The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1908-06-27
STATE NEWS ITEMS

| houldef Sl25,0OU MOTEL, built by
Boulder business men, is nearing COM
pletion.
The plant of the Flint-Lomax Manu-
1acturlng Company in Denver was de-
stroyed by fire June Goth, causing a
heavy loss
postmaster Sours will install a de-
partment of the Denver postoffice in
the auditorium during the Democratic
Nauonal convention.
The new wagon road between Grip
pie Creek and Victor is finished, re-
duc1nS the Pike distance between the
Two cities from six to four and a half
miles
| The state will get $400 in inheri-
tance tax from the estate Of Edward
r. George, George left $4,000 worth
| OF property assessable under the in
heritance TAX law.
Former Chief of Police Michael A.
| delaney of Denver, charged with hav
ing assaulted T. l.. Mathews on May
9Th, will not be tried until the Sep
| tember term Of court.
| Under the supervision of Deputy La
Dor Commission Axel Swanson, all the
| labor laws of the state enacted up to
January. 1909. have been compiled by
vert. He has them for distribution.
The Fort Morgan Chamber of Com
merce has printed 10000 leaflets Civ
ing description of Fort Morgan and
Morgan county. They will be used
during the Democratic National con
| vention in Denver.
Roger c. Sullivan, Democratic ma
| tional committeeman, from Illinois,
and chairman nf the subcommittee haN-
ing in charge arrangements for the ma
| t1onal convention of the party, left Chi
cago for Denver Sunday.
The members of the First and Third
| Colorado cavalry who participated in
| the battle of Sand Creek in 1864, will
hold a reunion at the site of the strug-
gle on July 18th of this year. leaving
| Denver IN t:le morning OF that day.
An automobile line from Greeley to
Estes park is proposed by B. D. San
born. who with ]. F. Stanley, owns
large properties in the park, and by d.
| A. Camfield The Union Pacific has
| offered 10 DO all in it's power to further
| the project The plan is to put on
steam automobiles.
The Gilpin County Chamber OF
| Commerce has presented Lee MEGA
| ger. member of the high school grad
uating class of 1908, with a check for
| $40 in appreciation of his Grafton en-
titled "Gilpin CONFEDERATION" and
has asked permission to use it in a
booklet being got out to advertise the
| resources of this county
| Crops of many dry farmers near
Grover n Weld county, have been
badly damaged by hail and in many in
stances rerlanting will be necessary.
Garden patches were completely ruined
and Young corn was cut to pieces, and
the fields where it stood must be re-
seeded. Four cows. one horse and two
mules were killed by lightning during
| the storm.
With the starting of the new STRAIT
largest of its kind in the Cripple Creek
gold mining district, which will occur
In the course OF a short time, the ship
ment of the lower and average grade
ores from the independence mine to
the United Reduction works at Colo
rado City will cease. The mill has a
capacity of 5000 tons per month,
which may be increased at the option
of the owners.
Delegates from Colorado appointed
by Governor Buchtel to this years ma
tional good roads convention, which
meets in Buffalo, N. Y, July 7th and
/ Sth are almost all automobiles or
| dealers in motor cars. They are as fol-
| lows: F. l.. Barnett, +. A. Colburn,
/ G. H. Fernald, G.. f. Hannah, J. II.
/ Nichols, A. r. Wilson, W. S. Hume
well, +. l.. Matthewson and d. NJ
Howell, all of Denver.
For the arrest of the robber who
stole 100000 from a mail pouch on
June 10th at Kansas City the Post
office Department has offered a re-
ward of $4,000 This is the crime Of
which Charles Savage, a Denver ne
gro, was suspected by the local Off
cials. and they missed him by only
fifteen minutes. Word of suspects
should be telegraphed at once to the
postoffice inspectors at Kansas City.
Denver is to have a new bank. Work
men are engaged in changing and re-
modelling the main floor of the Ma
jestic building facing on Broadway,
and as soon as the work is completed
it will be occupied by the San Juan
Banking and Trust Company. Will
liam A. McCutcheon, formerly OF
Texas. and Robert s. Brownley of New
York are the principal men behind the
new bank and the capital comes prin-
cipally from the East
The water supply for Victor has run
very low by reason of the unusually
long drought and the city reservoir in
the Pixies Peak district will be prac-
tically exhausted within the next week.
Arrangements will be made to connect
the water main with one or more OF the
big mines and the mine water will be
used for ordinary purposes, but the do
mestic supply for drinking purposes
will have to be obtained from various
springs.
Among those who sailed from Boston
June 20th on the steamer Cymric on
the White Star line, for London, were
President and Mrs. William f. Slocum