The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1907-03-23
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

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Colorado has another legal holiday.
II is Colorado Day-August LIST
Burlington has been made a presi-
Dental postoffce at $1,000 year. and
Montclair. at $1,000 a year
shipment OF 10 cars of sheep
from the Fort Collins and Greeley dis
tricts started for the Chicago market
on the lith.
II there isn't music in the air at
Fort Collins 1t will be no fault of the
band boys. who have just received
their new uniforms.
Ludwig. Nelson and Jess A. EDDY,
miners employed on the Golden Cycle
mine at Victor were killed by an
explosion on the lith.
Winter tiptoed in SO quietly. acted
sn nicely. and departed so slyly that no
one knew 1t was on the place. Colo
RADIO weather is nothing il not genteei
The Logan County Advocate and
the Republican at Sterling have been
consolidated and will be conducted by
ID. c, Smith. former publisher OF The
Republican.
Announcements OF the tenth annual
session OF the Colorado Chautanqua
and summer school, 10 he held nj
Boulder. have just been made. Twelve
distinct schools are organized. thus
giving the students splendid opportun-
tiles
Alfred Hopley and Bert Perry.
messengers for the Wells-FarSo Ex'
press company between Aspen and
Basalt. have been arrested on the
charge OF embezzling package con
tanning $500. said package having
"a, ..yhtt ,ctt
Alfred Hopley and Bert Perry. mes
sengers for the Wells Fargo Express
Company between Aspen and Basalt.
embezzliEg package containing
$500. said package having disap'
peared while in transit.
The Scouts Revenge" a blood and
thunder tragedy in three acts. has
been perpetrated upon an unsuspectinS
public in various towns in the state
during the past week Just what the
public has done to have revenge taken
out On II, the complainants sayeth
not.
Tuesday night about $40 Miss Het-
tie Bever. a lCyears-old girl, was shot
through the window at her home in
North Delta. the ball passing through
her arm Just above the elbow Jimmy
Workman, twenty-five years old. is in
Jail charged with the crime. which he
denies.
Clifford Pinchot. chief OF the forest
service, has recommended the release
from temporary withdrawal OF $50.
acres of land in western Montrose and
San Miguel counties. A large area
had been temporarily withdrawn in
that region pending an examination to
determine its suitability for forest pur
poses.
The reclamation service wants 80
900 barrels OF Portland cement for the
Uncompahgre irrigation project and Is
asking cement mills to submit pro
posals which will be opened April l5th
at Montrose This cement VIII be
used In lining the Gunrison tunnel.
which IL now considerably over hall
completed.
After months OF negotiations be
tween the Denver Rio Grande and
the International Association or Ma
chinists the latter organization has
secured the cocessions it was asking.
ond 500 rnachinists and pipemen nave
been granted al increase in wages of
two and three cents an hour, nine
| hour day, and time and a half for
overtime.
Mrs J. B. Smith was taken TO Fort
| Morgan from Snyder by Sheriff Bur
dette and lodged in the county Jail,
| charged with the murder of her six
| teen -year-od daughter, Shirley Smith
| Mrs Smith was arraigned before Jus
| tice of the Peace Edward Wilson at
| Snyder aud was bound over to the dis
trict court in $4,000. which she failed
| to furnish.
Manuel Rodrigues, a Mexican. was
about to be sentenced to ten years
| by a Fort Collins judge on the charge
| nf assault with a deadly weapon,
when the county physician intercedcd.
stating that the man would lose his
mind il such n heavy penalty were i'm
posed The judge relented and gave
| the Mexican one day in jail. II 5
| great to be crazy.
1t is stated that the Santa Fe Rail
| road Company is wedding out all oper,
ators who belong to the Photographers
union. 1t is said that fifteen union
teIegraphers between La Junta and
| Las Vegas were discharged this morn
ing that no reason was given. but
| that it is on account of their union ar
| hliations. What the outcome will be
| is uncertain. Among those discharged
| were two operators at Trinidad.
fire started from an unknown
| cause in the boys dormitory at the
| Fort Lewis Indian school, fifteen miles
| from Durango, at 8 O'Clock TUESDAY
night In spite of the efforts of the
| employees of the school and the assist
| ance of the scholars the building was
| destroyed together with the gymna-
| sum and schoolhouse adjoining All
| OF the buildings in question were old
| and had been used since the establish
| ment OF the government military at
| Fort Lewis The loss probably will
! exceed $4,000 The entire contents ot
the bulldogs were saved. There are