The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1907-08-24
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS
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Colorado.
Colorado's crop OF tourists this year
is more abundant than ever.
A Denver tramway car, carrying
thirty people. was wrecked recently
and many passengers injured.
Miss Emma Gabel of Milwaukee died
at Fort Collins recently from an at.
tack of appendicitis. She was prac-
tically among strangers. but kind
hands administered ,o her.
Edward Kyle. aged p. accidentally
discharged a revolver and killed John
Conrad, a government sheep inspector.
whose home was at Olney, Colorado.
The shooting occurred at Denver.
The structural steel for the new no.
tel at Boulder, receipt OF which was
delayed because of the switchmen's
strike. has reached Boulder, and work
on the hotel has begun anew. but now
there is a scarcity of brick.
The first carload of early Greeley po-
tatoeS to leave for market was shipped
/ by j. Gervin of La Sale to Denver.
They brought $l50 a hundredweight
and were of superior quality, the car
bringing between $3.50 and $500.
Raymond. son of Eli Jeffreys. paying
teller OF the First National bank at
I rinidad, was thrown from horse on
his fathers ranch and sustained a
broken leg, besides many other bruises.
The boy was brought home and will re-
cover.
At the Country club a dinner-dance
was given by Miss Evelyn Walsh OF
Denver and was attended by about
fifty guests. among them being the
elite of Colorado Springs and Denver
society. The function. though informal,
was one of the most brilliant of the
present season.
The ice famine at Fort Morgan has
caused the forming of n company to
Immediately build an ice plant and
work on the structure was started at
once. The building will be 80 by $50
feet and cost about 100000. l.. Oter
J. +. Williams and L. /. Cook are the
projectors and expect to supply local
consumers this summer.
The first car of the Fort Collins
street railway has arrived frC:n Den
ver and is being fitted for use IN the
West Mountain avenue line. !. is
brand new. having just been turned out
of the shops in Denver expressly for
service. 1t is attracting a great deal
of attention. Another car. a duplicate
of this one, is expected III a day or
, two.
During a severe electrical storm at
Trinidad lightning struck the home OF
Mr.. Howard, at Jansen, three miles
west of there. Mrs. Howard was par
TALLY paralyzed by the shock, and her
recovery is doubtful The bolt struck
clothes line by which it was con-
Quoted to the house and the latter
would have been destroyed by fire had
Il not been for the prompt action of
the neighbors.
Michael O'Grady OF Evans has
brought suit to forecloSe Il mortgage
on a large amount of Evans property
valued at many thousands of dollars,
against the hcirs-in-law Of E. M Per
klns. The Perkins mortgage was or
| iginally given to S. r. Huffsmith and
| covers an undivided one-half interest
| in several blocks of Evans property
and wa. assigned to OGrady, who
owns the other half interest Of the
property.
Suit for divorce, on the grounds OF
extreme cruelty, has been brought in
the county court at Cripple Creek by
Violet Bragunier, wife of David Bra
Eunier. They were married in Chey-
enne about three months ago. Last
February Bragunier's first wife, whom
he married in public at the Elks' car
nival about three years ago, secured a
divorce upon similar grounds. Two
divorce cases inside of six months is
a record in Teller county.
The Ell Paso County Cattle Growers
Association will hold another meeting
to take further action with reGa.d to
the cattle quarantine in this county
State Veterinary Surgeon Land has
notified the executive committee that
the quarantine has been placed OF the
cattle by the government as precau-
ton against mango. This disease, it
is claimed, is not prevalent here, and
vigorous action will be instituted in an
effort to relieve the embargo.
In a race war between Greek ard
Italians at Bucktown, near Lcadville
Joseph Mufago received slight scalp
wound, but is not seriously hurt. Sam
uel Terquillo has been arrested,
charged with intiicting the wound. The
shooting, it is said, grew out of Guar
rel over the affections of a woman.
Friends of both men took up the fight
and more than a dozen shots were
fired Mufago was the only man III
jured. Sheriff Dan Bonner stopped the
fight.
The body Of George Walkenshaw
the young boilermarker who was swept
to his death while fishing In the Grand
river near Grand Junction, was recov-
cred. Two small boys, who were fish
ing in the stream, discovered the body
floating on the rifle in an elbow Of
the river They secured a boat.
brought the body to shcre and 1t was
taken to an undertaking establishment.
The remains were sent to Salt lake
for burial A reward c. $50 offered
for the recovery of the corpse will be