The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1908-04-11
COLORADO NEWS

and carriers in the post Office service
will be held at Grand Junction April
eeth
Louis Weir. North Iousmont sa
/ loonkeeper. was sentenced 10 sia
months in the county jail and hned
$500 for keeping disorderly house
A cowboy tournament and wild ives,
: show is being arranged for ia Denver
at The time OF the Democratic national
convention. The managers expacr &c
rope in the delegates.
Samuel Richards. who has been run
/ ing hack line from the coal camps
TO Florence for twenty Years has dis,
continued the service because OF i'll
health and the fact that the line does
not pay.
/ New patents issued to Coloradans
I include the following: JR De Remer.
Glenwood water wheel: L. Chairman,
Berwind. wrench; II. Lutz. Denver.
/ friction clutch; NJ. B. Smith. Gunnison,
folding umbrella.
] Orders for 575 carloads of coal per
month for the next three months have
been placed by Kansas and Nebraska
dealers with the Colorado Fuel 4 Iron
Company and will be filled from the
Rockvale mine at Florence.
Sam F. Durton, manager OF the Al
bany hotel at Denver. is making ar
rangement5 to also conduct the new
Boulderado hotel at Boulder, which he
proposes tc open about the July lst.
in time for the Democratic convention
in Denver.
There were sixteen mining claims
located in one day recently in eastern
Weld county by Fort Morgan men who
believe that the gold mining district
said 10 have been discovered in the
Wildcat region in Morgan county ex-
tends over into Weld.
The school house at Watelvale,
in Las Animas county was de-
stroyed by fire on the night Of March
30th. causing loss of $500. The school
building was completed and opened
five weeks before. and was the only
school house at that place
Robert l.. Addington of Gardner.
Colorado. has been appointed a forest
guard on the Wet mountain national
forest reserve. and Frank J. BIOL OF
Sapinero Colorado. has been appointed
an assistant forest ranger on the Gun
nison national forest reserve
The grain elevator at Erie was de-
stroyed by fire April lst, causing loss
VI SlD,DDD HItP lEelSHl cars bl lHe
Union Pacific, standing on the siding,
were also consumed. No grain was
stored in the building. the only con
tents being 10000 grain sacks.
The city of Denver maintains a large
collection of wild animals at the City
Park and the park board has engaged
J. Alden Loring at a salary of $1,000
to take charge of them Three beav-
1afaiy added IN tho at
tracing a great deal of attention
The little town of Oak Greek. on
the Moffat road is showing much activ-
ity. One hundred Japs and a'camp of
thirty teams is established there and
the coal mines about the place are
opening up The men are grading the
Moffat road toward Steamboat Springs.
Miss Manning of Chicago. a graduate
deaconess, has been employed by the
Methodist church at Greeley to assist
the pastor, Mr.. Davis, in his duties
with his congregation. This is the frs,
church TO employ a pastors assistant,
She will De paid regular salary BY the
church.
About 100 persons were present at
the annual reception given April Sd to
normal conductors and instructions,
county superintendents and prominent
educators from all parts of the state by
Miss Katherine l.. Craig. state superin-
tendent .1f public instruction ill her Of
fee in the state house.
Work is being pushed in the con
struction cs a 900-foot tunnel through
the hogoack near the northern limits
of Canon City. This work is in con
nection with reservoir which will
ha water OF
Sand creek to irrigate 600 acres Of val
liable lands near the fair grounds.
Fifty convicts are employed ou road
work in the eastern end OF Fremont
county New roads are being GRADED
and old ones improved. The statH gives
the free use of the convict labor and
all the expense to the county is Tor
their board and guards while on duty.
They will be worked all summef,
At the annual meeting of the North
ern Colorado Power Company held in
Denver, April 4th. a $3.000,00O bond Is
sue was authorized, and it was an
nounced that the proceeds OF the sale
of the bonds will be expended in com
pleting the plans for the development
of the company's work in northern Col
orado.
Col S X. Hooper. general passenger
agent of the Denver & l,io Grande rail
road, has just issued new edition OF
Camping in the Rockies Ii is care
fully compiled and beautifully ilustra'-
ed guide to desirable camping places in
Colorado, Utah and New Mexico and
gives estimates of the cost of various
outings.
Ninety-one years of age, Mrs ADJ
gail Durham, the oldest woman among
the Union colony OF pioneers who
founded Greeley. has again planted her
garden. doing all the work alone, so
that she might brag of it, she said.
Every year she cultivates plot OF