The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1907-02-23
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS


Bureau for Cnautauqua course to be
had in July.
A eventy-fve-thousand dollar addi-
ton will be commenced within two
weeks at the Glockner sanitarium at
Colorado Springs.
New paving, new sheds and a new
hotc, are among the improvements
which will be put in at the Denver un-
ion stock yards this year.
The contract has been let for the
new San Juan county courthouse at
Silverton. When completed the struc-
ture will cost about 100000.
Expert oil well drillers from Flor
enoe will drill a number OF wells near
Mcntrose for a company in which Ere
mont county men are interested.
The United States senate has passed
Senator Pattersons bill granting the
city OF Durango authority to purchase
lands for water supply purposes.
Burglars blew open the safe Of Car
Teton & Son, grocers. at Pueblo on the
night OF the 18th inst. and secured 1925
in cash and negotiable paper and Sc
curities.
John Gonas Of Colorado Springs on
the 18th inst, shot near Fountain a
monster gray eagle weighing twelve
pounds and measuring seven and one
nalf feet from tip to tip.
The granite blocks are arriving and
work has been comemnced on the erec-
ton OF the Colorado soldiers monu-
ment in front Of the capitol building in
Denver.
At joint meeting OF the directors
OF all the banks of Boulder the sugar
factory proposition was heartily in
dorsed and the people were urged to
subscribe to the stock.
While striking at wounded rabbit
with the but OF his shotgun James
Elmer Bethel of Pueblo, aged eighteen
gears, was killed by the accidental
discharge OF the weapon.
DR.. John c. Keith, for the past eight
cen years one Of the leading physicians
of Leadville, died at st. Louis on the
10th inst. OF paralysis. DR.. Keith was
a Civil War veteran and thirty-see-
ond degree Mason.
The First Congregational Church So
ciety Of Denver. formerly Myron
Reeds church, after selling its old
building on Glenarm street, is about
to erect a new church at the corner OF
Tenth avenue and Clarkson street.
DR.. A. Mckay OF Colorado Springs
will start East shortly to advertise
Colorado and Colorado Springs The
railroads and local public organiza-
tions together with the hotels and
rooming houses, are financing the pro
feet.
The locomotive OF Colorado Mid
land passenger train on the night OF the
inc CT 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.
More than $4,000 has already been
subscribed in Colorado Springs toward
the construction OF a Deaconess hos
pital. which is TO cost 100000. The
institution will be run by the Dea-
coness' board ot the Womans' Home
Missionary Society.
So warm has the weather been at
Boulder that the buds on the trees
have swollen and leaves on the cot
tonwood trees are about ready to come
out. Dandelions are in bloom and
trees are bleeding where they have
been cut or bruised.
A dispatch from Bailey in the Platte
canon February 18th says: The river
Is nearly free from ice, robins are
singing. green grass is showing and
easterners are applying for summer
cottages. But eight inches OF snow fell
here this winter.
The Longmont Library and lecture
Association has just closed its third
year with flattering results. The asso-
citation con iucts a lecture course and
maintains a public library, using the
proceeds of the lectures TO purchase
books. The City Council has just
added $500 to the book fund.
Weld county's coroner for eighteen
ruccessive years, with the exception
of one term, and undertaken at Gree
ley for twenty years, Capt Thomas
Macy, has just celebrated his seventy
second birthday, and on that day his
records show that he had arranged for
. 600 funerals in Greeley and vicinity.
Fruit buds in the Canon City dis
trict have not been injured by frost
during the winter. Never have the or
chards been in better condition than
at present and indications are favor
able for big fruit crop this year. The
only danger now menacing the fruit
crop lS d VI lut WdTM
weather, which might cause the buds
to develop too rapidly, resulting in
their being killed by frost in March or
April.
The Wellington Association has pur-
chased what is known as the Park res
ervoir, a tract covering 160 acres south
of the Arapahoe Peak watershed and
at the foot Of the range in Boulder
county 1t will construct a dam there
sixty-five feet high and about $50 feet
long on the top, which will enable the
storage Of 120, 900 900 gallons of water.
This water will be used for power pur-
poses in the mountains and for irrigat-
ing purposes in the valley.
Farming operations on an extensive
scale will be inaugurated at Larimer,