The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1908-11-21
COLORADO NEWS

The Eastern Colorado Poultry show
Will be held at Fort Morgan December
10th TO 18th.
The Woodmen of the World will in
vest a considerable amount in the mu-
nfcipaI bonds of Boulder, La Junta,
Greeley and Fort Collins
There are thirty-one prisoners in
the Weld county Jail at Greeley. the
most in the history of the institution;
and three Of the number are women.
The United Oil Company at Flor
ence has just struck fine producer,
the oil standing 2,221 feet in the well
and giving promise of a big output
The Burlington Interurban Railroad
Company officially announces that
within the next month it will begin
grading for its road from Hudson to
Greeley.
BY a vote of 1928 to 500, every pre-
cinct in Mesa county outside of Grand
Junction affirmatively answered the
question, Shall this district become
anti saloon territory"
Reports from the mountains west OF
Boulder indicate that already this year
more snow has fallen on the upper
ranges than during the entire winter
season of last year.
The farmers of the Hobrook valley
in Otero county have decided to buy
the Holbrook ditch. form an irrigation
district. issue bonds and build a large
reservoir in the mountains.
Superintendent Casey of the Boul-
der schools has issued an order TO
teachers not to assign home work for
the children in grades five and six 10
exceed thirty minutes, and in grades
seven and eight not to exceed sixty
minutes.
syndicate of Rochester, New
York, people, have purchased tract
of land at the base of Flagstaff noun
tain, west of Boulder, and it is ex-
pected that from thirty-five to forty
families will come from Rochester to
settle there next spring
Gen. John c. Black, former commits
sioner OF pensions and former COM
mander-in-chief of the Grand Army or
the Republic, now member of the
civil service commission, has been in
Denver inspecting the Colorado diyis-
ion of the service.
Andrew Mcdonald, superintendent of
the Madonna mine at Monarch, was Sc
verely beaten on the the 18th inst. by
John Gilroy and Harry Barnes, en-
ployes at the mine. The assault was
committed with revolvers used rs
clubs. Both men were arrested.
Henry Montoya, an Indian, sen,
fenced from Prowers county, Nov II,
1905. for statutory offense, to term
of from five to eight years, will go free
nine months after Nov. 9th of this
year, his sentence having been COM
muted by the board of pardons.
The first carload shipment of Colo
RADIO white marble to leave the state
started from the quarries near Mar
BILE City last week for Cleveland, Ohio,
where it will be used in decorating the
interior of the new court house now
under construction in that city.
In a hand to hand conflict with Jack
Madden, a miner. Mrs. Ida Hart. en-
ployed in the Metropolitan hotel at
Trinidad, was shot twice in the right
hand Saturday morning. Madden made
his escape. Mrs. Hart says that Mad
den demanded her money and when
refused tried to kill her with a revol-
ve-.
Substantiating the claim of F. w.
Nitary OF the state pure food commits
sion, that the unrestricted sale of CO.
caine and other drugs in the cities of
Colorado is responsible for much of the
misery and crime, is the record of
the State Humane Society, which
shows many instances of children be-
ing neglected because parents are ad-
dicted to the drug.
Plans have been formulated by the
railroad committee of the Greeley Com
mercial Club to raise s250,000 in the
Greeley district to help finance the
Greeley Interurban railway by buying
stock. The cost of the road will be
100000 mile, but this includes
power house at Fort Lupton, $4,000
station at Greeley, other stations, roll
ing stock and equipment.
Pixies Peak is settling at the rate
of about two inches a year, according
to ]. G. Heistand, proprietor of the
Iron Springs Pavilion in Manitou Mr..
Heistand points out that the gradual
but certain settlement of the fouuda-
ton of his iron springs, necessitating
repairs every year. is proof of this.
since the springs are on the same
formation as the Peak. 1t will be some
time, however, before Pixies Peak is
hole in the ground.
After being out five hours the jury
In the case of w. P. Weatherford at
Greeley found him guilty on the sec.
ord count only, assault with a deadly