The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1907-03-02
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

Euspands OF members Mrs. L. c.
hedges was toastmistress. Fully $50
guests were present. The responses TO
the toasts were eloquent and witty.
The Society of the Order OF the
Philippines, which has been in exist
ence at Colorado Springs since 1900,
vas reorganized few days since by
the election of officers and the adop-
tlon OF the regular national secret
ritual.
The Boulder City Council has de-
oided to submit TO the taxpayers the
proposition Of issuing $50, ,Oo0 in bonds
for a new city hall. The city owns loo
feet on Pearl street and 1t is intended
TO build on this ground if the bonds
are voted.
The locomotive OF a Colorado Mid
land passenger train on the night of the
18th inst. struck and killed a large
buck deer near Woodland Park The
train was stopped and the carcass OF
the deer carried TO Colorado Springs in
the baggage car.
E. B. Mitchell. chief train dispatcher
for the Rio Grande at Pueblo left Feb
luary 22i for Seattle where he takes
similar position with the Northern
Pacific. Before he left his associates.
ioii dlILiltu uO~ Il 10 coral bcNsr
presented him with a $3.50 Elk charm.
The State University Glee and Man
dolin clubs will begin their fifteenth
annual tour of the state March 9Th and
will give concerts in Longmont. Den,
Yer. Colorado Springs. Victor, Cripple
Greek. Pueblo. Trinidad, Canon City.
Salida, Leadville. Aspen. Glenwood
Springs and possibly Golden.
The Primero mine in Las Animas
county. in which twenty-four men lost
their lives by an explosion on January
23rd. has resumed operations with a
full force. Since the explosion the
coke production at Sesundo was ma
terially reduced but the 500 ovens
there are now running again.
In the absence OF United States Dis
trict Attorney Earl Cranston of Den
Yer. who left Monday for Japan, Rober,
]. Pitkin, his law partner, has been ap-
ointed special assistant in the ONCE.
Mr.. Cranston has been granted a
ninety days leave of absence by Presi-
dent Roosevelt. He will visit his
father Bishop Cranston, who is sta
toned in Japan.
A party OF Is Hollandnrs. represent
ing 40 families. the vanguard OF hun
dreds who will coionize Fountain val.
| ley, south of Colorado Springs. arrived
February 22d, preparatory to founding
homes IN the valley. The scheme is
backed by the Fountain Valley Land
4 Irrigation Company, an interest OF
the Castlewood Dam Company OF
Denver.
At the annual meeting OF the stock
holders OF the Montrose National bank
boy n to ha
n Pueblo and Denver banker and NJ. d
Loy, cashier of the First National bank
OF Florence have purchased controll-
| ing interest in the bank and would
establish 1t among the chain OF banks
| throughout the state controlled by the
| Thatcher brothers. ----
Forty box cars containing about
| 10000 sacks Of potatoes left Greeley
| for Texas and the Southwest Febrn
arv 22d and 23d About 5000 carloads
| of potatoes are still in the Greeley dis
| trict and farmers are selling freely
TO dealers at 70 cents per hundred
| Early California potatoes will not en-
| ter into competition with the Greeley
crop until May. and by that time prac,
tically all o. the crop will be dis
| posed OF.
-ke dates for the next livestock
show in Denver have been set, and II
has been decided to make it a nation al
| show, throwing the competition open
| to the world, with special classifica
tinn and premiums for the territory
covered by the last show. the short
| grass country. The executive commit.
| tee Of the Western Stock Show Asso-
citation yesterday set the dates for the
| 80 ch ha n
20th-25th. 1908.
II is reported that Gen. W. J. Paine.
will shortly purchase an electric auto
mobile, fitted with a large swinging
chair to minimize jolting. General
Palmer has steadily improved in
strength since his recent horseback &C
| cilent. He formerly felt a great an
| tipathy toward automobiles,an there
| now exists an order forbidding them
| to enter any of the canons or to use
| the boulevards controlled by him. w
| A. Otis, in an automobile. first rem
| dered aid to General Palmer when he
| lay unconscious on the road to Glen
Eyrie. as result OF his accident some
| mcpths ago.
The Greeley sugar factory has fin
isbsd slicing the last of its 1906 crop
| OF beets This factory has broken the
worlds record for any factory OF 100
tons capacity, in having sliced the
greatest tonnage in any one sugar cam
| paign. 1t made 100000 tons OF beets
| into $1,000 tons Of sugar The aver
age yield OF beets an acre in this dis
| tric. was fourteen tons. The sugar
! campaign began September 18th and
| lasted 163 days. The average length
| "a
next year this factory will not run
| longer than that time. Six thousand
acres of beets will be grown for the
Greeley factory next year. The Gree
| lev, Eaton and Windsor factories have
| sliced 900 tons Of beets this sea
son, and have distributed to the grow.
ers and employees $2,000,000.
Charles n. Cox of Denver, repre-
1 ;pd ylita1 haQ ha