The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1908-02-29
COLORADO NEWS


wheels cay at Pueblo.
The walls Of the new Odd Fellow
hall at Coal Greek have been com
pIeted and the building Will be finished
in March.
A six-day campaign is being organ
lied in Boulder to raise funds for fur
nishing the new y NJ. C. A building.
now nearly completed.
By an order issued by the echool
board III. fraternity and the sorortry
high school have been disbanded.
William Hildebrand, who bull, the
cog railway up Pixies Peak, and who
was one OF the foremost civil enginee p
in the country, died in New York City
February 2lst
The Lamar National bank OF Lama-
has been authorized to begin business
with $50 900 capital. NJ. Strain is pre--
ident, b. T. McClave. vice president,
and l.. F. Adams. cashier.
The annual meeting of the Grand
Valley Cantaloupe Association VS.
held at Grand Junction February FL
b. c. Oyder was elected president and
4. J. Chesley secretary-treasurer
One of the biggest livestock deals
ever maui III lI4s tblItN HAS Just Dt-l-
closed by T. Witcher, OF Cotopaxi. all
his cattle. between 2.000 and 5000 head
being sold to Samuel Pepper and assJ-
ciates of Denver
The application Of J y. A.sey, Jarues
N Allen, l.. c. Schmidt, r s. Dickey
and j. A. Challgren to organize the
Farmers National Bank of Windsor,
with $25 900 capital has been approy"l
lV tho MT roller of
Senator Guggenheim is making an
effort to have the salaries of labors-s
at the Leadyille fish hatchery raised
in the sundry civil appropriation bill
from 5000 to 1920 per annum and the
cook ut the hatchery from $3.50 to 81.
The counties of Fremont and Teller
W.. Jointly build a bridge over -Four
Mile creek connecting the road from
Florence to Cripple Greek. Last win
ter the food waters swept out this
bridge AMI several miles of road, wh ca
has been rebuilt
The Colorado Game and Fish Prot"c-
tive Association has extended the
Beaver Land & Irrigation Company a
vote of thanks because the compauy
has announced it will take measures
to protect the trout in Beaver creek.
Fremont county.
The Florence & Cripple Creek rail
road is using every available freight
car on its line between Florence and
Cripple Creek, its business having IN
creased to such an extent in the last
thirty days that the present rolling
stock is inadequate.
More than thirty japanese laborers
were shipped into Florence on the Ism
inst. to work on the Rio Grande rail-
road Every section man on the d.
vision was laid off. but all foGemen
We're retained. The japanese will
work between Salida and Pueblo.
The United States Portland Cement
Company has most of the building
erected 1T its new plant. seven miles
east of here. and has commenced in
stalling machinery. Already 100000
has been spent on the project and work
at the mill will be started about
April !.
a conference of the Baptisf minis
ters of the state will be held at Colo
rado Springs April 18th to May 1st-
The principal business will be discus
sion rs To the best methods OF carry
ing ON evangelistic work, The chief
speaker will be DR.. James A. Francis
of New York.
The town of Coal Creek. Fremont
county, which burned down last July,
has been rapidly rebuilt, many frame
houses from Florence having been
moved there, but now the business men
on main street are beginning the erec
ton OF more substantial buildings OF
stone. brick and cement
BY way of preparation for the influx
of settlers expected to result from the
building OF the Moffat road Hayden
is having an -artesan well drilled to
provide the town with a good water
system. If the anticipated flow is OF
sufficient volume other wells will be
drilled to furnish irrigation supply.
Henry Hurley. a noted robber who
made number of rich hauls in Den
Yer a few years ago and later was sen
fenced to the Missouri pententiary for
a robbery at Independence escaping
from the jail at Kansas City. was ar
rested in Pueblo few days since and
has been eXtradited by Governor
Buchtel.
The cornerstone of the new Carnegie
library building in Loveland was laid
on Washingtons birthday under the
auspices of the grand lodge of Masons.
An address was made by Grand Ora
tor Meldrum Edwards of Denver, and
President b. o. Aylesworth of the
State Agricultural college delivered
the address of the day.
J. B. Dawson proposes to start a herd
of mountain sheep to grazing on his
ranch near Hayden before summer.
He has made his ranch famous by do
mesticating sixteen elk and by having
a number of buffalo and a mixed herd
of polled angus cattle and buffalo graz
ing on his pasture. The task of catch
ing the mountain sheep has been as
signed to Weldon Rider. of Hayden.
The society of the Union Colony
which founded Greeley was organized
in 1895 and now has nearly 200 mem
hcr hn