The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1908-10-31
COLORADO ITEMS

local plate glass insurance COM
pany is being organized in Boulder.
The grand lodge of Odd Fellows at
Greeley voted to hold its next annual
session at Pueblo.
The Rev VI. b. Williams of Chicago,
noted evangelist, is to head a four
weeks series of revival meetings in
Denver.
Miss Adele Fowle, a Denver stenog
rapher. was sixth in the international
and third in the amateur typewriting
contes: held recently in New York.
The sample ballots for Weld county
for the general election have been
( prepared in the English Swedish, Rus
sian. Spanish and Italian languages
I On the 2lst inst, for the first time
in the historr OF Pueblo, there was not
case of centagion registered with the
I board of health, nor was there case
] in quarantine.
( The community of Mennonites, four
! miles west of La Junta dedicated their
new sanitarium Sunday. There were
/ about 500 people at the services, which
/ lasted through the entire day.
Florian Cajori, head professor of
[ mathematics in Colorado college, and
| dean of the engineering school, has
reconsidered his decision made last
term that he would resign as dean of
the school, and will again take up bis
work.
Paul Frazier who cached whisky in
an alley and an irrigation ditch and
sold it. was fined $500 in the police
court at Greeley, and on the same day
charges We're preferred against him in
the county court and he was fined 500
and costs there.
One hundred and ten tons of dried
brewery grain was shipped from Trim
dad few days since for London, Eng
land By way of Galveston. The grain
was purchased by King Edward VII.
through Sir Charles Willoughby and
will be used in the private stables of
his majesty.
According to reports reaching d. E.
Farr, state game and fish commission
er, the flight of ducks this year is the
greatest ever known. Wild geese are
also said to be uncommonly numerous.
Denver hunters. some five hundred of
them, are going out to the lakes in the
vicinity every day and bringing in i'm
mense numbers of ducks.
Ground was broken at Greeley Mon
day for a Catholic church building to
cost $4,000. 1t will be one OF the
finest in northern Colorado and will
be of gray brick and stone. The tow
er will be 145 feet high. The church
was established four years ago as reg
ular parish under Father Casey, and
has 800 members.
An Aero club has been organized
in Denver by people who want to keep
pace with the latest developments in
the art of flying. One of its most
prominent members is Walter NJ. Cage,
who has recently attracted consider
able attention throughout the country
by his invention of a submarine and
his present work upon a flying ma
chine.
In notices sent around to nearly ev-.
cry business man in Denver, Secret
Service Agent Goddard warns all
against two men who are reported to
be examining cash drawers under pre-
tense of belonging to the secret SER
vice. The men have been caught, it
several times. but have each time es-
capped.
Charles H. Mcclure, engineer at the
Denver mint, stood highest in the ex-
animation given by the United States
civil service commission to applicants
for the position of inspector of me-
chanical and electrical engineering in
the supervising architects office in
Washington. He has been ordered to
report at Washington to assume the
position.
Sixty young women of Colorado ex-
ecuted one of the most complicated and
best managed drills ever attempted by
women on the stage of the auditorium
in Denver Saturday night. when the
drlil team of the Denver Young
Women's Christian Temperance Union
formed the letters Y w. C. T. U. while
5000 spectators broke forth in ap-
plause that sounded and resounded
through the vast hall filled with dele
gates of the nation to the w. C. +. U.
The Moffat road will put on a pas
senger car dining service after Novem-
Der 1st. This will continue for the win
ter months only IN the spring the
regular dining station service at Tol-
land and Arrow will be resumed. The
meals in the passenger car dining SER
vice are prepared in kitchen car and
then served in the regular passenger
cars on tables fastened between the
seats. These tables are removed again
when the meal is over.
Deeds filed transferring the lungs
ten properties known as the Boulder
County mines. from C. F. Lake of Boul-
der and T. N. Barnsdall, Pittsburg