The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1909-02-06
STATE NEWS ITEMS

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take part in the Lincoln centennial
February 18th. They expect to turn
out nearly 1000 strong.
Kansas day was observed at Pueblo
January 29th by native Kansans with a
big banquet. This will probably be
made an annual affair.
On Wednesday Congressman Bon.
ynse recommended to the President
the appointment of Marshall Moore
as postmaster at Fort Collins.
Thomas F. Mahoney. former secre-
tary of the Longmont Commercial AS
sociation, is 10 be secretary of the
chamber of commerce at Rocky Ford.
The Fort Morgan Chamber of Com
merce will try to secure the location
in that city by the Legislature of the
proposed new home for the feeble
minded
The Colorado Springs & Interurban
Railroad Company will build a 100000
extension to the Union Printers Home
and new Protestant hospital in the
same vicinity.
Permits for 234 new buildings, to
cost $694,475, were issued in Denver
during the month of January. This
is an increase of $294.750 over the
same month last year.
To make the state bear the expense
OF political campaigns and stop private
contributions to campaign funds is the
purpose of bill drafted by Gov. John
F. Shafroth in person, which will be
introduced in the Senate by Senator
Campbell.
The Denver & Jntermountain Rail-
way began running its cars by electric
power between Denver ana Golden Feb
ruary 1st. For the past fifteen years it
has used steam locomotives. 1t will
install new, well furnished passenger
coaches.
At mass meeting held by the Grand
Junction Chamber of Commerce to
consider the disposal OF the Teller In
dian school buildings, resolution was
passed asking that the buildings be
decided to the Western University, and
an effort will be made to get Congress
to take this action.
Since interest has centered in the
Grow Creek district in Weld county
Theo ID. Jones of Greeley is the first
IT, announce his intention to build a
reservoir in that locality, to be known
as the Crow Creek reservoir. 1t will
have capacity of nearly 100000 Gu
bic feet and cost $4,000.
The previous record of $50 feet in 81
days in the driving OF the double track
tunnel in Pixies Peak granite in the
Cripple Creek district was eclipsed in
January by Superintendent James A.
McIlwee and his picked force of ma
chine men and miners at the portal
heading of the Roosevelt deep drainage
tunnel and the new mark stands at 435
feet.
John B. Driskell, a well-known resi-
dent of Black Hawk for forty-three
years, died on the 29th ult. of dropsy,
aged sixty-eight. He was a member of
the First Virginia cavalry and claimed
to have been paroled in the Shenan-
doah valley when General Lee surrend-
cred, and that he was never released
from parole He had rich relatives in
Virginia.
At a meeting in Pueblo the EIks'
Reunion Association of Colorado Sc
lected as the date for the annual
14th, in Pueblo. TIE committee
changed a custom wnich has hither-
to been followed in having the state
gatherings before the national conven-
tions of the lodge and the one this
year will be in the fall some time
after the meeting at Los Angeles.
Deputy Sheriff Carlos Sandoval, who
has been on trial at Trinidad charged
with the murder of Max Romero, No
vember Sth, while a celebration Incl
dent to a wedding at San Miguel, in
the eastern part of this county. was ac-
quilted in District Court. the jury be-
ing out only fifteen minutes. Sando-
val's defense was that the shooting was
an accident and occurred while he was
trying to quell a disturbance at the
dance.
The total production of the Portland
mine, in the Cripple Creek district for
1908 was 94,311 ,432 net tons. of gross
value of 1884, ,OS0.79. The average
gross value per ton was $19.45. The
total production from the first ship
ment, April /. 1894, is 949.3S1,749 net
tons, of gross value of 2S,469, ,4425 81.
Four dividends, amounting to s4s0,000,
were paid last year. the company thus
passing the SS,000,000 mark. The total
dividends disbursed to date are $S,227,-
$50.
Another irrigation district has Lec.i
organized in Weld county. called the
Denver Greeley Valley irrigation dis
trict. The district will get it's water
from Clear creek South Boulder creek
ard tributaries, and from the Frasier
river, by the system of bitches and