The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1906-05-12

greatest in the Union.
1here are eighty divorce cases on
the District Court docket at Pueblo.
The State Land Board has appointed
w. T. Fairfax of Pueblo as timber com
missioner.
The Helen Hunt school in Colorado
Springs won prize of SO for the best
showing of any school in the city on
Arbor Day.
The Twin Lakes people think they
see good prospects of the building OF
an electric line from Leadville to the
lakes.
J. J. Harbeck, now at Nice, France,
recently cabled a subscription of $1,000
to the fund being raised for tirst-class
hotel at Boulder
Delta is making a determined effort
to secure the new Presbyterian Col
lege that is to be located somewhere
on the western slope.
Mrs. Laura A, Lane of Florence, who
was thought to have perished in the
San Francisco earthquake and fire,
writes that she had a narrow escape
from death and lost all her household
effects.
The commissioners Of Fremont
county have decided to make re-
quest on Werdon CleGhorn of the State
Penitentiary to furnish fifty more con
victs to work on the county roads this
| summer.
Fire caused by spontaneous combus-
| ton destroyed the plant of the West
| ern Glass Company at Denver on the
| 4th. The plant is a total wreck, at
| loss of Sl50,O00. The loss is two-thlrds
| insured. About 200 are thrown out of
employment by the fire.
| Unofficial returns from the school
| census show an increase in Cripple
| Creek of twenty pupils over last year
| Victor has lost 20o. The outlying
| towns have gained practically all that
| Victor has lost. Total decrease from
the district, 166. Total number OF
children of school age, 3,344.
Plans for the entertainment of the
Missouri Pacific immigration Bureau
| in Denver in June provide for stale
dinner to be given by the Colorado
State Commercial Association on juno
| l2th. a trip over the Moffat road on tho
following day and an automobile trip
through the city of Denver itself on
the morning of June 18th.
Perry Beeney, George w. Ball, sher-
! if of Washington county, and Ezra
/ Stone appeared before Judge Robert f.
| Lewis of the federal court at Denver,
May I'd. to answer to an Indictment re
turned by the federal grand jury
charging the two first with gross land
fraudG and the last with cutting TIM
Der from government reserves.
Counterfeit silver dollars bearing
the n ark 90" OF the New Orleans
mint, md stamped with the dates 1898,
1896 or 1901, are being circulated in
Denver, and a large number of the
coins have been passed on tramway
conductors in the last week. The
coins are underweight. have scarcely
any ring to them, and most of them
have been merely washed in silver,
1t is reported at Boulder that the
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| clectrify it's road between Denver and
Boulder and perhaps further north, and
will secure power from the Westing-
| house company, which is backing the
| Henry deal in the purchase of the Boul-
| der Electric Light & Power Company s
plant, and which is to put up o 81 ,000,-
| coo electric plant at or near Lafayette.
The following new patents have
been issued to Colorado inventors: Al
fred E Johnson, Denver assignor to
johnson Furnace & Engineering Com
pany, Colorado Springs, furnace; Pc
| ter A. Mortensen. Sanford. whistle;
Edwin A. Sperry. assignor, one-third to
w G. Wilson, Denver, ore operator;
Jean f. Webb and c. n. Frederickson,
Denver, electric signaling system.
Durango is to have another teie-
phone line to Denver, an improvement
which is much needed, as the present
line is overcrowded with business
much of the time. The link necessary
to complete the short line lies between
BAYFIELD,, twenty miles east of Durango,
and Del Norte. The line will run
through Pagosa Springs. The survey
| will begin as soon as 1t is possible to
| cross the range and the line will be
| constructed this summer
Professor Cajori. dean Of the engin-
| eering school of Colorado College, has