The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1909-04-10
STATE NEWS ITEMS

The proposition to build new high
school building at Windsor was voted
down by a majority of sixteen votes.
Only eighty-three ballots were cast
During the last five years more than
200 cottages have been erected In the
Russian settlement in East Greeley by
Russians who work in the beet fields.
Word has been received in Denver
that the annual convention of the Ma
tional Dental Association with about
1000 delegates will be held at Denver
in July. The organization has just
been holding session in Birming-
ham. Ala.
A large force is at work at the
Pixies Peak Cog road shops oyerhaui-
ing engines and preparing for the
biggest tourist season in the history
of the town. The first trip to the sum
NIT of Pixies Peak will be made about
April goth.
Miss Dorothy Palmer, second daugh-
ter Of the late General W. ]. Palmer,
will soon leave for England, 1t is un-
derstood, where she will make an ex-
tended visit with friends. She returned
home with the general last fall, few
months before his death.
The annual meeting of the State
Board of Agriculture will take place In
Fort Collins April 14th. A successor
to Pres. B. o. Aylesworth, resigned,
will be chosen, and matters relating
to the future policy OF the institution
determined.
Fumigation for scarlet fever germs
nearly cost the life of n. G. Hoel,
teacher in the University Park school
in Denver few days since. he
walked into room before the sulphur.
and formaldehyde fumes had been dis
sipated and was unconscious for con-
siderable time after his rescue.
The Fort Morgan correspondent OF
The Denver Republican, under date OF
March 31st, says: Denver parties nave
leased the fishing rights on jackson
Lake and today made their first large
catch. landing 1900 pounds in one
haul, mostly carp, bass and suckers.
They are being shipped to Denver.
Naval men now in Denver have per
fected an organization to be known as
the Finest w. Weichart section Of the
Navy league. 1t was named in men,
ory of Weichart, who, while an officer
of the navy, received fatal injuries IN
an explosion on the battleship Missouri
in 1904. A. B. Frenzel is chairman
On April End Henry T. West, eighty
three years old, president of the So
ciety of Union Colony Pioneers, began
his fortieth consecutive year of resi-
dence in Greeley. 1t was thirty-nine
years ago on that day that Mr.. West,
in company with n. c. Meeker and
General Cameron, selected the site OF
Greeley
Isaac Newton Whitehead, the oldest
man In Mesa county, and one OF the
valleys best known citizens, died April
End on his ranch near the Indian
school He came to the Grand valley
twenty years ago from Indiana, and
was one OF the most prominent Repub-
licans in the county. Beginning with
1896 he had presided over every coun-
ty convention He was ninety years
old.
The measurements o. the deep drain
age tunnel made April End show that
the following distances have been cov-
cred since March 1st: From the por-
tai heading, $40 feet; h>yth from the
intermediate shaft. 347 feet; south
from the shaft, 290 feet. Up to the
present time, 5,5s7 feet Of driving has
been done from the portal and 1868
from the intermediate shaft, making
total of 7,455 feet Of work done along
the tunnel line.
Hon. w. S. U'Ren of Oregon, known
as the father Of the direct primary law.
and strong advocate of the initiative
and referendum, addressed the stu
dents and members OF the faculty OF
the University Of Colorado on Monday
morning. March 29th. He told of the
working efficiency of the direct pri-
mary in Oregon and predicted that, al
though not now altogether satisfactory,
1t would be almost perfect ten years
hence,
At meeting Of the State Board of
Equalization at the capitol in Denver,
Governor Shafroth was elected chair
man. A meeting was appointed for
April 10Th, when the agents of the
railway, express telephone, telegraph
and fast freight companies will be
heard regarding assessments. The
board will be in Constructive" session
every day in the meantime, to receive
those who wish to appear and make
complaint or ask questions.
The Democratic club Of Denver has
taken five years lease on the large
and stately mansion of the late Sena-
tor N. P. Hill on Fourteenth street in
Denver and has already movad into -