The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1907-09-07
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

Mrs. David Henry. pioneer of Colo
RADIO, aged -. died at Trinidad
recently.
Another cloudburst caused havoc
with the railroad tracks in Clear Creek
canon last week.
ODE Croft. a famous stallion owned
by DR.. Kelly at Pueblo. is dead He
leaves record of 2: l6.
A COW on the track caused a wreck
| near Lafayette the other day. She
saw the cowcatcher first.
Anna Hensted, aged %. is dead at
Colorado Springs as a result of being
burned by the explosion of gasoline.
S. NJ. Hadden of the State Normal
school, has just received fine collec
tion of native woods from Porto Rico
A field of Turkey red wheat raised
near Boulder by J. A. Miller on a dry
farm. yielded twenty bushels to the
acre.
Golden pulled off a bronocho busting
contest on Labor Day that made Chey-
.nne busting look like hobby horse
race.
Every town in the state where labor
ers are employed to any extent OBJ
served Labor Day with proper cere-
mony.
Half dozen loungers in a Denver
! saloon were held up recently and made
to turn their coin over to lone
bandit"
This gambling dens at Boulder we're
raided a few nights ago and the way
the chips flew would have made an old
woodsman green with envy.
Mrs. John Race, a highly respected
pioneer, 60 yaars of age, has disap-
peared from her home at Greeley and
search is being made for her.
May Cater colored, is suing Frank
r. Marsh of Colorado Springs for
| s. 600 because he smashed her buggy
and injured her with his automobile
kid" Wallace, sent to the peniten-
tiary as confederate of Antoine Wood
in the murder of Capt. Rooney, was
pordoned by Governor Buchtel on La
| Dor Day.
On Thursday, September 18th, the
| citizens of Longmont will celebrate the
| eighth annual Pumpkin Pie Day. Spe.
| cial trains and YER low rates via Colo
RADIO & Southern railway.
F. c. Cradles 20O-acre farm south
| west of Greeley, has given yield Of
'
| bushels to the acre. The entire crop
was grown without irrigation.
In cleft in the rocks in Glen Haven
Estes park, where it had probably
been for centuries, F. NJ. Scott, by a
| breaking off of rock, discovered an
ancient vessel of curious workman
ship. 1t fell to pieces when handled,
| but has been wired Mr.. Scott will ex-
plore farther thinking he may have
uncovered prehistoric abode of the
| Cliff Dwelling type.
1t has remained for a Lake City jury
! to disregard the unwrtten law of justi-
| fica'ion for murder and after listening
to the unbosomng of the soul of the
wife of Patrick f. Donnelan, slayer of
| Anderson Nordquist, who confessed
her shame in the hope of freeing her
husband. twelve men brought in a YER
| dict of murder in the first degree and
| fixing the sentence at life imprison-
/ ment.
Frank Kiser and John w. Reeve
| were bound over without bail to the
| October term of the District Court, on
| the charge of setting fire to the depot
at Boulder and numbering Ira Wilson,
Oscar r. lie Fevre and A. E. Weeks,
| by Magistrate Holiday. The men were
represented by w G. Houston of Boul-
der and w. NJ Appel of Denver. They
were tried jointly, as the same evil
dence was used in both cases. Assist
ant District Attorney T. A. Mciiars of
| Boulder was in charge for the state,
and was assisted by Ralph Talbot Of
| Denver, the special prosecutor, who
took but little part in the examination
of the witnesses.
Richard c. Sayles, 40 years old, col
| ored, dropped dead at Greeley while
putting on his shoes, and an autopsy
| made by Coroner Macy shows that
heart failure induced by an overdose
Oh acetylene, was the cause of death.
Indications from LISTERS are that the
medicine was prescibed by an Eastern
physician, with whom SayleS was con
sulting both in regard to his health and
love affairs, and that possibly the medi-
cine was taken as a love potion All
knew Sayles as respectable negro,
! working as porter in shop here, and
no one dreamed that he was the owner
of two good farms in Kansas and
small ranch near the sugar factory,
| which was found to be the case.
Several expeditions have been sent
| out from the University of Colorado
| this summer to collect geological,
| botanical and geological specimens for
| the museum. The State Geological
| Survey, under Professor Russell ID.
| George and Instructor Ralph ID. Craw-
| ford will collect number of minerals
| from the Poudre valley region and in
| Routt county; Professor T. ID. A.
| Cockerell has been at Florissant, Colo
RADIO, collecting fossil plants and ami
mails, while Professor Francis Rama
| ley and party spent a week in the
, neighborhood of Ward collecting a
complete set of the plants and animals
| of that region, paying especial atten-
tion to the lake region. Judge Jhnius
Henderson has also collected mum
her of fossils