The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1907-12-07
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

Decembe- 18th to I4th.
The Merchantss National bank OF
Salida has been authorized TO begin
business with $50. .00d capital James
}. Mckenna is president and d, H.
Craig cashier
The Democratic club at Denver
voted TO donate $500 10 the fund for Sc
curing the Democratic national conven-
tional convention next year. The en-
tire sum called for is 100000.
The Platteville board OF trade has ap-
pointed a committee to look into the
matter of providing a waterworks sys-
TEN for the town using the same plant
TO generate electricity for light.
DR.. Charles Hendrick, an eminent
New York physician and surgeon and
founder of a large sanitarium in Ard
more, l.. l., is at Colorado Springs max
ing plans to erect a sanitarium at a
cost of s150.o00.
The following postofice appoint
ments have been made for Colorado:
Arriba. Lincoln county. Bessie f.
Graves. vice C. S. Graves. removed:
Larkspur. Douglas county. Philip Rue
Dol, vice F. A. Murphy, resigned.
The state board of health has ap-
pointed Charles L. Walker of Pueblo as
food inspector OF district that will te
known as the Pueblo district, his in
cumbency dating from December 1st.
His territory will include all of south
ern Colorado.
A. NJ. Copeland, who had made two
previous attempts to kill himself, COM
mitted suicide In the city Jail at
kremmling on the night OF the Both ult.
by tying a silk mufher about his neck
and hanging himself by attaching It to
the iron grating Of the window.
December usually shows the highest
shipments of potatoes of the season
from Greeley, but this year they prom
Use to be larger. say dealers. Texas,
the Southwest and near East are the
heaviest buyers. Farmers are now lie,
ceiving sixty-five cents.
At La Junta on Sunday the 1st. inst,
after shooting and instantly killing his
mother-in law. Mrs. Jose Lusero. and
firing one bullet at his wife, f. f. Ad-
deyta, a Mexican, turned his revolver
upon himself and committed suicide.
Mrs. Mrs. Addeyta was not harmed.
large alfalfa sugar meal factory
will be built at Brush for the manu-
facture OF alfalfa meal for feeding.
1t will handle the output of the Ster-
ling and Fort Morgan factories. The
Great Western Sugar Company Is now
feeding 600 head of cattle at Brush.
The largest family gathering at a
Thanksgiving dinner in northern Colo
RADIO was probably that of Tom 8eas-
ley, farmer living south Of Longmont,
who entertained his uncles, aunts.
brothers and sisters with their fam
lilies numbering seventy-one persons.
In the district court at Trinidad Dan
Smith pleaded guilty to a charge of fcr-
gerry and was sentenced to two to three
years in the penitentiary. Smith VAS
the leader in an attempted Jail delivery
which was prevented by one Of the
prisoners disclosing the plan to the
sheriff.
According to report from d. f
Murphy, treasurer OF the Woodm EN- 9
National Home Building Association,
over 100000 has been contributed by
local camps for the national home in
Colorado Springs and it is expected
that this sum will be doubled when all
the camps are heard from.
w l.. Pierce, living northeast of
Mead in Weld county, this year had
thirty acres Of potatoes, havesting
5000 sacks selling for $5,424, and sew
erty acres acres Of beets, yielding 1.53o
tons, valued at $6,S1625 The total
value of the crop was $l2,27025, which
is more than the valuation placed on
his farm.
The Fort Lupton, the Kelsey, tie
Burge and Wattenburg districts and
district No. 100 in southern Weld
county, are considering consolidating
for the purpose of supporting first
class graded grammar school and
separate high school. By such com
bination, II is argued, the school Cx-
penses would be reduced.
Alphonse A. DeRome. conductor of a
switch train on the Denver & Rio
Grande railroad, was killed at Walsen-
burg November 25th by rear end col
lision between his train and freight
train. being thrown against the engine
Of the freight train and dreadfully
mangled. He was thirty-nine years of
age and married leaving a wife in
Pueblo.
According to the estimate OF the pub
fishers of the new city directory, the
population of Pueblo is now 61,4Oo. an
increase of nearly 5000 over last year
The book contains twenty-five pages
more than 1t did one year ago and $500
additional names. 1t contains 24,560
names, which multiplied by two and
ore-half, gives the estimated popula
ton
Captain David r. Sparks. who died a
few days since at Alton, Illinois, is
credited with having set up the first
quartz mill in Colorado near the Bob
tail mine at Black Hawk. The engine
used In that mill is still in use on the
Bobtail. Mr.. Sparks afterward re
turned to Illinois and became one OF
the leading flour millers OF the state
At the time of his death he was about
eighty-four years old. He was an uncle
OF Mrs. George Fritz OF Black Hawk.