The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1907-01-19
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

/ been paid in full.
The Denver Press Club will give {.
minstrel show at the Broadway the
ater in Denver on the night of Janu-
AIRY 25th.
. 1t is probable that a six months
course in cooking will be introduced
in the medical department of the Uni
! versity OF Colorado.
JEFF Noonan, an old time prospector,
| was found dead in front of his cabin
| in Laadville on the 18th inst. his
| death is attributed to heart disease.
The adjourned meeting of the Colo
| -ado Baptist state convention Will DC
| held at the Galilee Baptist church in
Denver on January oath and 25th.
Thomas kneale will represent the
Boulder Commercial Association in Sc
| curing beet acreage for the proposed
| new sugar factory at Boulder.
A new market has been opened to
| Colorado for its onions. Five thoua
| and sacks, making "A total of eighteen
! carloads, were shipped last week to
| New York.
John W. Seaman, one of the best
| known citizens OF Loveland, formerly
postmaster and assessor died on the
| 9th inst of Bright's disease at the
age of sixty-five.
The Colorado & Southern Railroad
| Company will expend sl5o,0oo in re-
building and eGuipping its coach shops
| and wood working mill in Denver,
which were burned lest year.
Capt. Thomas NJ Anderson. Jr., OF
! the Seventh L. S. infantry, who has
| been drilling the cadets at the Agri-
| cultural college, has been ordered to
rejoin his regiment at Detroit, Michi-
| gan.
Negotiations have been taken up
| with the railroads running into Den
| yer for the purpose of securing reduced
| rates to the annual tournament OF the
Western Bowling Congress to be held
| in Denver in March.
Miss Katherine Craig, state superin
| tendent of public instruction. will ad
dress the state superintendent De
| partment of the National Educauona!
Association, which meets in Chicago
, February 26th to 2sth.
j. NJ Hover, general manager OF
the Dorcas Mining. Milling & Develop
| ment Company, died at Florence oD
| the 9th inst. of pneumonia, at the age
| of sixty-seven years. He had recently
| returned from a trip to Nevada.
The preliminary for the University
| of Colorado oratorical contest will be
| held February lst The final contest
| will take place February 22d. Prizes
of s25 and SIS have been offered for
the winners of the first two places.
Mr.. Susan Biertower, superintendent,
| of the Pueblo Hospital Association fof
fifteen years. has filed her resignation
which has been accepted to take place
next month at the annual meeting
Her management has been very sue.
cessful.
The lifeless body OF William A
Walter. who had not been heard from
for several weeks, was found on the
9th inst. by party of searchers al
the bottom of 70-foot shaft at his
mine on Red mountain, nine miles
from Silverton.
Last month was the warmest De-
I cember in Colorado Springs in twenty
six years. according to the report OF
the United States weather bureau
at Colorado College. The highest
temperature was 6S degrees, the lowest
being degrees.
w. E. Dingman. clerk OF the Dis
trict Court at Cripple Creek, has sued
the Denver Post for $4,000, the
amount OF damages wnich he claims
to have sustained through the publica-
ton of an article under the heading
of Cripple Creek Officials Short"
Mayor Speer OF Denver was thrown
from his carriage on the 14th inst.
and received some bad, but not dan
gerous bruises on his head. Mrs
Speer, who was with him, escaped
without serious injury. The mayors
spirited horses were frightened by an
automobile.
The regents of the State University
have Just imposed compulsory gym
nasium work upon the freshmen OF
the college of liberal arts. The work
is to begin next November and will
continue until May. The freshmen OF
this department are less subject to
exercise than those of any other de-
partment
While East recently Judge Lindsey
OF the juvenile court in Denver was
invited to Ottawa. the capital of Can
ada, to assist in framing law SINH
lar to that in force in Colorado
While there he was the guest of Lord
Grey, governor general of Canada
The measure is now before the Cana
dian Parliament.
It is expected that Boggs Flat, a
large arid section Of land about ten
miles southeast of Florence, will be
brought under irrigation by system
OF artesian wells which are to be
drilled at various depths within the
next few weeks. The plans for the
campaign have been finished and der
ricks and drilling machinery ordered.
Kulver is the name Of new town
started at the terminus of the Black
Hollow branch of the Colorado &
Southern railroad. The road runs east
and west some eight miles, and the
town is to be built on this spur near
the eastern end, ten miles north of