The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1907-05-18
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

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Company AT Boulder sold lis plant and
business To the HygicnIc Ice 4 Coal
Company.
After working and saving seven
years To get ranch Of their own, Net
tie Whitlow. wife Of John Whitlow, a
wrllknUwn CitiZens. died at Eaton
Their three. weeks-old baby died few
hours later.
The coroner's jury which .nyesri-
gated the cause of the death of VII
liam Mika!sky n Lafayette. returned
a verdict in which the Burlington rail
road is censurcd for furnishing coal
cars with defective brakes.
Three thousand copies OF the annual
report of the Health Departm, nj of
Colorado Springs are being published
and viii be sent broadcast over the
country as an advertisement for that
city. Editions viii be sent to English,
German and French cities.
Returning home at night. John Doro-
they, an cmploye on the RedIaud
ditch. near Grand Junction was way
laid by three hohos. beaten up and
robbed of IS, He lay beside the rail
road track from O'Clock at night un-
til O'Clock in the morning, uncon-
sCious.
Pleading guilty 10 watering the
milk which he sold to customers,
James Ryan, proprietor of the Grand
View dairy at Colorado Springs, was
fined s. and costs. He gave. in ex-
tenuation, the fact that fifteen of his
cows were lost and that he stretched"
The milk to make il 80 around.
Allen Coulson, aged thirteen. son of
I'1 ard ('nnlCnp dap
at Grand Junction, lost a thumb and
three fingers and may lose the sight
of his right eye as the result of pick
ing at a dynamite cap. His face was
hlled with fragments of the cap, many
of which lodged in his right eye. he
is in serious condition.
John Gray of Perry Park, thirteen
miles south of Castle Rock, was ar
rested on charges of selling liquor on
Sunday, waived preliminary hearing
and was bound over to the next term
of the District Court. The Complaint
was sworn out by woman This
is the first move in a campaign to
stop the bootlegging of whisky in This
county.
Word has been received al Colorado
Springs of the death of W. d. L,aing
at Great Bend, Kansas. I.aing formerly
resided in Colorado Springs and for
years lived at Green Mountain Falls.
He was pioneer of the county and
was well known as an employe in the
Denver & Rio Grande baggage room
for a number Of years. He was eighty
years old.
One of the largest funerals ever held
in Denver was that of Mrs. Antonio
Notary, which took place at the resi-
dence of her sen, NJ. Notary 2231 Stout
street. Mrs. Notary was eighty-seven
years of age and had lived in Denver
twcnty-One years. Burial was at Rv-
erside cemetery. 1t required eighty
seven carriages and two street cars to
convey the friends to the cemetery
The subject of freight rates was
taken up at meeting Of the Mer-
chants Association at Colorado
Springs and committee WAS ap-
pointed to endeavor to secure more
satisfactory schedule OF freight rates
for Colorado points. The charge was
made that Colorado Springs vas dis
crtminatcd against in this respect. and
the matter was gone into thoroughly.
Sam Columbo, miner at Berwind,
ten miles north of Trinidad was cleo
trocuted. He was going off shift, car
rying a can of hot water on his head,
when the can touched AN overhead
trolley wire Of the mine tramway, and
the powerful current killed him The
coroner decided that the death was the
result OF the miners own carelessness.
tolumbo was twenty-five years old and
single.
Harry Roberts was burned fearfully
about the face at the Minnequa plant
of the Colorado Fuel & Iron Company
at Pueblo. and is now in the ospital,
although it is believed he will not be
permanently injured Rogers was
looking through the oil plant, and in
order to see how much oil there as in
a tank pushed a lighted torch in front
of him into the tank. The gas gener-
ated from the oil exploded.
After being involved in litigation for
over two years. Mrs. Franklin w
Gaines of Grand Junction. has come
into possession of her share of the
million-dol estate left her by her
father. DR.. l.. F. Lowe. a prominent
and wealthy planter of Crystal City,
Mississippi Four children participated
in the distribution of the property and
Mrs. Gaines received one-fourth inter.
est.
The Santa Fe is now compile ing ar
rangements for erecting d $4,000 hos
pital at La Junta. The structure is to
be built of cream colored pressed brick
trimmed with white stone and located
near the old hospital. Inclined planes
will be used instead of stairways. This
plan Is taken from the famous c. F. &
l. hospital at Pueblo. When completed
the building will be one OF the finest in
La Junta.
Zelda Gedney. a thirteen-year-ol
Colorado City girl, whom p C. Dock
stader is accused of criminally assault
ing, sprang a surprise during the trial
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