The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1908-07-18
COLORADO ITEMS

ia Fee railroad at La Junta was for
mally opened July l4th.
Rural route No l is ordered estab
lished October lst at Austin. Delta
county. serving 700 people and 100
families
Mrs. Thomas Macon wife of the
late Judge Macon, died at her home in
Denver on the 10th inst. Her health
had been failing for some time.
Gen. w. ]. Palmer has donated a
building site for Jewish synagogue
in Colorado Springs, and $4,000
building will shortly be constructed
Chief Game Warden Charles Puring
ton has provided 100000 trout eggs to
stock the Denver fish hatcheries. The
eggs We're taken from Trapper's lake.
1t took fifty-two persons to do the
ianitor work and keep the big Denver
Auditorium clean during the Demo
cratic national convention, to whom
was paid the sum of $1,000.
Glenwood Springs has a new ce-
ment factory which is turning out good
material and number of new cement
block houses are under way, the first
enc being nearly completed.
The Denver Auditorium, with its
decorations intact, after the adjourn
ment OF the Democratic National con
vention. was thrown open to the in
spection of the public Saturday night
and Sunday afternoon.
Judge NJ S. Bailey of Canon City,
decided that the injunction suit to re-
strain the county commissioners of
Pueblo county from going ahead with
the building of the new county court
house, was without merit and dissolved
the injunction.
A factory for the manufacture of
the Carr beet dump wagon will be in
operation at Greeley in a few days.
conducted by company composed of
Greeley business men and capitalized
at 100000. Seventy-five farmers nave
given orders for wagons.
The socitl science department of the
Wcman's club of Denver has estab-
lished a loan fund from which small
amounts will be lent to the deserv ng
poor notes and securities being taken
whenever POSSIBLE. The initial
amount of the fund is 800.
The big steel tank, thirty feet high
and thirty feet in diameter which has
stood for twenty years on the hill
south of Greeley and been used dur
ing the entire time without repairs in
connection with the old city water
works, has been sold to the Windsor
sugar factory as storage tank for
syrup.
Louis Schneider an old time ranch
man living near Glenn, a small post
office twenty-five miles northeast OF
Limon, was shot in the leg Tuesday
after quarrel with a neighbor over
a line fence between their homes.eads.
After shooting Schneider it is said the
homesteader used the butt of his gun
to beat him over the head. The
shooter was arrested.
Plans for new $4,000 Jail have
been brought to Denver for inspec.
ton at the State Board of Charities
and Corrections office. By Architect
Roe OF Pueblo, who has the contract
for the building. The new jail is
for Pueblo county and is to be one
of the most modern in the country
when finished and will contain sew
eIal features new to this section.
After being ice-bound Tor six weeks
the steamship Ohio, on which Edward
w. Yetter of Denver. president of the
Western Elaterite Roof Company was
d
Nome Since June 1st the ship was
imbedded in the ice floes of Be:ing
sea. Finally it was sighted by passing
ships and towed to Nome harbor by
the revenue cutters Thetis and McCul-
lCch.
The total number of de1ths from all
causes in Colorado during the months
of January, February and March. 1893,
according to the sanitary bulletin of
the State Board of Health just issued
is 13,0G5, with an annual death rate OF
only 1895. This rate excludes still
births Scarlet fever caused seventy
three deaths, diphtheria forty eight,
and typhoid fever thirty during the
quarter.
James s. Barber, one of the first
settlers in the Platte valley, died near
Evans on the 10th inst, aged sixty
three. He was born in Meadville,
PENNSYLVANIA, and came to Colorado
in 1873, settling on a big ranch, where
he lived continually. He was a mem
Ter of the Legislature during Governor
Peabody's term, county commissioner
several years, A Knight Templar and
a member of the Woodmen of the
World.
Three Mexicans. who are alleged to
have been passing counterfeit money
in Lamar were placed in Jail in Colo
RADIO Springs on the 10th inst by
United States Deputy Marshal Thomas
Clarke. The men were detected by
II. b. Richardson of the secret service.
who found that they had been working
in the beet fields near Lamar and get
ting change for IS, $40 and $3.50 false
gold rieces, usually in the evening.
The men are Thomas Ayala, R. Ayala
and Domingo Ochoa.
Martin Hyles, fifty years old, living
on farm near Greeley with his broth
CT Robert, became unsettled in his
mind, brooding over what he regarded
as financial wrongs, and disappeared
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