes before the prelim
mary hearing was to have begun.
Governor Mcdonald has appointed
| Hon. H. C. Stimson on the board o
| control CT the State Industrial Schoo
| for Girls. to succeed Attorney Freder
| icE S. Ellsworth, resigned. Mr. Tits
worth was a Democratic appointee
| and his successor. Judge Stimson, wa:
| candidate for governor on the Demo
| cratic ticket several years ago.
! The funeral of the late Gen Georg'
| West was held in the Methodist ehurcl
| at Golden on the 18th inst. and wal
, largely attended. not only by the PEG
| pie of Golden, but by pioneers. Civi
| War veterans. members of the Ma
! ticnal Guard and newspaper men from
| other towns
A peculiar accident occurred on tht
| 18th inst. ten miles north of Centra
! City. The fourteen-year old son Of Mr.
| and Mrs. Tom Tregay, while out hunt
| ing rabbits, leaned his shotgun agains
| a stump and his dog knocked ii down
Csusing it's discharge The shot strucl
the boys right arm above the wrist in
1 flicting very bad wound
There seems to be no room for doub
| that Judge James NJ Ellis OF Denver
| W as burned to death in the recent hote
| fire at Goldfield, Nevada. Judge Eli.