The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1908-06-13
COLORADO ITEMS

hSlC dlt Nv SlSHS Vi Il ltt-up III tlie
Denver building boom. Other cities
in the state are also in the swim.
Farmers near Greeley are complain
ing that coyotes are becoming SO num-
erous and bold that they nightly visit
their yards and carry away poultry.
A Greeley man, who is being sued
by sewing machine company, alleges
that his wife was hypnotized by the
agent into buying the machine. There
are others.
What is said to be the largest fish
ever taken out of the Twin Lakes,
weighing twenty pounds and four
ounces. was caught by Edward Lay
cock of Denver a few days since.
Reports show that for the year
190i0S exactly loo cars of potatoes
were shipped from Eaton on the Union
Pacific and 632 cars on the Great
Western, making a total of .s32 cars.
Aided by their wives and daughters,
the officers and directors of the First
National Bank at Fort Collins, enter
tanned over 5000 visitors at the formal
opening of their new building Satur-
day
All the election in Holly the munici-
pal water works bond proposition
was carried by an almost unanimous
vote. The system is to cost about $5o,-
600 and work will be commenced at
once.
Greeley men are proposing to raise
capital and finance an electric railroad
to Pleasant valley, then to Pierce,
Severance and Windsor and westward
to Johnstown, with Greeley as cen
ter.
Bishop William Fraser Mcdowell,
formerly chancellor of Denver UniveT-
sity, has been appointed to preside at
the conference of the Methodist church
of this state, to be held in Longmont
next August.
Ranchmen about Barela, in Las AMI
mas county. complain that an unusual
loss of live stock is resulting from bites
of rattlesnakes, which are more plentl-
full than for years. The long dry spell
is believed to be responsible.
Ethan A. Farnham, sheriff of Routt
county, died at the home of friends in
Grand junction on the 5th inst, of can
Ger of the stomach. He was serving
his third term as sheriff and expected
to be again reelected.
BY the spreading of the rails on the
Denver 4 Rio Grande track near AS
pen Friday, two passenger and three
freight cars were ditched. Sixteen per
sons were more or less injured, some
seriously, though not fatally.
At IA meeting of the Fort Collins
Chamber of Commerce Il resolution
was adopted expressing the confidence
of that body in the ability of the board
OF agriculture to settle all differences
at the college with full justice to all
concerned
The Denver Real Estate Exchange
wants to have Denver made city of
MARBLE and has appointed commit
tee to examine and report on the mar
Bile deposits at Marble in Gunnison
county. where enough fine marble is
said to exist to last for a thousand
years.
Under the provisions of the new
currency law Colorado banks are en-
titled to issue $4.654 900 in new bank
notes in the event of financial
stringency This is the allotment to
the state of the $500 100000 new cir
culation authorized.
The hotel keepers OF Colorado
Springs will entertain the members of
the Rocky Mountain Hotel and
Restaurant Keepers Association on
the occasion Of the annual out
ing of that body, June 18th and
14th. A frying pan picnic" will
be held in South Cheyenne Canon
June 18th, and in the evening a dance
will be held at Stratton Park.
What will go into history as the
highest flight of oratory on the
part of leading political figure in the
country was delivered when John /.
Martin, sergeant-at-arms for the ma
tional Democratic convention, re-
sponded to the appeal of large party
on the top of Pixies Peak and talked
to them for twenty minutes at an alti-
iude of nearly three miles above the
sea.
Mrs. Ruth Bryan Leavitt, daughter
of the great commoner, is coming to
Denver, guest of Mrs. Louis Spratlen
Special significance attaches to her ar
rival, as she will be the only repre-
sentative of Bryan's family to be in
Denver during the convention. AT
present she is on her fathers farm a,
Lincoln, Nebraska. Numerous parties
will be given in her honor while she is
in the city.
Prosecutions are to be started by the
State Stock Inspection Board against
cattle owners who have not complied
with the dipping order issued in
March. The order gave them until
June 1st to carry out its terms. ur-
gent circumstances demanded the dip
ping Of cattle on the eastern slope and
the board will see that the full penalty
of the law is suffered by cattle own
ers who are negligent.
On the Bird inst. one OF the largest
sales in the history of the State Land
Board resulted in the disposal of land
which will eventually represent rev.
enue of little over $92,175 for the
state. Altogether s,69S acres were
sold at prices ranging from $3.50 per
acre to $50. The largest tract CON
tanned sos acres and sold for SIG. G.1G0.