The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1906-02-24
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

VI sdHiZeu at the university OF Denver.
Frances NJ. Seeley has been ap-
pointed postmaster at Akron, vice c. J.
Irwin. resigned.
The will of the late Gen Fred Wal
Sen leaves a number of vacant lots in
Nalsenburg to the city to be used for
the site of municipal waterworks
plant.
Jack Hitler and j. C. Kerns were
sentenced by Judge Lewis at Colorado
Springs to seven to eight years each
i'll the penitentiary. They were con-
Eicted of working confidence games.
Gen. William ]. Palmer's Monument
Valley park near Colorado Springs is
TO be beautitied by the planting of be-
tween 5000 and 1000 spruce trees,
brought from the mountain district
South of Florence.
George F. Doane, the man who To-
Gated Aspen, and who later located the
Roane-Rambler mine near Battle Lake,
Wyoming, which he sold for $4,000
GOO, died at Denver on the 14th in
slant of heart failure.
The city and the Rio Grande rail
road will Jointly build a new bridge
across the Arkansas at Salida, which
will cost $4,000. 1t will be a modern
structure of concrete. sixty feet wide
and 120 feet long, with a center pier.
The St. Charles Mesa Fruit Growers
and Farmers Association. composed
OF men residing south and east OF Pu-
eblo, is taking vigorous steps to en-
force the law against shooting quail
and other legally protected game birds.
George Marshmann, who held up Il
ranchman at Henderson in broad day
light three weeks ago. pleaded guilty
TO highway robbery and was sentenced
In the District Court at Brighton to
from eight to ten years in the peniten-
tiaiy
J. Y. Vigil, Democratic candidate for
county clerk of Las Animas county,
and whose office was contested for by
Eugene Garcia, Republican candidate.
the latter having been given the Office
by the Supreme Court. has filed mo-
ton for reheAring.
Governor Mcdonald has received a
handsome diploma from the manage
ment of the Lewis and Clark Exposi-
tion for distinguished services The
governor helped in making the Colo
RADIO exhibit success and made a
speech on Colorado Day.
TO test the constitutionality OF the
law and decide the question whether a
horse with a docked tail can be i'm
ported to Colorado the cases against
Charles E. Stubbs and Nehemiah Fit.
zel in the District Court at Denver
will be appealed to the Supreme Court.
Business men from all over the state
attended the dollar dinner given by
the Colorado State Commercial Asso-
citation at the Antlers hotel at Colo
raod Springs. The feature of the af-
fair was the launching of a movement
to secure a million population for Col
orado.
Company II of the First Colorado
infantry was mustered out of service
at Boulder Thursday, February 18TH
and Troop ID, composed of forty
horsemen, mustered in to take its
place. Company II had gradually de
clined and the cavalry service was
more popular.
The owner is being sought for a
ring worth $3.50 found near Valmont
in Boulder county beside the railroad
track last fall. The finder, Al Teeck,
says there are six diamonds in the
ring and initials which the owner can
describe. He will not give it up until
a full description is given, but is aIx.
ious to find the owner.
Mrs. Sarah Platt Decker is in St
Paul, Minnesota, completing arrange
ments for the biennial convention of
the General Federation of Woman's
Clubs. Mrs. Decker will be candi'
date for reelection as president Of the
federation, and large delegation OF
Colorado women is expected to attend
and support her.
Patents have been issued to the fol
lowing Coloradans: Aaron B. Allen,
Pueblo, nut lock- Charles F. Fifer,
Boulder, claw hammer and spike
puller; Daniel Hug. Denver. water,
wheel; George B. Price, Colorado
Springs, fire escape apparatus; Jesse
II. Sutherland, Dawkins, hayrake at
tachment; James H. Wilson, Denver,
trace carrier.
The will of the late Gen Fred Wal
sen has been filed in the County Court
at Denver Fred George Walsen is
named as the residuary legatee in the
instrument, and the estate is valued
at about $500, 900. Bonds to the value
OF 5000 of the Rio Grande Southern
railroad are left to the widow and So
900 to each of his three daughters,
Freida NJ. Renshaw. Millie Chamber
lin and Cora Walsen.
Dennis Callahan. an old resident OF
Colorado, died at St. Anthony's hos
pital in Denver February 18th after an
illness covering period of ten years.
Mr.. Callahan was well known through
out the state, having come to Colorado
in 1876. He made his home in Louis
Vile, where he was engaged for time
later embarkins in the cat
tie business and amassing quite for
tune. He was victim of paralysis.
By the decision of Judge Riner in
the federal court at Denver the gov
has failed in collecting an
extra $4,000 in revenue stamps which
the revenue officials held should have
been affixed by the late w. S. Stratton
to his deed to the Venture corporation
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