The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1908-12-05
COLORADO NEWS

Denver building permits for The
nonth h of November amounted to S5AS,-
zoo This is gain OF S-02,545 over
November. 1907.
In view of the prevalence of rabies
at Greeley, Mayor Green has issued a
proclamation ordering all dogs TO be
confined.
The Florence Iron Works Company
has Incorporated with capital sock
Of $4,000 to build large iron foun-
dry at Florence.
b. d. Sanford of Greeley recently re-
ccived several thousand bass ana cat-
fish from the state hatchery 10 place
in Boyd lake and Sheep Draw reser-
voir.
One million dollars will be expended
during the coming year by the Den
Yer Gas & Electric Company, for e2-
tensions of lighting and power and
fuel plants.
The plat of the townsite of Sligo in
northwestern Weld county, which was
surveyed twenty years ago, mas just
been filed at Greeley by the Lincoln
Land Company.
To improve its stock at the Marine
hospital at Stanton, New Mexico the
government has just purchased two
full blood Jersey bulls from C. f. Par
fett of Golden.
1t s misdemeanor under the laws
OF Colorado to entice children away
from school during study hours and
is punishable by a heavy fine, or i'm
prisonment in the county jail.
The La Sale State Bank has been
incorporated with a capital Of $4,000.
The incorporators are: r. w. DeVin-
ney, president; B. B. Carpenter, cash
ier. and D. S. Ellis, vice president.
In his sworn statement of campaign
expenses James T. Low, elected justice
of the peace at Leadville on the Demo-
cratic ticket, affirms that he did not
contribute one cent directly or indi-
rectly to secure his election.
The Greeley public library board
has accepted the new library building
rom the contractors and begun put
ting in books and furniture. The IL
brary cost $4,000, which was
raised by popular subscription.
The trustees of the town of Yuma
have granted to Smith & Theobold
twenty-year franchise for an electric
lighting plant which will be run in
connection with the new flouring mill
and to be in operation by April next.
S. NJ. Wiswell of Roggen, Weld coun-
ty, pleaded guilty to unlawful enclos-
ure of public lands before Judge Lewis
of the United States District Court at
Denver. He was fined S25 and costs
and allowed to go, after hearing Sc
we're lecture from the judge.
The Southern Colorado Power Com
pany will spend nearly $500,Oo0 en-
larging its plant at Trinidad, and ex-
tending wires to many camps of Las
Animas and Huerfano counties and to
Colfax county, New Mexico, where it
has contracts for supplying light and
power to a number of coal mines
The executive committee of the West
ern Passenger Association has notified
railroads running to Colorado that the
association recommends that the tour
ist rates and the merchants excursion
rates for 1909 be on the same basis as
during 1908. The round trip summer
tourist rate from Chicago to Denver
last year was $50; st. Louis, $25; Mis-
souri, river points. $3.50 St. Paul and
Minneapolis, $27.40.
By being made a department Of the
United States department Of agricul-
ture, the Colorado state pure food COM
mission has been officially given the
power to act in interstate matters,
which increases the scope of the com
mission and enables it to prosecute
manufacturers and dealers in food
stuffs located In other states Wilbur F.
Cannon is given the title Of chief of
food and drug inspection laboratory of
the United States Department of Agri-
culture"
Mayor Taylor of Trinidad has noti-
fled he officers of the Santa Fe Trail
Association in Denver that the City
Council has appropriated $500 toward
the historic tablet to mark the famous
old trail. The tablet will be erected
in Kit Carson park, large tract do
mated to the city of Trinidad several
years ago by Mr.. Taylor, and which
abuts on the old trail. Mayor Taylor
was q personal friend of Kit Carson
and gave the ground for park purposes
providing the city would name it after
the famous old scout and spend 50, 900
a year for ten years in improvements.
Governor Buchtel has made the fol-
lowing appointments on the Colorado
State Commission on the Conservation
of national resources: Hon. Frank c.
Goudy, Denver, chairman; president Of
the State Agricultural College. Fort
Collins; dean Of the Colorado School of
Forestry of Colorado College; Colorado
Springs; Col. Kenneth L. Fahnestock,
DR.. John Grass, Senator John J. Har-