The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1906-06-16
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

4 course ot forestry will be es-ao-
l!saed :. the State Agricultural C>.-
iege
Tter was q big snowsl!ee near Mon
tszHula IN Sgumi- county. June 5,h.
/ .eyeIed = considerable strip OF pine
forest
The gross receipts ot the Denver
posrottee tor May were 81 i63. against
So .5+ for the same month last year,
an Increase Of sll.gyi
Mrs A E. Hensen OF Denver took
a teas spoCnfGl Of carbolic acid by mis-
tax II place Of paregoric. and lied
within fifteen minutes.
Twenty-Five marriage licenses were
issle1 at Denver in one day recently.
bR. this is sti!I below the record,
which IS twenty-nine for day.
The sandstone depot of the Colorado
Midland railroad al Ute Park was De-
stroyed by fire Saturday night. june
10Th. the damage approximatng
s. 600
The diocesan council OF the Episco-
pal Church OF Colorado. IL its session
il Denver. voted to add 81 0V9 to The
auntal salary Of Bishop Charles s
Olmstead
The State Board Of Equalization at
its last meeting IN Denver, June ILth,
adjourned uutil October lst, when 1t
wiA hear complaints concerning the
assessment OF property.
John Quinn is serving a sixty-5ay
sentence in the Pueblo county jail ior
preventing his ten-year-old son from
reporting regularly at the juvenile
court as ordered by Judge Myrick.
". D. White, who is grading for the
Florence electric line, has nearly 200
men employed and says that on the
next pay day 500 900 will be distrib-
Uted. Nh White believes the road viii
be finished by the middle OF August.
The citizens Of kremmling are pre-
pairing to celebrate the advent Of the
Mofrat road by giving a three-days' eel
cbration on July 4th, 5th and 9Th.
[ There will be horse racing, broncho
busting. baseball, = dshbake and other
amEsements.
The County Couuiss slolers OF B0ul-
der county have promised $1,000 10
help the people Of Boulder TO build a
good road up Flagstaff hill, west OF the
city. This vii! make accessible some
II the finest scenic attractions in the
/ foothills.
The Oldest and largest tree IN Gree
ley is a cottonwood that was planted
IN 1871 by Mrs Abigail Durham, no
is now the oldest woman In Greeley,
! being in her ninctierh year. The tree
is fifteen feet in circumference and
/ seTenty-fye feet high
The ninth annual meeting OF the Az
! kansas Valley Press Association was
( held at Salida on the 9Th instant. Guy
/ L Hardy Of the Canon City Record
aas elected president and p. Byrne Of
+ the Be ssemer EInI!ca.or secretary and
treasurer. The location Of the next
meeting was left to the executive com
u.tttee.
The first train !uto Telluride from
Denver and Durango without transfer
ring. arrived June @th. the great slide
on Keystone hill having been cleared
I away. One thousand feet OF track was
! carried away by the landslide, making
/ IT necessary to build new grade and
/ track Freight and express have been
/ conveyed by wagon.
/ \ charter has been granted by the
I territorial secretary Of Oklahoma TO
the Pueblo. Oklahoma 1; New Orleans
Railroad Company. with Sc 50u-0Gu cap
ital stock. and with headquarters at
+ Oklahoma CITY. The proposition Is to
/ baild a line from Pueblo 10 New Or
/ leans. a distance OF 1859 miles, al an
estimated cost OF s2l.0gg, ,ee4.
Harry Holt, one Of the best known
t and Oldest railroad men in Boulder
] county. was killed Saturday evening.
/ June 10th, in Sunset He was brake
/ man on the c. q y and al the time
! was on d freight train. He fen from
/ the box car as the train was crossing
/ ne bridge at SuSe- and broke his
nec, The coroner's jury found that
death was accidental.
/ At IGttlotCn. on the 1ltk inst. Clar-
/ ence Bair was hurled clear over the
/ top Ct a freight train by an engine