The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1906-11-03
COL l0RADO NEWS ITEMS

I NostsuS Sic-VSpT No'
l.ally dedicated on Sunday. the 2etn
lit. The seating capacity is 500.
The recent big storm closed the
Pixies Peak cog road for q week In
clearing the road from timber line to,
he summit, the men had to shower
| through snow from five to twenty-five
.eet deep.
1t lie said that recent soundings In
ILoch Iyanhoe, on the Colorado Mid
and Railroad west Of the Busk tunnei.
have failed to fnd bottom. The lake
| IS situated at an altitude OF about
II. 600 feet.
Harry J. Macy, fruit grower at
Park Center. near Canon City. COM
mitted suicide October 25th by taking
poison. The act is attributed to the
destruction OF his fruit crop by the
late storm.
| T.. f. Dorsey, first secretary OF the
election commission and formerly re-
cister Of the United States land ONCE
at Del Norte, died at his home IN
Denver October 2Sth after short III
ness from peritonitis.
The state convention OF the Retail
butchers and Grocers' Association
will be held at Pueblo January 18TH
and 18th. 1t is expected that 200 dele
gates will be present and they Will pe
Hospitality entertained.
| Charles E. Ward. prominent Den
yer druggist, committed suicide in his
store on the morning of October 2sth.
He suffered from an abscess on the
brain and the pain had become un-
bearable; 20 he took cyanide OF potas-
SUM to end 1t.
| The cornerstone of the new Twenty
third Avenue Presbyterian church IN
Denver, which Is to replace the Old,
historic. once removed building that
was burned six months ago, was iaid
Sunday, October 10th. The new Duiid-
ing is to cost $4,000.
Because he thought his sweetheart
in Italy did not want to marry
cripple, Tony Cancto. an Italian. COM
mitted suicide and was found dead al
his lodging house at Trinidad. He had
a deformed leg, occasioned by an ac-
cident two years ago.
While playing with revolver that
he didn't know was loaded. BERT
Sutton, son Of the mayor OF Engle,
wood, Just south of Denver. shot ana
killed fourteen-year-old Frank Ritt.
man while out hunting near Engie'
wood Sunday. October 2Sth.
| While on their way home on bi,
cycles, Henry Roth and Philip Lauck'
car repairers for the Colorado q
| Southern Railroad, living in GioDe
| VILE, were run down by Union "a.
cific switch engine at Twenty-first ana
Wewatta streets in Denver and iataiiy
injured.
AS the result OF dispute over
pick and shovel at the farm OF f. H.
| Day near Trinidad, Dominic Cesorlo
is alleged to have shot Raphael Ce'
sorio. his brother-in-law, through the
neck with thirty-eigh caliber revoi
yer and also shot Raphaels vile
| through the arm.
| On October 25th, W. H. VIII
liams. fruit grower living
on Cottonwood avenue, at Canon
| CITY. showed crate OF fall strawber'
| r,es of large size and excellent quail
uv. The berries had been covered for
several days under eighteen inches OF
| snow, but were unharmed.
| While engaged in switching cars at
| the Burlington terminal in Denver,
Martin Phillips. thirty-three years old,
a nephew of Thomas Phillips. super
| intendent OF the city street cleaning
department, was knocked under the
wheels of a car and instantly killed.
He leaves widow and two children.
! Mark G. Woodruff, register of the
State Land Board. has resigned that
| office to enter the government forestry
| service as supervisor of the Pixies
| Peak reserve. This is the most I'M
| portant government reserve in the
state, as 1t reaches into Gilpin, Park.
| Teller, jefferson and El Paso counties.
The United Oil Company is expend>
| ing several thousand dollars remodel
| ing its refinery at Florence. Most OF
the cid frame buildings. erected
| twenty years ago. will be torn down
and replaced with steel structures.
| With the improvements the refinery
| will be one of the most modern in the
| West, and will nearly double its ca
pacity.
Superintendent OF Schools l.. c
| Greenlee Of Denver, has received let
ter from President Nicholas Murray
Butler of Columbia University, and
Superintendent Maxwell of the New
York City schools. saying that Denver
will be one of the cities to be visited
| by the Moseley party of British edu
gators who are coming to this country
| In December.
The annual report of the Pueblo ju
venile court, just issued, shows that
during the year fifty-four children
| we're before the court, six being girls
/ Fifteen boys were excused from fur
lher reporting to the court, they hav
| Ing made good their promises. Six
teen boys were sent to the industrial
school and three girls to the state in
| stitution for girls.
The contract has been let for the
Durango city library to a Denver firm
for $ll,O4O In addition to this 1925
| will be paid for two mantels. Andrew
Carnegie donated $12, 500 for this IL