The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1908-06-06
COLORADO ITEMS


convention of Elks June 11th and 18th.
Glenwood Springs proposes to raise
$4,000 for the erection Of an audi
torium.
The board OF trade Of Glenwood
Springs has planned a good fellowship
excursion to Leadyille June Sth
The headquarters of the forest SUI
pervisor of the Medicine Bow national
forest, Estes Park, have been restored
to Fort Collins.
The school census just completed
in Fort Morgan shows an increase
from 372 children OF school age in 1900
to 1.471 in 1908.
The Lakeside park and summer re-
sore grounds, just completed at Den
yer at a cost of $500. 900, was formally
opened to the public on Memorial Day.
DR.. and Mrs. w. S. Friedman and
| their little son leave Denver June 10th
for three months trip abroad. They
sail on the kaizerin Augusta-Victoria,
June 18th.
Frederick n. Donaldson OF Denver
has won $500 scholarship for four
months travel and study in Europe,
awarded by the Philadelphia acad-
emy of fine arts.
The second day of the Frontier day
festival at Cheyenne next August will
be Northern Colorado day. and the last
day will be known as Denver day,
when great crowds are expected from
the Colorado capital
The annual class field and track
meet at the Agricultural college re-
suited in the sophomores winning
victory by one point. The final score
stood: Sophomores, SO; freshmen, 81;
seniors, 2, and juniors, l.
At Denver, May 31st, Roy Tate. a
Pullman porter, shot and killed his
wife, Eva Tate, whom he accused OF
being unfaithful to him. He then shot
himself through the abdomen and died
within few hours.
The Short Line railroad will estab-
lish an agency in Denver during the
tourist season and William Carruth-
ers, district passenger and freight
agent for the road for several years,
will be manager Of the office.
Mine owners in Gilpin county have
made an agreement with the New
/ house tunnel management by which
/ it is expected that the tunnel Will be
driven forward until it affords all out
let for 322 mining properties on
Quartz and Gunnell hills.
Mayor Drach OF Glenwocd Springs
has issued a proclamation requesting
that citizens decorate their houses and
business places during the week of
June 14th to June goth. The Demo
cratic state convention meets June
18th, and Strawberry Day Is June Goth.
1t has been decided by the Denver
Park Commission to build the Chees-
man pavilion in Cheesnan Park Of
marble, to be procured from Colorado
quarries. The pavilion is one OF the
improvements to be made with the
hundred thousand dollar gift made TO
the city by Mrs. Cheesman aud Miss
Gladys Cheesman.
The Greeley correspondent, of a Den
yer paper says: Eaton ari Ault are
rivals in number of carg of potatoes
! shipped last season. Ault claims ship
ments of 1856 cars from September
lst to May 21st, against ,05u TOR the
same period last year, while Eaton
claims its shipments for the same time
were .S72 carloads, worth s5o5,000.
Eaton, Ault and Windsor, and prob
ably Num- and Pierce, Will have
! IaTuleTS institutes tHiS SuHllttl, Sou-
Quoted under the auspices of the Agri-
cultural College. The date at Wind
sor will be June 18th, Eaton July 23d.
and Ault later Professor Cottrell Will
have charge and his lecture will be on
planting and growing Of crops and
seed selection.
According to the figures compiled
by the railroads and smeters, the ton
mage for the Leadville district during
May showed a slight increase over
April and compared favorably with the
corresponding month Of last year. The
output is now estimated at $4,000 tons
per month, which is considered good
showing, with some of the heavies;
| producers i,le.
On Saturday at Pando, six miles
east OF Red Cliff, William Soper. a
Denver & Rio Grande flagman, shot
and killed Joseph Brothers, a well
known resident OF Gilman, thinking
him to be a train robber. Trainmen
had been warned to be on the look
out for holdups and when the train
was suddenly tagged to let off man.
Soper supposed that it was stopped
by bandits.
At meeting Of the Arkansas Valley
Ditch Association at Pueblo resolutions
were adopted authorizing the execu-
tive committee to investigate the ac-
tlon OF reservoir companies in u.ing
streams as condults and make a test
| case. Resolutions were also passed
suggesting that patrolmen be sta
toned along the Arkansas river to
keep track of the water being diverted
through the bitches.
The production Of the Cripple Creek
gold mining district for the month of
May has eclipsed all previous records
SO far as tonnage is concerned, al
though by reason OF the unprecedented