The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1906-12-08
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

The North Park Creamery Company
u preparing to establish large cream
1 cry at Walden,
| Pueblo switchmen have been notified
4 that an increase of cents an hour has
| been granted them on all Colorado
| roads.
A large bald eagle has been roosting
for several weeks among the columns
| at the base of the dome sf the state
| capito! building in Denver.
A Denver policeman on an electric
| motor cycle will hereafter run down
and arrest people who run automobiles
| faster than the city ordinance permits.
Five hundred and fifty thousand
pounds of potatoes were shipped from
Greeley recently to Forts BraAi.;7rd,
Huachuca and Riley. for the use of tt-
army.
The movement TO secure a large
| sugar factory at Boulder is being
pushed, and II Is believed that the
| requisite acreage contracts can be se-
| cured
Russell Sage. convicted OF forgery.
has been pardoned by Governor Nc
| Donald. Sage was sentenced to from
| two and one-half to five years in the
penitentiary.
| leaking gas Jet occasioned fire
in the warehouse Of the Colorado Cas-
| ket Company at Denver on the morn
| ing OF November 10th, which resulted
in the loss of 5000 collins, valued at
$4,000.
| Diilard F. Parker, yard brakeman OF
the Colorado 4 Southern, was run over
! at Fort Collins November cath, while
| switching cars and, and was instantly
| killed. He leaves i widow and an in
FAINT girl.
The people OF Sallda are urging the
residents of other towns along the Ar
kansas river to Join with thea in a
movement to prevent the pollution OF
the river by the placer mining opera
| tions near Granite.
| The Boulder Riding and Driving
| Club has been organized as an offshoot
of the Boulder Commercial Associa-
tion. Its president is F. r. Park; Will
| liam Firstbrook, vice president. and
| w. S, Bellman, secretary.
| w. II. Bradfeld. pressman at the
Star.Journal office in Pueblo. had his
hand caught between the plate and
roller of Hoe press on Thanksgiving
| day. the veins and nerves on the back
OF the hand being torn on.
Ray Fisher and William Quinn OF
Denver, fourteen and seventeen years
old respectively. blind inmates of the
| Colorado School for the Deaf and
| Blind, were drowned while skating on
| Prospect lake at Colorado Springs on
the goth ult.
| AT Colorado Springs on Thanksgiv-
ing day a crowd of young hoodlums
| wantonly attacked f. T. Koupa. mail
| carrier throwing all sorts Of missiles
at him. A brickbat hit him on the
| forehead and knocked him senseless.
| infiicting serious injury.
Former United States Senator
Thomas NJ. Bowen of Pueblo has just
sold his ranch of several hundred
acres nine miles from Del Norte. and
| between that place and Creede, to John
Cleghorn warden of the state peniten-
tiary, The purchase price is 100000.
Governor Mcdonald has appointed
| Congressman Brooks. Bonynge and
Hogg and Congressman-elect Cook
| and Haggott as delegates from Colo
| RADIO to attend the Convention for the
| Extension of Foreign Commerce in
! Washington. D. c., January 14th. The
| congressman will all be in Washing
| ton at that time.
| So desperate have farmers, commits
| lion men and merchants at Greeley be-
come over the shortage Of cars fop
shipping purposes that there has act
| ually been talk of using force to stop
the empty freight cars passing through
| the Greeley district on their way to
| California and use them in carrying
! potatoes to market.
Jerry Kelly, aged fifty-three. who
was secretary of the Victor Miners
Union at the time Of the strike, died
at Victor Thanksgiving day from val
yular disease OF the heart, leaving .
widow, daughter and son. He con.
tracted tuberculosis at Goldfeld. Ne
vada, from which place he returned
| about six months ago.
Al Grand Junction on the morning
| OF Thanksgiving day Joseph M. King,
son OF J. b. King of Red Oak, Iowa,
aged twenty-five years, and heir to half
! million dollars, was asphyxiated by
the fumes from burning gas heater
| in the bath room adjoining his bed
| room, being found dead when his room
was entered about o'clock in the
| morning.
| The Colorado State Conference Of
| Charities and Correction meets at the
| Woman's Club building IN Denver De
| cember 9th. 10th and 11th. Governor
| elect Buchtel will be one OF the prin-
| cipal speakers, together with others of
! the leading men and women Of the
| state. The attendance of county com
| missoners and all students OF sociol-
| ogy Is especially desired.
| In the federal court at Denver,
! George L. Suttle was found guilty of
1 cutting timber on government land in
| Routt county. His two sons, Arthur
| l.. and Elmer, who were named as de-