The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1907-06-29
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

SoHteSl 10 tHe ourtn OF July nrewOrks.
The Fort Morgan brass band has re-
ceIved call to go to Cheyenne From
tier week.
John Wolf Of Denver. a retired
farmer. has purchased home a.
Boulder and will occupy it
crook from Denver turned up IT
Boulder the other day, but before he
ooulo influence anyone he vas shipped
lack TO Denver
The Presbyterian church at Florence
was robbed the other day of 81 and the
trustees offer remarG for the cap
ture of the thief.
The Shaw Dry Goods Company has
been incorporated at Greeley, capital
lied at $4,000. with II. A. Shaw, John
Perkins. James Schryer. Ida Sanford.
Frank Wisncr as directors.
A Denver girl was kidnapped on the
main business street the other day and
spirited away" to Pueblo. The girl
Is II years old. but didn't call for help
until she was 100 miles from home.
The frontier committee of Chevenne
has presented a silver loving cup to be
given at the Greeley harvest day fes-
tival. August %. for the best deco
rated turnout. Weld county is put
ting forth every effort to make its
agricultural exhibit worth while. D.
A. Camfield offers a sl00 banner for
the best agricultural exhibit.
According to the Rev. Earl Hicks OF
St. Louis, June 23d the weather is to he
wal m and showery, June 24th warm,
but the 25th to the 21th the weather
is to be exceptionally cold for summer.
Whether or not this is to apply to St.
Louis and vicinity only is not stated.
If 1t is to take in Colorado it might De
we'll for people TO get out their winter
clothes for few days.
Arrangements have been perfected
at the electrical plant at Lafayette to
send current to Boulder to supply
the southern part Of the city with
light. 1t is hoped to have the north
ern part of the city ready for the cur
rent, soon, and after that the plant
here will no longer be used for elec.
trio lighting, but will furnish power
for the street car service for some
time.
corps of surveyors. headed by D.
w. Chambers of Boulder, is at worR
near Palisade making a preliminary
survey for proposed canal
to reclaim thousands of acres
or land on the south side
of the Gran: river II. W. Lane ami
Judge c. P. Holbrook of Boulder are
interested in the enterprise. and Mr.
Chambers declared that if the canal is
found feasible it will be constructed
and will cost nearly $1,000. 900.
About one-half of the fall grain and
alfalfa crop in the vicinity of Brush
was damaged by fierce nail-storn
which visited that section recently
The storm moved from the northwest
to the southeast. The greatest damage
was suffered by strip of country
three miles wide and ten miles long be
tween Brush and Fort Morgan. The
beet crop was only slightly damaged
The storm was preceded and followed
by a heavy rain which will be bene
fetal to the district.
Police Judge D. d. Finch, one Of the
most prominent and influential Repub
lican politicians in Trinidad, was seri
ously, If not fatally injured in a run
away accident. Judge Finch had one
leg broken below the knee, the bone
protruding through the flesh. He alsc
had several ribs broken and it is feared
that he is injured internally. His
horse collided with a telephone pole,
demolishing the buggy. Judge Finch
was thrown violently against the stone
curbing. Judge Finch was at one time
sheriff
Virginia Funkhouser, five years old
who was sent to the Pueblo orphanaSt
q week ago, made her third attempt &c
escape from that institution in order
as she says, to see her mother in Trim
idad, where the latter is working tt
support herself and six other children
The father died about two years ago
and the mother has since been strus
CLING to exc out an existence. Th5
child, early this morning, started Out
to walk to Trinidad, but was caught al
the Union depot and returned. She
had on two dresses, the outer. as she
stated, so that she might have a clear
one when she met her mother.
United States Senator Simon Gug
genheim paid Longmont visit re
Gently. He was met by Mayor Brad
ley, Judge F. =. Secor and l.. l.. Breck
enridge F. NJ. Downer accompanied
the committee in the drive with the
senator over the city. reception
was held in the rooms of the CONNER
cial association, when the business
men met the senator. Thomas Mo
honey, secretary of the association
gave a short talk in reference to q
United States geological survey OF the
country lying between Longmont and
the foothills, the object of which i:
to determine whether the gypsum bedi
are large enough to warrant the man
ufacture OF cement.
For the purpose OF personally
observing the route for proposed
high line canal. Secretary of the
Interior Garfield and Land Com
missioner Ballinger took an auto spir
over the Orchard mesa and spent
nearly an hour viewing the land neal
Grove junction last week. They were
favorably impressed. The high line