The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1906-08-25
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS


has increased its annual dividend from
six per cent. 10 seven per cent
John Monahan, aged about thirty.
two. committed suicide at Victor on the
18th inst, by taking carbolic acid
z. G. Simmons. owner OF the Pixies
Peak cog road. has sold tn Iron
Springs hotel in Manitou to JOIN Ray
for $4,000. =
mems Clubs will meet in twelfth an
nual convention at Pueblo OctoDer LIST.
continuing in session five days.
Mrs. Izetta George, who has been In
charge OF the Colorado Relief Bureau
at San Francisco. has about nuished
her work and will return in a few days
to Denver.
James G. Pierson. driver for stor-
age company, fell under a slab Of mar
bic that was jostled OF his wagon near
| tho United States mint in Denver, and
WIS instantly killed.
The Western Slope District Confer
ence. Federation of Women Clubs.
will meet at Gunnison August IN and
3lst. An open rate Of one far and
fifth has been authorized by this rail
roads.
Manual training has been adopted as
part Of the curriculum OF the high
school at Boulder. Prof ]. c. Chester
has been appointed director, and a con-
tract let for an extensive Quitting OF
tools.
According TO the Denver Un on Wa
ter Company, the amount OF water
used daily in Denver is $50 gallons to
each inhabitant of the city. And yet
there are many dirty looking people in
Denver.
The value OF real estate in Trinidad
has increased twenty per cent IL the
last year, according to real estate men.
who attribute the rise to the coming
Of upwards of 1000 people to the city
in that time.
Mrs. Carry Nation, who was arrested
and put in Jail for drawing a crowd in
her attempt to open a crusadr in the
worst section Of the Denver. was re-
leased by Mayor Speer without being
required to give bail.
L. w. Lewis, the negro who was
blown up by premature explosion in
the stone quarry near Starkyile. was
taken to Trinidad and had his right leg
amputated. He lost both eye, one OF
his hands and his left foot.
Louis Knox Kelso has been sen
fenced to twenty months f. jail at
Pueblo for selling bogus onequarter
interests in mining claims sad to be
located in Grand county. ThsEe were
ten complaints against him. mostly by
women.
George f. Corbin, Sr, memts- of the
Corbin Dairy Company, die at his
hCme in Denver August 21st. 8 The age
of seventy-nine years. Mr.. Corbin was
a cousin of Major General Cuy3tn and
was one of the wealthiest daiTg men in
the state.
In a At of alteration of II nd Mrs
Mary Anne Begley of North Denver
wandered away from home anI was
drowned In shallow frh near
Golden. She was from Sco'aal and
shought that she was goins 10 the
Grampian hills.
In helping to extinguish a Nre in an
outbuilding of the Barstow nine, near
Ouray, Jack Mccoy was strurE in the
thigh and seriously hurt by a bullet
from q revolver in the buildiUs. which
was exploded by the heat. HIS 'high
bone was fractured.
Frank Conway, alias Georce Fergu
son, admitted in police coulr al Pu
eblo that he had changed his name
when he went to work in ii grading
camp in order that he mig not be
forced to pay the employIn nj agent
who mad secured him the Jot
The famous evangelist, Bill Sunday
ard his assistants, will hold 4 big re
viyal in Salida, beginning September
Goth. Mr.. Sunday, known as lie base
ball evangelist, at meetings 40 Canon
City two years ago added oN ihou-
sand converts to the church
Henry O. Morris, Pueblo agent OF
the Colorado Humane Societ notified
a mounted policeman that hereafter
when cows or horses being -iEsn Il TO
the pound refused TO be led driven,
an animal ambulance shou be put
into commission for the pul g-e-
Miss Martha G. McCaulley uf Welles
leg College, has been appoi1'-d i dean
of women in the State Uni ersity at
Boulder, filling the position made va
cant by the resignation of Miss Hen
rietta j. Meetneer, the known
and successful former dean VI women.
Durango's public library assured.
Andrew Carnegie has given $1,000 for
a building. plans and specific aons are
being drawn by a Denver rclttect
and bids will be called for W au three
weeks The site is three 70 Oh Sec
ond avenue, donated by Gcr"tal W. J.
Palmer of Colorado Spring and val
ued at $4,000.
George Gaskill barber was run
down and killed at Denvsr August
10th, by an automobile dri' by Gil
bert II. Denton, president Of the Nul-
can Iron Works Company. AI. Den
ton claims that he was runnlnS slowly
and that the bicyclist W. on the
wrong side of the street, coming di-
rectly toward him,