The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1908-05-30
STATE news ITEMS

A camp of Spanish War Veterans is
to be organized at Greeley.
Fort Morgan will spend over $1,000
on a fourth of July celebration.
The Fraternal Bankers of America
of Illinois has applied for admission
into Colorado.
Hermann Pfeiffer, a former Denver
fireman, has inherited one-siAth OF
Sl,oO0,000 estate in Germany.
The Elks' club at Canon City has
signed an agreement to quit the sale OF
liquor to it's members or others pend
ing a decision by the state Supreme
Court.
Harry Dowell of Greeley, formerly
of the Victor schools, has a SNOWFALL
bush in his yard upon which three
fourths of the blossoms are bright
scarlet.
Company C of Ault is preparing
to send rifle team to the state en-
campment at Golden next July. The
team will consist OF eight men under
Lieutenant Swone.
The Ohio association of Boulder is
making preparations to give the Ohio
delegates to the Democratic National
Convention q great outing after that
convention adjourns.
The Rev. ]. Thomas Grove, for ten
years rector of St. Lukes Episcopal
church at Fort Collins has resigned to
take effect July lst. He will accept
West Virginia pastorate.
The financial committee of the Flor
ence City Council has just made re-
port which shows that the municipal
debt has been reduced forty-flve per
cent. in the last five years.
Joe Cozzi, a fifteen-year-old Italian
boy of Aguilar, has been sentenced to
a term in the state reformatory at
Buena Vista. He was the leader OF an
organized gang of boy thieves.
The ruins of an aboriginal burial
ground have been found ten miles
east of Holly. The mounds are said to
be covered with rocks forming the out
lines of horses, deer. men and women.
Slot machines seized in raids re-
Gently made on orders of the district
attorney at Cripple Creek were burned
by order of Judge Owen on the 18th
inst. The machines were valued at
$500
Six Greeley Business men. happy
over the rain of Saturday and Sunday.
have computed that the fall, which
was 2.75 inches in the Greeley dis
trict. means that each acre received
315 tons Of water.
The Fruit Belt Power Company, an
auxiliary of the Central Colorado Pow
er Company. has announced that work
will b.ejtarted on the Grand juno
tion street car system about October
lst
The school board of district No. !,
ptrT lln will omnlny a nhVSic31 director
TO conduct athletics. 1t has arranged
for an athletic field in one of the
parks and for the use OF the Mineral
Palace.
Preston Smith. known as the cham
pion broncho buster of Middle Park,
was almost instantly killed May 23rd,
while breaking broncho on Trouble
some ranch, a few miles from Sulphur
Springs.
Walter F. DAILY, chief of the Colora-
do department of the naturalization bn-
reau. has left Denver to make tour
of the courts in Nebraska, Utah and
Colorado to attend hearings in the nat
uraliZation cases.
Florence people will make a Tag
Day of the Fourth of July, when a
big celebration will be held by the Bus
mess Mems Association for the benefit
of the public library. They will try to
tag and tax everybody.
The tri-county fair board held meet
ing at Aspen and elected w. S. Cope
land president and Charles Daley sec
retary. 1t was decided to have straw
berry shortcake day, probably to be
held June Goth.
The general announcement of the
eleventh annual assembly of the Colo
RADIO Chautauqua Association, to be
held at Boulder July 4th to August
14th, has just been issued. 1t is
book of forty-four pages.
The department of biology and ZOO
logy of the State University has bor-
rowed an exceedingly valuable collec-
tion of bees from the Royal Amber
museum Of Prussia for research and
advanced study purposes.
Hal Coulson, at Boulder, has made
successful color plate negative. He
took a photograph of a corner of a
room in his residence and every color.
yellow. green, bright red. etc, shows
up plainly in the negative.
The new Carnegie library at Lamar
was dedicated Sunday, the twenty sec
ond anniversary OF the founding of the
city. The library is beautiful struc-
ture of white pressed brick, and stands
in the center of the City park.
For the first time in the history of
the town Lyons now has a Sunday
mail. Though the efforts of the Lyons
Commercial Association star route
from Longmont via Hygiene was estab-
lished by the Postoffice department.
The Florence Civic Improvement
league, after finishing its work of
cleaning up the accumulation of filth
of the last twenty-five years in Flor
ence, is now turning its attention to
the Identification of the school yards
at the three buildings.
The United Oil Company at Florence
10. ctorfa6 another oi1 ual1 tn