The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1908-01-18
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

. postoffce inspector.
The Del Monte town council has
voted to increase the saloon license
fron $500 to $3.50 per annum
Ihs Fort Morgan sugar factory I'm
i.hea slcing beets on the 18th inst.
e1'eF running about one hundred days
and grinding $4,000 tons OF beets.
The report Of the building inspector
SHOWS that permits for 225 buildings
were issued In Colorado Springs last
year having 4 total cost OF S5oo.SSe.
Or Ella Mead OF Greeley has been
spPo'nted register Of deaths and births
OF Weld county by the secretary OF the
STATE Board Of Health. Dr. Mead is
also city physician.
The Colorado Fuel 4 Iron Com
panys mine at Terico has been closed.
and the lI5 men employed there have
Deen distributed among other camps
IN Las Animas county.
The Weld County Medical Associa-
t'on VIII urge the necessity OF the in
spectlon OF all meat and milk. The
prey aIence Of disease among hogs this
wln'er has helped to bring about this
agitation.
lhe farmers around Johnstown are
Considering the project OF establishing
foug and feed mill They estimate
that over 100000 bushels of wheat was
grown within six miles of Johnstown
last season
Frank Handy, ten-year old boy.
was dangerously injured on the sth
inst AZ Pueblo when a dynamite cap
which he was pounding with a hatchet
exploded with terrific force. Both legs
were horribly mangled.
The electric flag which surmounts
the dome OF the capitol building in
Denver is to be removed and placed
over the CofaX entrance OF the build
ing. An immense electric globe will
be placed at the top OF the dome.
The manufacturing interests of Colo
rado give employment to $4,000 men
and women, at an average salary OF
$S93.6Q. the latter figure, it is said.
ranking among the first in the states
In annual wages to factory hands.
James Weir. a retired farmer, sixty
years OF age. was burned to death on
tho sth inst. at Rocky Ford. By mis-
take he used gasoline instead of kero-
sene 10 light a fire and an explosion
resulted. He leaves a widow and six
children.
During the year ending December
81. 1907. the fee earning officers OF
Pueblo county were able, after taking
out expenses. to turn over to the treas
urer for the general revenue fund,
e12,92417. In addition, the county
court paid the treasurer $47292
The will OF the late Henry p. Hol-
brook, disposing of nearly $1,0O0,000
worth Of property has been filed in the
County Court at Pueblo. After be-
quests Of $1,000 each to the Sacred
Heart ana McClelland orphanages, the
property is left to three sisters.
niece and a brother.
1t is estimated that $50, 900 sheep are
being fed in northern Colorado for
market, and 100000 in southern Colo
RADIO, or the total, ninety per cent,
are lambs, OF which the greater part
IN the south were purchased in New
Mexico, while the northern stockmen
secured Montana and Wyoming lambs.
Irwin Hescovich, a middle aged Rus
sian, was ground to pieces by the
charging car of a blast furnace In the
MinneQua steel works. But few rem
nants OF his body were to be found
when the machinery was stopped, and
had it not been for his brass number
check, Identification would have been
impossible.
The cornerstone of the new Odd Eel
lows hall at Coal Creek, now under
obstruction and to cost $4,000, was
laid on the 11th inst The services
were impressive Visiting Odd Eel
lows from all parts OF the country were
present The former building was
built in 1889 and was burned last June.
The new building will be completed
in May.
From January 9Th until January 18th
applications will be received OF those
who wish to take the examination for
secretary and chief examiner of the
Civil Service Commission of Colorado.
The examinations will be held at the
capitol in Denver January 24th, at 10
o'clock. Candidates must be men at
least twenty-five years of age, OF good
address, education and business expe
rience.
The Southern Colorado Power Com
pany, OF which J. j. Henry Of Denver
is president, and which recently pur-
chased all the electric railways and
light and power plants In Trinidad
and vicinity, has increased its capital
stock to $1,500,000, which it is planned
to float in bonds on the eastern mark.
ct for the purpose of extending the
electric lines to all mining camps ad.
jacent to Trinidad.
Secretary Taft has notified Senator
Guggenhein that a transfer has been
granted I. Y. Hamilton Of Pueblo, from
a place in the clerical force in the gov
ernment service in the Philippines TO
position in the postoffice department
in Washington. Hamilton is son OF
W. B. Hamilton OF Pueblo. He was a
member OF the Colorado regiment
which went to the Philippines in 1898
and after his discharge entered the
civilian service.
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