The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1908-01-25
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS


postAasier at Denver and confirmed
by the Senate.
The Kansas Club will hold its annual
banquet at the Brown Palace hotel in
Den0er January 29th.
The twenty-first state convention of
the Young Mems Christian Association
VIII De held at Greeley. February 9Th.
7th and Sth,
The farmers in the Hollandville dis
trtct, northwest of Grand Junction.
nave organized an independent tele-
phone company.
Jacob Hilderman, living on farm
twenty-five miles southeast OF Greeley.
mas gwen an acre Of ground for the
site OF a new school house.
William X Mason and Joseph Van
derWelde, charged with being the slay
ers OF Secret Service Agent Joseph
walker. Will be tried at Durango Feb
TIN.
DR. Ella Mead OF Greeley has been
appointed register of deaths and births
OF Weld county by the secretary OF the
STATE Board of Health. DR.. Mead is
also city physician.
John p. kleckner. a veteran OF the
tain Of Pennsylvania company, fell
dead on the 10th inst. while making a
call al the Love ranch. near Fountain.
In the District Court at Trinidad
MONDAY Judge Henry Hunter SEN
tenced Charles Martin, convicted on
the 18th inst. OF the murder OF Willis
Leary, December 2Gth, to life impris-
Onment
Saving their earnings for their work
in the beet fields for the last flve
years, a number OF Japanese surprised
Greeley real estate men by asking to
purchase 20 and 40-acre tracts on
which TO grow beets.
James A. McIlwee, superintendent OF
the Delmonico mine at Cripple Creek,
has patented a propelling apparatus for
boats which is operated by pedal at
tachment and is claimed to be easier
and mere rapid than the use OF oars.
Ault has practically completed its
$30,Ov0 water system, and water was
turned into its mains on the 18th inst.
The water is obtained from wells and
controlled by air pressure. Later deep
wells will be added to the system for
the domestic supply.
The United States Senate passed the
bill providing for increasing the cost
limit OF the federal building at Colo
rado Springs from $275, 900 to $780,
600, the increase to be employed in
subs tituting granite for sandstone in
construction
The postmaster generals report OF
postottlce business for December
shows that the business transacted at
Denver amounted to $100,933 against
$SS,966 for the same month in the pre-
vious year. showing an increase for
1907 over 1906 of $l1 1867.
A petition has been filed in the
county court OF Weld county for the
incorporation of the town of Firestone,
in southwestern Weld county. Daco-
Gated less than year ago, and the
first two have been incorporated,
Battery A OF the field artillery OF
the Colorado national guard has been
organized at Walsenburg with 25 mem
bers. Tho battery which will be un,
der the command of Capt. J. c. Exline
has gathered guns and weekly prac'
tee will be held on ground north OF
town.
Rev. w. A. Frazer. pastor of the
First Presbyterian church at Holly,
died on the night of the 18th inst,
from hemorrhage on a train between
Fountain and Colorado Springs, while
on his way to Denver to enter tuber,
culosis sanitarium. He was thirty
years old.
An unique piece of tapestry needle
work has been purchased by the State
Normal School to be placed in the in,
dustrial museum. 1t was made by a
Swedish girl and represents King Alta
of Sweden playing a harp by the sea,
1t is a skilful blending of painting and
embroidery.
Mrs. Jennie Feiner, aged forty-two
years, wife of a-peddler, was .oFeftaksn
on the trestle over the Platte river OF
the Denver & Intcrmountain railroad
al Denver, and jumped into the stream,
breaking through the ice. She was res
cued, but sustained injuries to her
spine that were thought to be probably
fatal.
Richard Vernon, an Englishman, who
earned fame in Pueblo by shooting Ed
Barnett six times and then having him
sent to the penitentiary, has written
to friends in Pueblo from Switzerland
that he expects to soon come into an
Inheritance which will give him an in
come of 100000 a year He is now
studying mathematics at Zurich.
DR.. John B. Phillips, professor of So
cology and economics at the State
University at Boulder, has been
granted leave OF absence for year
and a half to take the position of pro-
fessor of politics and administrative
law at the University Of Michigan, in
place of DR.. Fairlie who goes to Wash,
ington, D. c., on government work.
N. Shirashi, a japanese, was found
at Pueblo on the morning Of the 18th
inst with his head severed from his
body. A bullet hole was also found in
his breast and the scene showed evil
dence Of a desperate struggle. The
crime had been committed but few
hours before the body was found as