The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1907-03-09
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

EouI Ditht oil VI NAAS SN-'
at Las Arimas Saturday after over
powering the lailer-
Ground was broken a, Greeley On
the 26rh for 4 new Congregational
church TO cost $4,000.
The Pueblo Automobile Club Is
planning mile posts on roads leading IN
all directions from the city.
Mr.. and Mrs A. l.. Barr OF Long
mont were divorced on the 2Sth after
thirty years OF married life.
The nfta annual dog show at Denver
lase week was the most successful
ever held by the association.
A new Masonic temple was dedi
Gated at Fruita on the 26th- One hun
dred and dfty visiting Masons A.
sisted
Mike Marchard Is in the hospital at
Telluride. probably fatally injured. by
cave-in at the smuggier Union mine
on the Goth.
Louis Padilio was killed in a head-on
collision on the Santa Fe at Thatcher
on the 2sth. while riding brake beam.
He had 377 on his person.
Mrs. Alice Moore and Grippon
Turner, a negro have been placed In
Jail at Trinidad on the charge OF the
murder OF Manuel Charez, preferred
against them by the authorities OF
Starkville.
The contract has ben let for the new
armory at Fort Collins. 1t will bo 5ox
100 feet in size and will cost $4,000.
The contract has also been let for the
new r. II. c. A. building. to cost $685.
00o
The cornerstone OF the Aew Chris.
tian church at Canon City was laid on
the 10Th The building. which will
cost about $4,000. will be Of Crecian
style OF architecture and is to be COM
pleted by August LIST.
Tho Wa,senburg and Western Rail
way Company was incorporated at Den
yer on ths 27th capital stock 800. .ooo;
e. w. Grinith, l.. E. Rowland r. T.
Guy. George c. Barnard. F. J. jackson,
incorporators: Denver.
That . Pullman conductor or porter
Is not passenger and may not recover
damages against a railway company IN
case OF injuries sustained through
wreck, is the doctrine enunciated W
| the State Supreme Court.
The Short Line road management
has arranged with the government
| hatcheries for 100. 900 trout with which
| to stock the famous trout streams
along its line known as Gould. East
| Beaver and West Beaver creeks.
The locomotive OF Colorado Mid
| land passenger train on the night OF the
18th inst struck and killed large
| buck deer near Woodland Park. The
| train was stopped and the carcass OF
| the deer carried to Colorado Springs In
the baggage car.
| John DeBaker. who died at Boulder
| on the 26th, and who went to that city
in 1859, was the first man to erect q
quartz mill At Gold hill in Boulder
county II proved failure. He was
| also the first man to erect Touring
mill in that county. in 1862.
William Berry and Charles Green,
| colored. aged ten and twelve years
| respectively, are In Jail at La Junta.
! charged with the murder OF Freeman
| Henry Austin, aged six. by beating him
on the head with brick, during an al
tercation which arose while the three
boys were going home from school. on
the 26th.
One thousand acres OF land lying be-
tween Greeley and Loveland, above
the Greeley and Loveland ditch, will
be plowed this spring and sowed to
| fall wheat next September. This land
belongs to DR.. ]. r. Youtsey and
George A. Jackson of London. and
will be cultivated by the dryfarminS
method.
Old soldiers who are not in good
| standing in their various posts will
| have to refrain from wearing the en-
blems of the Grand Army OF the Re-
public There IS a law in Colorado
which regulates this matter. and the
penalty for violation OF this law Is i'm
prisonment in the county Jail for a
term not to exceed sixty days, or a
fne OF no. more than $50, or both.
The annual breakfast and election
Of officers OF the Denver Press Club
has been arranged for Sunday morn
| ing. March 10, at the Albany hotel in
| Denver. Among the important mat
| tiers to be discussed are the removal
| OF the headquarters OF the club to a
more desirable location. the establish
rent OF a permanent building fund aad
| the securing OF an extensive library.
w. Harold Stewart. twenty years
old, son of W. II. Stewart, postmaster
and ranch owner. Ironton. Colorado.
killed himself at his lodgings In Den
yer at about 3 o'clock Thursday
morning Fighting OF an imaginary
| assailant while in his sleep. he turned
| the muzzle OF the weapon to his head
and fired. Circumstances that sur
round the affair show that he was be-
ing tortured by wild visions Of his
| sleep, and this alone was responsible.
Surveyors in the employ of Senator
| William A. Clark OF Montana. who re-
Gently acquired 10000 acre tract OF
coal land.forty miles west of Trinidad,
have begun stalking out a right OF way
parallel to the Colorado & Southern
tracks, which will run from beyond the
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