The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1908-12-19
STATE NEWS ITEMS
The Colorado Kennel club will hold

A movement has been started to or
ganize a new mining stock exchange in
Denve-
the Crystal Theatre Company. cap
italizeu at $4,000. has been incorpor-
ated to conduct a vaudeville theater
at Greeley.
Antonito has voted for gravity
water system to be owned and oper-
ated by the town, drawing its water
from large springs.
On January 2sth Leadville will cele-
brate its thirtieth anniversary by a
home coming of Leadville pioneers.
There will be high old times about
two miles high.
A congress of Colorado Sunday
school associations will be held at
Pueblo Dec z7th-29th. This will be the
first time the congress has been held
outside of Denver.
The thirty-eighth annual session OF
the Colorado State Teachers Associa-
tion will be held in the East Side high
school at Denver, Dec. 2Sth, 29th, Both
and 31st.
Manager A. B. Hulit OF the Kansas
Colorado Power and Transmission
Company, expects the road to be COM
pleted from Pueblo to the top of the
Royal Gorge by May 1st next.
On the night of the Sth inst. fire
destroyed the shaft house and build
ings Of the Mesa Mining & Milling
Company at Unaweep, entailing loss
of $4,000. There was no insurance.
Another per cent. dividend has
been declared by Richard H. Malone,
receiver of the defunct Fidelity Saw
ings Association of Denver. This divi-
dend means the disbursing of Sal, 200,
anu makes total of 40 per cent. paid
to depositors
Stephen n. Bennett, pioneer
nearly eighty-three years old. and
brother-in-law of eX-Lieut. Gov.
Brush, died at Greeley on the 10th
inst. of disease incident to old age. Mr..
Bennett came to Greeley over thirty
years ago.
John E. Godding, late president OF
the State Bank of Rocky Ford, con-
victed of receiving deposits after the
bank was insolvent and sentenced to
eight TO ten years in the penitentiary
at Canon City, was received into that
institution on the 18th inst.
Railway mail service to Walden,
Colo. from Laramie, Wyo., will soon be
turned over to Laramie, Hahn's Peak
d Pacific railway, going by train to
within thirty-five miles of Walden and
then by star route. At present seventy
miles is covered by stage.
The scientific students and members
of the University Scientific Society
of the State University are cooperat-
ing with the office Of state dairy COM
missioner for the purpose of purifying
the milk and milk products which
are produced in Boulder county.
There is still talk at Fort Collins of
Secretary of Agriculture James Wilson
becoming president of Colorado Agri-
cultural college. While it has not been
definitely decided who will succeed DIR.
L. o. Aylesworth. and probably will not
for several weeks, there are rumors
that Mr. Wilson will be chosen.
The new town OF kuner, nine miles
y, y. ..
ey, president of the Great Western
Sugar Company, that it will donate
eighty acres for building and furnish
water if he will establish sugar fac
tory there. kuner town has a large
cultivated area tributary to it.
Conrad Markus, who came to Colo
RADIO from Russia six years ago to work
in the beet fields, has just purchased
an sO-acre farm mile west of Greeley,
for $4,000 from A. q. Salomon of Den
yer, who has held the land twenty
years. Salomon purchased 800 acres
for $3.50 an acre and values his re-
naming tract at $3.50 an acre.
The Denver Reservoir Irrigation
Company has just let contract for the
completion Of the Stanley Lake dam,
one OF the chief works of the project,
five niles north Of the city limits Of
Denver. Kenefick & Quigley. of Kan
sas CITY, have undertaken the work
and tunnels for the system, the irriga-
ton ,mpany has let contracts calling
for an expen iiture Of about $1,620, 900.
At Cripple Creek Tuesday William
Campion, brother Of Andy ]. Cam
pion, a commission man of Denver, sat
down in a chair in the lobby Of the Ma
tional hotel and went to sleep. A few
minutes later a porter discovered that
Campion was dead. The coroner's au-
topsy disclosed the fact that death was
due to blod clot near the heart.
Campion was butcher, thirty-four
years cid. He leaves a widow
DIR. Ben Beshoar OF Trinidad, Demo-
cratic nominee for the state Senate at
the last election, has served notice of
election contest upon Senator Cashmere
Barela. who has lust received hiA GER