The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1907-04-27
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

TueD!o is ABOUT TO stir up muss
over the filthy condition OF their pack
ing house.
V. McCielland. of Glenwood Springs.
accidentally fell into the FRYING Pan
river Tuesday and was drowned.
Denver IS having another pure
food crusade, and for a while baled
alfalfa won't be served as pre-digested
breakfast food.
Governor Buchtel has vetoed the
antifusion bill passed by the Sixteenth
Assembly, 10 just 90 right on and fuse
as much as you like.
Fire Chief Owens, of Denver, says
he had seismographic sensation on
the exact anniversary of the San Fran
cisco earthquake. How shocking.
Napoleon Stone. an aged farmer
from Washington, has disappeared in
Denver and the police are looking for
him. He had considerable money with
him.
After being confined in the county
jail al Grand Junction for nearly
week, James F. Goddard, a prominent
contractor, whose arrest on the charge
of robbery caused a sensation here,
was liberated.
christianity has wasted much
time and energy in justifying God and
making the devil responsible for evil
declared Denver preacher. and some
of his listeners are wondering who he
was 'luding to-
NJ. B. Tomblin, George W. Williams
and w. w. Degge, of Boulder, have
purchased the townsite of Nederland
and will Immediately exploit the prop
erty with a view OF increasing the pop
ulation Of the town.
Scientists tell us that. on an average,
the earth's crust is only fifteen miles
deep and the inside is a boiling. seeth-
ing mass of lava. Someone ought to
speak to these Colorado schoolmarms
about walking too hard on the ground
Colorado's sun was sinking in
swoony sort of way, when a youth and
maid in raptures strolled along at close
Of day; Lets get married" said the
youngster. '.and help to boost the
state" You're it," the maiden an
swered. Now their boosters number
eight
Manitou is dry town just now.
Pressure of other business is RESPONSE
BILE for the authorities failing to grant
extensions OF liquor licenses and the
indications are that the town will con
tinue to be dry for two weeks or longer.
during which time nothing stronger
than Manitou water goes.
While attempting to arrest four men
whom he had detected stealing wire
from the traction company's barn, at
Pueblo, Thomas Self, a private watch
man, was struck with a stone, and
deep cash inflicted in the right side OF
his head Self succeeded in capturing
one of the trio, who gave the name OF
Peter Doyle.
The Denver Marble and Granite Com
pany has just completed magnificent
granite monument to be placed over
the grave of the late Ex-Governor Davis
H. Waite. The monument is the gift
OF the Western Federation OF Miners
and will be unveiled by that organiza-
ton with proper ceremonies at the
cemetery in Aspen on Decoration Day.
A company is being formed at Steam
boat Springs by Clinton Bivens and
Claude II. Rowlette for the piping OF
natural gas to that city from the
Charles Helzey ranch. where there is
a strong flow of gas out of the earth.
The Helzey ranch is four miles north
of Steamboat Springs, and within half
a mile of the Republican mine on Cop
per range.
Several hundred lives were endan-
gered and property valued at 100000
threatened when fire broke out in the
basement of the First Baptist church,
corner of Ninth street and Grant ave
nue., at Pueblo. Several fire companies
responded to the alarm and the blaze
h.D
church was crowded and several were
slightly bruised in their hurry to get
out.
William Dunno, after whom the town
Of Dunneville was named, died at the
county hospital. Death resulted from
heart disease, superinduced by alco-
holism. Dunno was siXty-one years
old, single, and lived at Adelaide. He
was employed on the section by the
Florence Il Cripple Greek road. In
1904, just before the battle Of Dunno
vile, several section men christened
the town after their fellow workman.
A fortune estimated at $4,000 has
been hunting Tom Thomas, a former
resident of Grand Junction, for six
months. Postmaster Price received a
letter recently from Joseph Neuville of
Wellington, New Zealand, urging him
to make an effort to find Thomas Neu-
vile said he was grubstaked by
Thomas and thus enabled to make a
rich strike in Goldfield, Nevada. He
says he sold his claim for $4,000 and
wants to share this wealth with his
friend.
Unless present plans miscarry, the
American Beet Sugar Company will
have at least one more factory in the
Arkansas valley to handle the immense
crop OF this section. The steel frames
for the limehouse and the boiler rooms
have been put in place for the factory
at Las Animas and the work is rapidly
getting under way, with the prospects
for completion in time to handle this
years product. The smokestack is