The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1906-06-30
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

The picnic of Colorado Pioneers set
for Saturday, June 23d at Elitchs Gar
dens. in Denver. was postponed until
the next Saturday on account of the
storm.
Fremont county is one of the few
counties in the state that is entirely
out of debt and has money in banks.
In the last four years it has accumu-
lated $4,000 above all expenses.
The school census of Larimer county
taken in April shows the total number
of persons of school age is 1860. This
is nearly double the number reported
in the school census OF 1900, showing
a rapid growth
The commissioner of the General
Land Office has withdrawn from pub
tic settlement, to be included in the
Fruita forest reserve. l9S, 900 acres of
public lands in Mesa county, near
Grand Junction and Fruita
Twenty-Five miles of the gigantic
Colorado Fuel and Iron Companys ca
nal to supply the steel works with Wa
ter from the Arkansas river have been
completed and the workmen are now
within eight miles of Pueblo.
John Ivey died at Central City, June
26th from injuries received by the
falling of a rock in the After Supper
mine at Black Hawk. He leaves a
widow and three small children, and
was member of the 4. Q. U. w.
Judge Ben b. Lindsey of Denver
says that he has never refused five
million dollars, or any other sum of
money, from John D. Rockefeller for
juvenile reform work. One good rea
son is that Mr.. Rockefeller has made
no offer of money.
Farmers in the eastern part OF Ell
Paso county are planning to erect a
$50 900 -four mill at Peyton, as a result
of the success of the durum, or maca,
roni wheat planting. Twenty thousand
acres have been planted, and the crop
is expected to be over twenty bushels
to the acre.
DIR. S. E. Solly, the prominent Colo
RADIO Springs physician who was re-
Gently taken to Chicago in a special
car for the benefit of his health, is said
to be much improved. DR.. Solly will
probably never be able TO reside in
Colorado, and Will make his future
home in California.
At Victor. June a3d, Michael J. Gill
more, aged forty eight years, a timber
man at the Portland mine, was caught
between the cage and the shaft and
killed. being dragged upward to the
20O-foot level, where the body was re,
covered. He leaves widow and six
children, the oldest boy of fourteen
The forty second grand lodge meet
ing and twentieth annual reunion of
the Benevolent and Protective Order
of Elks will be held at Denver July
10th to Goth. The gathering will not
be restricted to Elks alone-the dears
are coming with them, and the Colo
RADIO game laws have been abrogated
for the occasion.
Convicts working on the new county
road at Brewster, near Florence, dug
up part of skeleton of a monster
prehistoric animal. 1t is leg bone
eight feet long, ten inches across and
six inches thick in the narrowest
| place 1t is partially petrified. An eff
fort will be made to locate other por-
tions of the skeleton.
Mitchell Benedict of the law firm of
| Benedict and Phelps. one OF the pio-
| neer lawyers of Denver and man of
prominence in his profession, died at
Asbury Park, New Jersey, June 23d
from heart disease. Judge Benedict
was a Civil War veteran, having been
captain in the Twelfth Pennsylvania
and acting as provost judge.
William Mcpherson and John Tet-
low, who were badly injured by the ex-
| plosion of missed shot at the 1ngle-
side limestone quarries. are still in the
| hospital at Fort Collins, and not likely
| to get out for some time. Neither Is
| aware of the loss Of his sight, as their
| heads have been kept bandaged ever
since the accident, and they have not
been informed Of that fact.
| Plans for the 5000 building of the
| Y. NJ. G. A. to be located in West Den
| yer near the Denver & Rio Grande
shops, are being completed by the rail
| way department of the association.
Helen Miller Gould has promised do
nation and with the $4,000 in the
treasury of the organization, the struo-
ture will be erected. The Denver L
Rio Grande will pay for the site.
| Daniel Witter, a widely-known Col
orado pioneer and prominent land at
torney in Denver, died June 22d. he
had held the position OF miners Judge,
member of the Legislature, collector
of internal revenue for Colorado, vice
president of the first street railway in
Denver. of the Denver Safe Deposit
and Savings Bank and of the Denver
| Water Company. He was the first Re
publican nominee for governor OF
Colorado.
| Plans are being prepared for new
water works system to be installed by
Rockvale, near Florence, to cost about
800 900. The old reservoir will be
abandoned and a new one, holding 25'
600 Oo0 gallons, will be excavated
three miles south Of the town. A new
water source has been discovered
about six miles up Oak Creek and the
water will be piped to the camp. The
money will be raised by citizens, the
town to pay them six per cent.