The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1908-11-14
STATE NEWS ITEMS

ne bFhH1 COMPANY hsiS
taken d lease ON the Grand opera
house at Pueblo and will take charge
December 1st
The new Auditorium has been chos'
en- by the Denver Motor Club for the
automobile show 10 be held under the
auspices of the club this winter.
Frank OLaughlin. aged fortyfive.
who died at Trinidad a few days since,
left papers which showed that he was
the son OF Lord Timothy OIaughl!n.
wealthy man in Ireland.
The Midland railroad has let con-
tract for eighty-pound rails TO relay its
track between Hartsel and Wild Horse,
thirty-five miles. Three new baggage
cars have also been ordered.
The contract has been let for the
building of $4,000 theater for Grand
Junction. 1t will be on one of the
prominent vaudeville circuits. local
syndicate secured the contract.
The Great Western Sugar Company
has its feed yards at the factory full
of cattle and has begun feeding pulp.
About 1000 head will be fed this year.
Most Of these belong to the sugar com
pany.
Monday the grading on the Mofiat
railroad reached Steamboat Springs.
Five sidetracks a "Y' and a derot site
are all ready for the tracks. The
work of laying rails into StedTboat
viii begin Within two weeks.
Gypsy Smith, the noted English
pyauppljgr ron5nct in
Denver March End to Sth, according 10
cablegram received by DIR. c. F. REFS
ner. DIR. Reisner will try to secure
the auditorium for the services.
The society OF Union Colony Pion-
GERS is preparing to hold its annual
banquet and celebrate the thirty
eighth anniversary of the settlement
of Greeley. The society MURDERS about
$50 members who meet every year at
Greeley,
The first tract laying force on the
Denver, Laramie & Northwestern rail
way has spiked down the rails TO
within one mile of Clear Creek and is
pushing the work with all possible en-
ergy towards the end of the completed
grade, forty miles from Denver.
The total assessed valuation of Pu-
eblo county as reported by County
Assessor Graham, is S26, ,s23, 639, show
in ga gain of 100000 over last year
The greatest gain was in farm lands,
the assessed valuation OF which was
s5,s94,449, gain of almost 100000.
Beginning on the sth inst the Union
Pacific has put line of new motor
cars on the Boulder Valley road run
ming between Brighton and Boulder.
These cars are the same as those used
between Denver and Greeley, The SER
vice is additional to that previously
established
A coroner's jury held an inquest
Monday over the remains of Thurman
Walker. murdered near Nepesta,
Pueblo county, August 18th. and whose
remains were recovered several weeks
later The jury held Cleyeli inI Num-
responsible for the crime He is in
Jail at Pueblo awaiting trial, having
inade a confession
The Inauguration of gasoline motor
car service into Boulder over the
Union Pacific makes twenty-eight pas
senger trains each way, entering and
leaving Boulder every twenty-four
hours. This includes steam. electric
an dmotor cars, and twenty-six of
which run between Boulder and Den
yer and two between Boulder and the
mountain mining camps.
Nearly a million dollars was distrib-
uted Tuesday, November 9Th, the first
pay day of the season, by the nine fac
tories of the Great Western Sugar
Company at Greeley. Eaton. Windsor,
Fort Collins, Loveland, Longmont,
Brush, Fort Morgan and Sterling The
company owns what is known as the
Sugar Beet" road, running from Eaton
through Windsor, Johnstown and
Loveland to Longmont.
A contract for 1000 tons of steel
rails has just been let by Vice Presi-
dent and General Manager A. E. Weiby
OF the Denver Laramie & Northwest
ern railway. These rails are of the
heaviest standard quality and come
from the Colorado Fuel & Iron Com
pany at Pueblo. to be delivered as rap
idly as possible. This second consign-
ment will make eighty carloads of
rails and will lay the track we'll up to
Hillsboro, the present end of the COM
pleted grade, forty miles from Denver.
The Denver Chamber of Commerce
has sold its building at the corner of
Lawrence and Fourteenth streets to
the Davis -Brihaham Drug Company for
100000. The company will remodel
the building and occupy it for its own
business. The new building for the
Chamber of Commerce and other in.
dustrial bodies proposed by the Colo
RADIO Income Realty association is
planned to be ten stories high, with