The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1906-06-02
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

-'Nt@N' I ~ 'f4 S+AF a. iDtA4uFA Will DC
1 held in the Chautauqua auditorium thi.
| year.
/ The park commissioners OF Denver
are fitting up outdoor Fairgrounds for
children in which suitable gymnastic
| apparatus will be placed
The Loveland Chamber OF Commerce
| has inaugurated 4 series Of luucheons
| like those so popular in Denver. and is
/ increasing its membership.
The class Of boys belonging to the
Colorado Springs Young Mems Chris
uan Association will start on a gypsy
! camping trip June llth. visiting the
| cripple Greek district and Canon City.
The Colorado Canning Company OF
| Canon City has increased its capital
| stock and is adding a large two-srory
| brick building to its plant. During
| the canning season 1t expects to en-
/ ploy seyenty-tiye persons.
The preliminary hearing at Greeley
| OF Tom O'Neill. sam ScoyiIle and Fred
| Meter, charged with completely in the
| murder Of Jack Boyle, the Chalk Bluff
| ranchman, has been postponed until
| July 18th, at the request Of the defense
| Representative Bonynge has recon
| mended for appointment as postmaster
| at LittletOn. Clarke z. Couzzins, to sue
| coed Maud c. Olmstead. whose term is
| about to expire Couzzins is a pioneer
! Of Colorado and veteran of the Civil
| War.
| The county school superintendent
/ Of Custer. Pueblo and Fremont coun-
/ ties have arranged for the eightee nth
| annual session OF the Seventh District
| Normal Institute, which will be held
in the Washington school building in
| Canon City from July 30th 10 August
| llth.
! Colonel Robert S. Moore, a veteran
| of both the Mexican and the Civil wars
| died at Denver May 23d at the age OF
/ eiEhty-fTe years He was colonel OF
| the Eighth Illinois and was wounded at
| Stone River Pennington, Corinth and
| Perryyille. During the Mexican War
he was captain in the Fourth Ken
! lucky
Marks Whiteman. a prominent Jew
! ish merchant al Roswell, New Mexico.
/ who committed suicide al Alamogordo
a few days since, formerly resided in
| Denver and Pueblo. He was the origi-
nal of "Whiteman. the jew Merchant"
in Emerson Hough's novel, Hearts
/ Desire"
Mrs I.ucretia /. Hall. aged seventy
!
| FL Paso county. died May 2Gth, at the
| Hall ranch. near Fountain. She is sur
| viyed by a husband. Benjamin Hall, aged
| eighty. and By TWO sons. \ daughter.
/ Mrs \. +. Hatcher Was killed year
/ ago by A train.
! The West Side Neighborhood House
/ Association in Denver has begun work
/ on a new building to cost sl2 900 It
| will be the home Of day nursery. kin
| dergarten, various clubs. night schools.
| and classes in sewing. cooking. basket
weaving hand and tool work. mechani
/ cal drawing, etc.
! OHcers of the Colorado State Grange
| still hope that Denver Will get the Ma
| tiouaI Grange convention. which Is to
| meet November 10th to 2ith next. and
| which il was feared would be lost to
the state on account Of the failure TO
get as low railroad rates as had been
expected and thought necessary.
George \. Reese OF Trinidad has re-
ceired telegram from the captain OF
the tattleship Maine. stating that his
| son. Dwight Austin Reese. had fallen
overheard and was drowned. The boy
was born and raised in Trinidad and
| was seventeen years old. He was ex-
| pected home this month for vacation,
The Denver Fresh Air Fund camp
| will be established this year at Glen.
| more lake. tortl-fiye miles from Den
! Yer in the Platte canon. Sick and en-
| feebIed children will be taken TO the
| camp for rest and reeup~Tati0n under
the care OF the Juvenile Improvement
| Association and the Visiting Nurses
| Association.
! On MAY g3d during 4 small thunder
| shower Fred Brown was killed by a
stroke Of lightning while working on a
| reservoir AT the foat ot Nj Lamhorn,
| near Pauuia- Five a. her men were
with him at the time and they were all
! shocked. but none Killed. Mr Brown
was an old settler and well known in
/ the county. He leaves wife and two
/ children.
! David X Wall Of Denver. who came
to Colorado in 1883 with a good supply
| Of garden seeds and who was he frs,
I man TO demonstrate the agricultural
/ possibilities Cf the state. celebrated
| his eichti,th birthday Nav 2G,h He is
/ still strong and active Before coming
/ 10 Colorado he was a for-y-uiner in
4 California and made money in mining
/ and gardening
! The following new patents have been
| issued TO Colorado investors Melzar
l. Ballard. Durango, synchronizer;
/ William Chatter, Denver. combined
/ match receptacle and iEnirer: \. E.
/ Johnson, Denver. assiEnor 10 Johnson
! Furnace and Engineering company.
! Colorado Springs, Hater-COOled CRATE;
/ Albert Perry. Caribou. ore separator; /;
/ John Thompson and H H Schrader.
Greeley. shingle bracket.
! To make their progress easier up the
/ hill from the State University campus
/ TO the ChautauQUa on the occasion of
/ the commence usnt. June 9th. when
| Gen. Nelson A Miles, former ,ead OF
/ the army Will be the orator Of the
day. the City Council o: Boulder has
3 agreed 10 r-soyiiF 2 ei-1F- res-h Lead