The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1908-08-08
STATE NEWS ITEMS

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Of Colorado will be in session at Pueo-
10 Aug. 10th. 18th, 18th and delega-
lions from all over the state are es-
pected.
Attorney.General Herbert S. Hadley
of Missouri, who, with his family. is
locaed temporarily at the E. H. COOK
home at Boulder, will address the ma
tional convention at attorneys general
at Denver August goth, and Will de.
scribe his fight with the Standard Oh
people.
California quail are becoming sc
numerous and tame around Florence
that they are finding their way into the
city and eat grain with chickens IN
Florence yards. A covey of them dally
appear at the home of Z. c. Hall OF
West Florence. and the smaller ones
eat from the hands of Mrs. Hill.
l.. w. Felter will start from Canon
City on a trip around the world Au
gust goth. He will sail westward from
Seattle on the Both in the steamship
Minnesota, visiting in the Philippines,
Japan and China. In India he will spend
several months in studying the mis-
sionary work among the natives.
John c. Sitterer of Denver has been
elected professor Of civil and irrlga-
ton engineering at the University OF
Wyoming in place of Herbert l. NO
well, resigned. Professor Sitterer is
graduate of the University of ONO
and from the civil engineering de-
partment of the University of Denver.
Union depot officials declare that
all records have been broken during
the month of July in the number OF
passengers carried into Denver Ihere
also has been an advance over prevl-
Gus years in the number of tickets
sold, the increase being nearly $780,
900 over the sales of last year.
Water Commissioner Aubrey OF
Boulder states that Notwithstanding
the heavy rains little of the flood
" tiers got into the storage reservoirs,
On account of the heavy flow coming
| down at night, after washing out the
headgates or choking the inlets with
/ debris.
| At meeting of the stockholders OF
/ the Fort Collins Chautauqua Assocla'
| ton it was shown that the receipts OF
| the assembly recently closed fell short
nearly $1,40O of paying expenses. IL
was agreed to assess each stockholder
s35 to cover the deficit. Notwithstand-
! ing the shortage, steps were taken
I lO"dTuS dlOlHtl ueAl Val {.
! The suit for commission brought
against Thomas F. Walsh by S. J. De
Ian, who claims to have sold for Mr..
| Walsh the famous Camp Bird mine,
was postponed by Federal Judge Lewis
at Denver until August 3lst. DeLan
asks commission for selling the prop
erty, but Mr. Walsh asserts that no
| commission is due
| Of ba ,r,oic eli
| of Pitkin county few days since res
buttons We're passed giving County
Assessor w. H. McNiehols twenty days
in which to make good the shortage al
! legged to have occurred during his term
of office as treasurer. If the alleged
| shortage is made good the suits pend
| ing against him will be nolled.
The badly decomposed body of
man was found floating in the Grand
river on the 4th inst, two miles below
| Glenwood Springs. 1t was brought
here and identified as the body of ]. E.
| Darland, who was drowned July 9th,
while crossing the river at Shoshone.
! The body had floated fourteen miles
down the river. His widow lives at
Colorado Springs.
Work has been started at Cheyenne
Wells on the new Cheyenne county
court house, which is to cost $4,000.
| The building is to be of red pressed
brick and one of the most modern in
eastern Colorado. Work has been
started also on an $4,000 school build
ing for Cheyenne Wells, which will
be built Of cement block and be mod
ern in every detail
Emancipation Day at Salida was OBJ
served in grand style by the colored
| tote In;v
ent Two ball games were played be-
tween Salida and Canon City teams,
Salida winning the morning game by a
score of Is to 6. and Canon City win
ming the afternoon game by score
of 16 to 10. In the evening there was
cakewalk and dance.
The annual regatta of the Grand
Lake Yacht club will be held on the
week OF August 18th. Grand Lake is
three miles long and a three-cornered
course will be sailed, over about seven
miles. Besides the chief yachting
event, there will be many other attrac-
lions during regatta week. There will
be power boat races. rowing races for
men. women, girls and boys, and bron-
cho busting.
The United States Reduction & Re-
filming Company has announced that the
United States smelter at Canon City
will be closed in few days for about
three months on account Of the ware
htouses being filled with paint pigment.
The market for paint in the East is
not good and it will take several weeks
to dispose Of the present supply. The
closing Of the smelter will throw out of
work $50 men.
About ten carlots Of material and
supplies Of the Colorado & Northwest.
ern are in the yards at Boulder await.
ing shipment to the Barker meadow
dam Of the Eastern Colorado Power
Company. Material and equipment will
now come in daily to go up to the plant
and the concrete mixing machinery