The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1908-07-04
STATE NEWS ITEMS

Eastern capitalists are interested in
new brewery to be erected in Denver
NJ an early date at cost of 100000.
secretary O'Connor thinks there will
De at the Denver state fish hatchery
tn1s year 100000 fish for distribu-
tion.
1t has been given out on official au-
tnority that work on the Union Pacific
roundhouse at Hugo will be resumed
early in July.
G. w. Shelton, county treasurer of
morgan county, died June 30th of peri
tonitis. He was completing his second
term in office.
Pueblo shoe merchants have re-
ported to the police that q man has
peen buying shoes and getting small
sums in change by the use of forged
checks.
1t is announced by the Trades and
Labor Assembly of Denver that for the
FIRST time in many years the laboring
men of the city will not parade on
Labor day.
The Hawkeye club, composed of
more than 500 former residents of
Iowa, will keep open house at the AL
bany hotel in Denver during conven-
tion week for the Iowa visitors.
The Green Mountain Falls hotel at
Green Mountain Falls, costing $50000.
owned by ]. d. Robertson, was burned
by fire Monday afternoon that orig
mated from an exploding Kerosene
lamp.
The following Colorado postmasters
have been appointed: Ignacio, La
Plata county Hans Aspaas, vice II. l..
Hall, resigned; Schley, Ebert county.
N. II. Baird, vice William Welas, re-
signed
While Davis C. Peters, pastor of the
Christian church at Trinidad, was
preaching at night some one stole the
harness from his horse, which was tied
back Of the church. The horse was
then turned loose.
One hundred thousand trout, COM
prising a carload of fish, are being
distributed In the South fork of the
Platte river by the state game and fish
commissioner The trout are from the
Denver hatchery.
The Union Pacific filed a declara-
ton at Greeley Monday, the second
filed within week, stating that it will
build an extension of it's line from Den
yer through Weld and Larimer coun-
ties to point in the coal fields near
Erie
A ladies' auxiliary of the Brother
hood OF Railway Trainmen has been
established at Trinidad. Mrs. Mary
Connell Of Denver. second vice grand
mistress of the order instituted the
lodge. 1t has charter membership
of twenty.
The United Oil Company has just
struck big body OF oil in one OF its
wells near Williamsburg. Judging
from present appearances the well Is
expected to be a large producer, and
production of 200 barrels a day is ex-
pected. The well is 1880 feet deep,
and the oil filled 1000 feet of it.
The Greeley Canning factory has be-
gun operations by canning peas, of
which 1000 acres are growing. Gree
ley business men gave the site and
erected the factory, expending 100000.
In addition to this building Mr.. Emp
son has erected buildings costing $751;
900, and installed a plant in the fac
tory valued at over $50,O00.
1t is reported that the owners of the
water in Beaver creek, near Florence,
have decided to string a barbed wire
fence across the canon above the
Fancher ranch, and make fishing re-
sort for Pueblo club. Those not in
the club will be forbidden fishing in
the water, and this will deprive Ere
mont county fishermen of their best
territory.
Formal announcement was made at
Colorado Springs Tuesday that the
Colorado-Kansas Company, recently
organized to construct an electric rail
way from Dodge City. Kansas. through
the Arkansas valley to Pueblo and
Canon City, will build an extension
from Pueblo to Colorado Springs, and
that surveys will begin within a few
days.
The generously inclined citizens of
Denver have been called upon to sub
scribe $4,000 to buy and fit the Cham
ber of Commerce building for a Pho
neer's home. An appeal for funds has
been sent out by the Pioneers Home
Association which is composed of the
Colorado Pioneers Society, the Pio-
neer Ladies' Aid Society and the Sons
of Colorado.
Through the generosity of the
Georgetown Board of Mines and Com
merce the Georgetown Columbine
band, composed of twenty pieces,
has been provided with handsome uni
forms. They are of black and trimmed
with gold braid, while on the lapel of
each ceat is the letter &c" done in
gold. On the left breast is a colum-
bine dc ne in silk.
Alarmed at the discovery of what is
known among the bee keepers as foul
brood, an infectious disease among
bees, AMI fearing that it will spread,
the bee keepers of Larimer county
have sent petition to County Judge
Stover, asking the appointment of an
inspector, in accordance with the stat
ute providing for such an officer. The
petition is signed by thirteen bee
keepers.
Under the Welcome Arch at Denver
there should be sign, Beware of Bar