The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1908-05-23
COLORADO news

Mrs. George D Notl uoS
pointed superintendent OF schoois IN
San Miguel county, vice Charies D.
Watson, deceased.
Roger Williams has been appointed
postmaster of Williamsburg. Fremont
county. to succeed +. w. Morgan, de-
ceased.
Ed. Flutz, a teacher in the Central
high school at Pueblo, has been ap-
pointed principal Of the Canon CITY
nigh school.
Nearly 1000 persons attended the
dance given by the Pixies Peak Press
elnb at Stratton Park pavilion, Colo
esdo Springs, Monday night.
Steve Adams, charged with the muir
der of Arthur l.. Collins at Telluride,
haA been granted a change OF venue
from San Miguel county to Mesa coun-
u
Of the $500 acres of sugar beets
planted for The factory at Fort Morgan
only a few acres each will have to be
replanted by about half dozen peo-
pie.
The residents of Box Elder valley
in Weld county have voted to form an
Irrigation district to provide water for
40 900 acres Of land lying above the
Latham ditch.
Paddy Mullaney, former president OF
he Free Coinage union, w. F. M, was
taken in custody at Florrissant and
taken to Jail at Cripple Creek to be
examined as to his sanity.
The damage by fire that destroyed
the four large ice houses of the Den
yer & Rio Grande railroad at Palmer
= L., octi ato od
upwards of $4,000.
The financial committee of the Flor
ence City Council has just made re-
port which shows that the municipal
debt has been reduced forty-five per
cent. in the last five years.
The Steamboat Springs Milling Com
pany has started up its mill again after
a five years shutdown. The flour is
made from wheat raised principally IN
the valley about Hayden and Craig.
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.
Nearly all the foreigners of Euro
pean origin who come to the Greeley
district and other agricultural sections
of northern Colorado are anxious to be-
come American citizens as soon as pos
sible.
Tony Capanetti, convicted at Trini-
dad of attempting to blow up Superin-
tendent A. Alexander of the Frederick
mine at Segundo, has been sentenced
to a term of ten to twelve years in the
penitentiary.
The school census of Greeley, just
completed, shows 2,175 children Of
school age a gain of 109 over last year.
The compilers estimate that popula-
ton of the city at S,S1S, not including
the 500 Normal School students.
The summer season on the Moffat
road was inaugurated Friday the Is tn
inst. with the first of the seasons
tourist trains. The regular excursion
season opens June IS, when the West
side Denver Tramway employees take
their outing.
The foods in Texas, which washed
away the early potato crop, gave an
unusual market for 125 cars OF Greeley
potatoes at $1OO a cwt There are said
to be less than twenty cars left in the
district. The farmers of Lucerne held
their potatoes and profited greatly.
/ Emmet Poe Coughlin, OF Denver, has
passed an examination for cadetship
in the revenue cutter service, standing
second on an application list Of 100.
Only twenty-one Of this number
passed He will go from Washington
ter cadets on their cruise to Europe
on the schoolship Itaska. The course
at Baltimore lasts three years.
/ A mob of several hundred people be-
sieged the county Jail at Pueblo on the
night Of the 18th inst. bent on lynch
ing James Lynn, the negro who killed
Sarah James and wounded her mother
the week previous. They only desisted
when it was proved to them that the
murderer was not in the jail, but at
Colorado Springs.
I Fire on the 18th inst. destroyed the
tipple. shaker house, powder house,
engine room and boilers Of the Stan
dard mine. two miles east of Lafay.
cite, with an estimated loss of $4,000,
reported to be fully covered by in.
Surance.
The band and First battalion, Twen-
ty-first infantry, in command of Ma.
jor Almon l.. Parmenter, returned
to Fort Logan, near Denver, from a
six-day practice march Thursday.
They were camped near Castle Rock
from Sunday until Wednesday. Gen.
eral Thomas and the field officers of
his staff and Colonel Williams and
the other field officers of the Twen.
/ ty.first infantry arrived at the camp
Monday and remained until Wednes.
day morning, completing the ninety
mile riding test.
A freak tornado of local character
visited the mining camp OF Cokedale,
Las Animas county, Sunday, doing
considerable damage, the force Of
which was directed upon the property
of the American Smelling and Refin.
ing Company, the company store suf.
fering the worst
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